The Eighties: She Stole My Looks to Go on a Blind Date, Then Snatched My Pen Pal from the Capital

In her previous life, Shen Zhi was thrown into a river and left to die. Reborn in the twelfth lunar month of 1985, she gripped her needle and thread. A fake innocent from her village stole her ID photo negative, passed herself off as Shen Zhi with her cool, delicate features, and deceived a privileged man sent down from the capital for six months. She collected his remittances, obtained foreign currency, hoarded scarce fabrics, and used Shen Zhi's looks to get rich and marry up.

In her previous life, Su Xiao killed her to keep her quiet, stole her marriage, and married into a top-tier compound, enjoying a life of wealth and glory. This time, Shen Zhi lay low in a poor village, intercepted the letters sent from thousands of miles away, and changed her name in a reply, rewriting her fate. "Now that you've read this, know that the name I used before was false. My real name is Shen Zhi."

A single page of neat handwriting broke through a privileged man's lifelong loneliness. An original photograph revealed the truth and reversed a deadly cycle of fate.

Lu Yan replied: "Your letter has found my heart. I will honor every word and never let you down."

She broke free from her parasitic family, tore apart the scheming fake innocent who had stolen her place, mastered the finest tailoring skills, and rode the wave of China's reforms in the 1980s.

Everyone said she had stolen her enemy's marriage.

Shen Zhi brushed her fingers over the yellowed negative, her gaze cool and steady. "These are my features, my fate, and my beloved. No outsider has the right to steal even the smallest part of them."