Reborn into the 1950s: I Got a Secure Job by Walking the Line

#Reborn in the 1950s #Face-Slapping Comeback #Clear-Eyed Realist#

“There are only three spots for the whole township, and you’re seventh. Forget it.”

“Change that girl’s exam number. She won’t even get into the exam hall.”

“The school’s short on funds, so your scholarship has been cut.”

Reborn in the impoverished 1950s, Lin Xiangyang has only one stingy, borderline golden finger: it won’t guarantee a win, only that she’ll scrape by with the last point or claim the very last spot.

Want to change your fate? Then you have to fight for it with your life!

Her family pawned everything they owned. Even the 1.5 yuan tuition fee meant biting her finger and pressing a bloody fingerprint onto an IOU.

After finally making it into county middle school, she faced even more ruthless schemes.

When people gave her a hard time, Lin Xiangyang didn’t cry or make a fuss. She simply wielded the rules like a knife and slammed them down on the table.

“Accountant Tian, the county approved seven subsidy spots, but you cut two. Where did the remaining money go? Dare to balance the books?”

“Teacher He, I wrote out both methods on my original exam paper. What right did you have to take off four points?”

She had learned to scheme as instinctively as breathing, clawing a way out of a dead end!

Then, just before the midterm exams, she took leave to return to her village and help bring in the soybean harvest. With only a minute to spare, she rushed into the exam hall, covered in mud, and handed in a full-mark essay that stunned the entire class.

In the empty classroom, the homeroom teacher slammed the test paper down in front of her and glared.

“Lin Xiangyang, you’re a bottom-of-the-class student who can barely pass. Where did you copy this essay from?!”

Rain poured outside, and the atmosphere turned icy.

Lin Xiangyang didn’t argue or shed a single tear.

She only looked quietly at the furious teacher, then slowly brought out the hand she had hidden behind her back. Mud and blood were still dripping from it as she laid it on the lectern...