Wang Lianhua went up the mountain to gather wild vegetables, missed a step, and when she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated straight into the modern world.
Metal boxes on wheels raced everywhere, ten times faster than ancient carriages. People on the streets wore such revealing clothes that, to her, they had no sense of shame at all. Skyscrapers soared so high that just looking up made her neck ache.
Clutching her basket of wild vegetables, she had only one thought: How could she get back? Her whole family was waiting for her to bring home vegetables to boil and stave off their hunger!
Just as she stood there, baffled and dazed, someone shoved a recruitment flyer into her hand. “Auntie, our film crew is hiring extras! Lunch is included, and you'll get 80 yuan a day!”
Wang Lianhua couldn't read, but she understood the words “lunch is included” right away.
She grabbed the person at once. “Brother, I can do this job!”
On her first day on set, she was assigned to play a corpse in the background.
When the director called cut, all the extras got up, but she kept lying there dutifully, without moving…