[Dual Female Leads / No System, Pocket Dimension, or Golden Finger / A Clash of Pure Workplace Instincts / Best Friends Have Each Other's Backs While Making Money]
After transmigrating to the Hongxing Steelworks in 1983, Shen Nanqiao washes vegetables in cold water in the kitchen, while Lin Chu copies scripts at the radio station.
Between them, they have just one yuan and ninety cents. Their goals are refreshingly simple: eat their fill, make money, and do less work.
To avoid washing two more basins of vegetables, Shen Nanqiao quietly surveys the night shift and revises the workflow.
To slack off and still get the job done, Lin Chu casually boasts about her best friend's idea over the factory loudspeakers!
Their motives are not remotely noble, but their methods actually work.
The department head approves a trial on the spot. The statistician chases them every day to verify where the data came from, while the technician stays up all night redrawing the forms...
The whole factory thinks these two young women have a terrifyingly strong sense of purpose.
They only wanted to clock out on time and go lie flat in their room. Instead, the more they try to dodge work, the busier they get, until the whole factory is counting on them.
Shen Nanqiao, checking her little ledger: "It costs us time and money. I'm not doing it."
Lin Chu, thumping her chest: "Leave it to me!"
And then she immediately looks at her best friend, feeling guilty.
