A Killer Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the 1970s: A Fast Blade and an Even Faster Tongue

[Assassin transmigrates + 1970s + Sharp-tongued face-slapping + Dashing heroine + Making money and finding love]

An international contract killer codenamed "Crane Shadow" is murdered by her employer on her final job. She wakes up as Jiang He, the simple-minded daughter of a 1970s agricultural machinery station chief.

Her stepmother has been drugging her with slow-acting poison for seven years, leaving her with the mind of a child. The whole village calls her "Jiang the Fool," and her own father is so ashamed of her that he wishes she had never been born.

On her first day awake, Jiang He curls the corners of her mouth at her stepmother. The woman stumbles back three steps in terror and knocks over a thermos.

A killer can destroy someone from the inside without ever drawing a blade.

With one hand, she sends evidence of the poisoning to the commune. With the other, she accepts an apprenticeship at the agricultural machinery station. Drawing on the feel for dismantling and assembling military hardware she developed in her previous life, she repairs every tractor in the commune in just half a month.

Pei Shi Yan, an accountant at the supply and marketing cooperative next door, appears gentle and wears glasses, but his fingers fly over the abacus. His true identity is far more complicated. Every month, he brings her two pieces of peach cake. She says killers don't owe anyone favors. He says all she has to do is smile.

But when she follows the trail of her stepmother's drugs, the thread hidden in the county town leads to smuggling, corruption, and several deaths. This time, she has no choice but to strike.

From village fool to county legend, she says: This era may not let you hit people, but it never said you couldn't dish out a face-slapping.