Lucky-Koi Stepmom: Whoever I Praise Is Doomed, and I Win Big

[Period-Era Premise | Koi Spirit in the 1980s | Sharp Tongue Brings Good Luck | State-Owned Factory Fights for Survival | Raising a Child and Building a Fortune | Ensemble Factory Cast | Lighthearted, Satisfying Read | Slow-Burn 1v1]

When Yu Duoduo woke up, her husband's family was throwing her out of the Qinglan County Agricultural Machinery Factory compound. She had her five-year-old son with her and only thirty cents in her pocket. The trouble was, whenever she opened her mouth, things went awry. Praise a good person sincerely, and another path to good fortune would open up for them. Praise a bad person casually, and they'd often stumble over their own greed. But if she insulted a good person, they'd end up stumbling into a little windfall instead. And luck didn't mean money just fell from the sky: every time she used her gift of auspicious words, she had to pay for it with a meal's worth of hunger, and success still depended on people doing the work right. With layoffs looming over the whole factory, she first exposed a fake set of accounts, then rallied a group of stubborn workers to turn a near-scrap water pump into a life-saving machine. Eventually, everyone called her the factory's lucky star. Yu Duoduo just waved them off. "Don't be superstitious. I just make sure the bad news comes out a little sooner."