Looking for a Strong Female Lead in a Period Novel: She's a Businesswoman, Not a Saint, and Travels Around China and Abroad 求年代文女强，女主经商，不圣母，国内国外跑那种
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A Wild Spirit Goes to the Countryside and Flirts with the Toughest Officer to Win Over! 混不吝下乡，撩最难啃的军官！
[Period setting + military marriage + feel-good revenge + he runs, she chases + Run! Why did you stop?] The first time Fu Zhan met Qin Zhengzheng, she was staring up at his bare torso with wide, longing eyes! Qin Zhengzheng wiped away her drool. “Mmm, mmm!” But what left him even more speechless was... The girl hurried over and gave him a brazen grope! Then she tossed out a few words: “It's broad daylight, so mind your virtue. Lucky for you, you ran into me...” And then... she just took off... A
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Have Babies, Have Babies! After Her Divorce, the Crown Princess Is a Baby-Making Pro 生娃生娃！和离后太子妃超能生
[One-on-one romance + plant-based powers + doted on by everyone + adorable kids + sweet, devoted love] Han Yuexin, a plant-based ability user from Huaguo in the 30th century, was struck by lightning while farming in the rain and died young, only to transmigrate into ancient times! As soon as she arrived, she was sent back to her maiden home after divorcing her husband. Her ex, Lu Anbei, went off to enlist, and she figured he'd be gone for good. Back home, Han Yuexin bought a barren mountain and
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Sent to the Countryside on a Sea Island, Raising Little Ones with My Frog 下乡到海岛，带着蛙崽养团子
[Alternate-History Period Setting + Joining Her Husband on an Island Posting + Frog Companion's Pocket Dimension + Family's Cherished Darling + Raising Kids + Food + Foraging by the Sea] When Qi Mengyu woke up, she was blowing bubbles in the sea when Yan Qing, a cool, long-legged man, hauled her out. She discovered that she'd transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder supporting character in a period novel. To cherish life, stay away from the male and female leads. Marry a thoughtful, go
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Commander Has No Heirs? I Conceive Triplets with a Spirit Spring and Get Spoiled Rotten 首长绝嗣？我怀灵泉三胎被宠爆
[Short-Form Drama Adaptation Out + Military Marriage + Feel-Good Revenge + Island-Group Pocket Dimension + Exceptional Female Lead, Possessive Male Lead] Jiang Yan, daughter of the richest man in the country, owns assets worth hundreds of billions. Her daily routine is living off her parents, lazing around, and shopping. One day, she went out to pick up a food delivery and got brained by a brick. Then she transmigrated into a brainless period novel written by her jealous cousin! In the book, Jia
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A Beauty Marries Down: Her Second-Husband, an Older Man, Demands Her Love Every Day 美人下嫁：二婚老男人日日索爱
[Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a
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The 1970s: I Transmigrated into a Book, and My Lazy Husband Is No Match for Me 七零穿书：女配嫁懒汉你懒我更懒
Synopsis: (Devoted husband + triplets + seven gourd babies + both leads are a bit of a handful) Xu Ya transmigrates from the apocalypse to the 1970s and, from the start, marries a lazy, difficult husband. He's so handsome? She's keeping him. She's the fake daughter? The real daughter is reborn and back for revenge? So what? She's not scared. There's a baby on the way. She's pregnant? A stunning educated youth has her eye on Xu Ya's husband? She must be blind. He's not available. All kinds o
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The Rugged Army Guy Is Irresistible, but His Wife's Family Ends Up in Ruins 糙汉军哥好撩人，娇妻全家火葬场
[One-on-one romance + rugged military man + beautiful educated youth + pocket dimension + everyday life] Zhou Tingting was born strong enough to move mountains. When she opened her eyes, she found herself as a disposable background character in a sweet period romance. Her mother, stepfather, and stepsister's family were all up to no good. They tricked her out of her job and took her home. After squeezing every last bit of value out of her, they sent her off to the countryside. The original Zhou
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The Army Wife Rules the Family Compound: The Mind-Reading Commander-in-Chief Dotes on Her Like Crazy 军婚称霸家属院，读心首长玩命宠
[Mind reading + joining the army + pocket dimension + taking down scumbags + making a fortune + marriage before love + raising kids] After being set up, Lu Jiangyue transmigrates into an eighties novel. The heroine is her family's adopted daughter and the daughter of her father's comrade-in-arms. Her father constantly takes the heroine's side, driving Lu Jiangyue's mother to her death. But the scheming heroine thinks that's not enough and plans to ruin Lu Jiangyue's reputation and marry her off
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Five Years of Marriage, and He Never Comes Home: If You Don't Love Me, Let's Divorce 军婚五年家都不回：不爱，那就离
The author has lived in a military compound as a military wife for eleven years. Come see what real military life is like. The short drama Raising Kids in the Seventies, starring Wang Kaimu and Wang Yunyun, is now streaming on the Tomato platform. Watch it for free on Hongguo. Feel-good story + period setting + military marriage + raising children + mutually faithful romance + winning back his wife + authentic life in a military compound The new book is almost complete too. If you’ve finished th
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A Self-Serving Perfectionist in a Period Novel 年代文里的精致利己主义
Yang Yuan never expected that after transmigrating, she would become the female lead's fake best friend in a period novel. Not only did she burn the heroine's love letters, but she was also destined for a miserable end. Well, at least she didn't have many scenes. If she played her cards right and made amends, she could still survive. What? Go to the countryside? Absolutely not. I'm lazy, greedy, and a shameless freeloader who loves the easy life. So what if I take advantage of people or scheme a
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Doing Scientific Research in the 1970s 我在七十年代搞科研
In the 21st century, Lin Ziyu lived in luxury, dressed in gold and silver, and ate and drank to her heart’s content. Who could have guessed she’d be reborn in the clothing- and food-scarce 1970s? But it was fine, because her family loved and spoiled her! To her surprise, the System she’d been bound to in her previous life came along too. It said she owed it ten million points, and would be erased if she didn’t pay them back. To stay alive, Lin Ziyu had no choice but to study hard and earn points
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The Supporting Actress Raises Kids in the ’70s 女配她在七零养崽崽
Original title: The Supporting Female Character Raises Children in the Seventies Completed! [Transmigration + Era Setting + Supermarket in a Pocket Dimension + Raising Kids + Power Couple Romance] Gu Zhiyi, a modern woman, brings billions' worth of supplies and a supermarket pocket dimension with her as she transmigrates to another world in the 1970s! As the boys' adoptive mother, Gu Zhiyi only wants to get rich and keep her two sons from suffering the tragedy of their previous lives. Later... j
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Back in the 1990s, I Inherit a Hundred-Billion-Yuan Fortune Against My Will 穿回九零的我被迫继承百亿家产
[Reborn + Strong heroine + Sweet romance] A modern-day rich beauty dies unexpectedly and is reborn in the 1990s as a pitiful girl unloved by her grandmother and uncle. From the start, she's about to be sold off as a child bride to a fool. She can't find a golden finger or a pocket dimension either, so she wisely makes a quick getaway and heads somewhere else to make a living. Her genius brain and foreknowledge of the future aren't meant for dealing with awful relatives. Getting rich and achievin
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After His Wife Joins the National Service, Her Man and Child Miss Her Like Crazy 媳妇上交国家后，男人和娃想疯了
[All-around rich beauty + no supporting deadbeats + no black-market dealings + no relocation to the countryside + spatial System with multiverse trading] Lin Siqiao transmigrated from a fabulously wealthy Shanghai socialite into a pitiful young woman in the 1970s, disliked by her own family. Less than a year after her birth mother died, her scumbag father brought home a stepmother. They say that once you have a stepmother, you get a stepfather too. But Lin Siqiao never imagined that, just to sei
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The Nation’s Heiress Transmigrates into a Book and Takes Down Every Protagonist 穿书归国大小姐降为打击所有主角
Meng Huaijun has traveled through time, and she has all the standard time travel equipment, the system, the time travel book, the heroine, the real and fake daughter, and substitute literature. It's just that these labels are somewhat different from what she understands. Her system is neither a strategy system nor a redemption system, and the system has no humanistic thinking. It is a cold wealth and power system. Making people rich and powerful is the ultimate mission of the system. In the book
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Reborn in an Era of Hardship: The Tough Wife Is Terrifying! 重生年代之悍妻超凶哒！
Xia Ranan never imagined she would end up transmigrating into a wretched woman who caused trouble at every turn, loved eating and hated working, and was carrying on with another man. Her husband was away serving in the army, leaving behind his six- or seven-year-old younger brother, but the original owner had beaten the boy so badly he was bedridden! Faced with a thousand pointing fingers and ten thousand scolding voices, Xia Ranan declared, “I’m not taking the blame for this!” She wasn’t a wret
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Reborn in 1990: The Lucky Carp’s Blessed Life 重生九零锦鲤福妻
The Lu family’s fourth son married the prettiest girl in the village. From then on, his once-declining family suddenly had a change of fortune: he found treasures on the road, important people came calling, and even the son who had failed the college entrance exam twice ranked first in the entire county! Wen Xin noticed that after her husband went to college, even more pretty girls were flocking around him. Pretty underclassman: “An uneducated country girl like you is totally unworthy of my seni
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I Opened My Eyes and Was Back Before Breaking Off My Engagement to the Chaste, Rugged Man 一睁眼，回到和禁欲糙汉退婚之前
[Period setting + taciturn, rugged man + lively, charming educated youth + mutual doting + farming + pocket dimension] In her previous life, Lin Xiaoyan was forced to move to the countryside. In a fit of anger, she broke off her engagement to Gu Xiao, a man she had never even met. After missing each other for half a lifetime, they met again and, after many twists and turns, found their way back to each other. Sadly, a fire set as part of a plot made her believe she'd never see Gu Xiao again. But
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The 1990s: Why Date When I've Transmigrated into a Book? 90年代：穿书了谁还谈恋爱啊
Lin Ting had just secured funding when she transmigrated into a romance novel where everyone was eight hundred percent love-brained. From the start, she was stuck in an icy wasteland with a talkative male lead threatening to kill her. Lin Ting: “Date you? I'd rather get a dog.” The original male lead: “...?” No space, no System, no mind-reading ability... Luckily, she still had a business brain running at full speed. “I'm never dating anyone. Not in this life.” “If I run out of money, I can earn
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Boss, Your Lucky Sweetheart Is Reborn in the 1970s 大佬，锦鲤甜妻在七十年代重生了
[Period setting + enterprising heroine who only starts buying courtyard homes later on + male lead is a research powerhouse devoted to serving his country] Qin Wanwan was crouching by a grave, watching the commotion, when she accidentally became the center of it. She possessed someone and was reborn. She dealt with the scumbag and the other woman in kind, sending them both to a farm for reform. Then she sold her ancestral home, bought a job, stuffed her pockets with cash, and plunged straight in
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The Concubine's Plan for the Legitimate Daughter 庶女嫡谋
The Grand Empress Dowager, who had ruled the court for more than a decade, passed away. Reborn as the unloved, impoverished daughter of a marquis’s concubine, she had no desire to strive in this life. All she wanted was to marry a husband with a short life expectancy and enjoy widowhood after he died. Yang Yue died in battle. After death, his soul lingered on, witnessing the shifts of power in the Great Qing dynasty and watching the Grand Empress Dowager be poisoned by her own grandson. When he
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You Asked Me to Be a Concubine, So I Killed the Lord? 让你当小妾，你把主君杀了？
(A full-cast audio drama has been produced) (The short drama adaptation, A Kiss Beneath the Spring Moon, is now online) [Quick transmigration + femme fatale + palace and household intrigue + revenge for every grudge + villainess fiction + no fixed male lead + growth-focused heroine] As a newly created System, Erdan only wanted to choose a gentle, charming Host who knew how to humble herself, so they could complete the concubine survival missions. But it turned out Erdan had misjudged her. A low-
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A Flash Marriage to a Powerful Tycoon: He Spoils Her Like a Treasure 闪婚豪门大佬，她被宠成了掌中宝
[Scheming CEO vs. resilient, spirited heroine; marriage first, love later + doting romance + sweet pursuit + heartwarming healing + long-laid plans] Xu Yuan and Yan Bohuai marry under a contract. They were supposed to be two strangers entering a business arrangement: Xu Yuan urgently needs money for surgery, while Yan Bohuai needs a wife to deal with his family. The two hit it off and got their marriage certificate. But after the wedding, things take a completely different turn from what Xu Yuan
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Shock! The Cannon Fodder Dares to Sleep Beside a Tiger 惊！炮灰她敢与虎共眠
[Complete! Period Drama + Healing Each Other + Sweet and Satisfying + No Self-Sacrifice or Handouts + The Male Lead Really Raises Tigers] After being plagued by nightmares, Ning Xia transmigrated into a book. Unfortunately, she wasn’t the heroine, just a “white moonlight” cannon-fodder character who starved to death on the way to the countryside. Looking at the relatives who had schemed against her, she decided that if she was going to the countryside, they could at least pay her back for everyt
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The 1970s Space: The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Just Wants to Get Rich 七零空间：炮灰女配只想发家致富
(Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + both leads are each other's first + one-on-one romance) Lu Yao is a first-year business student. After staying up all night to finish a period novel written by her friend, she wakes up to find that she has become a cannon-fodder supporting character in the book. Lu Yao immediately panics. She still has a whole life ahead of her! But with the familiar plot before her, she isn't worried. Not only does she know how the story unfolds, she also has a phone
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The 1970s: I Became the Wronged Female Lead, and Now I'm Consistently Losing It 七零：穿成冤种女主后我稳定发疯
[Completed] [Infinite space + transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + patriotism + raising children] Scientific genius Fu Xue was hit on the head by a flowerpot and transmigrated into... the doomed heroine of a no-romance period novel centered on a strong female lead. The original owner had a space and was destined for a bright future, but a reborn supporting female character who despised poverty and coveted wealth stole her golden finger and schemed to have her killed. The plot had gone off
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Transmigrate into a Book in the 1960s: With a Baby Bottle in Hand, I Reach the Pinnacle of Life 六零穿书：抱着奶瓶走向人生巅峰
A milk-loving, affectionate little sweetheart VS a powerful, handsome but ill-fated man who’s soft only for her Not long after gaining sentience, Tang Jiaojiao, a baby iron-eater, drinks one bowl too many of her special milk. When she wakes up, she finds she’s transmigrated to the food-and-clothing-scarce 1960s, as a cannon-fodder character who dies at birth. Looking at her cannon-fodder parents and brother, Tang Jiaojiao sips her milk and resolves to lead them away from their cannon-fodder fat
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A Happy Life in the Seventies 七十年代幸福生活
Su Wan was reborn and grew up to eighteen. With her wedding and move to join the army just around the corner, she thought this life would be smooth and peaceful. She was ready to coast through life when she discovered she had transmigrated into a lucky heroine novel! Both she and her fiancé were doomed supporting characters! What could she do but fight to take control of her own destiny? See how Su Wan escapes the lucky heroine’s shadow, marries and follows her husband to the army, starts a busi
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The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表
{The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the
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After Kicking Out the Vile Ones, I Thrive in the ’70s 赶走极品后，我在七零风生水起
[Period setting + face-slapping the rotten relatives + satisfying read + space + making a fortune] In a flash, Jiang Yunyun transmigrates straight from fighting for her life in the apocalypse into a book she once read, where she becomes a minor cannon-fodder character. And she's an idiot, too? First, there's her miserly grandmother, who selfishly plunders their family's belongings to support her eldest uncle. Then there's her aunt, who covets her and wants to sell her off for a bride price to p
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Took the Heroine Home as My Sister-in-Law 女配穿书后把女主拐来做嫂子
After Tang Tian is hit on the head with a brick, she transmigrates into a period novel, as a nobody not even important enough to be cannon fodder. She's the lovesick girl the male lead meets in the countryside, and a stumbling block on his way back to the city. With a new soul inside her, Tang Tian kicks the male lead to the curb without hesitation. She tells everyone he's hideous, with enormous nostrils that give her nightmares every night. A certain soldier quietly picks up a little mirror. Ye
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I Play the Villain in a Period Novel 我在年代文里当极品
A beautiful, wealthy woman * a handsome, devoted man with a dark side. After Liu Xianxian is reborn, she discovers that she is the awful original wife who dies young in a period novel! Not only has the heroine, who transmigrated into the book, schemed to steal her husband, but her children have all been raised to be awful people! Liu Xianxian brandishes the hoe in her hand. “This original wife is not someone you can mess with!” Her husband is hers! And every one of her children will grow up to a
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A Hundred Billion in Supplies: I Take Charge of the Tycoons in a Period Novel 百亿物资：我在年代文里盘大佬
[1970s + sweet romance + System supplies + marriage first, love later + rewrite the plot + raising kids + face-slapping] After transmigrating into a book, Qin Lin discovers she's become the vicious little wife of the story's biggest villain! The story opens with the original owner's attempted elopement, only for the villain to catch her red-handed with her lover! She's doomed! The villain keeps the novel's hero and heroine down so completely they can't fight back. How can she talk her way out of
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The 1970s: I Became the Female Supporting Character's Foil in a Period Novel 七零：穿成年代文女配对照组
A period drama about an independent female lead, with no golden finger! She passed the high school entrance exams, but her family wouldn’t let her attend. Instead, they sent her uncle’s daughter, who had never gotten along with her, to school. Short-tempered Lin Erxia erupted into a fight. After a furious scuffle, she passed out from anger. When she woke up, she realized she seemed to have transmigrated into a book...
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I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制
This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to
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The Female General Who Became Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 穿成年代文炮灰的女将军
Shaomin, whose martial prowess was unmatched, never imagined that after spending half her life on the battlefield, her entire family would be executed for a trumped-up charge. Her furious soul refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation. On a night of lightning and thunder, she watched in spirit as the enemy army cut down the heads of the corrupt emperor and his treacherous ministers. With her great vengeance fulfilled, she was finally able to let go. But then lightning struck her soul and sent
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From Ancient Times to the Present: A Noblewoman Transmigrates into a Period Novel 古穿今，古代千金穿进年代文
When her country fell and her family was destroyed, Su Yucheng chose to fight to the death. When she woke again, she discovered that she had come back to life in someone else’s body. From the original owner’s memories, she learned that the girl had been reborn, and that she herself had transmigrated into a book. What’s more, the original owner was just an insignificant cannon-fodder character.
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Transmigrated to a State-Owned Factory in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Cushy Job 穿到七零国营厂，开局考上萝卜岗
1970s + no rural assignment + multiple Systems + career building + strengthening the nation through research Overnight, Shi Xia becomes a minor supporting character in a period novel, an unemployed youth at a state-owned factory. Her mind is in turmoil. The good news: she has a bunch of Systems. The bad news: every one of them is still in beta. No matter. She'll handle it. The male lead who failed his blind date? No need to waste him: let him go to the countryside and suffer. The womanizer who c
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Reborn in 1980: A Surgeon’s Road to Renewal 重生1980：外科圣手的涅槃路
Su Wan, a top-tier surgeon, died as a result of a plot by her husband and his mistress. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to 1980, with both legs intact and her family still alive! Her vengeance from her past life remains unfinished. How could she make the same mistakes all over again? Armed with astonishing medical skills and lost Chinese medicine recipes, she vows to make the scum pay for their crimes in blood! Set up a street stall? No, she’ll open Renxin Hall, saving lives wit
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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