The Good Girl’s General Store: The 1980s

Coming soon: "The Unconventional Cultivation of a Background Character".

Blurb: The Zhu family’s good girl has been laid off!

The Zhu family’s good girl has been jilted!

The Zhu family’s good girl jumped into the river!

The Zhu family’s good girl was rescued!

The Zhu family’s good girl...

Opened a general store!

After twenty years as the Zhu family’s good girl, Zhu Ningyan jumped into the river one day, and the water washed the Meng Po soup right out of her mind!

And the Zhu family’s good girl was finally having her long-overdue rebellious phase!

Zhu Ningyan knew that the current wave of layoffs was only the beginning. More and more people would lose their jobs in the future: her eldest brother and sister-in-law, her eldest sister and brother-in-law...

Not one of them would be spared!

So the rebellious good girl took all the money she’d saved from working and rented a small courtyard on the street next to the workers’ housing compound. While everyone stared at her in confusion, she opened a general store!

The store had everything: needles and thread, cigarettes and liquor, sunflower seeds and candy!

Even though nobody thought it would work, the good girl’s general store got off to a roaring start!

First came the good girl’s general store, then her supermarket, then her chain of supermarkets, until at last she had supermarkets all across the country!

The good girl’s general store gave countless people who had lost their jobs new work, helping countless families find their footing again amid the tide of the times!

The former fiancé who broke off their engagement because the good girl had been laid off looked at the mess his life had become and regretted it with all his heart!

But by then, someone else was already by the good girl’s side!

Coming soon: "The Unconventional Cultivation of a Background Character"

Blurb:

Wen Shu was born into another world with a ‘Hard Work Makes Up for Lack of Talent’ System. She worked hard for thirteen years, only to discover she’d been on the wrong path all along!

When the main branch of the Wen family brought her back to the cultivation world, she accidentally discovered that she was a background character in a traditional cultivation novel. All she could think about on the way was how to stay away from the male and female leads.

But once she returned to the cultivation world, she discovered that she wasn’t a background character in just one book. She was a background character in every book.

The reason she was a background character was that the members of the Wen family’s main branch were either supporting characters or doomed extras. In short, each had their own tragic fate!

Stay away from them, no matter what!

Unfortunately, the girls in the main branch were too good to her!

No pretty clothes? Her doomed fifth sister gave her some!

No pretty jewelry? Her doomed fourth sister gave her some!

No pretty weapons? Her female supporting-character third sister gave her some!

Wen Shu looked at the pile of magical treasures around her and fell silent. Her sisters were all so wonderful. How could they die?

They absolutely couldn’t die!

Since she couldn’t stay away, she had no choice but to work hard!

So Wen Shu began to rise at the crow of the rooster. No, she started going without sleep night after night.

If someone else refined one batch of pills, she refined ten or even a hundred.

If someone else drew ten talismans, she drew a hundred or a thousand.

If someone else swung their sword a hundred times, she used the System to swing hers a thousand or ten thousand times!

Quantity leads to a qualitative change. She refused to believe that after working so hard, she’d still be an anonymous background character!

Theme: Work hard to make money