Alternate title: I Have a Golden Finger, But It Came Three Years Too Late!
Lu Yao felt like she’d been seeing ghosts lately.
No! Superstition is frowned upon these days, so keep your mouth shut.
Every morning, she woke to find a jumble of courtyard gossip and information plastered before her eyes.
At first, she thought she was the chosen one. She went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy the fresh fish that had just arrived the night before, as suggested by her “Daily Intel.”
Ha. Turns out she really had seen a ghost, and the ghost was a liar.
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
But eventually, she discovered what the “ghost” was really good for.
Daily Intel: Wang Erma wants to get his hands on a large shipment of goods to sell on the black market. He has no choice but to dig up the gold and silver he hid three years ago in the toilet in Zaoshu Alley.
Lu Yao, eyes shining: Isn’t that the public toilet I use all the time?
She dug around, and there it was!
Daily Intel: The unemployed children in Zaoshu Alley are being sent to the countryside by force. Lu Yao sells her job, sneaks off to the countryside with Zhang Hao, and lands her parents in the hospital with anger.
Lu Yao, looking baffled: Me? Working in the fields? Have I lost my mind? And who’s this Zhang Hao guy?
Reader’s guide:
1. No going to the countryside.
2. This is a fictional setting, and the jobs are completely made up.
Upcoming novel, My Informant Doesn’t Speak Human [Hong Kong]
Blurb: At the moment everything went black, Huang Ying wondered whether she’d died from staying up too late or from being drained dry by the mosquito king.
When she woke up again, she had become Huang Ying, an orphan adopted by a blind old woman.
The blind woman raised Huang Ying using her skills in reading bones and telling fortunes, but she was now old and frail. Unable to earn money, the two of them lay in their room, waiting to die.
Huang Ying couldn’t be sure she’d come back to life again if she died, so she decided to find a job and support herself. Then she unexpectedly discovered she could understand animals!?
A master fortune-teller rises to greatness (self-proclaimed)!!!
Huang Ying first uses her ability to understand animals to help a neighbor’s grandmother find a lost bracelet, then helps someone find proof of their partner’s affair... Later, she repeatedly helps the police solve cases and becomes an honored guest.
Reader’s guide:
1. Fictional setting
Theme: Work hard through adversity and keep striving for self-improvement
Transmigrating to the 1950s to Work with Machinery
My Whole Family Are Villains [1960s]
A Country Girl from Ancient Times Arrives at the Compound [The Sixties]
The Short-Lived White Moonlight of the Period Novel
Exiled to the Frontier: Farming, Getting Rich, and Building Infrastructure
The Early-Deceased Wife of a Powerful Man in a Period Novel
The Imperial Physician's Daughter Takes Charge of Her Clinic [The 1990s]
The Early-Era Novel's Cannon Fodder Quits (Food)
Landlady of the 1990s
A Returned Educated Youth Pursues Science [The 1980s]
The Delicate Darling Coasts Through Life in a Period Novel
Ah, is this the end? The male and female leads mentioned in the synopsis haven't even appeared yet, and there hasn't been much of a romantic storyline between them.
I suggest the author revise the synopsis. The female lead's career storyline is quite compelling. I've missed this book several times because of the synopsis; I always thought it was another story about a long-term emotional entanglement between a time-traveling woman and the original male lead.
The "Daily Intelligence" title hasn't appeared in a long time; it's time to change the title.
It was alright. The female lead was very smart, but she didn't have much information to rely on later on, so she didn't get much attention. However, the ending was a bit weak, and the story with the chef wasn't explained well. The crime-solving was decent.
"Fearful colleagues, in everyone's hearts..." (Apologies to the author for any bugs~)
The text doesn't show it at all; none of the important characters have appeared.