The Road to Prosperity in the Nineties

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Song Zhiyu had a chaotic, difficult life when she was young, and even in old age she was still burdened with endless work. She never got to enjoy a good life.

Born in the countryside, she finally managed to escape her mean stepmother and younger siblings, who treated her like a beast of burden. She married into the city, thinking she could finally live well. But less than three months after the wedding, her husband was killed in a car accident while driving for work. From then on, rumors began that she was a jinx.

Two years later, the wave of layoffs hit.

Her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law's husband were all laid off, the entire family at once.

The label of bad luck was firmly pinned on Song Zhiyu.

For the sake of her daughter, she endured whatever people said about her. She thought she would spend her whole life meekly putting up with it, but when she opened her eyes one day, she had returned to the time shortly after her marriage.

Song Zhiyu decided to stand tall and stop listening to the rumors.

They said a jinx had entered the family and would bring disaster to everyone.

Well, your girl has plenty of money.

You'd better treat me like the God of Wealth!

She would earn enough money to raise her daughter plump and healthy, so they would never have to beg people everywhere just to scrape together her school fees.

As for her husband...

She would save him first, then figure out the rest.

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Cheng Yu realized that his new wife seemed like a completely different person. She used to be quiet and timid, barely daring to look people in the eye when she spoke. Now she was confident and straightforward, and she even had a knack for cooking and a head full of great money-making ideas.

The people who used to envy him for driving around and earning money said he had married his wife for her pretty face. Later, they started saying that a grown man like him didn't earn as much as his wife.

He probably had no say at home, either.

He even had to rely on his wife to support him.

Cheng Yu said, “I think that's great.”

If his wife was willing to support him, that was his good fortune.

* Slice-of-life, a leisurely pace, family matters, and gradually building wealth.

* She grows and changes. She isn't exceptionally capable from the start.

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Nineties: I Own a Beauty Salon

Liu Yanqing had loved beauty ever since she was little. She wasn't good at school, but she was skilled at applying makeup and making creams and lotions for the face. While everyone else was still putting cucumber slices on their faces, she was already making lip balm from beeswax.

As an adult, she was the prettiest girl on the street.

Men who wanted to marry her lined up all the way to the end of the block.

Everyone said she was sure to have a good life, that the man who married her would cherish her and might not even make her do housework.

But she married a man who worked the fields for a living.

There were seven people in the family.

They were dirt-poor, and even their house was made of mud.

She cared for the elderly, worked in the fields, and did housework every day, until her slender hands were covered in calluses. Everyone said you couldn't judge a person by her looks, and that despite her beauty, she really was the sort of woman who knew how to make a home.

Later, her husband Bi Changlin made money and became a big boss, then brought the whole family to the city.

Everyone said she was lucky, and that all those hardships hadn't been for nothing.

But when Liu Yanqing saw the pretty young maid in their home, the sophisticated secretary who often called at night, and the curly-haired receptionist at the company, she couldn't feel happy at all.

Bi Changlin put an arm around her and coaxed her: “They're just getting by with me because they're young and pretty. There's only ever been one Mrs. Bi, and that's you.”

Liu Yanqing said nothing. She thought he was talking nonsense.

When she woke up, she was young again, before she had been foolish enough to accept Bi Changlin's love letter and go to the movies with him. She tore up the letter, ran out, hugged her mother, and told her, “I want to open a beauty salon. I want to stay beautiful my whole life, avoid hardship, and make my own money.”

Theme: Perseverance and self-reliance