The Street Punk in a Period Novel

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With one blink, Jian Nong of the 21st century became Jian Congnong of the 1970s.

A young woman about to graduate from high school and face being sent to the countryside.

Jian Nong, born in the countryside: ...

I'm not going to the countryside! I'd rather die than go!

Since she can't find a job no matter what, she might as well get married.

Cheng Kaijin, the doomed male supporting character from the original novel who dies young and is raising his two nephews, seems like a great choice.

After all, Cheng Kaijin is handsome and well-paid, and his only condition for a wife is that she must not have children and must not have any in the future. He isn't picky about anything else.

Jian Nong: What a coincidence. That's exactly my type.

Unfortunately, Cheng Kaijin lives far away, so she can't get her hands on him right away. Jian Nong can only play dumb for a while first.

But some people won't even leave a fool alone.

So when someone tries to scheme about her marriage, she swiftly pins them down, raises her knife, and grins: "Time to slaughter a pig!"

When someone sneaks into her room in the middle of the night to hurt her, she efficiently ties them up and raises her knife again: "Time to slaughter a pig!"

When someone tries to trick her, she expertly raises her knife once more: "Time to slaughter a pig!"

In short: slaughter pigs! Slaughter pigs! Slaughter pigs!

By the time the long-delayed Cheng Kaijin comes to meet her for a blind date, everyone who knows him secretly warns him that if he doesn't want to be slaughtered like a pig someday, he must not agree.

Cheng Kaijin: ...

Jian Nong's image as a "pig-slaughtering fool" is so firmly established that even after she finally gets Cheng Kaijin, she can't go back to acting normal right away.

There's nothing for it. Every day, Jian Nong takes the kids out to slaughter pigs, get into fights, or shake people down.

Everyone Jian Nong sets her sights on: ...

Aaaaaah!

The fool's turned into a street punk, too! Can somebody do something about her?

Cheng Kaijin was a prodigy in his youth, the brightest star at Institute 216. Sadly, he devoted himself to work and had no interest in marriage, leaving everyone sighing with regret.

It wasn't until he brought home his two nephews that he finally agreed to marry for the sake of caring for the children. But his demands were so outrageous that all the women who liked him firmly turned him down.

Then he met Jian Nong.

He repeated his requirements: "I'm busy with work and can't take care of the household. All I can do is give you my salary every month. You'll have a hard time."

Jian Nong said she could handle it, but inside she was laughing. Could anything be harder than farm labor in the countryside?

Cheng Kaijin added, "And there's the matter of not having children..."

Jian Nong: "I understand. I have no objections."

She answered so quickly that Cheng Kaijin grew suspicious. "I'm not joking. If, in the future..."

Jian Nong cut in: "There won't be an 'if.' If you don't believe me, get sterilized to make sure there's no chance of it happening."

Cheng Kaijin: ...

Could this really be a fool?

No one believed Cheng Kaijin could find a wife with those outrageous demands. Everyone was waiting for him to change his mind, but no one expected him to turn around and get married right away.

Everyone: ...

They wanted to see who on earth was so reckless.

Later

Oh, so she was just a little fool!

Wait, she's not a fool anymore, but she does nothing all day. Is she some kind of street punk?

[Highlight: This is a slow burn with a slight ensemble-cast feel. The male lead appears much later, and there's a golden finger.]

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Coming soon: [Fortune-Telling in a Period Novel]

Blurb: "This is not a supernatural-fantasy story! This is not a supernatural-fantasy story! This is not a supernatural-fantasy story!"

Xu Leying had the bad luck to live through the apocalypse. Then she died.

Good news: she didn't stay dead, but transmigrated into a period novel.

Bad news: she's still as good as dead.

Her fiance's family are capitalists everyone wants to bring down, her adoptive mother is a famous local spirit medium, and she herself is a young medium who inherited her adoptive mother's skills. Any one of them is enough to make her a target.

Xu Leying: She'd have been better off dying for good.

But since she's still alive, she can only try to find a way to survive in this deadly predicament.

Then... she'd better start by pretending to be a spirit medium.

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Lately, something strange has been going on in Old Well Village, where the political movement is in full swing.

For example, the old Yang family, who made their fortune through the movement, lost their house overnight. Water mysteriously appears by the river from time to time and sweeps people in. Someone can jump up and down from a tree more than thirty meters tall without getting hurt...

Worst of all, the statue in the mountain god's temple deep in the mountains, which had been smashed to pieces, can actually speak!

The villagers of Old Well Village: ...

What do we do? This is terrifying!

Xu Leying: What do I do? This is kind of addictive!

Theme: Keep striving to live, even in adversity