Finding Treasures and Making a Fortune in the 1970s

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In Xingping Village, two things are famous:

One is that the Su family's youngest daughter needs a doctor almost every month. The other is that this frail young woman has a fiance everyone envies.

Su Anyue has just graduated with a degree in archaeology when a car accident sends her into the body of the Su family's youngest daughter. Her family is kind, if a little large, and poor, but with a Treasure-Hunting System, she thinks none of that is a problem. This is an era when even a broken bowl might be an antique worth tens of millions.

But she soon realizes her good-hearted uncle isn't really good-hearted, and her considerate cousin is a real schemer. They want the house and her fiance?

She'll give them to you!

At first, the villagers wonder if Su Anyue has gone crazy:

When her cousin splits up the family, grabs everything, and demands the house, Su Anyue asks only for a crock of pickled vegetables and takes the elders of her family to a dilapidated old house!

While her cousin busies herself preparing to go to the city and become a factory worker, Su Anyue busies herself picking through trash!

When her cousin tries to marry Su Anyue's fiance, Su Anyue is still busy picking through trash, and even urges them to get engaged!!!

But the villagers don't know that

The pickle crock is from the Ming dynasty, and the furniture in the old house is made of rosewood.

Later, to the villagers' astonishment, Su Anyue becomes the first person in the village to become a worker, the first to get into university, and even the first to receive a medal for making a major contribution to the country.

Reader's Guide:

This story is set in an alternate world.

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Everyone in the textile factory's family compound says the Lin family is so unlucky. The daughter they raised and spoiled, Lin Qiao, isn't their own.

After their biological daughter, Lu Ying, comes home, they can't bring themselves to send Lin Qiao away. It's been a year of chaos, and they hear Lin Qiao even pressured her mother to give her the textile factory job so she wouldn't have to go to the countryside.

The Lin family is baffled. Their youngest daughter is perfectly fine apart from getting injured every now and then. Why do outsiders describe her that way? Every time the family tries to explain, they end up having bad luck, and nobody believes them.

After a year of misfortune, Lin Qiao gets a broken System and learns she's the original heroine, now a cannon-fodder character, in a comeback novel. The worst part is that she always has bad luck whenever she goes up against Lu Ying.

System: Host, please work hard to turn your life around and reclaim everything that belongs to you.

Lin Qiao: Hah! She's going to work hard at being a laid-back fish.

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Everyone soon notices that Lin Qiao has swung to the other extreme. She used to be competitive but never came out on top. Now she's lazy and loves good food, spending her entire salary eating at everyone's houses. Yet she's getting promoted again and again at the pastry factory!

Word is that she's turned down her childhood sweetheart, a promising young man, because she wants to find an honest guy who can cook well.

A certain excellent cook goes to great lengths to move near Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao soon notices that she has another neighbor who's great in the kitchen. He charges less and gives her more. Maybe he wants her to recommend him to the factory too?

Sharp-tongued, hardworking, ambitious bad boy x sweet-toothed, well-behaved, laid-back heroine

Theme: As long as you keep trying, sunlight will shine through the cracks.