Raising a Villain with the Top Scholar in the 1970s

[New story next door: The Female Lead Is Transmigrating into a Book Tomorrow (1970s) is now open]

One day, Shen An'an transmigrated into a historical-era novel. Instead of becoming the female lead, she became the villain's mother.

Being a mother was one thing, but the whole family were awful people in the original story. Her husband was an idle wife-beater, his wife was weak and incompetent, taking out her frustrations on her family, and their son was a gloomy, cold little villain. They were the perfect negative counterpart to the male lead's family.

Who could put up with that?

Shen An'an clenched her fists and, on her very first day there, kicked her good-for-nothing husband unconscious for drinking and beating people.

As for her son... Oh my, this little dumpling is adorable. I'll keep him around for now.

Just as Shen An'an was planning to lead the little dumpling to prosperity, she suddenly noticed that her good-for-nothing husband had changed.

Not only had the useless jerk become hardworking, he also had beautiful handwriting. Even more astonishing, he could draw her eyebrows for her.

What moved Shen An'an most of all was that he could write poetry and spout refined love talk.

Shen An'an: Maybe I'll keep him around for now and kick him out once I'm tired of him?

[Pre-release: The Female Lead Is Transmigrating into a Book Tomorrow. Please add it to your collection]

After transmigrating into the materially deprived 1970s, Ji Mian was not worried at all.

Because the original owner's elder sister, the book-transmigrated female lead, would arrive tomorrow with her pocket dimension.

Just as Ji Mian was preparing to lie back and enjoy an easy life, things seemed to be going a little wrong.

On the female lead's first day after transmigrating into the book, she worked in the fields by day and went up the mountain at night to dig for medicinal herbs and trade them for money at the purchasing station.

On her second day, the family worked in the fields by day, then went up the mountain with her at night to dig for medicinal herbs.

The lazy Ji Mian rubbed her chin and pondered. Could this be some kind of test set up by the female lead?

On the third day after the female lead transmigrated into the book, lazy Ji Mian was about to join her on the mountain when the female lead held her by the shoulders.

The female lead looked solemn. "Mianmian, you're the smartest one in the family. Stay home and study obediently. The revival of the Ji family depends on you."

Before long, Ji Mian realized she seemed to have transmigrated into the wrong book. The female lead not only had no pocket dimension, she also seemed a little dim.

Looking at the family's drafty house and the female lead working hard to dig up medicinal herbs to support them,

Ji Mian studied diligently under the female lead's earnest instruction,

while also coming up with plans to make money.

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Ji Yue never expected that destroying her pocket dimension would earn her a chance to be reborn.

In her previous life, she transmigrated at fifteen and gained a pocket dimension, was controlled and exploited at twenty, then was reborn at twenty-one.

Looking at her lively younger siblings before her, Ji Yue clenched her fists. In this life, she would live well and keep her feet on the ground.

There was no point in taking shortcuts. She decided to make sure her younger sister, the only one in the family to attend university in her previous life, studied hard.

Much later, the Ji family surged ahead and became the richest family in the country. Ji Yue suddenly realized:

Was her younger sister the legendary female lead all along?

1. This could be considered a dual-female-lead story, with the female lead and her elder sister each having their own career and romance arcs.

2. Domestic family life and the story of one family's struggles. The pacing is probably slow.

3. There is a male lead, but he appears late.

[Pre-release 2: So I Got the Cannon Fodder Script (1990s)]

After sixteen years of being born into this world, with a mother who was a factory director's daughter and a father who was highly capable and gearing up to start a business, Ji Lili had always thought she had the script of a winner in life.

Until one day, a girl claiming to be her father's daughter showed up, and Ji Lili realized with a shock that she had transmigrated into a book.

The female lead was this stepsister, a woman who had transmigrated into the book with a strategy System.

According to the plot, the book-transmigrated female lead would first win over her father, bringing him and her mother back together, then give birth to a younger son.

Later, she would use her strategy System to win over Ji Lili's friends and classmates one after another, as well as the man she was engaged to as a child.

As for Ji Lili and her mother, they were cannon fodder among cannon fodder. Her mother would be betrayed, suffer a relapse of an old illness, and die, while Ji Lili would first have her engagement broken off and then be driven out of the family home.

Meanwhile, the other family would use their maternal grandfather's connections and wealth to seize the opportunities of the golden age and become the richest family in the country.

After learning how the plot went, Ji Lili refused to accept it. She took her mother and divorced the man who had married into their family for money, then encouraged her mother to start a business.

Later, while the book-transmigrated female lead was busy winning over Ji Lili's friends and classmates, Ji Lili received an admission letter from the country's top university.

While the book-transmigrated female lead was pursuing Ji Lili's childhood betrothed, Ji Lili and her mother became the richest family in their region.

When the book-transmigrated female lead finally succeeded and married Ji Lili's childhood betrothed as she had wished, she discovered that Ji Lili and the man by her side had become people everyone could only look up to.

So was her strategy System just a touchstone for Ji Lili?

Theme: Knowledge changes one's destiny