Studying Hard in the 1990s

Yun Yan grew up in a big city, but transmigrates to the 1990s, into a poor rural family where she has endless chores to do after school every day.

Her mother favors sons over daughters. She keeps thinking that once Yun Yan graduates from elementary school, she'll raise her for another couple of years, then marry her off for a bride price to build a house.

To stay in school, Yun Yan seizes every chance to save money.

In her previous life, her father said the 1990s were a time when gold was everywhere. As long as you dared to take a chance, you could make a fortune. She believes she can save enough for junior high tuition, then continue on to high school and university, escaping the fate of being married off young.

Now that she's used to a busy life, Yun Yan finds the occasional bit of village gossip pretty entertaining.

It would be even better if her cousin next door weren't so strange and hadn't stolen credit for saving someone from the original owner.

Just as she works hard to save money and build a better future for herself, her mother tells her she's accepted 3,000 yuan in bride price from a young man left behind in the village by the educated youth, and Yun Yan must marry him as soon as she turns sixteen!!

Note: Most of the story takes place in the 1990s, before moving into the modern era.

This is a transmigration novel. Please don't compare it to reality. Everything serves the plot, so don't take it too seriously, dears! Mwah! Love you all!

Don't argue with me. If you do, you win!

My other ongoing interstellar novel, Want a Slice of Pie?, follows Lan Yan, who transmigrates to a wasteland garbage planet and makes a living scavenging trash. Just when she thinks she'll spend the rest of her life there, a pie falls from the sky! She discovers she's a rich second-generation heiress!

Her wealthy biological parents find her and transfer an entire planet into her name. She thinks life will be wonderful once she becomes a planet's owner.

But...

That pie is poisoned!

Her wealthy parents leave her alone on a barren planet full of vicious beasts, to fend for herself.

After training until she can barely protect herself, she receives a message on her wrist computer: as the planet's owner, she has one year to repay her debt! Otherwise, she'll be sent to a mining planet for forced labor for the rest of her life, or deported to a garbage planet! The planet she just acquired will be confiscated, too!

And the debt is one trillion star coins!

If she doesn't want to lose her planet, be sent to forced labor, and end up back on a garbage planet, she has to find a way to repay the debt.

A pie falling from the sky really isn't that easy to swallow!

Her wrist computer tells her that people across the stars cherish rare flowers and greenery. Her spiritual space is full of all kinds of rare seeds.

People across the stars live on bland, monotonous nutrient fluids, but that's no problem. Her cooking smells so good it could make the kids on the neighboring planet cry with hunger.

She starts livestreaming, cultivating her powers, and selling flowers, and couldn't be busier.

Netizen 1: Streamers can brag all they want, there's no tax on it. Flowers and food can cure genetic breakdown? If that's true, I'll livestream myself eating a pound of dirt!

Netizen 2: The streamer says her cooking makes the kids on the neighboring planet cry. Is it because they're starving?

Later... “Streamer, look at me. I'm the kid from the neighboring planet who cried because I wanted your food.”

The Empire's Third Prince, who has suffered from a genetic disease for five years, posts an unprecedented update, reminding a certain loudmouthed netizen to remember to livestream eating dirt. He'll send an assistant to supervise.

People across the stars go wild...

Even more exciting, people might be able to fly through the sky and burrow underground like the streamer, without piloting mechs! Everyone wants to invite her to their planet to set up a spirit-gathering formation. With a bit of luck, they might become as capable as she is.

Sunny heroine vs. scheming hero

Content warning: This is my take on interstellar fiction. All the ideas are just for the plot.

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Blurb: An Ning transmigrates into a novel as a female supporting character who is hopelessly in love with the male lead, who has a white moonlight in his heart. At their engagement party, the white moonlight suddenly realizes her feelings, prompting the male lead to break off the engagement on the spot.

Having read the original story, An Ning knows the female supporting character was supposed to live a happy life. But the white moonlight uses a female-character comeback System to steal her luck. In the end, the white moonlight becomes the heroine, and she becomes cannon fodder.

The female supporting character can't accept that her lover has been stolen. She keeps making trouble for the white moonlight, only to be humiliated by the male lead and the white moonlight again and again, until she brings about her own downfall.

When An Ning arrives, the male lead has already broken off the engagement. According to the original plot, she'll be married to a man she's never met. He's supposedly uninterested in women and marries her to inherit the family business. Since their wedding, he never shows his face, but gives her a generous allowance every month.

The original owner, however, can't accept it. With only the male lead in her heart, she keeps pursuing him and the heroine despite being married.

An Ning thinks that if she can have all the money she wants without becoming a corporate slave, why would she need love?

She enjoys her life while gradually taking back the luck stolen from the original owner. As the white moonlight slowly loses her luck and keeps running into bad luck, An Ning enjoys the show until she's had her fill.

But one day, the man who's always existed only in rumors and never shown his face appears...

Both are each other's first and only partner, 1v1.

Set in a fictional world. Don't compare it to reality. Anything that doesn't match reality is there for the sake of the plot, so please don't nitpick.

There are other upcoming works and several completed novels on my author page. Come check them out, dears!

Theme: Never bow your head to hardship