The 1970S Side Character Is a Doomsday Powerhouse

[Next novel: The Real Heiress Can Read Minds. Please add it to your collection!] Lin Manhui was a high-level dual-element wood-and-water ability user in the apocalypse. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Exhausted in body and mind, she longed to lie flat and live an easy life. She discovers that she's ended up in a military farm in the 1970s, as a pitiful girl whose parents died young and who was raised by her five older brothers. Lin Manhui: The villainess in a novel? Lie flat... According to the plot, her family is the contrast to the heroine, Lin Jiaming. Their family circumstances, studies, achievements... everything pales in comparison. Lin Jiaming leads her whole family to prosperity, while Lin Manhui and her five brothers are dogged by misfortune. Apocalypse veteran Lin Manhui says: 1. With my abilities, even the worst script doesn't scare me. 2. I'll seize the initiative and change my brothers' fate, then lie back and reap the rewards. 3. Growing vegetables and flowers in the 1970s and living like a lazy fish sounds wonderful. [Notes] 1. A farming novel, focused on family bonds, slow-paced, with a male lead. 2. Set in a fictional era, not a serious historical novel. *-- Blurb for The Real Heiress Can Read Minds --* Years later, Zhao Xiangwan is an expert who became the first in China to apply microexpression and behavioral studies to criminal investigations. Standing tall in her uniform before the cameras, surrounded by flowers and praise, a thought crosses her mind: --Neither the sun nor the human heart can be gazed upon directly. Back in 1983, Zhao Xiangwan unexpectedly gains the ability to read minds. Younger sister: Sis, I'm so worried about you. (Why won't you just get struck by lightning and die? You're impossible to kill!) Mother: Why bother studying? Our family is poor. (Even if we had money, I wouldn't spend it on you.) Father: Don't compare yourself to your fourth sister. Dad likes you best. (You're not my biological child. You'll never be one of us.) Her younger sister takes her place as the daughter of a wealthy city family, while Zhao Xiangwan fights with all her might to keep studying. Her ability to read minds helps her understand that appearances can be deceiving, but it seems to do nothing else for her life. In 1991, Zhao Xiangwan is accepted into the Hunan Provincial Police University. When her three-year-old younger sister goes missing, her eight-year-old older sister cries and acts so fragile that no one can bear to blame her. But Zhao Xiangwan hears what she's really thinking: You want to take Mom and Dad from me? Dream on! As she helps her devastated mother find the child and exposes the hidden viper, Zhao Xiangwan gives a crisp, perfect salute to the police officer's family. At last, she discovers the right way to use her mind-reading ability. Human behavior consists of countless subtle, habitual actions. Facial expressions can reveal emotions like anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. With mind-reading at her disposal, she can reach the right conclusion first, then work backward from the corresponding microexpressions. No wrongdoer can escape detection! One major criminal case after another makes Zhao Xiangwan shine. At last, she meets her biological parents, sees Zhao Chenyang, who stole her life, and hears their innermost thoughts. Zhao Xiangwan smiles without a word. Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. That saying isn't just something written in books. Theme: A happy life has to be created with your own hands.