The 1970s: Raising a Wife with In-Game Purchases

[*Please add my upcoming story "The Aviation Powerhouse of the 1960s" to your collection. Blurb below]

Ji Qinghe transmigrates into a book and becomes a state-run store clerk in the 1970s, a job everyone envies.

He also brings along a lousy game that does nothing but make him spend money.

In the game, a beautiful young educated woman with a pale face shivers in the cold.

A line of text appears on the screen: “Would you like to send warmth to your poor wife and baby?”

Ji Qinghe's heart softens. He uses some of his newly issued wages to buy processed cotton and taps to send it...

He'll only buy something once, absolutely! If he buys again, may his hands be chopped off!!

Later...

A floral dress. His wife would look lovely in it. Buy!

Lychee preserves. His wife has probably never tried them. Buy!

This little undershirt looks nice too. His wife will definitely like it. Buy, buy, buy!

Wait... Are his eyes deceiving him? Is his wife and baby blushing?

Jiang Yuan knows she lives in a book and is the unlucky foil to its lucky heroine.

In the original story, while living in the countryside as an educated youth in her older brother's place, she suffers terribly, loses her virginity, and is eventually forced to marry the village chief's foolish son, leading a life worse than death...

Meanwhile, the heroine enjoys a comfortable life, blessed with one stroke of luck after another!

Later, when the village runs short of grain and everyone is starving, the heroine waits in the cold wind for a wild rabbit to faint from hunger...

But... why is there a fragrant chicken leg under her pillow?

At last, she sees the doting man on the other side of the screen...

[*] Upcoming story "The Aviation Powerhouse of the 1960s" blurb:

After earning his doctorate, Shen Huan is ready to devote himself entirely to the country's space program. Unexpectedly, he transmigrates into a book and becomes a young man sent down to the countryside in the 1960s.

Luckily, he binds to an equipment System. As long as he diligently completes missions, he can exchange points for all kinds of aviation equipment.

Under the blazing sun, the team calls on able-bodied young men to spray pesticides in the fields...

Everyone rolls up their pant legs to their knees and trudges through the fields with pesticide sprayers on their backs...

Shen Huan, in a white shirt and trousers covering half his shoes, leisurely takes out a remote control.

Unmanned crop-dusting plane, take off!

Liu Guanguan, the daughter of Captain Liu of Hongqi Village, is the prettiest and most shapely girl for miles around.

Matchmakers are lining up at her door, but she won't even look up.

No one knows that she's had her eye on Shen Huan, the “good-for-nothing” from the family sent down to the countryside, for ages!

He's tall, handsome, and every inch of him fits her taste.

Even if he earns fewer work points, she's fine with that!

She hasn't even sent her letter confessing her feelings when he corners her in a cornfield, his voice restrained and hoarse:

“Comrade Liu Guanguan, how about we start dating? The kind where we can't spend all our work points...”

Theme: Even in the hardest times, a ray of hope can shine