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Story blurb:
Hui He had a miserable life in her previous life. Her husband abandoned her with their son, and she spent many years living on a farm.
Later, her ex-husband married the daughter of an overseas Chinese family who had returned from Southeast Asia, and her whole family returned to their ancestral home.
Riding the wave of economic development, they seized every opportunity to make money.
Her ex-husband bought property and started a construction business, while Hui He was still raising pigs on the farm.
After her ex-husband divorced her and married a beautiful young woman, Hui He learned that the daughter of the returned overseas Chinese family was her long-lost older sister. Her ex-husband had several more children and sent them to the city to buy homes and receive an education. Hui He finally came to her senses and started sharing a life with a widower.
Her ex-husband's son got into a top university, while Hui He's son accidentally fell into a river and drowned. Her ex-husband's family prospered more and more. Their daughter married a highly educated man from the city, while Hui He's daughter caused a scene at the wedding, claiming she was pregnant with the groom's child.
Hui He was so furious that she ended up in the hospital. When she woke up, she discovered that she had returned to 1977...
This time, she could start over. But she found that she was happy living on the farm, raising pigs, looking after the neighbor's child, taking in a godson, taking time off whenever she wasn't in the mood, and asking an old professor for help whenever she wanted to study.
She was also bound to a little farm game System that let her do whatever she liked. Starting with drawing streaky pork, a sewing machine, and a large truck, she could unlock new levels along the way and discover new things.
Life on the farm was wonderful: relaxed, comfortable, and happy.
Blurb for "The Beautiful Young Woman of the Era and Her Sweet Married Life":
Sweet everyday married life and raising children in an ice city, on an island, in the Gobi Desert, and elsewhere.
1. The marriage of a rugged man from a border town and a beautiful orphan girl (a rough man who gains an education x a thoughtful nurse heroine)
The hero and heroine were childhood sweethearts. He later went to a border town, and she was transferred there for work. They married naturally, so they could support each other.
2. The beautiful young wife at the cotton mill and her arrogant husband (a factory owner's son who says one thing but does another x a quick-witted, lively village beauty)
To move to the city and become a worker, the heroine married the factory director's son, to whom she had been betrothed since childhood. Later, the director's son realized he couldn't live without his young wife. He had been attracted to her from the very beginning.
3. The sweet, delicate educated youth and the brave man who takes advantage of the moment to build a fortune (a daring, wild hero x a sweet, timid, healing kitten of a heroine)
When the heroine was sent to work in the village, the hero took good care of her. He had a talent for business and was bold enough to take risks. The heroine was delicate as a flower, but had a good nature, and was both sweet and timid.
4. The sweet life of a fishing couple, and how a gloomy man is healed by his delicate heroine (a fisherwoman heroine x the most handsome man around)
The hero takes care of the household while the heroine works outside. The hero is temporarily injured while saving her, so she sells her house and moves into his to look after him. They spend a lifetime together and eventually marry on an island.
5. The sweet heroine who grows and sells vegetables and her husband, whose old house is burning with love, though he claims his wife isn't beautiful (an honest vegetable seller x an orchard and farm owner who shortchanges her but always lets her come out ahead)
Neither the hero nor the heroine knows much about love, but both know how to care for others. They are both orphans, and by chance they marry to look after each other. She sells vegetables while he works hard to run the orchard better. They help and depend on one another.
6. A lonely young ferrywoman from beneath the vineyard hills x an educated youth with the brains to keep the heroine well-fed
7. A pretty girl in the cotton fields x her scheming childhood sweetheart, a husband who steadily climbs the ranks at the cotton mill
8. ...
= The blurb for the next world appears at the end of the previous world's chapter.
Theme: Great strength gathers in small places.