Restoring Cultural Relics in Huaguo I: Ancient Times to the Present

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Story description:

[1]

Xia Ling was so poor she couldn't even afford a toll, and had to sit beneath a bridge sewing soles for ghosts. One day, she transmigrated into the role of a brainless villainess whom everyone hated, whose only purpose was to highlight the heroine Gao Jiayuan's pure and saintly glow.

Good grief! She'd have been better off sewing soles back under that bridge!

In a hurry, she spent everything she had on the cheapest System available, only to get dragged into a major cultural relic case.

Xia Ling had no choice but to return to her old trade, using her restoration skills to crack a string of linked cases.

[2]

Gao Jiayuan was dumbfounded:

The main villain, who was supposed to wipe out Xia Ling's entire family for her, had somehow become Xia Ling's personal bodyguard!

The arrogant young master who once cared about no one but her had shamelessly turned into Xia Ling's devoted little pet!

The tech genius who had been living in seclusion to cultivate reemerged and applied to be Xia Ling's assistant!

How did the plot end up like this?!?!

[3]

At an elite restoration competition, Gao Jiayuan pulled strings to force her way onto Xia Ling's team. After making one mistake after another and being reprimanded by Xia Ling, she burst into tears:

"I've already apologized, and I'm doing my best. Why does the team leader still have to talk to me like that?"

The main villain: "Trying to frame her? Looks like the Gao family really wants to go bankrupt."

The arrogant young master: "Waaah, I want Lingling to scold me too! I haven't even gotten to enjoy that treatment, so what makes you think you deserve it?!"

The tech genius: "Hello, Cultural Relics Bureau? (An address.) Someone here is slandering a pillar of the nation."

The whole internet mocked her:

[Tsk, tsk, my fists are clenched!]

[Hahaha, the white lotus cries thief, then gets face-slapped in an instant! You totally deserved that!]

[Academician Xia is awesome!!!]

Xia Ling: Don't drag me into this. I'm just a restoration machine with no feelings~

#Cultural relics carry history and culture, the essence flowing through our very blood. Our heritage passes from one generation to the next, thriving without end. We must never forget where our roots come from.#

Cover by me, I drew it myself~

Notes:

1. This story is entirely fictional. The romance is [wildly gorgeous beauty × angelic puppy boy], one-on-one, with both leads having no prior sexual experience. The romance serves the plot.

2. All cultural relics are original creations. Professional information was researched online. Nothing is based on reality, so please don't scrutinize it too closely~

*Updated story description, June 15, 2021. Screenshot uploaded. Exclusively published on Jinjiang Original.

Coming soon:

Yu Man, heiress of the Yu family, has fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. She wins scholarship after scholarship.

She has been infatuated with a poor boy, Yan Chao, for years. She cuts off her ten-year-long hair for him without hesitation, learns to do laundry and cook for him, and even gives up her studies.

But Yan Chao tells her: "We can date, but you'll never measure up to even half of her little finger."

Nobody can understand why a girl born to greatness would debase herself for this pretty boy, who has nothing going for him except his looks.

Yet just when everyone thinks the couple is about to get married, they suddenly announce their breakup.

Years later, the two meet again on a reality show.

By then, Yu Man has returned from overseas with two master's degrees and won an international Best Actress award at a young age. Her long, wavy hair has stylish highlights, an Yves Saint Laurent lipstick rests behind her ear, and she glances up lazily from the corners of her eyes, radiating irresistible charm.

The young heartthrobs crowd around her, sweetly calling her "Sis" and trying to pair up with her on the show.

Yan Chao can't put a name to the feeling in his heart. He only knows those pretty boys are really getting on his nerves!

In the backstage lounge, Yan Chao pulls her into his arms. "Do you really have to torment me like this?"

Yu Man presses the Yves Saint Laurent lipstick to the man's chest and puts some distance between them, her tone flippant and dismissive:

"Mind your own business."

☆

Everyone in the industry knows that Best Actor Yan Chao has always had impossibly high standards. No one expected him to pursue Best Actress Yu so fiercely, even confessing his love for her on the show:

"A Yu, will you give me one more chance to love you?"

Just then, a man walks onto the stage and pulls Yu Man behind him.

Everyone wonders who he is, but Yan Chao's eyes widen in shock.

The man's features resemble his, except the mole at the corner of his eye is real, while Yan Chao's is drawn on.

Yu Man naturally leans into the man's arms, smiling with irresistible charm:

"You think a substitute can dream? You aren't even worth half a toe of his."

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June 16, 2021

Theme: Strong cultural soft power