Being a Couch Potato in the Seventies

Story blurb one

Mu Shaoqing wakes up one day as a pitiful, hardworking country girl in the 1960s or 70s. After finally making it to the city with her older brother and attaching herself to the leader of the compound kids, she works diligently (by cheating and swindling) to get rich. At last, she can enjoy life.

Then she discovers she's the child who was switched at birth, and gets sent to the countryside as an educated youth to help with development.

Good thing she's got money.

The real daughter wants a bicycle? No problem, I've got money!

Her vain mother wants to look beautiful? No problem, I've got spiritual spring water!

Her lucky dad doesn't want to work in the fields? No problem, I'll get you a factory job!

Someone's grown up and wants to get married? No problem, no, no, wait a little longer.

Someone: Sorry, I can't wait.

Story blurb two

Mu Shaoqing transmigrates into the 1970s and finally gets rich with the help of her pocket dimension, only to be sent to the countryside as an educated youth.

As a pretty, well-off couch potato, Mu Shaoqing starts living the lazy life after marriage.

Others clear wasteland while I lie at home.

Others build a city while I keep lying down.

Others become factory workers while I keep lying down.

Her partner: Stop lying around already. How about becoming the Women's Director?

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are inexperienced, one-on-one romance.

2. There's no conflict between the real and fake daughters.

3. At its core, this is the story of a heroine who painstakingly levels up a secondary account, gets reported for cheating, and has to start all over again.

Ongoing story: "The Whole Family Are Nitpickers in the Seventies"

The Pi family grew up in the countryside in the 1970s. They're ordinary, but with a little something extra.

Pa Pi often argues with the brigade leader, and eventually argues his way into becoming the brigade leader.

Ma Pi often argues with the Women's Director, and eventually argues her way into becoming the Women's Director.

Big Sis Pi often argues with the village woman who raises pigs, and eventually becomes the best pig farmer for miles around.

Big Brother Pi often argues with the village teacher, and eventually argues his way into becoming a well-known teaching whiz in the commune.

Little Pi often argues with her family, and ends up a useless little nobody who can't hold her head up at home.

Little Pi may not be much of an arguer, but she's lucky. Today she finds a nest of wild chickens on the mountain, tomorrow she catches a carp in the river, and the day after she digs up a treasure chest...

Actually, Little Pi has a little secret. She doesn't keep quiet because she can't win arguments with her family. It's because she's a little jinx.

Little scene 1

The Little Pi name-change saga

Little Pi: Can you give me a new name? This one doesn't sound formal at all.

Big Brother Pi: I've already thought of one. You were born at the tail end of autumn, so let's rename you Pi Ka Qiu.

Little Pi: ?? I'll stick with Little Pi.

Little scene 2

A woman who transmigrated into a book thinks of the future King of Hell, who's famous in business, and decides her mission in this world is to save him.

After going to great lengths to convince her parents to let her go to the countryside as an educated youth, she gets turned down instead??

Pa Pi: Hm? Another female educated youth? No, we don't want her.

She goes to great lengths once more to warn the King of Hell to watch out for the brigade leader's tricks.

The former brigade leader, now being reformed at a farm, and the current brigade leader, Pa Pi: ??

Forthcoming story two: "The Green Tea Girl Transmigrates into an Era-Novel Big Sister Who Lives for Her Family"

Story blurb one

When Lu Dingzhao was young, the white-lotus type was all the rage, and she was the queen of them all. By the time she grew up, the times had changed and green tea girls were in fashion.

How could Lu Dingzhao stand for that? She shut herself away for half a year to study every green-tea trick in the book. Just as she was ready to make her grand debut, an accident sent her to the impoverished 1960s.

From the start, her father is dead and her mother has remarried. She's left with three younger siblings who are a burden, a promising fiance with complicated family ties, and a System bent on making her raise children.

According to the original plot, her fiance's admirer frames her, and because of her three troublesome siblings, she's forced to marry an abusive old widower. Her younger siblings eventually make names for themselves, but not one of them is willing to take her out of that pit. In the end, she dies in the village.

Lu Dingzhao: ...Time to show off my green-tea skills.

According to her original plan:

Second Brother, go cook dinner. Third Brother, go wash the dishes. Fourth Brother, go...

But in reality:

She looks at her eldest younger brother, a domineering young genius who transmigrated from a cultivation world and spends all day cultivating by meditation instead of eating.

She looks at her second younger sister, a sweet but foolish girl who transmigrated from an ocean world and runs into the water in the middle of the night, making everyone think she's dead.

She looks at her third younger brother, a teenage mech-obsessed boy who transmigrated from the future and spends all day wanting to steal screws from the factory.

Lu Dingzhao tries to move her siblings with her green-tea charm: ...

She catches her eldest brother, covered in bruises but still planning to fight three people at once: Hey, eat something first! You won't have the strength to fight if you don't eat.

She carries home her second sister, who's spent another whole day soaking in the water and scared two children half to death: Please, stop going into the river! I'll find you a swimming team.

She stops her one-year-old third brother, who's trying to steal something from the factory next door again: Can you at least grow up a little before you start stealing? You just learned to crawl. Hurry up and eat your rice cereal.

Their family was already struggling, and with her siblings wreaking havoc, Lu Dingzhao soon realizes that her family has become the model of a deeply impoverished household for the whole brigade. After all, there aren't many families like hers, with one girl raising three children with something wrong in their heads.

Her smile slowly turns bitter.

Then she sees the head of the machinery factory, who's come to offer condolences and is perfect in both looks and physique.

Lu Dingzhao's smile gradually turns coy: I can do this after all.

Story blurb two

Zhu Zhiwei is young, handsome, and has a brilliant future ahead of him. Yet he gives up the fine prospects awaiting him in the city to start a machinery factory in the countryside from scratch.

When he first arrives, he hears that life in the brigade is hard, and that the worst-off household is the Lu family. Their parents have died, their fiance broke off the engagement, and they have to raise three younger siblings who aren't right in the head.

Hearing that they can't even afford to cook a pot of rice, Zhu Zhiwei goes on behalf of the steelworks to offer assistance. There he finds the person rumored to have no food in the pot with rosy cheeks, smelling of milk, and a little oil on her lips.

Zhu Zhiwei: This is what you look like when you can't afford food?

Theme: Stay optimistic even in the face of hardship.