Helping My Whole Family Escape Poverty in the 1980s

A story about a male lead who acts obedient while talking back to everyone, and makes his fortune along the way.

New story: I Started It, Then Abandoned the Villainous Big Shot. Quick transmigration. Blurb below.

What does it feel like to go from destitute to making a fortune?

Wang Yunshan couldn't answer that in his previous life. Looking back on it, he had nothing to be proud of. He had nothing when he was young, became disabled far too early in middle age, and in his later years... At fifty-five, a cerebral hemorrhage left him partially paralyzed. He finally recovered the ability to talk and walk, only for his condition to worsen soon after. He closed his eyes in his sleep.

He hadn't even had the chance to say one last thing to his family.

Reborn into his healthy, carefree youth, Wang Yunshan resolved to seize the moment and lead his whole family to prosperity.

But first, he had to shake off the labels of "unfilial son," "spendthrift," and "good-for-nothing," and find a way to get his father-in-law to marry his daughter to him.

Wang Yunshan's relatives and friends realized that their son or son-in-law might have stopped taking his medicine lately.

In public, he acted more obediently than anyone. In private, he loved talking back more than anyone.

"Dad, filial children come from loving fathers. If I'm not filial, then you're not loving. At best, we're even."

"Is your family inheriting the throne? Why do you insist on having a boy? There are queens now, you know."

"No, with how little you know, you probably don't." (scoffs

"Our house isn't the ocean. No need for you to stick your nose in everything."

"If you're going to exaggerate, tell it to a restaurant chef. My dad isn't a cook."

"Even the production team's donkey doesn't make as much trouble as you."

Was he just calling me a lazy donkey who needs a stick to get moving?

"Father-in-law, it's not that I don't want to keep a low profile. My abilities simply won't let me."

Everyone: ...Yeah, right.

The person he let down most in this life was his wife.

After Li Fangshu's brother took away her chance to attend school, she thought that was all life had in store for her.

She never expected that marrying the village's notorious troublemaker would turn her life around.

A plot-focused story about the everyday life of a family led by a male protagonist who turns over a new leaf after being reborn.

Following the System's instructions, Ji Zhaozhao played the scumbag who abandoned the villain and drove him to darkness.

Who could have guessed the villain would go too far after turning dark and try to destroy the world? She had to return to the mission world and start over, saving the villain from his corruption.

Before entering the mission, Ji Zhaozhao thought:

If only I hadn't treated the villain so badly back then.

In a story set in a bygone era

A research genius versus an educated youth who abandoned his wife

I only wanted to use you to get into university. Didn't see that coming, did you?

Back then, my husband wanted to use me to get his admission. Instead, I destroyed his university acceptance letter, divorced him, and went to university to do research.

Wei Heng returned to the capital, made his fortune in business, and set out to find the wife who'd abandoned him, only for her to vanish without a trace.

Ji Zhaozhao: ...I remember the villain broke a leg finding medicine for me in the mountains. How could this possibly be sweet?

In a campus novel

The real heiress versus the fake heiress's childhood sweetheart

It looks like an underdog's rise, but it's really a gold digger's game

Meng Wanyuan was a poor, handsome top student in a campus novel. His childhood sweetheart, the real heiress, sold him to the fake heiress for a high price, then went abroad to enjoy herself and never came back.

Ji Zhaozhao: I sent the villain's dad to prison in this world and blinded one of his eyes. How can I save him?

In a women-dominated world

A female supporting character who is an entertainment company CEO versus an actor who is a stand-in

Gu Qingzhou was willing to be a stand-in for love, but she would rather be a mother to someone else's child than care about him when he miscarried in the rain and cried out for help.

Ji Zhaozhao: I think I ruined his reputation, made him lose his child, and knocked him from the top. Can I really make things right?

In a run-away-with-the-child story

A childhood sweetheart with face blindness versus a male supporting character addicted to thinking she loves him

The contrast character in a childcare story

A sweet-talking cutie versus a gloomy young boy

Premise: Ordinary people, extraordinary times