Little Darlings of the Seventies

Xia Yiyi has recently started thinking that everyone in her family is acting strangely.

Her parents, who used to obey her grandparents in everything, have started talking back to the old couple, who favor the other side of the family. And they've secretly taken up some sort of "heretical cultivation technique," grinding bitter pills and feeding them to her whenever they get the chance, then kissing her, hugging her, and lifting her up high.

Her older brother, who has always hated studying, now spends every day poring over stacks of books, muttering all sorts of baffling things:

"This edition of the textbook is misleading students. There are too many errors and omissions. It's garbage!"

"Technology is so backward right now. Developing mechs will take at least five hundred years. Am I supposed to ask Heaven for another five hundred years?"

And there's more! Her usually frail older sister has suddenly become strong enough to punch a pig with one hand and a wolf with the other. There's so much meat at home they can barely finish it.

Her parents and siblings are just too weird!

Her grandparents went around calling them unfilial, while her uncle and aunt's family complained that they'd taken the wrong medicine. Rumors were flying all over the village, too:

"I think Xia Laoda and his wife have gone crazy. They don't do their work properly, and spend all day running into the mountains. They insist they're gathering herbs to treat Yiyi, that little sickly thing. It's hilarious. They don't even know what medicinal herbs look like. Aren't they afraid they'll poison someone?"

"The eldest son of Xia Laoda's family must have delusions. He told people he knows the leaders at the city machinery factory and is going to work there. He should take a look in the mirror. He hasn't even graduated from elementary school, yet he thinks he can skip straight to a government job?"

"The second daughter is the funniest. She used to shamelessly chase after the educated youth from the city. When she heard he'd rejected her, she went crazy and broke his arm. Tsk, tsk. Everyone should stay away from that madwoman from now on!"

Later, Xia Yiyi's parents used those pills to found a pharmaceutical company and became internationally renowned tycoons. Her brother went on to become a leader in high tech, while her sister became invincible. Her grandparents, uncle and aunt's family, and the whole village were left dumbfounded.

Meanwhile, Xia Yiyi, the poor little girl with a tragic background and a miserable fate, became the apple of her family's eye and the treasure in their hands. Every day, she lived in bliss.

Xia An, who had been reborn and deliberately stolen Xia Yiyi's opportunities to build herself a lucky-girl persona, was so furious her nose practically twisted. The rest of the Xia family, who had always enjoyed exploiting Yiyi's family of five, could now do nothing but drink wild-vegetable gruel and cry in regret.

Note: The heroine's family gets more page time early on, while the heroine herself takes center stage in the middle and later parts.

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Yun Qing was blessed with flawless beauty, with delicate, dewy skin like a flower bud fresh with morning dew. After an accident, she opened her eyes to find she'd transmigrated into a ridiculous period novel with no moral compass, becoming a cannon-fodder character who shared her name.

The original Yun Qing had a crush on the book's male lead, Zhao Yang. Sadly, she gave her heart to the wrong man. He deceived and exploited her, then he and the heroine schemed to ruin her, leaving her with a pockmarked old scoundrel. She ended up disgraced and dead in the prime of her life.

After recalling the story, Yun Qing raised her eyes to Zhao Yang, who stood before her with a calculating look, and said coolly, "You want me to give you my recommendation for the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers University? Fine, but you need to compensate me with ration coupons, fabric coupons, industrial coupons, or 500 yuan."

Zhao Yang had thought he could take advantage of the original's lovesick nature and get it for free. "!?"

"What, you don't have money or coupons?" Yun Qing snatched back the recommendation form for a poor and lower-middle peasant from the production team, which she had only half handed over. Her eyes glittered with scorn. "I can't believe you have the nerve to try to get something for nothing. Turn right when you leave. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Yun Qing glanced at the spiritual spring pocket dimension that had appeared after she transmigrated into the book and smiled.

You idiot of a male lead, good-bye! With all that free time and money, wouldn't it be better to find myself a pretty boy who'll do as he's told?

Wait, wait!

Yun Qing looked at the aloof and noble man whom the heroine of the book had longed for but could never have. Her gaze slid over his muscular arms, tempting collarbones, broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs. She quietly swallowed. What was the point of getting a pretty boy when she could win over this untouchable beauty?

Unfortunately, the untouchable beauty was far too hard to pursue. No matter how much she flirted with him over the next two months, he remained cool and abstinent.

The original heroine gloated. "You think someone like you can pursue Lin Shuyuan? He's from a powerful family and incredibly capable. He's a cold, chaste gentleman, so he'll never go for a shameless seductress like you!"

Even Yun Qing's relatives and friends urged her to give up. She was a country girl, while he was an elite from a military compound. Their backgrounds were worlds apart. They could never be together.

Yun Qing: ...Fine, I'll take their advice and find someone else. There are plenty of good men in the world. No need to hang myself from one tree.

She'd thought their relationship would end when she started keeping her distance. But one day, Lin Shuyuan cornered her against a wall and demanded a kiss.

A naturally flirtatious beauty x a jealous, cold beauty who eventually falls hard

Theme: Kindness, courage, fearlessness, and striving forward