Reborn in the Year 2000

Completed works: My Dad Was Reborn, Too; Rewriting Life in the 1990s; The Supporting Female Lead Has a Group-Buying Chat [The 1970s]

Two words sum up Xia Ying's life: failure!

After graduating from vocational school, she worked at a clothing factory. Later, she worked in clothing sales, as an internet cafe cashier, and at a hotel front desk. She ran a street stall, opened a shop, and even tried writing online novels... She worked hard through wind and rain, only to end up with nothing.

Her husband, He Jun, mocked her: "You're the classic case of being useless at everything and never leaving a scrap of food behind!"

But that didn't justify him running up her credit card, taking out online loans to tip a livestreamer, and sleeping with her. In the end, they got divorced.

As she walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, she saw her younger brother, who looked ready to fight He Jun to the death, and her mother, whose hair had turned gray and whose eyes were red, forcing a smile as she tried to comfort her.

Xia Ying burst into tears. If she could live her life over, she would never let it end in such failure.

When she woke up, Xia Ying never expected to find herself back in the year 2000, just as she was reaching a crossroads in life. She was standing in Workshop No. 2 of the clothing factory, waiting to be assigned a position...

Reader's guide:

① This is an everyday-life story. The female lead dated two men in her previous life, and He Jun was the second. After she is reborn, she will have no further involvement with him. If that bothers you, please don't read.

② Please don't nitpick the prices in the story. This silly author only has a vague recollection. I'll do some research, but prices varied from place to place, so please treat any discrepancies as creative license.

③ After the female lead is reborn, she has no golden finger and can't remember any lottery numbers. She won't get rich overnight. Instead, she'll take things one step at a time and help her family prosper.

④ The female lead isn't perfect. She's been hurt in love and seen the harshness of the world. In her previous life, she suffered from anxiety and social anxiety, and can sometimes seem cold, but she would never exploit or harm others.

⑤ The plot comes first, and the male lead appears later.

Blurb for Rewriting Life in the 1990s. Please support it!

Ding Caiye was pushed off a bridge by her stepson, Zhan Changdong, and died from the fall. To protect him, her mother-in-law and husband told everyone she had accidentally fallen into the river.

At the funeral, her daughter, unaware of the truth, cried her heart out.

Years later, the killer who had hung his head and pretended to grieve inherited the family business and property.

Her daughter was married off by her husband to the son of a department head, and endured domestic violence and her husband's infidelity...

When she went back to her family for help, her biological father scolded her: "Stop being so unreasonable. Your father-in-law just got a project approved for your brother."

Her younger brother grinned. "Sis, all men are the same. Once you're divorced, you'll be secondhand goods. Who'd want you?"

After wandering as a spirit for years, Ding Caiye unexpectedly ran into her husband one day and followed him into his car. There, she encountered a stylish middle-aged woman who looked vaguely familiar. Before she could think it over, Zhan Weizhong laughed and said, "Changdong has another new girlfriend. I can't control him as his father, so you, his mother, should hurry up and push him to settle down and give me a chubby grandson."

The stylish woman shot him a disgruntled look. "Like father, like son. He falls in love with one person after another..."

Zhan Weizhong burst out laughing, unbothered. "Hahaha! I went from one love affair to another, and ended up right back where I started, didn't I?"

Ding Caiye suddenly understood. As if struck by lightning, she screamed in fury and kicked at her husband. Her body went weightless, and she sat bolt upright in bed.

The room was dark. Her soft, little daughter lay beside her. Her husband hadn't come home, because work had ended late again...

Her life was starting over. To hell with adopting a child into the family. He was nothing but the bastard offspring of a bitch and a dog.

Let them make whatever mess they wanted this time. Wouldn't it be better for her to divorce him, raise her child alone, and build a career as a single mother?

But then her old middle-school deskmate showed up.

**

After leaving the army, Xie Zhijun returned to his hometown and heard that Ding Caiye had divorced.

When she got married, he chose to join the army. Now that she was divorced, he had come home.

Was it fate?

"Caiye, come live with me!" The handsome man, all six foot tall, flushed red in the face as he stammered, "I've been sweet on you since we were in school. I've been sweet on you all these years..."

He also promised, "Your daughter will be my daughter. She'll be the only daughter I'll ever have."

Ding Caiye stared at him, picturing him in a black Land Rover, dressed in black casual clothes and holding a bouquet of flowers as he visited her grave, and bending over to carefully clean up her gravesite.

Ding Caiye married him.

At the wedding, she saw Zhan Weizhong looking as if he had seen a ghost.

Xie Zhijun took her by the hand and went up to him with a smile. "Weizhong, call her Auntie!"

Reader's guide:

The male lead is one generation above the scumbag husband, and is a distant uncle by marriage.

In her previous life, the male lead was successful and never married. What the female lead values isn't his successful career, but how thoroughly he cleaned her grave.

The female lead won't coast through life this time. She'll build her own career.

Theme: Work hard and steadily toward a better life