Reborn as a Stunning Beauty in the 1980s

This is an early novel. Not recommended.

[Blurb]

In her previous life, Chen Zhihuan was deceived and ruined by Zhou Shujie. He destroyed her reputation, stole the results of her technical research, and finally pushed her down a staircase to her death.

Reborn, Chen Zhihuan keeps her distance from the scumbag and plans to put her extensive theoretical knowledge from her past life to use. She searches the entire factory and sets her sights on Zhao Xincheng, the most skilled technician, then heads straight to the workshop.

Zhao Xincheng: What is she doing here? Workshop Two doesn't keep idle hands!

Chen Zhihuan: I came to Workshop Two for you.

Zhao Xincheng: Oh?

Under her leadership, Workshop Two is revitalized and production soars, boosting the brewery's output along with it. She turns down every kind offer from her coworkers to set her up with someone, devoting herself entirely to making money. In the past, everyone at the factory called Comrade Xiao Chen the factory's pretty flower. Now, whenever they mention her, they call her a major figure at the factory, incredibly capable.

Zhao Xincheng, Workshop Two's top technician, finally can't take it anymore as Chen Zhihuan keeps appearing in front of him day after day. “Comrade Chen Zhihuan, since you've been pursuing me for so long, I'm willing to date you.”

Chen Zhihuan: ? When did I ever pursue you?

All the brewery equipment and beer-making processes in this novel are based on reference materials found online.

Please add the author's other novel, The Wealthy Stepmom Goes Wild on a Variety Show, Gets Rich and Becomes Famous, to your reading list!

Qiao Sisi transmigrates into a wealthy-family novel. The original owner, a D-list celebrity, used every trick in the book to marry into a rich family, thinking she could win the male lead's heart. But on their wedding day, he tossed her ten million yuan in spending money and “exiled” her to a thousand-square-meter mansion in the suburbs.

Qiao Sisi: ⊙▽⊙ This is the life!

Three months after transmigrating into the book, Qiao Sisi is living like a rich slacker in exile. If it weren't for the ten million yuan that landed in her account every month like clockwork, she would have almost forgotten she was married.

Then one day, the wealthy family's matriarch accepts a reality show, The Whole Rich Family, hoping to improve the relationship between her son and grandson.

Netizens, haters, and gossip-loving spectators flock to the show, all eager to watch the D-list star's tragic life as a rich wife.

*When the show first airs:

[They say Qiao Sisi hasn't even seen He Yuanting once since they got married.]

[They really aren't close.]

[Look at the movie queen Wang Chuchu on the livestream next door. She's married into a rich family and her relationship with her husband is so sweet. That's true fairy-tale love! I think Qiao Sisi is about to cry.]

Qiao Sisi, who just received her spending money: I'm crying, I'm crying so hard! What am I supposed to do with all this money? I can't spend it all!

*Later, netizens realize something is off:

[Wang Chuchu gets up at six every morning to make tea for her rich husband and see him off, then chats with her mother-in-law, massages her shoulders and back to show how filial she is, and tutors her stepson at night?]

[Isn't she exhausted?]

[Guys, I did the math. Wang Chuchu works 69 hours a week for her rich family! Six in the morning to nine at night, with no days off!]

*Meanwhile, over at Qiao Sisi's place:

[How does Qiao Sisi manage to sleep until she wakes naturally and not get up until noon every day?]

[She actually haggled with her rich husband and demanded a hundred thousand yuan for making him a cup of coffee. Is she crazy?]

[I saw her playing mahjong with her rich mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law this afternoon. She won two jade bracelets and two diamonds from the elders. What a ruthless woman.]

[I'm numb. By the time she and her stepson were fighting over the last Australian lobster at dinner, I was completely unfazed.]

Wasn't this supposed to be a fairy-tale romance in a rich family? How did Wang Chuchu end up living like an employee?

Wasn't this supposed to be the tragic story of a discarded rich wife? How did Qiao Sisi end up living like an empress?

*

He Yuanting was pressured into marrying Qiao Sisi after someone used a past favor to demand it, and he grew to resent her. He repeatedly told his new wife, “All I can give you is money, not love.”

But on the variety show, Qiao Sisi talks about nothing but money whenever she does anything. When filming forces them to share a bed, she repeatedly reminds He Yuanting to stick to their prenuptial agreement and maintain his celibate persona.

He Yuanting: ⊙﹏⊙ You don't have to remind me.

Ten minutes later, He Yuanting silently looks at the woman sleeping beside him, one leg thrown over his.

Please add the author's other novel, The Young Couple from the Seventies Army Arts Troupe, to your reading list!

1. Qin Yuqiao, the star of the Southwest Military Region's arts troupe, twists her ankle before the Lunar New Year performance. While everyone outside celebrates, she lies alone in the quiet military hospital. Turning her head, she sees a “soldier” with an injured arm staring at her.

It's New Year's, and they are both in the same unfortunate situation. She generously shares half her sunflower seeds with him.

Gu Tianzhun, who had been about to ask this female comrade if she wanted a ride back to the base for the holiday, looks at the seeds in his hand: ?

2. Two months later, at the spring performance, Qin Yuqiao takes the lead in a ballet version of The Red Detachment of Women, dazzling the audience.

At the curtain call, she spots the sunflower-seed comrade from before seated beside the officers below, gazing at her with burning eyes.

Only then does she learn that he isn't a soldier. He's the new company commander assigned to the military region.

3. A leader from the arts troupe sets Qin Yuqiao up on a date. She has a nice chat with the square-jawed soldier across from her, and the two buy a pound of dried sweet potatoes at the supply and marketing cooperative. But when they leave, they run into his superior, Gu Tianzhun, and the soldier gets sent off on an assignment.

Gu Tianzhun shares half the dried sweet potatoes Qin Yuqiao bought. “What you were just talking about with him, I can talk about with you instead.”

Qin Yuqiao: ?

*

The arts troupe leader teases Gu Tianzhun, saying he managed to win the troupe's prettiest flower after meeting her only twice.

Qin Yuqiao: It was three times.

Gu Tianzhun: She won me over. Once with sunflower seeds, once with dried sweet potatoes.

Theme: The transformation of a female factory director