The 1970s: Reborn as a Female Educated Youth

The Foolish Girl from the Most Awful Family in the Seventies is nearing its conclusion

People say poor families are full of troublemakers, but Xu Jiangjiang never had to worry about that.

First, her parents, Xu Youliang and Miao Yanhong, were the biggest troublemakers in the Xu family. They were useless at everything, yet never stopped taking what they could.

Second, Xu Jiangjiang was a simple-minded girl who didn't understand social niceties.

The simple-minded girl went up the mountain to play with her siblings. Someone shoved her from behind, and she tumbled down halfway up the slope.

They say good fortune comes after a great disaster. After she recovered, Xu Jiangjiang was no longer foolish, and she also had a prophetic dream.

In the dream, her parents did everything they could to secure her a good marriage.

In the end, it cost them years of their lives.

They should have lived to ninety, but died in their seventies instead.

Her niece Chunmei, from the eldest branch of the family, had found a good marriage prospect: a man who worked at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Her parents immediately started scheming.

Working at the cooperative was great. You didn't get rained on or blown about, and you could buy meat without ration coupons.

Their Jiangjiang loved meat most of all.

The couple tried to steal their niece's marriage prospect, but their scheme backfired, making them the biggest laughingstock in Xinghua Village.

When one plan failed, the couple came up with another.

Before long, they set their sights on Gu Xiangbei, a young educated youth sent to work in the village.

He was handsome, fair-skinned, and gentle-mannered. Not bad, not bad. He was just about good enough for their daughter.

And what a coincidence~

On his way home from work, Gu Xiangbei fell into the river from the little stone bridge at the south end of the village, which he'd crossed countless times.

Miao Yanhong and her husband happened to pass by and pulled him out.

He owed them his life, so of course he should repay their kindness by marrying their daughter~

The notorious husband-and-wife duo of Xinghua Village kept their eyes on Gu Xiangbei.

Would he marry her or not?

After waking up, Xu Jiangjiang's first order of business was to find Gu Xiangbei.

"Um, could you avoid crossing the bridge at the south end of the village?"

My parents are planning to stage a heroic rescue, followed by the damsel in distress giving herself to her rescuer.

Unfortunately, the damsel is me, the village's famous fool of a girl.

Xu Jiangjiang clutched the hem of her clothes, afraid to look up at the man before her.

In her dream, her parents' scheme succeeded, and Gu Xiangbei had no choice but to marry her.

He was a righteous man. He didn't look down on her for being foolish, and after they married, he treated her like a treasure.

For her sake, he even lost his chance to go to university.

He was so good to her. She couldn't let a silly girl like herself ruin his life.

Gu Xiangbei looked down at the nervous young woman before him, his expression unreadable.

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Xu Chunmei was reborn, back before the national college entrance exam was reinstated.

She stared intently at the educated youth Gu Xiangbei, who was leading the villagers as they harvested the crops.

In this life, you can only belong to me.

As for his wife from his previous life, that fool Xu Jiangjiang...

Your parents schemed to steal my marriage prospect? Fine. My fiance who works at the cooperative can marry Xu Jiangjiang.

One husband for another. Your family in the second branch won't lose out.

My completed stories: Full-Level Green Tea Transmigrates into Her Foil and Transmigrating into the Problematic Younger Aunt in a Period Novel

Blurb for this story---

Heroine's Story:

In her previous life, Yan Siqing was tricked by her stepmother into going to the desolate Great Northwest as an educated youth in place of her older sister.

Life in the countryside was far from easy.

On top of going hungry and having too little to wear, she was bullied by the other educated youths who arrived with her.

To improve her situation, she schemed and maneuvered until she finally got her wish and married Gu Kuang, a rugged country man.

With him, there was meat to eat.

After they married, she led a peaceful, comfortable life with all her needs taken care of.

Her husband shielded her from every storm.

But her heart was elsewhere, and she spent every day hoping to return to the city.

After finally scheming her way back, she discovered...

Her childhood sweetheart and fiance, who had promised countless times that he would marry no one but her, had married her sister, Yan Mingzhu, the eldest daughter of the Yan family and her father's illegitimate child, in the second year of her time in the countryside.

Her maternal grandfather's estate had also been divided up and taken away.

With her property stolen and her marriage ruined, Yan Siqing had nothing left. From then on, she made trouble at every turn.

Her father and brothers had already disliked her, and now they abandoned her completely.

After Yan Mingzhu "miscarried" because of her, her former fiance, now her brother-in-law, joined forces with her stepmother and sent her to a brick factory to avenge his wife.

Yan Siqing cried to the heavens, but no one answered. She cried to the earth, but no one heard.

Ten years later, she encountered a coal magnate who had come to inspect the place: her former husband in name.

At that moment,

One was a wealthy merchant, dressed in a suit, handsome and suave.

The other was a drudge trapped underground, never to see the sun, looking haggard and prematurely aged.

Pfft~

Yan Siqing couldn't catch her breath and went to meet the King of Hell.

Looking back on her short life, the former husband she'd wronged was now living in luxury, and even the stepmother and brother-in-law who had sent her into the abyss were thriving.

So was she the only one fated to suffer?

Heaven, you're unfair!

Perhaps her resentment was too great, because she was reborn.

But the timing was a little awkward.

Under the old locust tree,

Yan Siqing expressionlessly pushed away the man she'd gone to great lengths to seduce and said coldly, "Stay away from me."

Thinking of the last moment before her death in her previous life, she was so embarrassed she wanted the earth to swallow her up.

Back then, she'd demanded a divorce and swept away without a backward glance. She'd been so carefree.

Who would have thought that just ten years later, the tables would turn, and her former husband would witness her most humiliating, wretched moment?

What a disgrace.

In this life, Yan Siqing decided to go her separate way from the man before her, and stop using him.

Even without a man, she could survive in this poor, remote mountain village. One day, she would return to the city, get her revenge, and take back what belonged to her.

Bystanders' Story:

In her previous life,

One was a proud, icy female educated youth who looked down on everyone. The other was a principled production-team leader, cold on the outside but warm within.

One came from a bustling metropolis and had seen the vast world. The other had grown up in a small village in the Great Northwest, and the farthest place he'd ever been was the township where the commune was located.

Though they came from vastly different backgrounds and had completely opposite temperaments, the two got married.

The people of Taohua Ravine never thought the two were a good match. How could a little mountain village hold on to a delicate, fair-skinned beauty who'd flown in from the city?

Sure enough,

Before two or three years had passed, the hard-hearted female educated youth left the husband who had cherished her every day and returned to the city without hesitation.

He was the one who'd secured the opportunity for her, too.

The villagers couldn't help sighing. The girl really was the sort to use someone and then abandon him.

Hero's Story:

Under the old locust tree, Gu Kuang glared furiously at his fussy, troublemaking "ex-wife."

He wanted to ask her whether, after she'd abandoned him in her previous life and ended up in such a miserable state, she regretted it.

Completed stories: Full-Level Green Tea Transmigrates into Her Foil and Transmigrating into the Problematic Younger Aunt in a Period Novel. Click my profile to read them.

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