Chen Youran, the only female celestial master left in the sects of the 21st century, dies and transmigrates into a novel set in the 1990s, becoming a supporting female character with a tragic ending.
The heroine is the original character's cousin. She's hardworking, gentle, and kind, takes good care of her family, is sensible and polite, and is the only girl in the village to get into university.
As for Chen Youran, her parents doted on her and her older brothers protected her. As a result, she grew into a selfish, spoiled girl who made a scene over everything. She didn't care about studying and instead spent every day insisting she wanted to go work and earn money.
After the heroine gets into university, she becomes a company owner and invests in building bridges and roads back home. Everyone in the village praises her, and eventually her whole family moves to the city.
Meanwhile, the original character is cheated out of her money and virtue while working away from home. In the end, she returns to the village penniless, begging for food along the way.
Back in the village, people laugh at and mock her. Her parents and brothers are disappointed and scold her. In a fit of anger, she marries a middle-aged widower from the village, who mistreats her until she dies of exhaustion halfway through her life.
Chen Youran: If your family dotes on you, isn't it great to be a spoiled, willful couch potato? Why put yourself through all this?
So Chen Youran, who once bore the heavy responsibility of bringing glory to her sect, settles into being a couch potato without a care in the world.
When she feels like it, she helps people catch ghosts or read the feng shui. Before she knows it, she's become someone the wealthy people in the city all want to curry favor with.
The villagers also notice that Chen Youran, who used to be selfish and spoiled and make a scene over everything, has suddenly become very popular.
Young and talented men come calling every day, and there's even an important-looking big shot who shows up in a fancy car.
But her habit of making a scene over everything has only gotten worse.
Before, she would only make reasonable demands and buy pretty, inexpensive clothes and jewelry.
Now she takes flower petal baths, washes her hair with milk, soaks her hands in honey, and buys whatever is most expensive.
The first day of living in luxury
Her parents: "Youran, isn't it a waste to bathe in milk and honey? They're good things you can eat."
Chen Youran: "What good things do you want to eat? I have the contact details of chefs who specialize in every cuisine. I'll call them for you."
The next day
Her brothers gaze at the newly built, spacious house with pained expressions. "Youran, wasn't the old house perfectly good? Why rebuild it?"
Chen Youran: "Because the layout was bad, it wasn't pretty, and it was too noisy at night. It disturbed my sleep."
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After learning she had become the heroine of a novel about contrasting lives, Chen Xinran was thrilled. She was hardworking, the only female university student in her village, and eventually succeeded as an entrepreneur. She eagerly began preparing to start her own business.
Relying on her knowledge of the next few decades, she tried to copy the paths and products of famous business tycoons.
In the end, she never got a company off the ground, fell behind in her studies, and only managed to get into a junior college.
After graduating, Chen Xinran refused to give up and started another company. This time, she succeeded.
But when she returned to the village in a luxury car, planning to follow the original heroine's path and build bridges and roads for the village to earn herself a good reputation,
she discovered that every family already lived in a Western-style house and everyone owned a car.
Her younger cousin, who was supposed to marry a widower in the original story, was even living like a princess.
Chen Xinran stared at everything before her in shock. "This isn't how the story was supposed to go! I thought I was the heroine!"
This story is set in an alternate version of the 1990s and includes many other fictional elements. It does not advocate superstition!
Theme: Try living differently
