After Becoming the Laughingstock of the Eighties, I Took on the Whole World Without Favoritism

When Zhou Luoqian opened her eyes again, the cold sweat on the steering wheel had not yet dried, but she had landed in an old earthen house in 1980. Beneath her was a patched quilt worn smooth, and lying beside her was Xiao Jinchen, the factory's famously cold-faced young worker.

Overnight, a modern city woman became the whole factory's scandalous "man-chaser."

Her former fiance spread forged love letters and rumors everywhere, then turned around and tried to pocket her compensation money. Her stepmother, clutching her ill-gotten cash, treated Zhou Luoqian's marriage like a head of cabbage to be sold, all the while calling her a "money-losing burden." Even the neighbor washing vegetables could jab a finger at her back and make up gossip, calling her "ignorant, lazy, and gluttonous."

With no support from her birth family, a marriage arrangement turned into a joke, and her reputation in tatters, Zhou Luoqian looked at the terrible hand she'd been dealt and nearly thought she was doomed in the 1980s.

But no one expected the former "public nuisance" to suddenly become someone else inside

Facing her cold-faced husband, she blinked her moist eyes and spoke softly: "Brother Jinchen, they say I'm not good enough for you, but I have nowhere else to go except to you..." Her words melted Xiao Jinchen's heart. From then on, he became fiercely protective of his wife, ready to snap back at anyone who gossiped about her.

When she ran into the ex-fiance spreading rumors, she deliberately fell to the ground and dabbed at her tears, speaking with a hidden barb: "Brother Zhang, you said you'd marry me back then, so how come you got together with the factory director's daughter right after? Was I so stupid that I even believed the lies you made up?" Her words left him unable to defend himself and only confirmed his reputation as a scumbag.

To deal with her parasitic stepmother, she played the fool and hid the compensation money where it couldn't be found. As her stepmother stomped and cursed, she put on an innocent face and said, "Mom, the money? I think I gave it to a beggar yesterday. You said doing good deeds brings good fortune..."

Once she had dealt with that bunch of terrible people, Zhou Luoqian turned to building a career. Using her foresight to trade in rare goods and putting modern skills to work helping others, she started a business and became a well-known "lady boss" in town within a few years.

Those who had once mocked her could now only watch as the handsome, gentle Xiao Jinchen stood by her side, while she held the account books recording her huge profits. Step by step, she climbed out of the mire and became the most dazzling leading lady of the 1980s.

Who says you can't win with a bad hand? She was determined to defy fate and make a life others could only envy!

Theme: Be prepared for a rainy day.