A Bystander Enjoys the Show in the Seventies

(Upcoming novel: I Have Special Investigative Skills. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection.) Blurb: As a modern-day gossip enthusiast, Jiang You Tao is like a groundhog in a melon patch: wherever there's gossip, there she is. So, on a stormy night filled with thunder and lightning, she transmigrated into the body of a pitiful girl with the same name in the 1970s. The poor girl lost her mother at an early age. Her scumbag father remarried, and on top of never having enough to eat or wear, she had endless chores and was constantly beaten and scolded. Jiang You Tao arrived at the moment when the poor girl's scumbag father, wanting someone to care for him in his old age and hold a funeral bowl after his death, forced the original owner to go down to the countryside in place of her stepbrother. Thinking about how people in this era didn't have enough to eat or wear, Jiang You Tao's vision went black. In the last second before she lost consciousness, a voice appeared in her mind: [Ding! The Gossip System is at your service. Complete gossip missions to exchange for supplies!] To get enough to eat and wear, Jiang You Tao gave it her all. She ran around in a melodramatic world that mashed together the plots of countless period novels, either gossiping or on her way to gossip. A young educated youth at the same village youth station had transmigrated with supplies stored in a pocket dimension, yet ended up as the poverty-alleviating stepmother to a young child. [Here's your mission! Watch the male and female leads meet for the first time and ruin it. Reward: three meat buns, 500 g of beef jerky, and 1 kg of creamy sunflower seeds.] A young bride in the village, married just one day, woke up and demanded a divorce, then announced she wanted to marry her ex-husband's uncle. [Ding! Watch the female lead's iconic divorce scene and applaud in public. Reward: 5 kg of rice, 250 g of pork, five chi of fabric, and 1 kg of pepper-and-salt sunflower seeds.] The accountant's eldest granddaughter was famous far and wide for her good fortune, while the second granddaughter was a jinx plagued by bad luck. [Ding! Watch the jinx bring misfortune upon herself, and give her a hand. Reward: 5 kg of white flour, one chicken drumstick, and 1 kg of green-tea-flavored sunflower seeds.] Jiang You Tao had a wonderful time gossiping, and her stash of sunflower seeds kept growing. She had no choice but to start selling them. Before she knew it, she had made a fortune selling sunflower seeds and become a nationally renowned roasted-snack tycoon after the Reform and Opening Up. A courtyard house in the capital and a Western-style house in Haishi were no longer just dreams. She could head anywhere she wanted. But as she kept gossiping, a figure appeared beside her at some point. Jiang You Tao reluctantly grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and offered them to him. "Hey, want some sunflower seeds?" Content warning: This is an alternate-history setting with some original worldbuilding. Family life and all kinds of gossip. Come take a look if you enjoy that sort of thing! I hope you won't mention other people's novels in the comments on mine, and I hope you won't mention mine in other people's comment sections. Let's respect each other. Thank you, everyone! Love you all! This upcoming novel was first posted on June 1 and updated on June 25. Screenshots have been saved. ★Upcoming novel: I Have Special Investigative Skills. Please add it to your collection! Lin Shuyue, heir to a small martial arts school, died while trying to help someone in danger. But she didn't quite die: she transmigrated to the year 2000 in a parallel world. Lin Shuyue came back to life, but not quite. Looking at the thirty minutes left on her life countdown, she fell into deep thought. She binds to a good-and-evil detection System. Catch criminals to extend her life! [Congratulations, Host! You captured an A-rank fugitive. Reward: 168 hours of extra life.] [Congratulations, Host! You uncovered key evidence in a top-tier case. Reward: 100,000 yuan.] [Congratulations, Host! You caught an A-rank human trafficker. Reward...] A captured human trafficker: "I was running along just fine, and then she came up and smacked me twice..." An S-rank fugitive: "She said she'd found me a nice place. Then she took me to the police station..." A bureau chief: "Ahem, Detective Lin, when are you going to stop by my office?" A task force leader: "Detective Lin, I heard you take criminal investigation cases. We have one here... The price is no problem!" Lin Shuyue: "Honestly, at first I just wanted to stay alive..." Theme: Grow through adversity and strive toward the light.