(Title and blurb are tentative.)
Also titled: After the Village Beauty and the Village Bully Return to the Village
Li Xiao is the only "other people's child" in Xishan Village!
She's smart. She skipped two grades in elementary school and one in middle school. She didn't skip any in high school, because she was admitted to one of the country's top universities on special consideration in her second year.
If she hadn't started school late, she would have gone to college at fifteen.
She's beautiful. She became the school beauty at a young age: in elementary, middle, and high school, and even at university.
She's also the village and town beauty...
Talent scouts came looking for her in high school, but she turned them all down.
Yet as the only phoenix to fly out of this remote mountain village, Li Xiao returned straight to poor, backward Xishan Village after graduating.
The pride of the whole village has fallen from grace!
Everyone laughs that the genius Li has become the idiot Li!
They mock her for giving up a promising future in the city to return to a poor mountain village!
Her father slapped her in a fit of anger. To make her see the error of her ways, he made her work in the fields as punishment, hoping to show her how hard farmers have it!
A few months later, everyone who had been waiting to laugh at the village beauty came to the Li family to apologize and ask for advice.
Li's father: "Xiaoxiao, are the seedlings I've planted spaced properly?"
A neighbor brought over a bowl of chicken soup. "Xiaoxiao, can you get that internet thing installed at my place too?"
A stubborn old man from the village showed up with a pig leg. "Xiaoxiao, do you think we can sell our pigs for a good price too?"
And a young migrant worker who had returned from the big city came to ask her, "Xiaoxiao, can I work at your cooperative?"
Then, while competing for village chief, she ran into her childhood rival, the boy who used to be the village bully.
He said, "Li Xiao, marry me! Forget being village chief, even I'm yours!"
Theme: Lead the entire village out of poverty and into prosperity.
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