After an accident, Chen Luo found herself in the body of the fussy female villain in a male-led novel.
The original character had it rough. Her younger brother took the job opportunity meant for her, her childhood sweetheart broke off their engagement, and she was about to be married off in exchange for a betrothal gift.
Fortunately, she was bound to a cross-world System!
The other side of the System was the year 2026, while her world was 1966.
In the 1960s, old and discarded books and scrap metal were worthless. In the modern world, they were priceless antiques.
Meanwhile, the modern supermarket's compressed biscuits and powdered milk were lifesaving provisions in the 1960s.
To explain where her supplies came from, Chen Luo made up an "overseas relative."
From then on, her life was on easy mode.
Not enough grain? Her overseas relative sent fine white flour.
No money to spend? Her overseas relative wired her a fortune in remittances.
No technical know-how? Her overseas relative sent a complete set of industrial machinery to help her open a factory.
Everyone envied her for having such a powerful backer.
But Chen Luo used her status as a representative of an overseas Chinese family to build businesses and open factories. Every factory she started became a success, and her fortune kept growing until she became her own backer.
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Meanwhile, major museums across the modern world began receiving mysterious anonymous donations one after another.
The Tang Honglu Well Stele, plundered by the Japanese army; the dragon and snake heads, two of the Twelve Bronze Animal Heads from the Old Summer Palace, whose whereabouts were unknown; the complete Dunhuang manuscript The Demon-Subduing Transformation Text, which had ended up overseas...
Every artifact bore the scars of the nation's suffering and regrets. Each one filled a blank in the history of Chinese civilization.
The donor's signature bore just one name: "An overseas Chinese patriot."
The whole country was in an uproar.
The media scrambled to report the story, while the entire internet clamored to know:
Who was this mysterious figure, able to bring home, one by one, these treasures swallowed by the dust of history?
Chen Luo, who had kept her good deeds and identity hidden, could only say that at first, she really just wanted enough to eat!
Theme: Live life with determination