Reborn as a Foolish, Ungrateful Daughter in the 1980s

Archaeology professor Lu Qianning opened her eyes and discovered she had transmigrated into a period novel, becoming the foolishly devoted daughter who did all the hard work for her family without complaint.

At home, every dirty and exhausting chore was left to the original owner. Her two older sisters called it a way to help her learn through experience.

Her parents threatened to kill themselves unless she agreed, and married her off to a crippled man with both legs disabled from their village. Her family kept all the bride price to use for their two younger sons' future weddings.

The original owner was emotionally manipulated by her family. Every year during the busy farming season, she had to return to her parents' home to help bring in the harvest, while also enduring beatings and scolding from her husband's family. In short, she lived worse than a dog...

At the end of the story, her family saw that the original owner was on her last legs. After using up the last of her worth, her father finally nodded at her and sighed, saying, "You were a filial daughter."

Hearing those words, the original owner smiled with satisfaction and passed away.

Lu Qianning read through the original novel and was so furious she laughed. The others had been walking all over her, and it would be downright rude not to fight back!

So she tore the original plot to shreds.

Her eldest sister told her to feed the pigs in the sty, so she opened the gate. The pigs charged around the village, and her whole family frantically chased after them.

Her second sister told her to fill the water vat, so Lu Qianning soaked a whole lot of senna leaves in it. Her entire family got diarrhea so bad they couldn't stop.

Her fourth younger brother told her to go weed the fields, so Lu Qianning hoed up the vegetable seedlings along with the weeds. Her parents' hearts bled.

At last, her parents couldn't take it anymore. They summoned the village head and said they wanted to publish a notice disowning her for being an unfilial daughter.

Lu Qianning put on an outward show of being wronged, while inwardly she was thrilled. She took the little money she had saved and went to stake out the antique market in the city, returning to her old line of work.

Before long, she made her fortune by spotting hidden treasures in this era. She became a wealthy woman in her region and was even hired by the state as a special technical consultant to the Archaeological Research Institute. She became a role model for the people of her hometown, while the distance between her and those awful relatives had already become an uncrossable chasm.

(Written on November 15, 2022, and a screenshot has been saved.)

Theme: Work hard to build a fulfilling life.