Back to the Eighties to Become a Landlady

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Looking at her husband, who was gravely ill, Zhu Lijuan thought back on most of her life and couldn't help but sink into grief.

She went to work in a factory in 1982, but her husband was badly injured. With no other choice, they sold the homestead in their village to pay for his treatment, but he was left disabled. The two of them struggled for more than twenty years, only to discover that their lifetime savings couldn't match a year's rent from the village's residents. Their child fell behind in school, and both she and her husband were riddled with injuries and illness. They had worked hard and lived frugally all their lives, yet in old age they had nothing to show for it, only countless regrets.

When Zhu Lijuan opened her eyes again, she found herself back in 1982...

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With her parents gone and a substantial inheritance in hand, Wen Lan is an upper-class citizen everyone envies.

But only Wen Lan knows she's an imitation, not the original: a clone.

In this world, androids and clones are everywhere, yet they aren't even entitled to human rights. They live like lowly rats in the sewers.

To survive, Wen Lan pulled off a clever bit of misdirection and joined the Federal Public Security Bureau after graduating, securing herself a stable job.

Who could have imagined she'd picked the wrong career, only to find her dream job not long afterward?

Wen Lan: ...

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Jin An saw Yin Li again in their high school class group chat, six years later.

At the time, Yin Li wore a white shirt and a high ponytail. On a livestream, she calmly advised everyone in the comments to get married early, have children young, and enjoy a happy life with healthy kids.

Their former class sports representative was making a commotion in the group chat, revealing that Yin Li worked as a junior staff member at the county civil affairs bureau and had a daughter. She was a single mother.

The sports representative also said that if his girlfriend were as young and beautiful as Yin Li, he wouldn't mind having the civil affairs bureau brought right over so they could get married on the spot. His remark drew teasing from everyone in the group chat.

Jin An, meanwhile, clutched his phone so tightly his knuckles turned white. The person he had waited for all these years had, after all those twists and turns, ended up back in his hometown.

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