My Whole Family Are Villains in an 80s Comic

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Qin Zhenzhen was the youngest and most pampered child in her family. After reading a diary, she transmigrated back to the childhood of her formidable aunt.

According to her aunt's diary, Qin Zhenzhen would grow up to be a stunningly beautiful, kindhearted educated youth sent to the countryside. She would also have an enormous storage space filled with endless supplies.

While living in the countryside, she would save another person: Fu Chenming, a gloomy man whose foot was injured by a falling rock. She would become his most cherished white moonlight, and years later, he would be a household-name tycoon.

Qin Zhenzhen thought that as long as she took good care of herself and avoided the early death described in the diary, she would be able to get by just fine.

So she obediently listened to her parents in this life and boarded the train for the countryside.

*

Her adopted younger sister, who would take her place and receive the reward in the future, was going to the countryside with her, too.

On the train, the girl bustled around taking care of Qin Zhenzhen, practically trying to feed her water. She even told the others, "Zhenzhen never does any work at home. She definitely won't adjust to life in the countryside."

As everyone looked at her with disapproval, Qin Zhenzhen calmly accepted that explanation.

To protect her health, she really did need to do less work.

*

Two stunning beauties arrived at the educated youth compound. One had a pair of smiling eyes that left more than a dozen young people staring, completely captivated.

The villagers, however, shook their heads. They thought the girl was too delicate and vain, and would be going back to the city every few days. There would be no peace with her around.

The other girl had a radiant smile and rosy cheeks. She looked hardworking and capable.

But in less than half a month, the delicate one was living better than anyone else. She would occasionally produce some fresh new item, and the young people scrambled to work for her. Her reputation couldn't have been better.

Even Fu Chenming, the most unruly man in the village, became gentle and soft-spoken around her.

As for the other one... She got so sunburned she was black as coal, and kept writing letters to the city, begging to go home.

Blurb: Four-year-old Xinxin accidentally discovers that she is the youngest daughter in a villainous family in a period drama comic. Her family is hated by everyone and obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

Her one redeeming feature is that she's ridiculously adorable.

After learning what will happen to her family, she decides to save her parents.

In the comic, her beautiful but foolish mother is a foil to the clever heroine, her selfish brother is a foil to the heroine's genius stepson, and her competitive father is a foil to the male lead. Before long, the male lead will expose them for stealing meat from the factory, and they'll spend half their lives behind bars.

There are ten days left before prison, and Mom is still reliably making enemies. She smugly holds her precious daughter in front of the heroine's house, showing her off.

"It's so nice staying home with the baby. I'm just lucky enough to have an easy life, unlike some people who became stepmothers and have to wait on seven or eight people and work, too."

Xinxin: "My mommy is so pretty! She'd look amazing on a poster!"

Mom's eyes immediately redden. Dropping her pretense, she touches the extra weight she gained after giving birth and says dejectedly, "Xinxin, do you really think Mommy could still be a model?"

Xinxin: "My mommy is so beautiful, she can do anything!"

After mending his ways, Dad, a chef, is terribly jealous of the male lead.

He sweats profusely as he cooks in the factory kitchen, his whole body slick with grease. Through the window, the tall, handsome male lead gets to enjoy the breeze from a fan, surrounded by people, thanks to his job as a technician.

Dad says bitterly, "One day I'll be the richest man in the village and hire eight or ten college graduates like him!"

Xinxin: "Things are changing so much now! Even Uncle Wang from the village has set up a stall and started a business. Daddy's cooking is super delicious. If you open a restaurant in the city, you'll make lots of money!"

The heroine, Bai Yuerong, spent more than ten years competing with Xinxin's family. She built her wealth through hard work and never took their snide remarks seriously.

Then she gave birth to a second unlucky son, bringing the number of people in her family to ten. Remembering her old boast that having more children meant more wealth, she wanted to slap herself twice.

She pulled back the floral curtains and whispered to her husband beside her.

"How does little Xinxin next door keep finding treasures? We'd better watch her closely tonight."

As they watched, Xinxin's mother, who used to be all talk and no action, became a gorgeous supermodel. Cameras flashed as they snapped pictures of her, and a car was always waiting to pick her up whenever she went out.

As they watched, Xinxin's chubby, homely dad moved to the city and opened a huge restaurant. Business boomed, and he became a model of the new era, with his picture printed in newspapers everywhere.

Everyone knew that Xinxin, the daughter of Chef Xin, who loved taking advantage of others, was ridiculously adorable. Wherever she went, a crowd of cats and dogs followed her, and she was always digging up antiques and jade treasures.

On the first day, she dug up a bronze cauldron from the Han Dynasty. Experts from the city came to investigate every day and nearly trampled the village's suspension bridge.

On the second day, she found a piece of white jade that turned out to be part of a wealthy tycoon's daughter's lost dowry.

Things got stranger and stranger. Everyone discovered that Xinxin could always get her cats and dogs to find things people had lost.

And so all the neighbors grew envious of Chef Xin's family.

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