On the very first day after transmigrating, loan sharks showed up at the door, splashing red paint and demanding repayment. What a thrill!
Fang Yingzhi transmigrated into a novel set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, where she was deeply in debt at a young age.
In the novel, her fiance, Jin Siyan, was a rich and powerful villain who couldn't win the heroine's love. He could slap down a huge check and break off his engagement to his clingy fiancee in an instant.
Jin Siyan, whether I get to live in comfort and luxury for the rest of my life depends entirely on that huge check in your hands!
But reality seemed to have gone a little wrong. Fang Yingzhi had transmigrated five years before the novel's timeline. At this point, the famous Tianjin Group didn't exist yet, and no one had even heard of Jin Siyan.
After much effort, Fang Yingzhi finally found Jin Siyan in the slums of Kowloon Walled City, carrying a gas cylinder. Looking at his hole-ridden undershirt, baggy shorts, and flip-flops, she inexplicably asked, "Want some barbecued pork rice?"
During the first month of supporting Jin Siyan, Fang Yingzhi consoled herself: Compared with the huge check he would give her someday, what she was spending now was pocket change.
During the first year of supporting Jin Siyan, she encouraged herself: Gold always shines. Look at this man. He's so handsome. Even if he's poor now, he looks just like a huge check.
During the third year of supporting Jin Siyan, she thought: Damn it, will I ever get to see that huge check in this lifetime? Is it too late to change my mind?
Nobody thought much of Jin Siyan. Only Fang Yingzhi brought him a box of barbecued pork rice when he was at his lowest. "Do you want some?"
Then, under her reluctant, conflicted gaze, he devoured the whole box.
Everyone said Fang Yingzhi was able to stay by Jin Siyan's side only because she shamelessly clung to him and he had a conscience.
Only Jin Siyan knew how afraid he was that Fang Yingzhi would leave him one day.
So the newly risen business tycoon Jin Siyan, already worth hundreds of billions, changed out of his expensive suit into a cheap T-shirt after work every day and drove home in a beat-up secondhand car.
At the little dining table that smelled of home, he listened to her daily, year after year, serving up words of encouragement: "Jin Siyan, believe in yourself. One day, you'll make it!"
* The female lead has her own career and succeeds. She can make plenty of money without a huge check.
* The male and female leads each have their own agenda and pretend to be poor to each other.
Theme: No matter what difficulties you face, never give up trying