Making a Life for Myself in the 1980s

At sixteen, Li Shaoqiu had a dream. In it, she was a dutiful daughter and a caring younger sister. She had thought her life was happy and secure, but one last remark from her father brought it to an abrupt end.

Her devoted parents stayed silent about the most important decision of her life to protect her eldest brother's interests. Even on his deathbed, her father couldn't help scolding his good-for-nothing daughter, telling her she had to live like a proper person.

Her beloved eldest brother persuaded their parents to marry her off to a notorious thug for his own sake. Later, as his business grew, he was the first to say that if she dared to divorce, she would no longer be part of the Li family.

Her dear eldest sister had always been strong-willed, yet spent half her life struggling. Then she discovered that someone else had claimed the admission notice that was rightfully hers. Her life was turned upside down, and at just forty, she died suddenly of a stroke.

Her beloved younger brother was overshadowed by their eldest brother and became a notorious spendthrift in the village. Later, he married into a family in the neighboring county and lost touch with his Li siblings.

What does it mean to live like a proper person?

Li Shaoqiu in the dream never figured it out. The first thing Li Shaoqiu did after waking was help her eldest sister reclaim her admission notice...

Come take a look! You have nothing to lose and won't get cheated!

Coming soon, a story set in the 1970s: Saving a Wronged Cannon Fodder in the Seventies

Wang Wenxi had read a hugely popular male-oriented wish-fulfillment novel. In it, the male lead was switched at birth, and from then on rose from an ugly duckling to a swan, climbing ever higher in life...

There was a cannon-fodder character in the book with the same name as her. She appeared while suffering a severe hemorrhage, and her husband stopped a car to save her, only to be hit and killed by the male lead.

Before she died, the male lead even casually remarked, "She was pretty. What a shame."

Wang Wenxi had just read the scene where her namesake died. She never expected to wake up and find herself in the middle of an elopement.

After half a minute of stunned silence, she promptly pulled out a handful of small bills and stuffed them into Zhou Zhuo's hand. He was a fellow cannon-fodder character. She told him to buy some gifts, go to the village chief's house, and sign up for the army.

Wang Wenxi truly believed that if she stayed far enough away from men, she wouldn't become cannon fodder.

It was 1974. To stay away from men and the story's plot, sixteen-year-old Wang Wenxi buried herself in books. With the foundation she had built before transmigrating into a book, from a certain prestigious 985 university where she had earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees, surely she could get into Peking or Tsinghua.

Then she would be free as a bird, and no matter how outrageous the plot got, it would have nothing to do with her.

But three years later, along with her admission notice, she received a letter from Zhou Zhuo saying he wanted to come ask for her hand in marriage...

Theme: Don't drift through life in a daze. Work hard to find meaning in life.