Working in Hong Kong, Buying an Apartment in Shenzhen [The 1980s]

·Coming Soon: The 1970s: I Transmigrated into a Terrible Mother-in-Law, but I Just Want to Lie Flat·

-Story Blurb-

Given a second chance at life, Xu Jiahui doesn't want to work herself to the bone like an old ox in the fields anymore.

In her previous life, poverty forced her and her husband, Ning Qi, to leave Shenzhen for Hong Kong at eighteen to find work.

To buy a pigeon-cage apartment of their own in Hong Kong, she and Ning Qi worked all 365 days of the year, spinning like nonstop tops.

After years of struggle, they finally achieved their dream of owning a home. But by then, they were both sick from overwork, and Ning Qi didn't even live to see sixty.

So when Xu Jiahui realizes she's been reborn in the golden 1980s, she's practically giddy with joy.

By now, she's already worked in Hong Kong for five years.

Thinking of the almost miraculous boom that awaits her hometown of Shenzhen, she decisively packs up, takes her husband and the savings they've worked so hard to earn, and returns to Shenzhen.

Back in Shenzhen, Xu Jiahui immediately goes on a shopping spree.

Land, buildings, storefronts...

What thrills her most is that she snaps up a bargain property, only to receive a demolition compensation notice the very next day.

Xu Jiahui is delighted: So windfalls really do fall from the sky, and this one is especially sweet!

At first, the villagers can't understand why Xu Jiahui has brought her husband back to their hometown in Shenzhen.

Some even mock them: "Those two must have lost their minds! Even birds know to fly to the highest branches. They've left Hong Kong, where gold is everywhere, just to come back to Shenzhen?!"

Xu Jiahui's awful scumbag of a father even threatens her, telling her to get back to Hong Kong or he'll cut ties with her.

Xu Jiahui laughs happily on the spot. "What a wonderful offer! No time like the present. Let's cut ties for good, starting today!"

Ever since her scumbag father tried to sell her off as a wife to a mentally disabled man, Xu Jiahui has wanted nothing to do with him.

Later, when the villagers see Xu Jiahui raking in rent until her hands are sore, and becoming a renowned restaurant queen in Shenzhen, they are stunned.

The villagers who mocked her: ...So it turns out I'm the fool here?!

Her scumbag father is even more regretful, but no matter how hard he tries to get Xu Jiahui to forgive him, he never succeeds.

·Coming Soon: I Transmigrated into a Terrible Mother-in-Law, but I Just Want to Lie Flat. Please add it to your collection!·

After dying in the apocalypse, Xu Guizhi transmigrates into a rural period novel set in The 1970s, where she becomes the villainous mother-in-law in a story with two female leads.

The two female leads are her eldest and youngest sons' wives.

In the novel, the original Xu Guizhi has finally become a mother-in-law after years as a daughter-in-law, and decides to throw her weight around.

What she doesn't know is that neither of her daughters-in-law is ordinary.

Her eldest daughter-in-law was once a cook in a prince's household in ancient times, but accidentally transmigrated to the 1970s.

As one of the female leads, she has maxed-out culinary skills. More importantly, her luck is off the charts. Whenever she goes out, she either finds a treasure or meets a benefactor. She's so lucky it's as if Heaven itself is chasing after its own daughter to feed her.

Her youngest daughter-in-law seems like an unremarkable educated youth, but is actually a career-driven workaholic who came from the modern era.

As another female lead, she could manage a listed company with tens of thousands of employees in the modern era. Naturally, she thrives in The 1970s too.

Both daughters-in-law are exceptionally capable. There's no way an old country woman like the original Xu Guizhi can push them around like soft persimmons.

Even though every time she causes trouble, she ends up hurting herself, the original Xu Guizhi still won't give up.

In the original story, she not only makes trouble at home, but also goes around the village badmouthing her daughters-in-law, until the whole village laughs at how badly the women in her family get along.

Transmigrated into the book, Xu Guizhi is speechless. "With two daughters-in-law I can lean on, wouldn't it be much better to lie flat and enjoy life?!"

Not long after the two daughters-in-law marry into the family, Xu Guizhi's fake-friendly neighbor deliberately stirs up trouble: "Once sons get wives, they forget their mothers! Xu Guizhi, you have to show those two daughters-in-law who's boss, or they'll walk all over you!"

Xu Guizhi: "Exactly! Exactly! I'll go home right now and arrange for the family to split up, so they can all move out!"

The fake-friendly neighbor: ?!?

What is going on? That's not what I meant!

And since when is a new daughter-in-law allowed to move out and live happily on her own as soon as she marries in?!

When the village idlers hear that Xu Guizhi's eldest daughter-in-law has become the head chef at the town's state-run restaurant, they're green with envy. "That restaurant is full of people coming and going. How can a woman do a job that puts her on display? Xu Guizhi, I advise you to bring your eldest daughter-in-law home before she embarrasses herself!"

"You heartless ingrate! You're a grown man with two good hands and feet, yet you can't even support yourself. Your mother has to work outside, showing herself in public and farming, just to keep you fed! If you think women shouldn't go out, why don't you make your own mother come home and live off you first?!"

The idler, who lives entirely off his parents, is left speechless by Xu Guizhi's tirade.

When the college entrance exams resume, Xu Guizhi's youngest daughter-in-law, the educated youth, gets into one of the country's top universities. A male educated youth who failed his exams slyly tells Xu Guizhi to tear up her daughter-in-law's admission letter, saying that will stop her from leaving.

Xu Guizhi: "What? You don't know my youngest daughter-in-law is taking our whole family to Beijing to study with her? She's already bought a house there. She says it's a siheyuan! You're from Beijing, aren't you? Do you think the courtyard in our house is as big as the ones in Beijing? I'm a little worried there won't be enough room to grow vegetables and raise chickens."

Hearing Xu Guizhi's humblebrag, the male educated youth who failed his exams is so furious he faints on the spot.

Before their weddings, Shi Yingying and Lin Xue are both worried they won't get along with their mother-in-law, since Xu Guizhi is notorious throughout the village.

But after they marry, Shi Yingying and Lin Shuang are delighted to discover that getting along with their mother-in-law is such a joy!

·Coming Soon: The Filial Son Who Heard His Family's Thoughts [The 1970s]·

Song Huayang is known throughout the village as an honest man.

He's always believed it was only right to be filial to his parents and respect his older siblings. But one day, he suddenly discovers that he can hear the thoughts of everyone in his family.

The village assigns families the task of digging irrigation ditches, and every year Song Huayang goes on behalf of the Song family.

His mother still wants to send him this year, but Song Huayang hears her thinking: "Song Huayang isn't even my biological son, so he deserves to be enslaved like an old ox!"

Song Huayang: ?!?

After hearing her thoughts, Song Huayang comes to his senses. To hell with being an old ox! From now on, nobody's taking advantage of me!

His nephew graduates from high school and wants to buy a job in town, but doesn't have enough money, so he comes to borrow some from his uncle, Song Huayang. But Song Huayang hears him thinking: "You don't even have a son, so your property will all be mine eventually. What's the big deal if I borrow a little money now?!"

Song Huayang grins. "You need money to buy a job? No problem. But since I'm paying for it, it only makes sense for the job to go to my daughter, right?"

Song Huayang's change of heart sparks heated discussion in the village.

A busybody accuses him of being an unfilial son and a heartless ingrate.

Song Huayang: "What? It turns out your daughter-in-law isn't the one who can't have children. Your son is the one with a broken tool!"

The villagers stare in shock. "Oh!!!"

The busybody immediately loses all interest in criticizing Song Huayang, because his own daughter-in-law has run back to her parents' home, saying she wants a divorce!

After he gains the ability to hear people's thoughts, Song Huayang discovers that his village is full of hidden scandals. There's a married man carrying on with a widow, a two-timing scumbag secretly dating a female educated youth while also discussing marriage with a village girl, and even a cruel person who wants to starve his own mother to death.

Song Huayang can't stand these scumbags, so he quietly exposes them.

The villagers: Good grief, the scandals in our village really are more shocking with every new revelation!

·

After Song Xiaoman is reborn in The 1970s, her biggest wish is to give her mother a comfortable life and, while she's at it, help her ditch Song Huayang, her foolishly filial father.

But gradually, she begins to notice that something about her life seems off.

Song Xiaoman had thought there was no way the family would split up before her grandparents died.

But her father suddenly proposes dividing the family, and even manages to wrest most of the family property away from her biased grandparents.

And when she graduates from high school and starts worrying about how to find a job in town, her father suddenly announces that she can report to the best-paying food factory in town the very next day.

Song Xiaoman: What is going on? I haven't even started working hard, so how have all my problems already been solved?! This doesn't fit the setting for someone reborn at all! And my silly father actually seems pretty decent. He's completely devoted to my mother, and might just be the best man in the village. Maybe I should stop trying to persuade her to divorce him.

Song Huayang, who hears her thoughts, secretly wipes the cold sweat from his forehead.

Good grief, that wasn't easy. His daughter has finally stopped trying to get her mother to divorce him.

-Reading Notes-

·No way am I going back to wage labor. We'll start businesses and get rich: childhood sweethearts who are also spouses.

·The blurb and story ideas were screenshotted on 2023.11.12. Details may be adjusted as inspiration strikes.

·Villains come in every age and gender. Please don't put labels on people.

·Please don't make unsupported plagiarism accusations. If you have evidence, report it directly to Jinjiang.

·A parallel world, with the setting built around the plot.

Theme: There is great potential in this vast world