A Noblewoman from Ancient Times Gossips and Watches the Show in the 1970s

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One second, she was in a grand mansion, matching wits with a flock of scheming beauties. The next, her world of wealth and splendor had become a vast stretch of yellow earth, and she had finally fulfilled her lifelong wish: she was a brand-new widow.

Being a widow sounded great. She could inherit her husband's enormous fortune and order his steward and servants around. How blissful would that be?

Unfortunately, a widow in the 1970s was just a tiny bit different from the widow in her dreams.

When she opened her eyes, she saw low yellow-earth walls and a moldy woodshed. Then her own mother delivered a fatal blow with a mallet, sending her daughter off to the next world. Lin Qingdai understood.

Run. Run right now. If she didn't, she might never get to enjoy a life of comfort. There was no telling whether she could even escape her parasitic parents alive.

Soon, she spotted her brother-in-law, who had returned to the village for a funeral. What a match made in heaven! Broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs. He looked like a capable man. How wonderful!

After that, Lin Qingdai's life was a raging inferno.

One moment, she was thinking of working hard to hold up half the sky for women. The next, she heard: “Did you know? The daughter-in-law next door got into a fight with her mother-in-law. Apparently, they were fighting over a man!”

Lin Qingdai: “What? I have to hear the rest! My career can wait until tomorrow!”

Another day, she heard: “Good grief, what a scandal! The young widow in the back courtyard has been stringing along more than a dozen men at once. They're all fighting now!”

Lin Qingdai: “Well, look at that! A role model for us all! I have to hear the rest. My career can wait until tomorrow!”

Many years later, Lin Qingdai gazed up with a sorrowful sigh. “When I think about the first half of my life, I was so obsessed with gossip that I accomplished nothing...”

The people around her wouldn't let that stand. “Accomplished nothing? What else do you want to accomplish? Are you short on money, or not important enough? You even turned a man made of iron into a pampered little husband!”

Lin Qingdai: “Listen, let me explain. Actually, I'm a proper young lady from a prominent family. All I wanted at first was to hear the gossip...”

Everyone: “Ewww~~~”

P.S. The heroine wants to strive for success, but in practice she's a gossip-loving spectator who just wants to enjoy the show. She's far from perfect, and doesn't care what happens to others as long as she has fun. Ahem, there are scenes about love, and the hero gets a point of view. The heroine's point of view... is unspeakable.

[Coming Soon: The 1980s: My Whole Family Is From the High Tang Dynasty (Ancient-to-Modern Transmigration)]

Ye Cheng had only one passion in life: good food. So when his subordinates brought him a rare delicacy, he immediately took it home to share. The whole family took turns having a bite, and soon the plate of mushrooms was empty. They were unbelievably delicious!

Suddenly, the world spun around him and green light flashed before his eyes. His heart tightened. “It's poisoned!” he shouted.

Before the words had even left his mouth, thump, thump, thump: the three members of the family dropped straight to the floor in a neat row.

The last thought of the Ye family's youngest daughter, Ye Panxi, was: “There's still one last bite on the plate. I didn't get to eat it. What a waste!”

When Ye Panxi woke up again, she found that the world had changed. She had been taken to a strange place where all the women had short hair and were skin and bones. They were saying she was unfilial and had pushed her parents into a river.

Was she that kind of person? At most, she'd snatch the last bite from the plate!

In this strange place, surrounded by strange people, she glanced out of the corner of her eye at the thin, unfamiliar couple lying beside her. Uh-oh. Ye Panxi had a bad feeling.

Their eyes met. They were the people who had eaten the poisonous mushrooms and collapsed together.

She didn't dare say a word. How had her dear parents suddenly changed so much?

After listening to the eloquent accounts of the kindhearted villagers, the Ye family began to suspect what had happened. Ye Cheng might have been only a low-ranking seventh-grade county magistrate, but he kept his cool. He gave his wife and daughter a reassuring look. “Don't worry. I've got this!”

Then came the face-slapping, and it came fast.

Their father, a seventh-grade county magistrate who couldn't lift a hand or carry a load: “What? You want me to carry a hoe and work the fields?!”

Their beautiful mother, who loved looking good and living in comfort and didn't like raising children: “What? We don't even have warm clothes to wear?! And there are three kids?!”

Their daughter, who had a deep love of fine food: “What! We don't get enough to eat?!”

The whole family stared at one another. What kind of miserable life was this? Even genteel people had to curse at the heavens: “Damn you, Heaven, for doing this to us!”

Theme: Treasure life and love living.