Everyday Fortune-Making in 1990S Shanghai [Live Comments]

[Preorders: Please add The Lovely Cousin Arrives on the Island in the 1970s and In the 1980s, I Got Bound to a Rich Heir System to your reading list~] In 1992, the state-owned factory where Ye Wei worked was on the brink of closure due to a mistake in the management's decision-making. Wages were already three months behind. With her iron rice bowl about to shatter, Ye Wei had no choice but to start thinking about whether she should learn to wait tables at a restaurant or learn to perm hair at a salon after being laid off. Then the company proposed paying wages with stock subscription certificates. Her coworkers were furious, and suddenly she saw a barrage comment: [The female lead looks so calm. She must have realized the certificates' value, right? Who could've guessed that the certificates everyone looks down on now would eventually be worth ten thousand each?] Ye Min, who was still debating whether to join her coworkers in protesting to the manager: What?! Wait, a certificate that costs just thirty yuan now could rise to ten thousand? * After getting bound to the barrage System, Ye Wei's life gradually turned into a feel-good power fantasy. When the stock market was about to lift the price limits on Yanzhong Industrial and Feile Shares, she hesitated over whether to invest. The barrage said: [Of course you should buy Yanzhong Industrial. After the price limits are lifted, it'll rise to two hundred in three days and three hundred in ten days. By mid-March, it'll soar to three hundred and eighty. Buy it and you'll make a profit!] When the new manager at the machinery factory where she worked encouraged employees to buy shares in the company to raise funds, she pondered the offer. The barrage said: [Does she know the new factory manager is exceptionally capable, and can not only bring the factory back from the brink of closure but also turn it profitable and take it public within a year? Is she thinking of buying shares and making money without lifting a finger?] When she came across a passerby who seemed to be attempting suicide and earnestly tried to talk him out of it: The barrage said: [Did she recognize his talent and realize that he'll become a tech mogul one day, so she's planning to get close to him early?] Guided by the barrage, Ye Wei made a fortune buying Yanzhong Industrial, became the biggest shareholder by buying shares in her own workplace, and even became a tech mogul's angel investor. #The barrage keeps saying I'm a mogul, but I'm really just an ordinary person.jpg# Upcoming story: The Lovely Cousin Arrives on the Island in the 1970s Before she awakened, Feng Ruoyun was reasonably content with her life. She was the youngest daughter, born late in her parents' lives, and had been doted on since childhood. Though she was unlucky enough to live through the great political movement, her parents spent the night calling in favors to reach her uncle, who was serving in the military far away in Yunnan Province, and secure her a place in a nursing training program. After completing her training, she was assigned to the military clinic as a nurse. From then on, she had a stable job and never had to worry about food or drink. After awakening, Feng Ruoyun was deeply dissatisfied with her future. She was the heroine of a story set in a turbulent era, and no matter how good her own circumstances were, her ultimate fate was to marry a twice-married man over thirty with four children. For the next several decades, she would devote herself to his family of five until she was old and gray, only then earning the children's approval and hearing them call her Mom. And by the time she awakened, someone had already schemed to tie her to that divorced man. Feng Ruoyun: "..." * To change her fate, Feng Ruoyun decided to run away with nothing but a bucket, submitting an application that very night to help with rural development. Her uncle feared she would be bullied on her own. Remembering that one of his sons was conducting research in the northwest while the other was stationed on an eastern island, he let her choose where to go. Feng Ruoyun thought her eldest cousin, the research scientist, was refined, handsome, and well-mannered. Her second cousin, the soldier, was stern and hard to approach, so she decisively chose the northwest. But her eldest cousin happened to be in a closed laboratory study. His letters never got through, and in the end the one who wrote to welcome her was her second cousin. With no other choice, Feng Ruoyun packed her bags and headed for the island. * Before he received a phone call from his father, Lu Congze wasn't close to Feng Ruoyun, the cousin from his stepmother's family. So once he had brought her to the island and helped her settle in, he left her to her own devices. But then, every few days, someone would come asking him about his cousin, hinting that they wanted to become his cousin-in-law. To fulfill his father's request, he carefully started helping his cousin consider her prospects. But he soon realized that, though the other young men were fine, none could match his own looks, charm, or promise. So he decided to pursue her himself. In the 1980s, I Got Bound to a Rich Heir System Meng Ying, who had been born into her new life with no memories, awakened to good news and bad news, two of each: Bad news one: The world she lived in was a reborn-era novel, and the protagonist was her aunt by marriage. Her parents and grandmother were all vicious villains who bullied the heroine, brought their troubles on themselves, and met miserable ends. Good news one: When she awakened her memories, she got bound to a Wealth System. As long as she could become the richest person in the country, she could lead her whole family to change their fate! Bad news two: She was only seven years old. According to the original timeline, she and her family would be dead long before she grew up. Good news two: If needed, the Wealth System could be upgraded to a Rich Heir System. The catch was that the System gave both rewards and punishments. Completing small tasks earned rewards, but failing them meant that the target of the punishment would be electrocuted. Looking at her lazy mother who loved to eat, her simple-minded father, and her elderly grandmother, Meng Ying declared, "It's up to me to save my family's fate!" * However, while she was figuring out how to go from elementary school student to the richest person in the country, her parents and grandmother were busy doing every possible thing to ruin their lives. Her aunt by marriage made new clothes, and her mother spotted an opportunity to snatch them. Her aunt by marriage asked to join her husband in the army, and her grandmother threw a fit and refused. Her uncle called home? That was it. Her father had set his sights on a job as a neighborhood committee official and immediately asked him to pull strings. Meng Ying decisively upgraded the System and smiled: Rather than watch them ruin their lives, I'd rather watch them work themselves to death! Reading note: The heroine's parents and grandmother are genuinely terrible people. Theme: Work hard and make a good living.