Starting in 1951

[Chapters 20–26 are listed in reverse order. If you’ve already read them, don’t buy them again.]

[A preview of an upcoming story: The Whole Family Transmigrates into a CEO Romance]

Blurb: After Chang Youguang’s vision went black, she woke up in 1951 as a thirteen-year-old country girl.

Her father had just been shot twice by bandits and was bedridden. She had a concussion and, even after half a month of rest, still felt a little dizzy.

She also had an eight-year-old sister and a five-year-old brother. The entire family’s livelihood rested on her mother, who was less than 1.5 meters tall and so skinny she couldn’t have weighed ten pounds. Life was harder than being steeped in bitter herbal water.

Chang Youguang: I want to make money, move to the city, and go to college. I don’t want to live such a hard life!

Important: Until 1955, the New First Currency was used, with very large denominations. Compared to the New Second Currency issued in 1955 and all currency afterward, the exchange rate was 10,000 to 1. In other words, 10,000 yuan equals 1 yuan.

[Upcoming story: The Whole Family Transmigrates into a CEO Romance]

Blurb: After her parents retired, Qin Siduan organized a family trip. But when they got home after the vacation, she realized that something was off about the world around them.

Qin Siduan: Don’t panic. As a web novelist, I have years of experience writing and reading novels. I can analyze the situation and figure this out.

Then she discovered that their family seemed to have returned to a world crawling with domineering CEOs.

Her biological father, Qin Zhengyuan, was a respectable and mild-mannered professor in one CEO romance, beloved by his students. In reality, he fabricated research, stole his students’ papers, frequently emotionally abused and even sexually harassed and assaulted students in private, and was attracted to men and women alike. He was a notorious criminal.

Qin Zhengyuan was so angry he jumped up and started swearing: “Bullshit! I taught at Jinghua my whole life and mentored who knows how many students. I’ve always been the one helping them write papers and conduct research. I’ve never done anything like that!”

Her biological mother, Song Yuzhang, was the ultimate doormat in another CEO romance. Despite being married for years, she never forgot the “white moonlight” in her heart. She secretly used the couple’s shared property to start a company and made a fortune, but never told her family, leaving it all to her rediscovered “white moonlight” and his child. She even willingly offered up her living heart for the sake of that man’s child.

Song Yuzhang stared in shock and stammered, “…Me? I did that?”

Her biological older brother, Qin Pinduan, was the doctor friend of the CEO in every CEO romance. In addition to always being on call, he helped his CEO friends with illegal medical procedures. In the end, he fell in love with a woman imprisoned by the CEO while treating him, had both his hands ruined by the CEO, and lost his medical license, becoming a notorious disgrace to the medical profession.

Qin Pinduan pushed his gold-rimmed glasses up his nose and summed it up in one word: “Ridiculous.”

Her biological younger brother, Qin Xingduan, was a delinquent school bully in a CEO romance set at an elite academy. He specialized in bullying the poor but beautiful, resilient, top-of-the-class female lead. In the end, the F4s, who initially disliked the heroine but eventually fell in love with her, tricked him into street racing. He plunged off a cliff and died in the crash.

Qin Xingduan flew into a rage: “What the hell! What’s wrong with this stupid novel? Sure, I dye my hair blond and skip class to play video games, but I’m a socialist successor who upholds the Five Virtues and remembers the Eight Honors and Eight Shames. All I want is to help build our country’s esports industry!”

As for herself…

She was the fake heiress who had stolen the real heiress’s place in a famous story about a fake heiress and a real heiress. The reborn real heiress humiliated her at every turn, but she kept digging her own grave until she was disfigured and disabled, and finally died in the jaws of a rabid dog.

Qin Siduan crawled around gloomily. “Why? Why did I have to be the one who wasn’t really their daughter? Do you have any idea what I’ll do if I start kicking up a fuss?!”

Message: Keep striving upward, even in adversity.