The Seventies Child-Rearing System

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Normal-school graduate Chu Muzhen was ready to roll up her sleeves and make a name for herself in education, training outstanding people for her country. Then an accident made her transmigrate into a novel set in a bygone era, where she became the unlucky mother in a child-rearing contrast group.

In the original story, she gave birth to triplets, three wonderful sons. Her husband was a police officer with a high salary, which he handed over to her. She stayed home to raise the kids, and their life was lovely.

The female lead was her neighbor. She had only one daughter, a terrible in-law family that leeched off her, and a temporary job at a steel mill loading and unloading coal trucks. She worked herself to the bone for barely any pay and lived a hard, impoverished life.

The residents of the family compound compared the two women, saying the original heroine was blessed while the female lead had a hard lot in life.

But when the children grew up, everyone was dumbfounded. Each of her triplets was worse than the last. The eldest was a hooligan, the second a thief, and the third was even worse, involved in pornography, gambling, and drugs. In the end, all three sons became prisoners sentenced to reform through labor.

The original heroine and her husband were so enraged by their three little brutes that they suffered heart attacks and died unhappy deaths!

The female lead's daughter, meanwhile, became a major star: beautiful, a good actress, and upright in her values. She often did charity work and became an idol to generations of people.

By comparison, the onlookers sighed, "There's no good in favoring boys over girls. Whether it's a daughter or a son, raising them well is what matters."

Now Chu Muzhen had become that unlucky mother in the contrast group. As an educator, she couldn't stand seeing children go astray. And since she'd also been bound to a child-rearing System, she pumped her fist. With the System's help, raising the three brats into well-rounded, morally upright, academically capable, physically fit, and artistically accomplished young men would be a piece of cake.

Reading Guide: 1. The original female lead and her family are not vilified.

2. Reader comments are open.

Blurb for Seven Zero: The Lovely Educated Youth's Everyday Life in the Army:

Shen Jiaxing had been pretty from childhood, and her life had always gone smoothly. She got into college, became a livestreamer, bought a house, and was always the child other people were told to emulate.

Then an accident sent her back to the 1970s, onto a train, where she became an educated youth about to be sent to the countryside for rural labor.

She looked at her wrists, barely thicker than bamboo sticks, and felt her soft, delicate skin.

Then she thought about the time she had gone to the countryside with her parents to experience rural life and hit her foot with a hoe. She felt an urge to jump off the train and run, but she didn't have the nerve.

If she had been about to leave, she might have found a way to stay in the city. But now that she was already on the train taking educated youths to the countryside, and she had no extraordinary talent to speak of, getting back to the city would be difficult.

Just then, something happened on the train. There was a human trafficker in the next car, and a handsome young soldier stood up to outwit him. She hurried over to watch.

The young soldier had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and was full of righteous spirit. As he caught the trafficker, he was calm and steady, yet clever. His movements were agile, and he exuded masculine vigor. Many of the young women in the car blushed.

Mu Lin met a young woman on the train, and they became pen pals. She shared embarrassing stories about her life as an educated youth and wrote him poems praising the countryside's scenery.

He shared amusing stories about life in the army and training, too. Their letters grew more frequent, until a month went by without him receiving a letter from her. He began to feel uneasy.

Later, he received two letters. One was from his mother, saying she'd arranged a match for him and that the woman was already on her way to the army base. The other was from the young woman, telling him she was seeing a soldier.

For some reason, he became restless and couldn't sit still. All his unease vanished only when the woman his mother had mentioned arrived at the base.

The author's page has completed novels Seven Zero: The Workaholic Female Lead and Seven Zero: The Island Beauty. Enjoy!

Theme: Education begins with children