The 1960s Seamstress Opens a Big Factory [Period]

[Alternate Era]

In her previous life, Qiao Wen was a haute couture tailor. After working herself to death, she transmigrated into a period novel, becoming the cannon-fodder character who shared her name, and the foil to the heroine, Qiao Xue.

In the book, Qiao Xue was everyone's darling and the hope of her whole family. She got into the university of petroleum, became an oil analysis engineer, and married Cheng Bin, the ideal man, making her a winner in life.

Qiao Wen became her foil. She failed to get into university at a young age and had no real skills of her own. Arranged by her uncle and aunt, she married a man who beat her, and during pregnancy he beat her to death because she ate one extra egg.

In reality, the university place belonged to the original Qiao Wen. Qiao Xue had stolen someone else's identity to claim it!

Qiao Wen transmigrated just as the original was boarding a train to the university of petroleum to reclaim her place.

Qiao Wen: Perfect timing!

With her wits and abilities, she dealt with the self-serving director of academic affairs, and the university of petroleum expelled Qiao Xue for impersonating another student.

She confronted her scheming uncle and aunt head-on, using her professional skills to thoroughly outclass the couple.

She became the top-skilled backbone of the garment factory, and led her team to win a place in a national competition.

People around her: A golden phoenix has joined our garment factory. She's beautiful, talented, and a great hero who risks her life to help others.

Later, Qiao Wen rose steadily through the ranks to become the garment factory's director and then its manager, bringing in orders for the factory, which was on the verge of going bankrupt.

Her cousin, Qiao Xue, became a puppet for a foreign-owned clothing factory, sent to compete against Qiao Wen.

But Qiao Wen wasn't afraid. She registered a trademark for the garment factory, and its business kept growing until it became an innovative brand with a full range of products.

A brilliant success from start to finish.

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Yan Wuni died, wrapped in a torn straw mat and thrown into a corner.

She still felt at peace: she had fulfilled her mother's dying wish, cared for her younger brother's family, and helped raise two university graduates for them.

Her spirit drifted above the mourning hall, where she heard her younger sister-in-law say, "All it took was a fake will to trick her into working like a slave for me. What a bargain."

Yan Wuni floated over and saw her sister-in-law stroking the gold bangle on her wrist. "My younger sister really came through for me. She married an army officer. Look how generous his thank-you gift is."

"Sister, if it weren't for you, I would have been the one marrying that disabled man." The young woman beside her laughed. "I'd already taken his family's bride price. If you hadn't made Yan Wuni marry him, I really wouldn't have been able to get out of it."

Yan Wuni was so shocked by those words that she couldn't recover for a long time.

So her entire life had been a lie?

If she could start over, she would take revenge, reclaim all her money, and go to the borderlands to join her eldest brother.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day her mother died.

Looking at the will her sister-in-law had brought her, Yan Wuni found the maternal aunt who had truly been by her mother's side and exposed her sister-in-law's lies.

Just then, the disabled man and his family arrived to take a bride.

Yan Wuni: Just in time.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yan Wuni found the money her sister-in-law had hidden and took all the valuables from her younger brother's home. Watching her sister-in-law wail and cry, she finally felt she'd gotten her revenge.

After arriving at the borderlands, Yan Wuni didn't look for a husband. Instead, she used her own hardworking hands to lease the army's vegetable plots.

At first, everyone thought little of her arrival.

"A delicate little girl like her, can she really grow vegetables?"

"There's hardly any oxygen here. I don't believe she can grow tomatoes and greens!"

Yan Wuni wasn't discouraged. Their doubts only made her more determined.

When they saw the bright red tomatoes, everyone rubbed their eyes. "Is this real? She's managed to grow tomatoes in less than a year?"

"Not just tomatoes, but zucchini too. And she's even raised chickens and ducks beside the vegetable plots!"

"Now we'll have fresh vegetables on our table. I've gotten sick of eating cellar vegetables every day for all these years."

She was busy and thriving, completely unaware that after she left home, her younger sister-in-law argued with her younger brother about money every day.

Without her financial support, her brother and sister-in-law, who spent money recklessly, gradually ran out of funds. They even started stealing things from their neighbors in the village for money.

After they were found out, they both ended up in jail.

As for their two children, they could only be sent to their maternal relatives nearby, where they lived miserable lives. They didn't just miss out on university; they never even made it to high school.

Theme: Even when we fall into the dust, we must keep striving upward.