A Young Cop, But My Parents Have Cheat Codes [1990S]

I, Ji Yinhe, am an ordinary police academy student. My dream is to become the policewoman who makes every criminal tremble with fear in the tumultuous 1990s. But my city is so safe that the chief reads the newspaper, the captain drinks tea, and my colleagues spend their time gossiping. Meanwhile, I'm dragged into an office and assigned to administrative work. ...What happened to being a detective?! That night, I went home with my shattered dreams. By chance, I overheard hushed voices in my parents' bedroom Dad: How about I report that drug-dealing rich kid from one of those web novels where the protagonist is an overpowered hero? Mom: Oh, right! In that period romance on Green River, the real and fake heiresses got switched at birth. Isn't that human trafficking?! Dad: Hmm, that serial dismemberment case in the provincial capital ten years ago... Mom: ! Tell her to bring my smartphone. It's better than a pager, and she can even hit people with it! Dad: Would there even be a signal these days? ...Wait! A five-fold phone! You've been hiding it from me all these years! Me: ? What does an overpowered hero from a web novel have to do with anything? And what's a period romance on Green River? What's a smartphone? And what's a five-fold phone? · Ever since I was little, I've felt that my parents were different from everyone else's. Dad is a low-level government employee, lazy and carefree, but somehow always blessed with sudden inspiration and incredible luck. Mom sells snacks from a street stall. She's vain and hot-tempered, but her cooking is so good that all the neighbors concede defeat. Administrative work is too boring, so I decide to accept my parents' generous gift. Fortunately, I throw myself into the work and rise through the ranks to become a senior police officer. Our family tends a little courtyard, with smoke curling from the chimney, and our lives get better and better. But when those cases begin to come to light, I look at my smug parents and can't help wondering Just who are they, anyway? [Reading Guide] 1. The main story is told in third person 2. The second male lead appears first 3. The story is fictional and set in an alternate world. Alternate world! Alternate world! Please don't compare it to reality! 4. The story's world combines male-oriented and female-oriented fiction. The female lead's parents are supporting characters in two separate original novels ----Upcoming: "Military Industry Myth [The 1980s]"---- Many years later, visitors to the weapons museum would always gasp when they saw the wall displaying its distinguished figures In the prominent central position was a beautiful, elegant woman. Her profile said she had dedicated herself to innovation in military technology, leading the world's only all-female team to win more than twenty invention patents and countless medals of honor. She had also guided several small state-owned factories through shareholding reforms and helped workers on the verge of losing their jobs find a path to shared prosperity. Her name was You Yilan. But when she had just awakened to the fact that she was a doomed side character in a period novel, her name was still You Yinan. She was the eldest daughter of the You family, whose father was a foundry worker at Factory 409 deep in the mountains. The original heroine broke off her engagement to the factory director's son, a lazy, greedy, and good-for-nothing man, and went to the capital to pursue the arts. She later became a famous star, married a coal tycoon, and lived a life everyone envied. Her fiance felt humiliated and found a poor cannon-fodder girl, even prettier than the original heroine, to take her place. After they married, he was lazy and useless, and beat his wife whenever he felt like it. Unfortunately, You Yinan was that cannon-fodder girl. In the original story, she died at her husband's hands before she was thirty. Her father-in-law, the factory director, even used his connections to have her death ruled an accident. At this point in the plot, the fiance had sent someone to propose. Old You was in poor health and urgently needed money to see a doctor in the provincial capital. The couple were congratulating themselves on having found their daughter such a "fine match." You Yinan had just returned from the town's middle school, holding her college entrance exam registration form: "..." That night, after discussing it with her parents for half the night, they reached an agreement: She could refuse to marry, go to college, and change her name. On the condition that she take Old You's place in the foundry for a year to support her younger siblings until they graduated. The job was notorious for being grueling, exhausting, prone to heatstroke, and rife with accidents. But You Yinan gritted her teeth. "Fine!" Later, she was glad that she had gotten into the National University of Defense Technology a year late. That year of experience in military manufacturing gave her a purpose she would pursue for the rest of her life. It also brought her together with the best person at the best time in her life. Theme: Becoming an even more brilliant detective