Transported to the 1960S to Build Sports

[Building from scratch 🏓. You don’t need to know table tennis to enjoy this. Comments are open, so come join the fun!] Blurb: Once again, the sounds of arguing and beating came from Xiaohu Village. The neighbors sighed. That girl Zhong Xiao was getting beaten again. Ever since her grandmother died three years ago, fifteen-year-old Zhong Xiao, who had neither father nor mother, had been adopted by her third uncle and aunt. She hadn’t had a single good day. By day, she earned work points on the production team. Whenever she had a break, she went home to do all the washing and cooking and wait on her third uncle, aunt, and two male cousins. Whenever anything at home displeased them, they took it out on her. But the cries of pain today didn’t sound quite like they usually did. They sounded more like the two boys from her third uncle’s family were the ones howling. “You dare hit me? I’m telling Mom!” “You’re dead! I’ll get Dad to beat you to death!”... ...The neighbors had no idea. That day, Zhong Xiao had become someone who’d traveled from the modern age into the past. Both sets of memories and both lives belonged to her. It was as if her arrival had caused this era to automatically generate a place for her in society, along with memories of a past. Three days ago, Zhong Xiao had been a first-year university student at a sports university, studying table tennis. She’d twice had the chance to join the national team but hadn’t made the cut, so she went to school instead. An accident sent her and her classmates all back to the 1960s. Bad news: She woke up in a hospital, where she’d ended up after being bullied by her male cousins. She was a timid little doormat who never hit back or talked back. Good news: Amazing, she’d traveled through time in her own body! Her strong, sturdy physique and her agile, nimble muscle memory! She had all of it! Zhong Xiao cracked her knuckles and headed home. You little brats, you’re dead! She punched her third uncle, kicked her male cousins, and took down everyone who’d ever bullied her! Then she picked up her paddle and set about building the sports scene in this newly founded nation, where everything was waiting to be rebuilt. / [Content notes]: ① An alternate version of the 1960s, with multiple people traveling through time together! Ensemble cast! The male lead openly and enthusiastically loves the heroine throughout, and is her devoted believer (not in the religious sense). The heroine eventually returns his feelings, but focuses on building her career in the early and middle parts of the story. ② Table tennis wasn’t added to the Olympics until 1988. Since competitions were scarce in the 1960s and it would have been hard to develop the protagonist’s growth arc, I’ve moved table tennis into the Olympics twenty years early in this alternate setting to make her career storyline more exciting (hehe). ③ In the 1960s, there were only major international and regional competitions, not all the commercial tournaments we have today. So this story will focus mainly on life in a large collective, everyday life, and romance, which together make up 60% of the novel. ④ This is fiction, not documentary literature. The characters, places, and story are completely fictional and have nothing to do with reality. Some details are exaggerated for dramatic effect, so it may not be a good fit for readers who want to fact-check every detail, qaq. ⑤ No real-life inspiration! No real-life inspiration! No real-life inspiration! Theme: Bring glory to the country and lead by example.