In the 1980s, I Became My Parents' System

Six months after being born into this world, Meng Yao awakens memories of her past life and learns that she is living inside a period novel.

The protagonist is her aunt by marriage, while her parents and grandmother are all top-tier villains who bully the heroine, bring their misfortunes upon themselves, and meet miserable ends.

Fortunately, when her memories awaken, she is bound to a First-Generation Rich System. The System also has a copying function and can bind her relatives, encouraging them to strive for success. As long as someone it binds becomes the richest person in the country, they can lead the whole family to change their fate!

Just as Meng Yao is weighing whether to start a business as a child or pin her hopes on her unreliable parents and paternal grandmother, they are busy recklessly digging their own graves:

Her aunt by marriage makes new clothes, and her mother tries them on and attempts to grab them for herself.

Her aunt by marriage asks to follow her husband to his military post, and her grandmother throws a fit and refuses.

Her uncle calls home? That's the end of that. Her father has his eye on a neighborhood committee job and asks his brother to pull strings for him.

Meng Yao decisively activates the sub-system and binds her parents.

Rather than watch them recklessly ruin their lives, she'd rather watch them work themselves to death!

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When Zhang Xiaoli and Meng Xiangdong got married, everyone at the cotton mill applauded.

One was lazy and greedy, the other was a slacker and shirker. They were clearly a perfect match.

Everyone assumed their lives would only get worse after they married.

But after having a child, they both changed their ways and decided to make a go of business!

Good heavens!

The news spread, and everyone at the cotton mill started gossiping.

Some said their business wouldn't last.

Others said they'd cheat their customers by shortchanging them.

But because the couple were honest and kind, their business actually grew bigger and stronger!

The cotton mill workers: Is this right??!

Meng Xiangdong and Zhang Xiaoli complained, “We'd like to lie flat and slack off, too. We'd even like to shortchange our customers, but whenever we get an idea, we get shocked.”

Reader advisory: The heroine's parents and grandmother are genuinely awful.

Theme: Hard work changes your fate.