Back to the 1990s, Lifting My Whole Family Up

Lin Zhi looked back on her life. She had cats and dogs, a car and a home, and seemed to have everything anyone could envy. She was the very picture of a winner.

But in the dead of night, the only thing that kept appearing before her eyes was the rough, emaciated hand of her eldest sister on her sickbed.

When her eldest sister was sixteen, she took the county entrance exam and became the only student in their village to get into the county's No. 1 High School.

But to pay for Lin Zhi and their younger brother's education, her eldest sister had no choice but to tear up her admission notice and head south for work.

Every letter she sent home contained money. Five or ten yuan at a time, she supported Lin Zhi and their younger brother all the way through university. By the time Lin Zhi was able to give her sister a better life, her sister was already dying of stomach cancer. And after her sister passed away, the once-warm family was left in pieces.

When Lin Zhi woke up, she was back in 1993. The village loudspeaker was playing "Xiao Fang."

Her eldest sister hadn't yet developed stomach cancer from scraping together tuition for her and their younger brother.

Lin Zhi hadn't yet fallen out with her younger brother because his wife resented their eldest sister as dead weight.

Their parents were still young and strong, too. Fortunately, there was still time.

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Seeing the train ticket her eldest sister had hidden away, Lin Zhi tore it to pieces. This time, no one was allowed to drop out.

Her eldest sister frowned at the shredded ticket. "If I don't go to work, how are we going to pay the tuition?"

"Don't worry. Linjiawan is full of treasures." Medicinal herbs on the mountain and even the inconspicuous fine sand in the river could fetch a good price.

Song Ning'an never expected that after getting divorced, she'd open her eyes and find herself a village girl in the 1970s.

Everywhere in the village were slogans about going up to the mountains and down to the countryside, and building a new rural society. Song Ning'an looked at the fresh blisters on her hands and nearly burst into tears.

Not only did she have to work in the fields every day for work points, but supplies were scarce, and she could go ten days or half a month without seeing a drop of oil. Miss Song had never suffered like this in her life. Maybe she should find herself a meal ticket?

[Pre-release: After the Sweet Romance Novel Ends]

On the first day Su Yuling received financial support from Song Shiwei, she realized that she was the heroine of this world, and that the hero was her benefactor's fiance.

Song Shiwei was talented, beautiful, and capable, but her fiance and friends all chose Su Yuling. At that moment, Su Yuling felt a little guilty, but seeing someone as dazzling as a heavenly beauty defeated by her filled her with an indescribable sense of superiority.

Despite a few twists and turns, Su Yuling still became Mrs. Xu. The media vied to report on her spectacular wedding. Just when she thought she had reached a happy ending, she discovered that everything had changed.

The man who had been so devoted to her before the wedding began to criticize and find fault with everything she did. Her close friends started to distance themselves from her. And what alarmed her most was that Song Shiwei, who had been banished overseas, had returned!

Watching Song Shiwei surrounded by admirers, Su Yuling couldn't understand what had gone wrong. Wasn't she the heroine?

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As the heiress of the Song Group, Song Shiwei had always had things go her way, until the day of her engagement party, when she learned from a sudden flurry of on-screen comments that she was living in a sweet romance novel, and that she was the wicked supporting woman who did everything she could to keep the hero and heroine apart.

Song Shiwei scoffed at the idea. How could the carefully trained heir of the Song family do something so stupid?

But no matter how hard she struggled, the wicked supporting woman's ending was always to be banished overseas by her family. She kept a low profile for three years, then returned with a new team after the story ended.

This time, she would take back everything that belonged to her. And not just power and fame: those people deserved to be crushed beneath her feet.

Word has it that a new educated youth has arrived at the village youth station. He's from a family with connections in the capital, and only came to the countryside after falling out with his family. Most importantly, he gets packages from the capital every few days, full of dried meat, ration coupons, malted milk, and all sorts of goodies. Song Ning'an is tempted. What a perfect meal-ticket candidate!

One day, Song Ning'an specially changes into a borrowed Bragi dress, lets her hair down, and prepares to arrange a chance encounter. Then she gets a good look at the celebrated young man from the capital.

Wait, why does this guy look exactly like her ex-husband?

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The people of Hongqi Brigade discover that the Song family's girl is going to marry the new educated youth!

Everyone thinks the man must be a pretty boy trying to use marriage to escape hard labor. But after marrying him, the Song girl stops earning work points altogether. The hardworking girl has suddenly become a lazy wife!

Before anyone can figure out Song Ning'an's change of heart, word spreads that Educated Youth Liang is taking her back to the city to live a life of comfort!

Theme: With faith in your heart, you can succeed at anything.