Transmigrating to 1975

(My new novel, Reborn as a Little Reporter in a Hong Kong Tycoon's Family in the 1990s, is now underway. Its blurb is below.)

Blurb:

In 1975, Lin Wanying, the prettiest educated youth in Qingshan Village, refused to be forced into marriage by the director's family. They threatened to frame her and said they would have her taken to the police station if she didn't marry. Mu Qingchuan saved her.

That same day, Lin Wanying got the chance to return to the city, but her family sold the place to someone else, leaving her unable to go home.

She endured another three years in the countryside. When the college entrance exams were reinstated, she passed and returned to the city, only to be framed and expelled from school. She started a street-food stall outside the factory compound.

Mu Qingchuan came to eat noodles every day. Three months later, she married him.

Only after the wedding did she learn that Mu Qingchuan's family was just as unlucky as hers. The taciturn man bore the burden of protecting his family, giving her the happiest three years of her life.

After Mu Qingchuan died, Lin Wanying and his three younger siblings relied on one another.

His younger brother got into a fight and was sent to a juvenile detention center, losing his chance to take the college entrance exams. His younger sister was matched with a terrible man and was tormented into madness less than three months after the wedding.

Before the other younger brother died, he said, "Sister-in-law, our family never did anything to deserve this. Why is it that ever since we moved to the factory compound, we've all ended up dead or injured?"

Only after her death did Lin Wanying learn that she and Mu Qingchuan's family were merely important supporting characters in a novel set in that era. Thanks to his powerful instincts, Mu Qingchuan had saved her from a prison sentence and protected his family for three years after they married.

After transmigrating back to 1975, Lin Wanying looked at the man who had just saved her from prison, though they had never even met, and smiled softly.

This time, she wouldn't waste years missing him. She would marry Mu Qingchuan right away and become his wife.

Blurb for Reborn as a Little Reporter in a Hong Kong Tycoon's Family in the 1990s:

In the 1990s, Hong Kong's newspaper industry was fiercely competitive. The newspaper owned by the Ye family was on the verge of bankruptcy and under threat from vicious debt collectors.

Seeing her younger brother trampled underfoot and her trembling younger sister, Ye Zhenzhen, reborn, stepped forward and promised to repay the debt within three days.

The first time the Times caused a sensation across Hong Kong, its front-page headline read: "Shocking! The Eldest Miss of the Zhen Family Marries Her Second Sister's Fiancé for Love. Is This Tycoon Family Drama a Moral Collapse, or Is There More to the Story?"

Sales of the Times soared, making it a runaway hit across Hong Kong. The Zhen family, enraged, sent thugs after them, but the attackers ran into trouble along the way. The Times and Ye Zhenzhen came away unscathed.

The second time, people rushed to buy the Times. Its front-page headline was just as explosive: "Breaking! A Rising Star in the Police Force, Famous for Solving Difficult Cases, Has Fallen into a Coma After Being Followed by a Mysterious Figure. Who Is Behind It? The Truth Is About to Come Out!"

The Zhou family, property magnates, vowed to buy the Times to stop its reporting. The barrister who went to negotiate met Ye Zhenzhen and changed his mind, choosing to speak on the Ye family's behalf.

The third time...

The fourth time...

Ye Zhenzhen had been reborn. In her previous life, she had feared the System and failed to bind herself to it in time, missing out on its protection.

Without the System, the truth behind the stories Ye Zhenzhen investigated was met with threats as soon as it reached the printing press. For her family's safety, she couldn't publish the stories. Instead, she took an internship at a television station, and until the day she died, she remained someone who uncovered the truth but couldn't report it.

Reborn with the System's support, Ye Zhenzhen published the truth, issue after issue, and turned the Times from loss-making to profitable.

People around town waited to see when the Ye family, whose Times had exposed so many truths and offended so many powerful interests, would be found dead in the street.

They waited and waited. The younger brother who had once been a good-for-nothing solved one major case after another and rose to the rank of police superintendent. The timid younger sister who had been bullied entered the legal profession and became a young judge. And Ye Zhenzhen kept reporting the truth, won a major journalism award, and became a rising star in the news industry who simply couldn't be killed.

"Ye Zhenzhen, now that you know the truth, do you dare report it?"

"Those living, breathing lives are worth less than a bottle of red wine in the marketplace of crime and profit. Do you dare expose it?"

Facing the truth laid bare, Ye Zhenzhen firmly promised her source: "I dare!"

Theme: Be self-reliant and independent, respect and care for one another, and work together to build the future.