Life as a Little Rich Girl in a ’70s Demolition Zone

Big news has hit Laixing Lane: the little girl the Ding family has raised for over a decade was switched at birth, and their biological daughter has been found. The two girls fight all day long, giving the neighbors plenty to laugh about.

Only Ding Xiang knows the truth: the biological daughter is reborn, and she’s come back to drive out the fake heiress, get rich when the neighborhood is demolished, take revenge on the scumbags, and find herself a sweet romance along the way.

But none of that has anything to do with Ding Xiang.

She was born to the third Ding son, who married a woman in the countryside and had a child while he was sent down as an educated youth. When the educated youths were allowed to return to the city, he left without looking back. Her mother remarried promptly after giving birth, and her grandmother raised her. After her grandmother died, her uncles and aunts started scheming to find her a husband. She refused, fought her way through every obstacle, and got into university in the capital. She also came to meet the father she had never seen, only to discover that she had not transmigrated, but had transmigrated into a book.

The heroine of the book makes her way to success, while the original Ding Xiang appears only a handful of times.

She longs for the fatherly love she never had, but her biological father ignores her and her stepmother torments her. She marries the wrong man and gets divorced, then scrapes by doing odd jobs. In the end, the heroine helps her out, and she finally gets a steady job.

That is the life of Ding Xiaoya in the book.

It is now the 1990s, and the capital is about to undergo large-scale demolition. She takes stock of the money she has painstakingly saved and sets her sights on her targets.

She isn’t aiming to become fabulously rich. Just a dozen or so apartments, enough to live off the rent and do nothing for the rest of her life.

The plan goes smoothly. Like a little hamster, she gradually builds up her savings. But what is with this man who has inexplicably latched on to her?

Sure, the two of us had a one-night stand, but I’m not holding it against you, and you haven’t lost anything either. Why are you chasing me down and demanding that I take responsibility? There’s no need, really.

Mr. Duan thinks there is very much a need.

“Marry me, and I’ll give you half of all my businesses.” He sounds completely confident. “You can have a lawyer look it over.”

Ding Xiang is a little tempted.

This rich guy has an incredible eye for investments. He has a hand in all the most profitable industries of the next few decades, and those shares are practically golden geese laying eggs. If he really gives them to her, she won’t just be able to live off her wealth. She’ll be able to spend lavishly, too!!!

Theme: As long as life goes on, keep striving.