Back Forty Years to Find Mom

The first three chapters are setup, mostly blurb material and foreshadowing. The main plot begins in Chapter Four.

[Synopsis One] Lin Yueying lost both her parents at the age of twelve and became an orphan, but her relatives in her hometown were unable to raise her. So her paternal uncle's family contacted her great-aunt, who had married far away, several hundred kilometers from home, and was now widowed and childless.

Lin Yueying prepared herself to live under someone else's roof. She was also ready to be an obedient, sensible child in her new home, eating little and working hard. Her great-aunt lived alone in the countryside, so life must be very hard for her. It was already good of her great-aunt to take her in, and Lin Yueying did not want to cause her any extra trouble.

She secretly decided that once she graduated from junior high, she would go out to work and earn money to repay her great-aunt's kindness.

But nobody had told her that her great-aunt lived so well!

There were eggs at every meal and meat every day. The house even had an electric fan, an electric blanket, a freezer, and more...

Lin Yueying watched as her great-aunt started a business, brought home more and more furniture and appliances, and built up her savings. Lin Yueying became the envy of every child in the village.

But one day after she was adopted, she accidentally stumbled upon her great-aunt's secret. And that secret was...

[Synopsis Two] In the year she graduated from university, Lin An'an lost her mother in an accident at a construction site in her hometown.

Only after her mother died did she learn that she was merely the child her mother had adopted. Yet this woman, who was not related to her by blood at all, had shielded her when danger struck.

After graduation, she returned to her hometown and moved into the newly built house where she and her mother had once imagined a happy future together. But when she opened the kitchen door, she unexpectedly discovered another world beyond it.

In that world, the elders back home were all still young, and her mother, who had already passed away, was still a schoolgirl. And Lin An'an had become her mother's adoptive mother.

If you had the chance to return to the 1980s, what would you do?

Lin An'an's answer was: In this life, I will repay my mother's kindness, change her fate, and give her a happy, fulfilling life!

As for helping her family and friends get rich, Lin An'an said that was just a side benefit!

But will things ultimately go as she hopes? Will this passage connecting different times remain open? When the moment of parting comes, will everything she has done have been worthwhile? Can history be changed? What will become of their two fates?

[Content Notes] I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so please read the story itself. Family life and everyday domestic scenes are all included in the tags.

--Next book to be updated: Chasing the Sun

This is a previously serialized story, and I've recently started a major revision. I'll update it after finishing this book. Both are expected to be completed before the Spring Festival this year.

Synopsis: On the train back from her hometown, Fang Ting ran into the person she had secretly loved since high school. Assuming he wouldn't remember her, she didn't say hello. She quietly snapped a photo and slipped away without a word.

After school started, Fang Ting covered a sick colleague's shift and organized a field trip for her class. She never expected the person in charge of receiving them to be the very same person she had once had a crush on.

She thought those two chance encounters had used up all the luck she'd ever have, but who could have guessed there would be a second, then a third...

Every girl has someone who made her youth unforgettable. For Fang Ting, that person was Shen Zhang. To her, he was a flawless piece of jade, and more than that, the sun, blazing and radiant, shining over everything.

But she had never imagined that one day this dazzling sun would fall into her arms.

But as secrets from the past are uncovered one layer at a time, as old conflicts and painful truths gradually come to light, as memories of the past keep resurfacing in her mind, and as the crushing blows of reality bring her down once again,

Fang Ting can no longer take it. Terrified that he will despise her, she runs away again...

A quiet, unspoken love began during the years when life demanded the hardest work. It sprang from a young girl's hopes and dreams, crossed mountains and seas through the years, and thirteen years later, finally received an answer.

This is a story about a secret love coming true, a story about personal growth, and, above all, a story about someone struggling with depression and finding a way to save herself.

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Theme: Who says the heart of a blade of grass can repay the warmth of the spring sun?