Back Forty Years to Find Mom

【Please add to your collection! The first three chapters set things up, with most of the blurb and foreshadowing. The main plot starts in Chapter Four.】 【Synopsis One】Lin Yueying was orphaned at twelve when both her parents died, but her relatives back in her hometown couldn’t take her in. So her uncle’s family contacted her grandaunt, a widowed woman with no children who had married and moved hundreds of kilometers away. Lin Yueying prepared herself to live under someone else’s roof. She was ready to be a good, obedient child in her new home, to eat little and work hard. Her grandaunt lived alone in the countryside, so life must be difficult. It was already kind of her to take Lin Yueying in; Lin Yueying didn’t want to cause her any more trouble. She secretly decided that after graduating from middle school, she would go out to work and earn money to repay her grandaunt’s kindness. But no one told her that her grandaunt’s life was so comfortable! There were eggs with every meal and meat every day. The house even had an electric fan, an electric blanket, and a freezer... Lin Yueying watched as her grandaunt started a business, added furniture and appliances to the house one by one, and saved more and more money. Lin Yueying became the envy of every child in the village. But one day after she was adopted, she accidentally stumbled upon her grandaunt’s secret. And that secret was 【Synopsis Two】In the year she graduated from college, Lin An’an lost her mother in an accident at a construction site in their hometown. Only after her mother died did she learn that she was adopted. This woman, who was not related to her by blood, had protected her from harm when danger came. After graduating, she returned to her hometown and moved into the newly built house where she and her mother had once dreamed of a happy future together. But when she pushed open the kitchen door, she unexpectedly discovered another world beyond it. In that world, the older members of her family were young again, and her mother, who had already died, was still a schoolgirl. And Lin An’an had become her mother’s adoptive mother. If you could return to the 1980s, what would you do? Lin An’an’s answer was: In this life, I’ll repay Mom’s kindness, change her fate, and give her a happy, fulfilling life! As for helping friends and relatives get rich, well, that’s just a side benefit! But will everything ultimately go the way she hopes? Will this passage between eras remain open? When the time comes to part, will everything she’s done have mattered? Can history be changed? What will become of their two destinies? 【Warnings】I’m bad at writing blurbs, so please read the story itself. It’s a family and everyday-life story, and the tags say the rest. Theme: How can the humble blade of grass repay the warmth of the spring sun?