The 1970s Tycoon of a Little Town

Tang Xinxin transmigrated into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s, the original female lead’s foil in the early chapters.

The moment she opened her eyes, she was in the middle of the original character’s murder. Someone shoved her into a river, then a village hooligan rescued her in front of everyone. She married the hooligan and died a miserable death.

Tang Xinxin felt her tycoon System and decided she could still change her fate.

But... why was the one who rescued her the male lead?!

The male lead was still in the early stages of his rise to power. Tang Xinxin recalled the miserable life the female lead had after joining the army, shuddered, and pushed the male lead back toward military service. Then she found a factory clinic in town where she could coast through life.

A clinic was great: serious illnesses were beyond her, and minor ones didn’t need treatment.

The medicine she prescribed most often was a single cotton swab dipped in iodine, and every morning she’d come in, stretch out on a rocking chair, and stay there all day.

What? You say clinic workers have easy jobs but low salaries and few ration coupons?

Her thirty yuan monthly salary multiplied a hundredfold in the tycoon System.

Tang Xinxin proudly puffed out her chest. What was it like to earn three thousand yuan a month in the 1970s?

In the twenty-first century, I wouldn’t argue with anyone who thought three thousand yuan was too little. But in the 1970s, what should they call me?

Few ration coupons? She could buy as many as she wanted in the System.

The supply and marketing cooperative only carried a handful of products? The enormous System mall and its freshness-preserving storage space were the way to go.

She lived a life of luxury and excess in the System’s storage space, while her neighbors thought the smell of poor people’s food always wafted out of Tang Xinxin’s home.

They couldn’t help saying, “Good grief, has she been eating steamed wild-vegetable buns for a whole month?”

She really has a hard life.

Now and then, she’d mail her husband, who only sent money back once a month, some food she’d made and failed at, couldn’t finish, didn’t like, or had grown tired of, along with assorted sauces and snacks. Who wouldn’t say Tang Xinxin was frugal, virtuous, loving toward her husband, and a woman of deep loyalty?

Every week, when she came home from town, she’d bring her family some tasty treats and fun things. Who in the village wouldn’t praise Tang Xinxin as a filial, considerate girl who cared for her siblings and was kind to her neighbors?

Listening to everyone’s praise, Tang Xinxin smiled warmly.

That’s right. She was a perfect, utterly flawless woman.

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Content notes:

She enjoys her single life at first and only joins the military later, in the middle-to-late part of the story.

There will be several comparisons between her and the original female lead.

The male lead is so lovestruck he’d love her even after death.

The heroine won’t tell anyone about her tycoon System.

New novel: Zhu Yuanzhang’s Pretty Girl Dream Factory

Zhu Yuanzhang was bound to a Pretty Girl Dream Factory System.

That’s right, he was a pretty girl, and the one raising him in the System was his one-and-a-half-year-old son.

When the System bound itself to him, it asked, “Are you willing to sacrifice some of your imperial dignity to ensure peace and prosperity for the Ming Dynasty, and a good life for all its people?”

Zhu Yuanzhang answered solemnly, “I am.”

But no one said his dignity would be sacrificed like this!

Dressed in a little pink shirt and facing his ministers, who couldn’t even lift their heads as they laughed until they were short of breath, Zhu Yuanzhang clenched his hands without changing expression.

For the future of the Ming Dynasty, he would endure!

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Zhu Qi transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and became Zhu Yuanzhang’s ninth son, also named Zhu Qi, who died young in the history books.

His transmigration also came with a pretty-girl-raising System.

Zhu Qi was determined to achieve the perfect ending and become the Hongwu Emperor.

The first thing he had to do was raise his stats.

So he arranged self-improvement classes for Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang, a man in his forties, grunted as he went to class at six in the morning and kept studying until nine at night: “...”

When supplies were lacking, he sent people on one expedition after another to search for them.

Xu Da, whose stats were the highest and who was teleported to a different place every day to survive in the wilderness: “...”

To raise the ministers’ loyalty, he sent Zhu Yuanzhang to win over each of them.

Chen Yu, a sixty-year-old man who received generous rewards and thus woke every day to fresh roses at his bedside and occasional love confessions from the emperor: “...”

Yet despite the daily embarrassment, they saw more and more smiles on the people’s faces, and their lives kept getting better.

Everyone: For the future of the Ming Dynasty, we’ll endure!

Theme: The world is beautiful. Enjoy life.