This is a fictional era. Please keep your brains stored safely for now and don’t take them out just yet. Many aspects are based on the setting of our Xia Country in the 1970s. This is for writing purposes, so please don’t be too strict about it. If you like this book, please tap your finger and add it to your bookshelf. Thank you all for your support.
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Inside a small Western-style house in Shanghai, in the room at the corner of the second-floor staircase, a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl lay on a wooden bed.
Her face was pale, and a roughly wrapped strip of slightly yellowed cloth was tied around her head—probably torn from some piece of clothing and casually wrapped there as a makeshift bandage.
After an unknown amount of time, the girl suddenly opened her eyes, only to shut them again in pain.
After a long while, she slowly opened them once more. Where was she? Why did her head hurt so much?
Wasn’t she in the place where she had filled her storage space to the brim, thinking the apocalypse was about to arrive? How did she end up here?
Suddenly, a sharp pain stabbed through her head again. A flood of images appeared in her mind, spinning endlessly like a movie reel. It felt as if her head was about to explode. She wanted to scream for it to stop, but no sound came out.
Not long after, she fainted again.
When she opened her eyes once more, it was already completely dark outside.
So it turned out—she had transmigrated into a book. A period novel with two female leads, where she became the cannon fodder who delivers a golden finger and even a fiancé to one of the heroines.
Why say “one of the heroines”? Because the other heroine’s golden finger and family fortune were provided by another unfortunate fool.
Why call him an unfortunate fool? He raised four children for someone else for nothing, even helped the real father of those illegitimate children gain merit for advancement, only to be schemed against and killed. The achievements he fought so hard for were all handed over to that man.
And that wasn’t even the worst of it. The fool’s parents believed those four grandchildren were their son’s blood. Before they died, they even told that vicious heroine where the family treasure was hidden.
After their deaths, no one even collected their bodies. The two elderly people were left exposed in the wilderness, their corpses gnawed clean by wild dogs.
That vicious heroine then used the ancestral jade pendant of the fool’s family to unlock the space within it, storing all the family’s hidden treasure inside.
With that wealth, she and the “white lotus” heroine supported and used each other—one rising to dominate the military world, the other becoming a legend in the business world.
The two heroines became the peerless twin beauties of the Jiang family. With their success, the entire clan rose with them, turning the Jiang family into one admired by all.
But behind the scenes, the family also did many unspeakable things for the two heroines, helping them firmly secure their unshakable positions in their marital families.
And she, An Ning, was just a cannon fodder fake daughter. In fact, everyone in the family knew that An Ning was not the real daughter.
The current year was 1974, and An Ning was eighteen years old. Why was she called a fake daughter?
The Jiang family was a major capitalist household in Lushi City. Back then, they had planned to flee to Hong Kong—but how could it be so easy?
Their movements were discovered by a group of bandits, who planned to rob them midway.
However, most of the Jiang family’s wealth had already been stored in a rented house at the docks. What they carried with them were only smaller, portable valuables.
The bandits didn’t manage to seize much money. Furious, the bandit leader decided to kill all of them to vent his anger.
Originally, the Jiang family consisted of multiple branches. The ones entangled by the bandits at the front were the first, second, and third branches. The current Jiang family belonged to the fourth branch.
Their vehicle was at the rear. Sensing something was wrong, they immediately turned around and fled.
How could the bandits let them go? They chased relentlessly. At that time, both An Ning and Jiang Sisi were only two-day-old infant girls.
At that moment, they had already been fleeing for half the night. Everyone was utterly exhausted, fearing that those chasing behind would catch up and kill them all.
Just then, An Ning became hungry and started crying. Her mother carried her into the kitchen to cook some rice soup for the baby.
Jiang Chenggong (An Ning’s adoptive grandfather and Jiang Sisi’s biological grandfather) had a crooked thought—if one could be saved, then save one.
He knocked An Ning’s mother unconscious and switched the swaddling clothes of the two babies. Since newborns all looked similar, just like that, the two baby girls were swapped.
Later, for various reasons, Jiang Chenggong never went back to reclaim his real granddaughter.
Now, the Jiang family had hidden all their assets. On the surface, they kept only a small courtyard house for themselves to live in. Everything else had been donated, earning them the title of “Red Capitalists.”
Back then, the other three branches of the Jiang family had all been killed by the bandits, leaving only Jiang Chenggong’s branch to escape successfully.
As for the gold, silver, and jewelry that had been transported earlier to the docks—the majority of the Jiang family’s wealth had been secretly hidden elsewhere.
The fourth branch of the Jiang family survived and inherited most of the wealth. They were secretly delighted.
After that ordeal, they kept a low profile and lived cautiously. By this year, they felt that most of the past had already been settled.
It was time to bring their real granddaughter back. That was why there had been that staged scene yesterday—Madam Jiang pointed at her, accusing her of taking her daughter’s place.
She pushed her down, causing her forehead to hit the Eight Immortals table, resulting in the gruesome wound now on her head.
After sorting through all of this, An Ning hurriedly used her mind to connect with her storage space.
Thankfully, her storage space had come with her.
So it turned out she had transmigrated from 2026 Huaguo into this fictional 1970s era novel titled The Happy Path of the Beloved Twin Beauties.
At this point in the story, the entire Jiang family had gone to the An family to bring one of the heroines back home.
How was it written in the book again? One of the heroines, Jiang Sisi, was living in the countryside. She had a childhood sweetheart, and they were already discussing marriage. They had even crossed the line already.
So at first, Jiang Sisi didn’t want to return with them—she wanted to stay with her lover.
It was her lover—nicknamed Gouwa, with the formal name Chen Jiandang—who gave her an idea: she should return to the city with her parents first, then help him find a job there so he could join her.
Jiang Sisi thought it sounded reasonable. Then they could get married.
But the two of them were still too young, having never been tempered by society. They thought that as long as they loved each other, the Jiang family would agree to marry their daughter to a poor country boy.
Even if that poor boy eventually got a job, in the eyes of the Jiang family, he would still be a mud-legged peasant. How could a daughter of the Jiang family marry someone like that?
So they first coaxed Jiang Sisi into returning home, letting her see the outside world—then she would no longer think about that country boy.
Madam Jiang said she had many pieces of jewelry, and as long as Jiang Sisi came home, she could choose whatever she liked.
Jiang Sisi had a good eye. After returning home, she selected a box of fine-quality jewelry and placed it in her room.
Since they were both daughters of the Jiang family, the other daughter—also one of the heroines, Jiang Yan—was allowed to pick a few pieces as well.
Jiang Yan immediately set her eyes on the fish-shaped jade pendant hanging from the original host’s neck.
Madam Jiang didn’t hesitate in the slightest—she tore it off and gave it to Jiang Yan.