This road was opened by me, this tree was planted by me. If you want to pass through here, leave your brain behind!
“Oh, I actually managed to follow the trend for once. I transmigrated?!”
Mu Xi sat on the small iron-framed bed, looking around at the room that could truly be described as having “four bare walls,” and muttered to herself.
She couldn’t really say how she felt about it.
Getting another life should be considered a good thing no matter how she looked at it.
But!
The extra memories in her head made Mu Xi feel like she’d been screwed over.
She had transmigrated into a period novel she had once read, and the original owner was that classic character—a love-brained cannon-fodder female supporting character!
The saying that a single glance could ruin a person for life perfectly described the original owner.
The book devoted plenty of words to describing the male lead’s appearance. He was said to be bright and noble, gentle and refined, like an elegant young gentleman strolling through the fields. In short, he was different from most men of that era.
In Mu Xi’s opinion, he was probably the equivalent of a pretty-boy idol from later generations.
Admittedly, although… but…
He really was good-looking.
And it was perfectly normal for a young girl to develop feelings for someone.
What wasn’t normal was that the original owner was seriously lacking some sense!
She wholeheartedly gave away supplies, receiving only a few sweet, coaxing words in return, yet she treasured them as though they were priceless and was ridiculously happy about it.
She even gave the female lead an heirloom glass bead simply because the male lead said that it was rare for the female lead to like something.
Later, she was even schemed against and made to lose her innocence to a village hooligan.
That was because the man had a powerful relative at the commune who could help arrange for them to return to the city!
Faced with such a temptation, the male and female leads naturally chose to sacrifice her.
Mu Xi didn’t know what happened after that.
The apocalypse arrived, so the book was left unfinished.
But it wasn’t hard to imagine. In an era when reputation was extremely important, the original owner would either die or drag out a miserable existence beneath the weight of gossip and rumors.
Meanwhile, the male and female leads who had reduced the original owner to such a miserable state would undoubtedly rise higher and higher, eventually becoming outstanding figures in their respective fields.
Who asked them to be the male and female leads?
The entire book existed because of them.
Mu Xi let out a long sigh. Unable to hold herself back, she cursed aloud, “Damn it, what the hell is this…”
To think that she, one of the strongest survivors of the apocalypse, had just perished together with the Zombie King one moment, only to become a love-brained cannon-fodder character the next?
Bullshit!
The book had already been left unfinished, so the mighty power of the plot definitely couldn’t do much anymore. Once she dealt with all those troublemakers, she’d like to see how anyone could still make her love-brained!
She could consider it payment for using this body.
After sorting out her thoughts, Mu Xi turned her attention to her current situation.
It was now the summer of 1972, the time when the original owner was sent down to the countryside in the book.
The original owner came from a blended family. Her stepmother had brought along a daughter who was two years older than her, and later had a son with Father Mu who was five years old this year.
Father Mu was a permanent worker at the steel factory. He didn’t have much in the way of technical skills and had relied on seniority to work his way up to his current monthly salary of 48 yuan.
Her stepmother, Jiang Yun, was a permanent worker at the cotton textile mill and earned 36 yuan a month.
With two wage earners in the family, even though they had three children to support, their life was still fairly decent.
In this era, life was difficult for every household. A family that had food to eat, something to drink, and clothes to wear was already considered very well-off.
Not to mention, both the original owner and her stepsister had been allowed to finish high school.
Because of this alone, the Mu family had once become quite famous in their workers’ residential compound.
Most people thought the Mu parents were foolish.
In their view, what was the point of letting two girls study so much? They would eventually marry anyway. Wouldn’t all that money spent on them simply benefit their future husbands’ families?
It would be better to save the money to support a boy’s education. After all, a son would become the pillar of the family in the future.
On this point, Mu Xi genuinely admired the Mu parents.
Although theirs was a blended family, they had managed to treat the children impartially and fairly. Whatever one daughter had, the other had to have as well.
As for the son they had together, because he was still young, the two naturally gave him a little more attention and affection, but never excessively so.
In this era, people counted on their sons to support them in their old age.
And since the couple had only this one son, they would naturally be relying on him in the future.