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Summer, 1975.
Beijing Military District compound, the Shen residence.
“Qiaoqiao, I know it’s unfair to send you to the countryside. Even though you haven’t been raised by our side all these years, you are still our biological daughter. Besides, no one can change the Down to the Countryside policy.”
“If you have any requests, just tell us. Stop throwing a tantrum and open the door first, okay?”
Listening to the slightly pleading female voice outside the door, Wen Qiao felt completely bewildered.
She looked around blankly.
The small side room was cramped and shabby. Other than the hard wooden bed beneath her, there was nothing else.
The plaster on the walls was peeling slightly, and a lone tungsten light bulb hung from the ceiling.
In just a few moments, she had taken in the entire room.
“Impoverished” had become a vivid, physical reality.
Wen Qiao lowered her eyes and looked at the ill-fitting coarse cloth clothes on her body and the thick calluses on her hands.
Obviously, this was not her body.
She clearly remembered that just moments ago, she had been lying on the soft, luxurious bed in her villa, comfortably reading a novel.
So where on earth had she been thrown to?
The voice outside continued.
“Don’t blame Yueru either. Her health isn’t good. Even if she wanted to go to the countryside in your place, she simply doesn’t have the strength.”
“Open the door first. Whatever it is, we can talk it through.”
What was going on?
Going to the countryside? Yueru?
With a loud buzz in her head, Wen Qiao finally realized her situation.
Had she transmigrated into the novel her roommate Shen Yueru wrote—“Transmigrated into 1970s: The Fake Heiress Is Pampered by Her Military Husband’s Family”?
Wen Qiao and Shen Yueru had been at odds since the first day of university.
The spark that lit the fire was the campus beauty contest.
With an overwhelming number of votes and sky-high popularity, Wen Qiao was crowned the most beautiful campus belle at the Beijing Dance Academy.
Despite Shen Yueru canvassing for votes both online and offline, she still ended up in second place.
The main reason?
Wen Qiao’s face was simply too stunning.
Not just boys—even girls would be dazzled and lose their senses.
Wen Qiao was a classic “intense beauty” type: bright, gorgeous, and proud, yet with an air of innocent charm.
In the race of beauty, she left everyone else far behind.
And that wasn’t all—their family backgrounds were worlds apart.
Shen Yueru came from an ordinary family and had fairly average talent.
Wen Qiao, on the other hand, was born into a dance dynasty.
Both her parents were professional dancers, renowned both domestically and internationally.
She had exceptional talent—but ironically, she wasn’t passionate about dance at all.
By coincidence, not only were they in the same dormitory, they were also in the same class.
Both dance majors, yet Wen Qiao slacked off in class and lazed around after.
But when final professional evaluations came, she still received top marks.
Shen Yueru practiced diligently in class and trained twice as hard afterward.
Yet her grades were nowhere near Wen Qiao’s.
On top of that, the boy Shen Yueru secretly liked always tried to curry favor with Wen Qiao.
Her jealousy eventually reached its peak.
Yesterday, a roommate secretly told Wen Qiao that Shen Yueru had published a novel online.
The cannon-fodder female supporting character in it was exactly like her.
With nothing better to do, Wen Qiao opened the novel website her roommate sent and searched for the title.
Big mistake.
After just three chapters, she was so furious she nearly exploded.
The supporting character in the book had the same name as her—Wen Qiao.
Even her appearance and demeanor were identical, as if molded from the same template.
The character was the real daughter of a high-ranking officer in the capital’s military compound, but had been switched at birth with the female lead.
Only eighteen years later did her biological parents discover the truth and bring her back from the countryside.
Growing up, the original host had never had enough to eat or wear. At the Wen household, she worked nonstop like an old ox.
If she didn’t do well, she would be punished.
At eighteen, her adoptive parents accepted a large bride price and betrothed her to the village party secretary’s mentally disabled son.
By chance, her true identity was discovered, and she was taken back by her biological parents.
Coincidentally, at that very moment, the female lead Shen Yueru was facing the prospect of being sent to the countryside.
After their identities were corrected, the candidate naturally changed to the original host.
Though Shen Yueru felt relieved, she was unwilling to give up her privileged position.
To permanently secure her status as the Shen family’s cherished daughter, she first switched the countryside assignment to the harsh environment of the Great Northwest.
Then she hid all the supplies the Shen family had prepared.
Not even a single feather was allowed to be taken.
Later, she even intercepted every single letter the original host sent home asking for help.
Thus, the poor supporting character boarded the train to the countryside empty-handed.
Northern Shaanxi had barren land, constant drought, and extremely low grain production.
The original host had never eaten her fill growing up. Frail and malnourished, she earned pitifully few work points and could barely feed herself.
Other educated youths often received care packages from home.
Only she—not only did she go empty-handed, her family never sent her a single supply.
She survived by digging wild vegetables and gnawing on tree bark.
Later, a severe drought struck northern Shaanxi. Not even a hint of green could be found.
With no relief grain arriving from home, she grew desperate and began eating Guanyin clay to stave off hunger.
Her already weak body deteriorated further.
In less than a year, she collapsed from exhaustion and malnutrition.
In the end, having eaten too much clay, her stomach swelled until it burst.
When she died, she was nothing but skin and bones—like a skeleton—with only her belly grotesquely bloated like an overinflated balloon.
Reading that, Wen Qiao had been so enraged she nearly passed out.
And then her vision went black—
She had transmigrated into the book.
Becoming the cannon-fodder supporting character, Wen Qiao.
At this moment, Wen Qiao sat up on the bed, her little face puffed in anger, her full chest rising and falling.
In her heart, she cursed Shen Yueru viciously.
What the hell did she ever do to deserve this?
How deep was the grudge to write her into such a miserable death?
She hadn’t dug up her ancestral graves.
She hadn’t stolen her man.
Was that enough to justify this much malice?
To want her dead?
Before she could think further, knocking sounded again at the door.
“Wen Qiao, open the door!”
“Mom has already lowered herself to beg you. That’s enough. How long are you going to keep making a scene?”
“It’s just going to the countryside! You’re from the village anyway—what’s there to fuss about?”
The one speaking was the original host’s twin brother, Shen Guiyuan.
Shen Guiyuan had always been close to Shen Yueru.
Especially since she’d been frail as a child, he believed he had taken too many nutrients in the womb, which made her weak.
Feeling guilty, he constantly gave way to her.
And since Shen Yueru was the only daughter in the Shen family, she had always been doted on.
She was practically the family’s darling.
Starting in 1968, large numbers of urban youth were sent to the countryside.
The original host also had an older brother, Shen Guiyao.
At the time, he had already joined the army and wasn’t affected by the policy.
Shen Guiyuan and Shen Yueru had only been eleven, too young to be sent down, and thus escaped.
Now seven years had passed, and both were adults.
Two years ago, once they turned sixteen, the Educated Youth Office began mobilizing them to go to the countryside.
Shen Guiyuan followed in his older brother’s footsteps and enlisted in the army.
Shen’s mother, deputy head of the General Political Department Art Troupe, secretly tried to arrange for her younger daughter to join the troupe.
But she was reported by a political rival of the Shen family.
And the matter blew up.