"007, lock the space, transmit the plot."

"Yes, Host."

An overwhelming memory instantly flooded into Yuan Chun’s mind. Luckily, the system had upgraded, and she no longer had to endure the discomfort of receiving memories.

This small world is set in the late 1970s when the college entrance exams were just reinstated.

The original owner, Shen Yuanchun, was an old educated youth in the Red Flag Brigade, having stayed there for eight years. She went to the countryside at seventeen and was now twenty-five, becoming an old maid.

Originally, she thought she might grow old and die here, but unexpectedly, the state reinstated the college entrance exams, which drove the Knowledge Youth Courtyard’s residents crazy with excitement.

Everyone was hoping to get into college, leave the Red Flag Brigade, and return to the city.

However, the original owner failed the exams. In utter despair, she huddled in bed and cried for an entire day and night.

Because this was her only chance to return to the city, and she missed it.

She hated it.

She had been in the Red Flag Village for eight years, from seventeen, at the prime of her youth, to a twenty-five-year-old old maid.

Only she knew how much hardship she had endured during this time.

She didn’t want to farm anymore.

She didn’t want to endure year after year in this village.

She didn’t want to.

She gazed out of the window in despair at the gloomy, gray sky, which mirrored her life, shrouded in darkness.

Suddenly, she walked toward a large river outside the village.

After standing by the river for a long time, she leaped.

She couldn’t endure this bitter life any longer.

Better to die early and be reborn. In her next life, she wanted to be born into a good family and live a good life. She never wanted to go to the countryside and farm again.

In the dead of winter, she was still wearing the padded jacket her mom had prepared when she first went to the countryside. After eight years, it was a thin layer with patches over patches.

Now, soaked by water, it quickly dragged her down.

The person who saved the original owner was Bin, named Guo Jingling, a thirty-year-old retired soldier who had come to the Red Flag Brigade to deliver something to a comrade and happened to pass by the riverside.

After saving the original owner, Guo Jingling insisted he had compromised her innocence and should marry her.

The original owner didn’t want to stay in the Red Flag Brigade any longer, didn’t want to suffer alone, having no support. So she packed up and left with Guo Jingling.

The Guo Family lived in the city, in quite decent conditions. Both father and mother-in-law had jobs, but Guo Jingling was in his second marriage and had a five-year-old son, and a twenty-six-year-old sister who was still unmarried.

The original owner thought life would be better in the city since the father and mother-in-law had only one son and one daughter, with fewer people and a simpler family. With them working, she’d only have to take care of the child and do housework, surely easier than farming in the countryside.

However, Guo Jingling’s son had violent tendencies, and whenever things didn’t go his way, he’d smash and grab...

Before the original owner married into the Guo Family, it was the younger sister, Guo Jinghong, who took care of the child.

After marrying into the Guo Family, as a stepmother, she took on the responsibility of caring for the stepson, and on the first day, she was hit in the head with a small stool by the stepson.

At the time, the father and mother-in-law and Guo Jingling all said the child was young and a bit naughty, wasn’t being intentional, and since it was the original owner’s first day as a stepmother, she shouldn’t hold it against a five-year-old.

The Guo Family had a medical kit, and Guo Jingling himself helped the original owner treat the wound, then told her to take the afternoon off in her room, without mentioning taking her to the hospital.

The original owner, being new to the Guo Family and used to being frugal over the years, didn’t want to spend money to go to the hospital.

However, the original owner was left with a headache problem.