Chapter 1: Traveling Back to the 1970s to Become a Nanny

Wang Cui died suddenly from overwork!

Just seconds before she died suddenly, she posted on her WeChat Moments: "10 o'clock! I've worked hard for another 12 hours today. You've worked so hard, working class."

Perhaps God understood the helplessness and bitterness of the working class, so He gave her a second chance at life, transporting her to a family of seven in the late 1970s.

The second oldest child, named Wang Yuqing.

She felt that it didn't matter that the era was a bit poor and that there were a lot of family members, but the main thing was that the name was too awful.

Wang Yuqing lay on the floor of the main room, and the original owner's life from birth to death appeared frame by frame in her mind. Before she could sort it out, she heard someone cursing in her ear.

"You stupid idiot, I already told you we're out of shampoo and alkali, why haven't you gone to buy any? Are you just lying on the ground pretending to be dead?"

"Also, I secretly used a little of Mom's face cream. If Mom finds out when she comes back, just say it was you who used it. Don't be silly."

The person who insulted her is Wang Yuyan, the third child in her family, twenty years old. She dropped out of high school to avoid being sent to the countryside and now works as a temporary worker in a factory.

Wang Yuqing was conscious, but because the original owner's body was in a state of extreme fatigue, she couldn't open her eyes or get up for half a day.

Her younger brother and sister were having dinner around the table, completely ignoring their unconscious older sister.

It's unclear how long she lay there after that, but eventually her parents, who were visiting relatives, carried her to the hard wooden plank bed.

“Silly Er is already twenty-two years old. Anyway, he’s betrothed to the fourth son of the Ji family since childhood. They don’t mind that Silly Er is a bit slow-witted. Why don’t we agree to that marriage? Let’s get engaged first?”

"Agree my ass! What are you thinking? We're both working, city folks. Do you think the Ji family is even worthy of being related to us? They're dirt poor, just a few dilapidated mud houses, and there's only one blind old woman in her sixties or seventies. And that third Ji brother has three kids. What would my silly second sister do if she married into that family? Would my raised children become their maids?"

“Those with good family conditions don’t even look at Sha Er, and those with poor conditions you don’t look at either. In the end, no one will want you and you’ll become an old maid. Outsiders will laugh at our family.”

"Hmph, if nobody wants it, it can stay at home. Let others laugh at them, we'll live our lives."

Wang Yuqing had roughly figured out the original owner's life story. She secretly opened her eyes and saw a middle-aged couple wearing gray-blue overalls standing under the yellowish light.

If she hadn't known everything, she probably would have thought that this mother loved the original owner so much that she couldn't bear to see her marry a poor man and suffer.

In fact, in her mind, sons were for carrying on the family line, while daughters were for being used and for taking care of the elderly. She believed that daughters could not support their parents' families after marriage, so it was better for them to stay at home and serve them.

Rather than sending her to work as a nanny in someone else's home, it's better to keep her in our own home as a nanny.

Besides her family needing to treat her like a servant, her precious son, Lao Wu, was only six years old and needed her to take care of him like an ancestor.

Wang Yuqing felt a pang of bitterness well up in her heart just thinking about it. It was because the original owner of this body was left at home this time that she never married them and spent her whole life working like a slave.

The most outrageous thing was that before Lin Xuemei died, she forced her to kneel on the ground and swear: "You swear that you will raise your younger brother to adulthood and only marry after he has established his own family and career. Otherwise, you will be plagued by all kinds of illnesses and will not die a good death."

The original owner toiled for his family his whole life, dedicating himself to them but receiving no respect or love in return. In the end, he was kicked out and froze to death on the street.

She fed a family of ungrateful relatives with what she thought was kindness, only to be treated like a fool in the end.

While Wang Yuqing sympathized with and pitied the original owner, she also felt that the original owner was blindly filial, overly kind, had a saintly heart, and had no principles or bottom line, which led to the whole family becoming increasingly greedy and taking advantage of her.

But somehow, he ended up transmigrating into her body.

It seems that God has not been very kind to her, a modern-day working woman.

She continued to close her eyes and pretend to be asleep, her excuse being laziness and a lack of desire to work.

Lin Xuemei and Wang Jiandong were still discussing things in the room.

Wang Jiandong took out a pack of cigarettes for cadres, lit one, and said, "You saw it when I went to visit relatives in the countryside today. When we passed by the Ji family's door, the old lady from the Ji family insisted on holding my hand and talking to me about the marriage between our children. She said that we would pick an auspicious day tomorrow and have the matchmaker and Ji Xuening come to propose marriage."

Lin Xuemei spat, "Don't even think about it! What does a childhood betrothal mean? He's poor and good-for-nothing, yet he wants to marry someone from a higher social class. He can forget about stepping foot in my house."

Wang Jiandong thought it made sense. He glanced at the person on the bed and asked, "Should we take him to the factory clinic to get checked out? What if something really happened?"

Lin Xuemei turned around and opened the door: "You have to go to the doctor even if you get kicked by a fly? That's just laziness."

After saying that, the light was switched off, and the couple went out.

Wang Yuqing knew that the matchmaker and Ji Xuening would come to the Wang family to propose marriage the day after tomorrow, but they didn't even get in the door. Instead, Lin Xuemei threw a basin of water on them and gave them a good scolding.

Do you think Lin Xuemei wouldn't let the original owner marry into the Ji family because they were poor? Even if they were rich, it wouldn't be the original owner's turn.

Four years later, in 1980, Ji Xuening became a millionaire and made the news, enjoying great success. However, Lin Xuemei used the "childhood betrothal" to force the Ji family to marry her third daughter, Wang Yuyan.

After marrying Ji Xuening, Wang Yuyan lived a comfortable life for a year or two, with no worries about food or drink and no need to work. She even had the original owner of the body work as a nanny to serve her, and she wore a watch every day like a show-off.

She wasn't a good person, nor was she particularly smart. After marrying into the family, she treated Ji Xuening's three children like a stepmother, a term that carries a negative connotation.

Not only that, they treated my grandmother like that, saying she was blind and an old hag.

Ji Xuening was busy running a factory and didn't know about this. Grandma was an honest person who thought that harmony in the family was the most important thing, and the children were also threatened and dared not say anything.

It wasn't until Wang Yuyan couldn't bear the loneliness and secretly slept with one of Ji Xuening's brothers that Ji Xuening found out about it and kicked her out of the house. Later, because she couldn't have children, she married an old man.

Wang Yuqing's memory of Ji Xuening's appearance was very vague. The original owner of this body probably only met Ji Xuening a few times when she was working as Wang Yuyan's nanny, and had basically never met him before, so she had very few memories of him.

I knew Ji Xuening was a good person and good-looking, just like the male actors in the "Eight Model Operas".

He was not only a retired soldier, but also smart, capable and intelligent. He later transformed from a wealthy man with 10,000 yuan in the 1980s into a multi-millionaire in the new era.

Wang Yuqing suddenly felt that the name sounded familiar. After thinking about it carefully, she realized, "Isn't that my company's boss? I wonder if he paid the compensation for my sudden death?"

She has already experienced a tiring life once, and this time she doesn't want to be so tired. She just wants to be a lazy bum, clinging to powerful figures and lying down to be fed. This is not shameful, but rather a wise choice.

I had originally planned to climb the social ladder by clinging to powerful figures, but I was so tired and exhausted that I slept straight until the next morning. I was woken up by a sarcastic voice: "You stupid idiot, you lazy bum, get up and make breakfast! Your older sister is back, fry her an egg."