A New Look in the 80s

Yao Fanghua was quiet and reserved since childhood, but she possessed a pair of clever hands. Her fingers were flexible and slender, and she loved to tinker. After dismantling her grandfather's beloved radio and getting a severe beating, she found joy in carving stones or wood.

Her mother often sighed, lamenting that she was born in the wrong body and should have been a boy.

After graduating from university, Yao Fanghua was assigned to a fan factory, but the head of the technical department, citing her gender, reassigned her to the quality control department. The head of the quality control department, who always felt inferior to the technical department head, was furious.

Yao Fanghua, too, pursed her lips with a cold expression, her pride evident. With excellent grades, she was already disappointed not to be assigned to her preferred machinery factory. She never expected to be scrutinized and picked apart even in this fan factory.

Even worse, after returning to the city following years of living in the countryside, it seemed there was no longer a place for her in her own home.