Rich Second-Generation Forced to Rebuild Their Fortune [The 90s]

In her past life, Jiang Qingning was a second-generation rich kid. Her biggest daily worry was how to spend money. Her only regret was that her parents never had time for her.

In this life, she’s reborn into an ordinary dual-income family in Beijing. Although the conditions are a bit ‘harsh’, she finally gets to be with her mom and dad every single day.

Sadly,on her birthday during Chinese New Year, a firecracker explosion jolts loose memories that don’t belong to her. She realizes she’s living inside a period novel, and her family is the foil to the protagonist’s family.

The female lead is her mother’s twin sister. Back then, her mother inherited their grandmother’s job and became a worker, while the female lead went to the countryside as an educated youth.

Years later, the female lead returns to Beijing via the college entrance exam, having also met the male lead—a descendant of a revolutionary family—in the countryside.

Later, the male lead quits his job to start a business and succeeds. The female lead gives birth to brilliant and promising twins, and the family lives happily ever after.

Meanwhile, her own family, serving as the foil, sees both parents lose their jobs, forced to take on multiple odd jobs just to scrape by. Too busy struggling to survive, they have no time for their daughter, leading to her dropping out of school due to teenage romance. The whole family ends up miserable.

Knowing her family’s destined ending,Jiang Qingning’s fists clench in rage!

To avoid the tragic fate from the book, Jiang Qingning has no choice but to reclaim her identity as a second-generation rich kid.

Well then, let’s start with a street stall…

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Jiang Lifeng and Su Guiying, a couple who always took immense pride in their worker identities, never imagined they would one day face unemployment.

The honest, hardworking couple’s original fate was to find odd jobs, laboring strenuously to earn physical wages to support their daughter.

Unexpectedly, influenced by their daughter, they dive into the speculative ‘business’ they once looked down upon.

Jiang Qingning, who originally planned to coast through life, now embarks on a journey to remotely guide her parents in starting a business, all to change the tragic destiny from the original novel.

From setting up a ring-toss stall, to selling soap with raffles for a TV, to buying a truck for the family and starting a company…

Unemployed worker Jiang Lifeng transforms into a big boss, and Su Guiying becomes the boss’s wife.

Jiang Qingning, the mastermind pulling the strings behind it all, happily continues to enjoy the life of a second-generation rich kid.