Chinese Novel Review 1

Small Shop Owner in the 1960s

Rate 4/5
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Summary:
Xu Nannan, the owner of Taobao, wakes up and becomes a rural girl Xu Nannan in the 1960s.

Every day they only eat a wild vegetable chaff dumpling. Working from dawn to night, she carry a hoe and went to the field to exchange for workpoints.

The embarrassing thing is that the poor pair of trousers in the family have to be shared by the sisters.

Xu Nannan was complaining to go home.

Fortunately, her Taobao shop followed her back to the 1960s, and was finally able to do some sideline work.

Review:
A good romance story in 60s, despite a lot of weird unknown part. Although all antagonist seems like undying cockroach but overall their ending are satisfying. MC and ML becoming more OP as story progress, they are OP from the start then becoming more invisible.
MC transmigrate to 60s, she was in a village. Her father was a retired army then work in mine as officer. Her mother was a slave before the reformation. MC grandma said that MC father is away and never take care of her, so in turns he should take his nephew and niece to the city. MC mother want to please MC father family so she please all the nieces and nephews while neglecting her own daughters. MC father never care those small details. MC and her younger sister was neglected in the village, they often starved which the cause of OMC death. MC began to resist the big family, she finally move out her registration to the kind neighbor. She was helped by a teacher who reform and took care pigs, MC went to the mine as canteen worker, it's the same mine with MC father. MC mother make a fuss, she was afraid people will know that she neglect her own child for nephews and nieces. She plan to take MC job to the third aunt. MC refuse and draw a line that she didn't have any relation anymore. Most of the conflicts or I think all the conflicts will revolve around MC big family trying to use MC or beg relation with MC after she get better.
MC sold antiques in her taobao then she can chat with some customers. Turns out her customer is her own grandson in the future.
The strange thing is MC was an orphan in her first timeline then she transmigrate to 60s with poor environment. She is striving to become better. After she met with ML who is a soldier, she use her taobao and make a deal with her future grandson (both didn't know the other identity) to get technology information. MC then become a secret link to get the information, MC lied that she got it from foreign resource. ML help her to cover the unknown part. In summary MC become a respectable woman who make improvement for the country. It is a bit contradicting with the initial background where she was from modern world and at first it is said that MC felt satisfied for having a good job and good man like ML. Just because ML brother is learning as researcher, she began to pass the information then it's like she developed her patriotic feeling.
Some points are unclear and weird too. MC met ML when she was harassed by a man, ML help her and break the man leg. MC also literally kick the man c*ck until it's broke. MC felt thankful to ML. Then after they date each other, ML younger brother scheme MC bad cousin making her lose her innocent. The story is MC cousin date a boy. The boy is a son of ML's subordinate who should be promoted if ML didn't come to the city. ML younger brother tried to get close to the boy in order to get some info for ML. MC cousin want to change her target to ML brother but she was refused, she threaten ML brother for harassment if he didn't want to marry her. So ML brother scheme her. MC then got angry with ML because ML help his brother to cover up the bad attitude. She already knows the full story but still blame ML. It's like suddenly she become mary sue...
I thought ML was rebirth then he was not, he is just really black bellied. ML father marry her mother in the village. Then the father goes to army, when there's reformation, he thought his wife and son died so he remarry. ML was adopted by the teacher in pig pen who help MC. ML went back to his own family after his mother died. His stepmother seem care for him better than her own son. Not sure what is her plan. ML just warn her not to care about his marriage with MC and he will take care his younger brother aka her son. This is the vague point, at first ML stepmother seems like working in military too. Overtime she is like only a chief wife who is too idle and want to take care all the family affairs. MC mother was ML's stepmother's servant in the past. After reformation, MC mother broke relation with her parent. The parent follow ML stepmother. The stepmother still took care of them, also not clear why.
In some other novel mostly there's a good man within MC bad family, but this novel seems determine to make all people in MC big family as bad. At first some of them was portrait as a clever or cunning person, overtime they become always bad people without reason and keep making trouble without thinking. They repeatedly blame MC for all the bad things then tried to please MC in the name of family.