Chapter 1: Countdown to Transmigrating to the Sixties, I’m Stockpiling Like Crazy!
“This is bad!”
Lin Wan’s soul floated above her own corpse, trembling violently as she watched the crematorium furnace draw closer and closer!
Ugh, does it hurt when your soul is still around while your body gets burned?
She had been forced to work three overnight shifts in a row before dropping dead at her workstation. Now, she was lying on a freezing cold gurney in the morgue, waiting for her number to be called.
Weeping echoed all around her, but not a single sob was meant for her. They were all family members of the deceased, waiting in line before and after her to be cremated.
Who told her to be an orphan!
Just as Lin Wan was so terrified that her soul felt like it was about to scatter, a cold, mechanical, emotionless voice suddenly rang out in her mind:
[Ding! The Space-Time Post Office System is online. Upon binding, you can be resurrected for ten days, after which you will transmigrate to the year 1968. Target: Become an excellent postal worker!]
“Yes, yes, I want it!” Lin Wan answered instantly, terrified that if she delayed by a single second, she would be pushed straight into the fire!
The person ahead of her was already done!
She was next!!!
The flames inside the crematorium furnace roared furiously. The moment the iron door opened, a wave of heat capable of vaporizing a soul swept over her.
Right as the worker was about to push her inside…
The voice in her head rang out once more: [Binding successful. Host resurrection successful!]
Lin Wan bolted upright.
Scrambling and crawling, she leaped right off the gurney.
Oh my god, I almost got pushed into the furnace alive!
The entire room seemed to hit the pause button. Everyone stood there with their mouths wide open, completely forgetting to wail.
A split second later, the room erupted like a drop of water hitting a boiling pot of oil!
“Ahhhh!”
“A corpse came back to life!”
A few braver onlookers pulled out their phones to record this bizarre scene and posted it online. The video shot to the top of the trending searches instantly.
Capitalizing on the viral traffic, Lin Wan borrowed a phone to call the police: “Hello, I want to report a crime! Jia Yong, the project manager at Haochen Technology Co., Ltd., forced me to work overtime even after I explicitly warned him that prolonged sleep deprivation can cause sudden death, ultimately causing my death from overwork…”
Haochen Technology became infamous overnight.
Jia Yong was arrested.
To salvage the company’s public image, the boss offered Lin Wan five million yuan in exchange for a signed settlement letter.
It wasn’t that Lin Wan didn’t want to squeeze them for more, but her transmigration countdown had already begun, and she genuinely didn’t have the time to waste on that absolute dog of a boss.
Once she received the compensation, Lin Wan rushed home to clean out her place. Anything she could take or wanted to take was swept directly into her system’s storage space.
She sold her old apartment to an agency at a cut-rate price, turned around to rent a small warehouse in the suburbs, and moved in there temporarily.
Calculating her savings over the years, she realized that aside from her eight years of full-time employment, she had also taken on freelance gigs. Over those eight years, she had saved up over 400,000 yuan. Combined with the money from the apartment sale, she had roughly one million yuan.
In total, she currently held six million yuan in her hands.
Every single cent of this six million yuan would be used to stockpile supplies!
Goods were incredibly scarce in the 1960s. Food was the absolute highest priority, followed by medicines, feminine hygiene products for girls, and items that were highly sought-after in that era… A massive purchasing spree was required for every single category!
Once the checklist was ready, Lin Wan drove her little Wuling van straight to the wholesale grain and oil market. After asking around about prices, she picked a shop and purchased ten tons of standard aged rice, one ton of aged short-grain rice for 3,800 yuan, one ton of aged millet for 5,000 yuan, and one ton of aged corn.
She also bought two tons of standard flour and two tons of corn flour.
Dried noodles of various thicknesses—she ordered a ton of each…
She spent nearly 100,000 yuan in this single grain and oil shop, which left her lamenting just how quickly money vanished!
The shop owner grinned so wide his teeth showed. He even accompanied her to the oil shop next door to help her haggle.
Russian rapeseed oil cost 12,300 yuan per ton. Lin Wan wanted two tons, requesting that it be pre-packaged into one-jin glass bottles. She paid extra for the packaging fee but demanded delivery within two days.
Next, she bolted over to the cold chain section and bought 200,000 yuan worth of frozen meat. She requested that the pork, beef, and mutton all be butchered into one-jin portions and packed into fifty-jin gunny sacks… Another 200,000 yuan went toward poultry, with chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits also packed into fifty-jin gunny sacks.
Then she darted over to the pre-prepared food section to buy like crazy.
Steamed buns, meat buns, shumai, shrimp dumplings, fried dough sticks… Another 200,000 yuan down.
By the time she finished a single lap around this market, she had spent roughly one million yuan.
None of these supplies were meant for her own consumption; she intended to liquidate them for cash in the 1960s.
For her own meals, she went online to place orders from reputable flagship brands.
She bought pasta, buns, shumai, Angus beef pies, sausages, Hong Kong-style milk tea, chicken cutlets, pizzas, New Orleans grilled wings, and Cantonese sausages from a popular brand…
She bought various hot pot bases and self-heating hot pots from a famous Chongqing hot pot chain…
Hubei crawfish seasoning.
Crawfish in every flavor.
She bought Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, pork tripe chicken soup, sour cabbage fish, braised pork with preserved mustard greens, longan meat, crispy fried baby yellow croakers, brown sugar pancakes, spicy dried radishes, cold-tossed tripe, cold-tossed rabbit, cold-tossed beef, cold-tossed chicken wingtips, pressed rabbit…
Slurp…
Her saliva was practically pooling.
Lin Wan’s stomach growled fiercely from hunger just from buying all these things.
She headed straight to a Michelin-starred restaurant to treat herself to a lavish meal.
After eating, Lin Wan tirelessly swept through major pharmacies to hoard medicine. She bought a bit of every over-the-counter medication available: cheap cold granules, Ganmaoling, painkillers, fever reducers, Pudilan, Xieliting, Montmorillonite powder, cough syrup, Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid, Rendan, and rapid-acting heart rescue pills…
Rubbing alcohol, iodophor, medical cotton, medical bandages, dressings…
Yunnan Baiyao…
Lin Wan picked through the shelves, completely ignoring the various health supplements the sales associates tried to aggressively push on her.
Medicines like Amoxicillin required a prescription, but it wasn’t impossible to get. Lin Wan slipped some cash to the sales associate, who managed to procure a substantial amount for her.
Since she couldn’t buy medicine in bulk from a single place, she ran through every pharmacy in the city, sinking 200,000 yuan into it!
In the evening, she selected a Black Pearl restaurant to keep feasting!
Oh, she had checked with the system: the system space locked the state of whatever went inside. Whatever it looked like when put in, it would look exactly the same when taken out, no matter how much time passed.
Lin Wan ordered extra portions of all her favorite dishes to go.
Damn, the portions are tiny and ridiculously expensive!
On the second day, Lin Wan spent the entire day receiving deliveries at the warehouse while simultaneously ordering furiously online.
When it came time to eat, she picked the hole-in-the-wall diners she usually loved to frequent, eating some there and packing the rest.
Twice-cooked pork, poached sliced pork in hot chili oil, pork with garlic sauce, stir-fried eel segments with garlic scapes, Yaba rabbit, fish-fragrant rabbit, Huoxiang rabbit, braised duck with bitter melon, braised chicken with celtuce…
Calculating her timeline, she booked a flight and took a trip to Yiwu. There, she procured a massive quantity of items characteristic of the 1960s: Double Happiness thermoses, enamel basins, sewing machines, radios, classic vintage bicycles, electric fans…
Double Happiness pillow towels, “Serve the People” towels, bedsheets and duvet covers featuring the “blossoming peonies for wealth” pattern, military greatcoats, and cotton fabrics in dark blue, army green, dark gray, and bright red, as well as Liberation shoes and cloth shoes…
She visited various libraries to borrow a collection of essential professional textbooks covering physics, medicine, mathematics, engines, forging, semiconductor technology, communication technology, and home appliance technology… All published between the 1970s and 1980s, at the very latest the 1990s.
She even went to secondhand websites to buy some pagers, brick phones, old engines, and the like. If the opportunity arose, she would secretly mail them to the country’s relevant research departments for them to dismantle and study.
Who knows, it might just contribute a brick or a tile to the nation’s communication industry, helping to speed things up a bit.
Besides, when she bound the system, it had explicitly stated that she was transmigrating to contribute to making the nation strong, prosperous, and advanced in communications. Therefore, these reference materials were absolutely essential.
Oh right!
Seeds too!
High-yield, non-GMO crop seeds that could be harvested and replanted for subsequent generations—she swept through a seed company blindly.
After all these things were tucked away into her space, Lin Wan still had a bit of money left.
After a moment of thought, she ordered cash and coupons issued in the 1960s online.
She bought a thousand ten-yuan bills along with some loose change and various ration coupons to keep on her person.
Realizing that electricity was available in certain places during the 1960s, Lin Wan also ordered electric rice cookers, microwaves, air fryers, and blenders online… ten of each.
She bought a couple more tablets and smartphones, downloading countless movies, TV shows, mini-dramas, and novels onto each one.
She also bought several power banks and charged them fully to keep in reserve…
Whew…
Hoarding supplies was truly exhausting!
At night, Lin Wan cross-referenced her checklist, looking up guides on Xiaohongshu to check for missing items and fill the gaps…
Finally… the money was entirely spent!!!!
[Countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7… 4, 3, 2…]
The cold, ruthless mechanical voice echoed in her mind. Lin Wan only felt her vision blur, followed by a violent bout of dizziness that made her want to throw up!
“Blegh!”
This was a hundred times worse than carsickness!
“You bastard surnamed Zhang!”
“I’m putting my foot down today. This marriage with Guo Xuyang belongs to my Wanwan, no matter what!”
“Otherwise, I’m divorcing you!”
“I’ve raised Zhang Qin for seven or eight years! She ate my food, wore my clothes, and now I’m just asking her to give her boyfriend to Wanwan, and you people are throwing a fit!”
“Bah! A whole pack of ungrateful wolves!”
“If my Wanwan turns out fine, we can talk. But if anything happens to my Wanwan, you watch out—I’ll drop a pack of rat poison in the food and none of us will live!”
The crashing and shouting outside the door made Lin Wan’s temples throb with agonizing pain. Before she could even survey her surroundings, a tidal wave of information violently flooded her aching brain.
Holy crap!
She had transmigrated into a book!
Worse, she was the villainous supporting female character who shared her exact name!
Her ending was extraordinarily wretched: she was reported for moral misconduct by the protagonist squad, convicted of hooliganism, had her head shaved into a humiliating pattern, paraded through the streets with a broken shoe around her neck for a month, and was ultimately executed by firing squad.
(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Why didn’t that dog of a system tell her earlier!
Granted, her actual personality fit the villainous supporting character archetype pretty well, but she didn’t want to die such a horrific, undignified death!
Judging by the commotion outside, this was precisely the critical juncture where the original host had thrown a tantrum and bashed her head against the wall to snatch her stepsister’s boyfriend, the male lead Guo Xuyang.
The catalyst was the neighborhood committee coming over to mobilize the two daughters of the Zhang family to go down to the countryside.
Zhang Qin’s boyfriend, Guo Xuyang, proposed marrying Zhang Qin so he could take her with him to the military base, which would exempt her from going to the countryside.
The original host originally had five different guys hooked on her line, any of whom would have happily married her.
But she refused.
She just couldn’t stand Zhang Qin’s fragile, white-lotus act, always crying and looking aggrieved at the slightest provocation, so she insisted on stealing her man!
Since everyone automatically blamed the original host whenever Zhang Qin cried, regardless of who was right or wrong, Lin Wan figured she might as well play the villain properly instead of bearing a bad reputation for nothing!
A stepmother brought a stepfather; Zhang Qin was ultimately forced by her biological father to give up her boyfriend and go to the countryside. There, she was ruined by a local thug, forced to marry him, and eventually suffered a miscarriage due to domestic violence during her pregnancy, dying of severe hemorrhaging.
The male lead, Guo Xuyang, refused to switch partners. As a result, the original host and her mother drugged him. Guo Xuyang preferred death over submission, fleeing with the drug still in his system, only for the female lead, Xu Hui, to stumble upon him and take advantage of the situation.
Meanwhile, the original host’s family met a tragic end. The original host was executed for hooliganism.
Huang Guixiang was executed for theft.
The original host’s maternal half-brother, Zhang Hongqiang, was executed for robbery.
The original host’s stepfather, Zhang Aimin, was executed for destroying production materials and undermining the socialist foundation.
Bullets for everyone, nice and crisp, leaving a bloody hole with every pop!
The original host’s two stepbrothers, Zhang Hongbing and Zhang Hongqi/qiang, were treated to a delightful package of broken families and severed limbs, leaving them crippled.
The entire Zhang family, regardless of whether they were good or bad, were nothing but cannon fodder!
And the mastermind pulling the strings behind all of this was Guo Xuyang!!!
He wanted to avenge his white lotus who had died miserably in the countryside!
The crucial thing was that Guo Xuyang merely provided a nudge from behind the scenes. He was a military officer, not some overbearing CEO.
He operated within legal boundaries and maintained a moral baseline.
The Zhang family simply had too many skeletons in their closet. Otherwise, Guo Xuyang wouldn’t have been able to seize those opportunities, magnify their faults, and use his power and network to ensure everyone in the Zhang family received the maximum legal penalties!
Therefore, resolving the marriage situation between Guo Xuyang and Zhang Qin was merely the very first step to escaping their fate as cannon fodder!
Wahhh~
What kind of hellish starting difficulty was this!
Things were going to be so incredibly hard for her!
