Back to the '90s: She Became Rich Through Scientific Research
Qin Hongfei awoke and found herself back in 1999, before she had ever traveled through time—a year when fate had dealt her a terrible hand. Her father had died at the start, her mother was half-mad an
In the filthy pigsty, Qin Hongfei opened her eyes to a nauseating stench. She was lying next to the pigs’ sour swill, the waves of foul odor making her stomach turn. Yet, she did not retch. The familiarity of her surroundings struck her like a bolt of lightning.
She was back—unbelievably, she had returned to the year 1999.
On New Year's Eve of 1999, she had stormed out after being accused of stealing money from her family. Of course, she knew herself well enough to realize she hadn’t truly run away—she had merely sulked in the pigsty, fuming. And then, she had been transported to a future age of advanced technology, where it had taken her twenty-five years of relentless effort to climb to the pinnacle of success—only to meet her end from exhaustion and awaken here, in her original era.
“What a curse,” someone raged nearby, their voice shrill with anger. “They do nothing but bully our family because we’re easygoing. First they dodged the water and electricity bills, and now they’ve started stealing money. Dad, Mom, everyone, you be the judge—is this how people should act?”
“This is no way to live…”
“Qin Fei, you’re not a child anymore. Go talk some sense into your mother—tell her to stop scheming against me. I’m begging you two, just let it go, for my sake,” the youngest daughter-in-law pleaded, her voice ripe with self-pity.
Qin Hongfei narrowed her eyes, climbed out of the pigsty, and walked into the house. The Qin family was large; every New Year’s Eve, they all gathered for dinner. At this moment, the youngest daughter-in-law w