Reborn in the '70s: Draining My Scumbag Dad's Assets Before Heading to the Countryside

Su Jiaojiao spent thirty years in poverty after her family was ruined, ending her life beaten and abandoned in a gutter. Her last sight was the face of Shen Qingyu, the stepsister who had stolen her inheritance, and her final thought was a vow of revenge. Upon waking, she finds herself back in 1975 Shanghai, thirty years in the past, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. She is no longer the naive girl who trusted her father, Shen Jianguo, and her stepmother, Liu Dongmei. In her previous life, they had manipulated her into handing over her mother’s substantial inheritance and then sent her to a remote village to suffer. Now, armed with future knowledge and a mysterious jade pendant that contains a spatial storage ability, she is determined to reclaim her family’s wealth and punish those who betrayed her.

The Su family was once one of the wealthiest in Shanghai, but after Su Jiaojiao’s grandfather donated the family fortune to the state, the assets were reduced to a textile factory and hidden antiques. Her mother, Su Yingxue, left a will ensuring Jiaojiao would receive 5% of the factory’s annual dividends upon turning eighteen, along with a monthly living allowance. Shen Jianguo, who married into the Su family as a live-in son-in-law, and Liu Dongmei, his wife, had been secretly embezzling Jiaojiao’s funds for years while treating her poorly. They raised Liu Dongmei’s own daughter, Shen Qingyu, as their favorite, spending Jiaojiao’s money on her while giving Jiaojiao only the bare minimum. In this new timeline, Jiaojiao immediately asserts her dominance. She demands five hundred yuan for her birthday and insists on retrieving the jade pendant her stepmother had stolen, which she discovers is a magical space artifact.

Jiaojiao’s first major move is to alter her fate regarding the sent-down youth program. In her past life, she was tricked into being sent to Shitou Village, a destitute location where she was eventually sold into marriage and abuse. This time, she volunteers for the program but successfully swaps her placement with Shen Qingyu’s. She ensures Shen Qingyu is assigned to the harsh Shitou Village while Jiaojiao is sent to the more prosperous Lujia Village. This reversal denies her enemies the opportunity to isolate and destroy her, while setting a trap for her stepsister. She also reconnects with Old Master Luo, a family friend who knows the truth about her lineage and the Shen family’s mistreatment of her.

The conflict escalates during Jiaojiao’s eighteenth birthday banquet. Shen Jianguo and Liu Dongmei plan to coerce her into signing over her bank account and future dividends under the guise of “safekeeping.” Jiaojiao plays along, pretending to be gullible and eager to please them. She agrees to let her father manage the money, but only if he signs a corresponding inheritance agreement stating that all Shen family assets will pass to her. She also publicly exposes Shen Qingyu’s status as a stepdaughter and reveals Shen Jianguo’s history as a live-in son-in-law, humiliating them in front of guests and destroying Shen Qingyu’s chances with her boyfriend, Song Xiangdong. The Shen family, believing they have successfully tricked her, grows overconfident. They plan to flee to Hong Kong with the money shortly after the Lantern Festival, unaware that Jiaojiao has uncovered their conspiracy and is preparing to turn the tables on them completely.