Seventies: The Mind-Reading Officer Gets Completely Flirted with the Reborn Girl

Qin Xiaoran awakens on the day of her broken engagement in 1972, reborn after a life of suffering at the hands of her stepmother Cui Hongyan and father Wang Wenbin. In her previous timeline, she was forced into a marriage with a wealthy forty-year-old man to settle family debts, resisted by injuring herself, and ultimately stripped of her mother’s jade bracelet and reputation. Armed with memories of the future, she resolves to reclaim her life and the assets stolen from her biological mother’s Qin family. When Cui Hongyan pressures her to accept the match, Qin Xiaoran counters by claiming her late grandfather arranged a marriage with the powerful Huo family of Beijing. This revelation shocks her family, particularly Wang Wenbin, who sees an opportunity for social climbing and career advancement. Qin Xiaoran demands they search the Qin family’s old residence for the betrothal token, knowing the house has been looted but hoping to retrieve hidden items before they are sold.

At the old residence, Qin Xiaoran discovers that while most valuables have been sold, her grandfather’s correspondence remains. She finds letters proving the engagement with the Huo family and a photograph of her betrothed, Huo Nianping. Rather than confronting her family with immediate hostility, she maintains a facade of compliance to manipulate them. She writes a letter to the Huo family requesting confirmation of the engagement, buying herself time. Simultaneously, she activates the secret within her cracked jade bracelet: a vast spatial dimension containing fertile farmland, a river, and a miraculous spring. The spring water heals her chronic physical ailments and purifies her body, while the space allows her to store goods indefinitely without spoilage. She also uncovers a hidden cache of ten gold bars, providing her with initial capital.

With the Huo family expected to respond within a week, Qin Xiaoran begins a systematic campaign to rebuild her resources. She extracts money and cloth coupons from her father and stepmother, using their greed and fear of losing the connection to the Huo family as leverage. She visits state-run stores and black markets, purchasing food, clothing, seeds, and ration coupons. Her knowledge of future market values allows her to make strategic purchases, including high-demand goods and seeds for her spatial farm. She establishes a supply line with a black market vendor, Sister Liu, ensuring a steady flow of provisions that she stores in her bracelet space. This stockpiling phase is critical, as she prepares for the possibility of being sent to the countryside, a fate that ruined her in her past life.

The core conflict intensifies as Cui Hongyan and Wang Xiaoyi grow suspicious of Qin Xiaoran’s sudden competence and cold demeanor. They attempt to monitor her movements, but Qin Xiaoran outmaneuers them by sending Wang Xiaoyi on exhausting errands and isolating herself at the old residence. Wang Wenbin, blinded by ambition, remains oblivious to the true nature of his daughter’s actions, focusing solely on the potential benefits of the Huo marriage. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoran’s health improves dramatically due to the spring water, and her crops in the space begin to sprout overnight, granting her a sustainable source of fresh food. She also plans to reverse her fate by ensuring Wang Xiaoyi is the one sent to the remote mountains instead of herself.

As the week progresses, Qin Xiaoran consolidates her position. She has secured financial independence through the sale of gold and accumulated a significant stockpile of essentials. The narrative sets the stage for the Huo family’s response, which will determine whether Qin Xiaoran can fully escape her abusive family or if new complications will arise. Her journey is one of calculated revenge and self-preservation, transforming from a victim into a strategic actor who controls her own destiny. The story concludes with her ready to face the incoming changes, equipped with a magical space, hidden wealth, and the clarity of hindsight.