What’s Wrong with Being a Vicious Female Supporting Character in the [1970’s]

Yang Muyu, a hardworking office worker from the 21st century, dies after a tragic accident during a company team-building event. Instead of passing on, she transmigrates into the body of an eighteen-year-old girl with the same name in May 1974, in a small courtyard near a machinery factory in Sichuan Province. Upon waking, she discovers she has inherited not only the girl’s identity but also the fragmented memories of a victim of a vicious conspiracy. The original owner was an orphan whose father, an engineer, had recently died. Her uncle, stepmother, stepsister, and fiancé had revealed their true greedy natures, plotting to seize her inheritance, her job, and her home. Their latest scheme involved drugging her with a potent substance in a bowl of water and hiring a thug to rape her, intending to catch her in the act and force her to break her engagement so the stepsister could marry the fiancé.

Yang Muyu, retaining her modern sensibilities and martial arts skills from her previous life as a gym instructor, refuses to be a victim. She ambushes the thug, beats him severely, and then captures her fiancé and stepsister who were eavesdropping outside. She forces the three conspirators to ingest the drugged water themselves, creating a chaotic scene that she documents with a camera she acquires through a mysterious blue stone embedded in her wrist. This stone serves as her golden finger, granting her access to a spatial dimension containing a vending machine that exchanges her bank savings for resources, including food, tools, and high-tech items like a film developing kit and wind-fire wheel shoes.

The conflict escalates when the stepmother and the thug’s mother arrive, expecting to find Yang Muyu disgraced. Instead, they walk into a trap. Yang Muyu uses the evidence she has gathered to blackmail them into transferring their properties and jobs to her. When they attempt to recruit more accomplices, including her uncle and other relatives, to assault her, she defeats them all with her enhanced strength and the retractable rolling pin she drew from her space. She forces them to sign IOUs and confessions, then publicly exposes their adultery and drug use by screaming for help, drawing neighbors and police to the scene. The scandal spreads rapidly through the factory and the community, ruining the reputations of her enemies.

Despite the public exposure, Yang Muyu secretly retains the original photographic evidence, having swapped the incriminating film with blank rolls during the exchange. She uses her space to develop hundreds of photos, creating a massive archive of her enemies’ crimes. She then distributes these photos anonymously across the city and submits a detailed report to the police, ensuring that the legal system takes over. The villains, believing they have escaped consequences after paying her off and burning the fake evidence, are unaware that they are now facing severe criminal charges. Yang Muyu secures her financial independence, claiming the inheritance left by her father and the assets of her relatives, and sets the stage for their eventual downfall through the law.

As the story progresses, Yang Muyu navigates the complexities of 1970s Chinese society while leveraging her spatial abilities to improve her life. She deals with the aftermath of the scandal, managing the gossip and social fallout with calculated indifference. Her enemies, stripped of their wealth and facing imprisonment, are left to suffer the consequences of their greed. Yang Muyu’s journey transforms her from a vulnerable orphan into a powerful figure who controls her own destiny, using her modern knowledge and supernatural advantage to outsmart those who sought to destroy her.