Raising Kids in the Countryside: The Frail Educated Youth's Laid-Back Life in the '80s

After struggling to survive for more than a decade in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Song Wei finally dies. Her greatest regret? She never once managed to eat her fill.

When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself reborn as an educated youth sent to the rural Northeast during the 1980s.

The bad news: the original owner of her body is a frail beauty, hopelessly lovestruck, and little more than a decorative vase.

The good news: this world is completely normal. There is no radiation, no mutated monsters, and the village where she’s been assigned is backed by a vast mountain range overflowing with edible treasures.

At last… she can finally eat as much as she wants!

Before long, the sickly young woman everyone believed couldn’t lift a basket transforms into someone who can beat wild boars with her fists, carry entire tree trunks on her shoulders, chase off hooligans, and even argue with the village aunties without ever losing.

The villagers all agree:

“Educated Youth Song is trouble. Don’t provoke her if you value your life!”

As for Song Wei?

She insists she’s perfectly reasonable.

All she wants is to enjoy delicious food, work in the fields during the day, spend the rest of her time foraging in the mountains and stockpiling every edible plant and animal she can find, and occasionally join the village women in gossiping over the latest drama.

Well…

She also happened to pick up a dirty, abandoned little child that no one wanted.

But then a tall, broad-shouldered former soldier with a rugged face and a perfectly sculpted eight-pack suddenly starts following her everywhere.

Turns out…

He’s the little boy’s older brother.

Song Wei hoists the chubby, healthy child she’d raised onto her shoulder and says, “Here. Your kid.”

The little boy immediately bursts into tears.

“I don’t want my brother! I want my sister…”

Ignoring his own younger brother entirely, the man fixes Song Wei with a deep, unwavering gaze.

“I don’t have a home anymore.”

Song Wei blinks.

“…What do you mean?”

The man replies without missing a beat,

“You’ve already raised the little one. Would you mind raising the big one too? I’m pretty strong.”

Song Wei falls silent.

“…Are you two brothers trying to scam your way into my family?”