Chapter 1: I’m a Scumbag and I’m Afraid of Staying Up Late

June 1st, 1975, in Daxia.

This year, Jiang Manman joined the grand army of transmigrators—not because she cursed out a novel while staying up late to read.

Authors work so hard to write; as a high-quality reader who read for free, she would never give the book a one-star rating and curse the female lead.

She would only… give it five stars—and curse the author.

Then her phone, which she had been holding high up, fell on her face. Everything went black, and she transmigrated into the book—as the vicious female supporting character, who also happened to be named Jiang Manman.

Important detail: Vicious.

Not only was the original body vicious, but she was also a premium-grade scumbag.

Right before she transmigrated in, the original Jiang Manman was yelling at the female lead, hands on her hips:

“Did all the men in the world die? You shameless slut, you weed of a woman.
Always trying to cozy up to someone else’s fiancé.
If you’re feeling itchy down there, there are plenty of men in the steel factory—have them line up and take turns!
And you still dare to throw yourself at my fiancé? You shameless bitch! If I don’t curse your ancestors until black smoke rises from their graves, I’ll take your last name!
Filthy whore, disgraceful skank, I spit on you!
He’s my fiancé! Your face was just pressed to his chest—so I’ll slap the other side of your face!
Since you’re so shameless, let everyone see what a disgusting tramp you are, trying to seduce my fiancé!”

With a storm of curses and shoving, the original was about to scratch up the face of the female lead, Hao Fangfang.

In the scuffle, her fiancé shoved her to the ground—head cracked and bleeding.

And then, Jiang Manman arrived.

She transmigrated right in the middle of this humiliating disaster?

This was punishment, plain and simple.

Covering her bleeding forehead and staring at the public embarrassment in front of her, she thought back to what the original just said—only to hear the novel’s female lead across from her say:

“Jiang Manman, I’m telling you: Xiao Wenxuan is my fiancé now, not yours!
Your dad called off your engagement this morning and betrothed me to Brother Wenxuan instead.
So I never tried to seduce your fiancé!”

Jiang Manman: …?

Oh. Xiao Wenxuan was the novel’s male lead. Because the original Jiang Manman was greedy, lazy, and fat, he decisively broke off their engagement and chose her stepsister Hao Fangfang instead.

They had broken off the engagement this morning—but the original hadn’t found out yet.

So when she saw them together, of course she went ballistic.

Now, being told it was all officially over… Based on the original’s personality, she’d absolutely make a huge scene.

Jiang Manman rolled up her sleeves, planted her hands on her hips, and bellowed from the depths of her gut:

“Bullshit! What do you mean the engagement was called off?
This is clearly a bride swap! You two were obviously sneaking around before—
Otherwise, why would he break up with me and marry you instead?
What, is it because you’re a slut?!”

Honestly, she was mad. The original’s mother, a military doctor, had died in service to the country when she was eight. Her father remarried Zhang Cuifen, a stepmother who put on a saintly act but fattened the original up like a pig and taught her to be lazy, greedy, and scheming.

Hao Fangfang, the stepsister brought by the stepmother, was the female lead of the novel.

The author wrote her as kind, pure, and beautiful—the perfect contrast to the original—and made her the true love of the male lead.

The two of them worked together to cancel the engagement. Then, the male lead enlisted in the army, and the female lead followed him to the city where he was stationed.

Once he became a deputy regimental commander, she officially joined him as a military spouse.

The original? She was signed up for countryside labor—but instead of being sent down, she was sold off to an old man by her stepmother.

When it came time for the relocation, they claimed she’d run away with some random guy.

That was the end of the original’s story arc.

But why?

Just reading this had made her furious.

Wait—wasn’t this exact scene happening tonight?

Realizing that, Jiang Manman’s heart clenched. She couldn’t just sit there and take it. Meanwhile, the female lead had already started crying.

“Sister, how could you say such awful things to me? Sob sob sob.
Brother Wenxuan, look at her—I told you she’d act like this.
I never should have agreed to the engagement.
Now how am I supposed to face my sister?”

Xiao Wenxuan, a tall guy standing at 1.75 meters, immediately stepped forward to shield Hao Fangfang behind him. He stared coldly at Jiang Manman:

“Jiang Manman, it was my choice to form a revolutionary union with Comrade Hao Fangfang.
If you want to blame someone, blame me—this has nothing to do with her.
She’s so kind and good. Why do you always bully her?”

Jiang Manman’s mouth twitched. Kind and good? Please. That was all in comparison to the original.

Now that they were done using the original, they were trying to kick her aside?

Not on her watch. No way was she letting these scumbags off easy.

“Xiao Wenxuan, you’ve got some nerve. You dumped me this morning and got engaged to her, without even telling me.
If you didn’t already have your eye on her, why swap her in?
Fine—if you want to break off the engagement, then return the engagement token.
And you better pay me 1,000 yuan for emotional damages!”

That jade safety buckle, finely carved from quality jade—worth a fortune in modern times. Why shouldn’t she get it back?

Xiao Wenxuan frowned, unmoved.

“It’s just a cheap trinket, and you still want it back?
Can’t you let me remember you a little fondly?”

To hell with fond memories. In the entire capital, the original Jiang Manman hadn’t left a single good impression.

Greedy, lazy, foul-mouthed, and fat—those were her defining traits.

To be 165 cm tall and still weigh 200 pounds in the 1970s? That took resources.

Compared to her 100-pound stepsister of the same height, plus the fancy clothes she wore, the contrast was striking.

Of course people praised her stepmother Zhang Cuifen.

Even the original believed it, treating her like a real mom and parroting everyone else’s praise. Zhang Cuifen soaked up all the credit.

But it was all fake.

Under her stepmother’s manipulations, even her father had grown to hate her.

Back to the present—Jiang Manman stared Xiao Wenxuan down and demanded the engagement token.

“Xiao Wenxuan, don’t mistake kindness for weakness. You think you can just lie to me because I liked you before?
Hand over the engagement token, now!”

“I lost it!”

Jiang Manman immediately lunged, grabbing his collar and yanking open his shirt.

“Jiang Manman, what are you doing? In public—have you no shame?”

“You’re the one with no shame. You broke off our engagement and still want to keep the token?”

She yanked his shirt open—no sign of the jade. Xiao Wenxuan reached to stop her.

But she wasn’t the original, who was fat and weak. She was strong, with explosive power granted by her transmigrated soul.

When he reached out, she twisted his arm and threw him over her shoulder.

The crowd gasped: “Hiss!” Instantly, five times more onlookers showed up to watch the drama.

Then, they saw the chubby girl from the capital use her pudgy hands to grab her petite stepsister—who looked like a chick next to her.

She reached for Hao Fangfang’s clothes and yanked—

RIP!