Chapter 29: Self-Importance

But Jiang Pan Yu was different. In her previous life, her parents, desperate for a son, left her in the countryside to be raised by her grandparents.

In rural areas, no girl could escape the fate of hard labor, not even those born in the 80s and 90s.

From the moment Jiang Pan Yu could toddle, she followed her grandparents into the fields.

It wasn’t until she entered high school, and her grandparents grew too old to work the land, that she stopped doing farm work.

But Jiang Pan Yu’s life was still far from easy. Her parents, who had been working away from home for years, had overpopulated with two younger sisters and a brother.

Due to the fines for overpopulation, her parents couldn’t afford to send her to university.

Jiang Pan Yu relied on poverty subsidies and working odd jobs during holidays to get through college.

After graduating and entering society, to establish herself in the city and secure a place to live, she experienced the grueling 996 and 007 work schedules firsthand.

Her only leisure was watching old ladies fight and indulging in gossip, which somehow sent her back to the 60s to grow up as a poor, simpleton. Jiang Pan Yu was utterly baffled.

Reborn into a life of constant labor from childhood, Jiang Pan Yu didn’t find it particularly hard. Perhaps it was just her fate to toil.

Fortunately, she was resilient. Since things were already this way, she might as well try to be happy.

After all, being unhappy or wearing a grim face wouldn’t change her life. It was better to stay optimistic.

At least she knew the course of future history. If she could seize the right opportunities at the right time, she wouldn’t have to worry about a difficult life in her later years.

Moreover, she had the Gossip System. If she couldn’t make a good life for herself with that, then she could only blame her own incompetence and might as well find a block of tofu to crash into.

With this mindset, Jiang Pan Yu remained cheerful every day after moving to the countryside.

Tan Yanlu, however, was different. She had never endured significant hardship and had the Golden Finger by her side, which made her somewhat self-important deep down.

Initially, driven by an inexplicable infatuation with Gao Shaolin, she impulsively signed up for rural life, thinking her Golden Finger would ensure she wouldn’t fare too badly.

But just a few days of farm work had her questioning her life choices.

Tan Yanlu’s spirit was somewhat broken, and she couldn’t help but wonder where Jiang Pan Yu’s optimism came from.

Hearing the listlessness in Tan Yanlu’s voice, Jiang Pan Yu tried to console her: “What good does being unhappy do? Whether you’re happy or not, a day still passes.

We’re all products of this era, but I believe everything has a beginning and an end.

Surely, they won’t make us educated youths toil in the fields forever.

So we just have to wait. Whether we’re happy or not, we’re still waiting.

That’s why I choose to be happy, to find joy in little things, and to listen to others’ gossip. It makes the days go by faster!”

Tan Yanlu understood this logic and knew what the future held.

She just needed someone to guide her, and with Jiang Pan Yu’s words, the suffocating feeling in her heart eased a lot. She also felt more mentally prepared to face the future.

Meanwhile, in the Jin family of Lianshan Village, the atmosphere was tense, and Jin Bei was hiding in her room, crying.