Chapter 1: The Melon-Eater and Melon-Eating System

　　Jiang Youtao was sleeping soundly when a knock on the door woke her up. She looked at the ceiling above her head and had not yet come to her senses.

　　The knocking on the door continued: "Jiang Youtao, what time is it? Why haven't you gotten up yet? Didn't I tell you yesterday that I was going on an outing with my classmates this morning and asked you to cook? Why haven't you done it yet, you stupid girl? Just wait, I'll let Dad beat you to death in a moment."

　　Jiang Youtao ignored the noise outside, turned over and continued to sleep.

　　She has been in this body for two days and has figured out the situation here. She traveled through to Shanghai in 1974. The name of this body is also Jiang Youtao, the same as hers.

　　But the same name means different fate.

　　Jiang Youtao was a poor little girl of this era. Before she was ten years old, she was the apple of her parents' eyes. In those days when many people were hungry and cold, her parents always gave her good food and clothes, and she became the object of envy of many people.

　　Ten years old was a watershed in this little girl's life. Her biological mother died in that year while trying to rescue the factory's property. Not long after, her father married a stepmother, under the pretext of taking care of her.

　　The saying "if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather" is fully demonstrated in the original body's biological father, Jiang Anguo. Not having enough food and warm clothes is the norm for this little girl, and being beaten and scolded is commonplace.

　　Not only that, just two days ago, Jiang Anguo asked the original body owner to go the countryside in exchange for the stepbrother who came with the stepmother, and issued a death order. The original body cried and made a fuss, but it couldn't make Jiang Anguo change his decision.

　　The original person became angrier and more sad the more she thought about it, so she ran out late at night and jumped into the Huangpu River.

　　When she climbed out of the river, she became like a completely different person.

　　Jiang Youtao couldn't help but sigh again.

　　It's a sin to say the least. Jiang Youtao was an orphan since she was young and she knew the importance of studying hard since she was young.

　　After ten years of hard study, she finally got into a pretty good university, studied the popular computer major, and after graduation she joined a big company and became a programmer.

　　She have to work overtime from time to time, sometimes for half a month.

　　Under the high-intensity work, her only hobby is to eat melons and watch dramas. After finally completing a project, she finally has time to read the gossip she had accumulated before.

　　Just as she was watching intently, there was a storm outside, with thunder and lightning, and she had to put down her phone and close the window.

　　Then she lost consciousness, and when she woke up again, she became Jiang Youtao in the 1970s, an era where people were not well fed and clothed.

　　Jiang Youtao had worked hard to get to a social status where she could eat whatever she wanted in her previous life, but now she traveled back to the time before liberation. Who could understand her pain?

　　Jiang Youtao felt sad when she thought of the cabinet full of snacks in the refrigerator.

　　[ Melon-eating system: Ding~ The melon-eating system is at your service~ Host, please cheer up and actively participate in the mission. It's okay to eat enough, it's okay to wear warm clothes, and it's okay to reach the peak of life. Let's work hard together. ]

　　This broken system was silent and Jiang Youtao almost forgot her existence. Thinking of her miserable rebirth, Jiang Youtao had reason to suspect that it was the system that did it, but she had no evidence!

　　It is highly likely that she cannot travel back to the present day. She still has to rely on the system to survive in the 1970s, so she has no intention of causing any more trouble as long as the system can get along harmoniously.

　　A man who knows the current situation is a hero, and a man has to bow his head under the eaves. When things are not going well, you have to be humble.

　　The knocking on the door outside finally stopped, and then her door was kicked hard again, shaking even the windows.

　　Jiang Youtao remained unmoved.

　　It is impossible to expect her to serve the whole family like the original owner did.

　　Did she grow up with so much difficulty, just to be a slave to others one day?

　　What ghost story are you talking about?

　　Jiang Youtao blocked the system and closed her eyes to continue sleeping. It was not even six o'clock yet, which was the best time to sleep. What else could she do if she didn't sleep?

　　Anyway, the mission is not urgent. According to the system, it will not be started until you reach the countryside? So why would she want to be active now?

　　Being a bad person is the correct attitude towards life for an adult.

　　After waking up, she checked the time on the system screen and it was already past ten o'clock.

　　She went out of the room to wash up.

　　She didn't use the original owner's toothbrush that had lost its bristles, but instead used the beginner's gift pack that she had managed to squeezed out of the system by using her eloquent tongue.

　　There are daily necessities inside, including a washbasin, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towel and some food.

　　After washing up, she came back and went into the kitchen. Jiang Anguo was the production director of the Shencheng Cannery. The room allocated to him in the factory was very large, with three bedrooms and a living room, a total of more than 80 square meters. The kitchen was also very large, but at this moment the kitchen was empty. Not to mention rice and flour, there was not even any seasonings such as grain and oil.

　　In the original owner's memory, this kind of situation was nothing new.

　　Whenever Jiang Anguo and his later wife Li Xiuqin wanted the original owner to compromise on something, they would use this trick to force the original owner to surrender.

　　Sure enough, when Jiang Youtao came out of the kitchen, Jiang Anguo also came out of the room. He threw the newspaper in his hand onto the coffee table.

　　"Jiang Youtao, come here! I can't control you anymore, right? Who are you showing off your dead face to?"

　　"Your brother treats you well, doesn't he? What's wrong with you going to the countryside for him? That's the policy. One person in a family must go to the countryside. Besides, you'll only go to the countryside for two years. When the wind eases, I'll help you make some arrangements and you can go back to the city, right?"

　　"Why are you so ignorant!" Jiang Anguo slammed the coffee table.

　　Jiang Youtao was not in a hurry to go back to her room. She stood there and said, "Brother? What kind of brother? Is Jiang Jiabao your son and my mother's? Or is Jiang Jiabao your son and Li Xiuqin's son?"

　　As Jiang Youtao talked, she felt that she had discovered the truth. Li Xiuqin and Jiang Anguo were colleagues in the same workshop. Li Xiuqin's ex-husband was a sick man, and he died two years after Li Xiuqin married her. Since then, Li Xiuqin has been a widow.

　　Less than two months after the original owner's mother passed away, she married with Jiang Jiabao and changed her name from Zhang Jiabao to Jiang Jiabao.

　　With Jiang Youtao's many years of experience as a scoundrel, she had reason to suspect that the two had been having an affair for a long time, and that Jiang Jiabao might even be their biological son.

　　Jiang Anguo's expression changed immediately. He jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on. His eyes were as big as bells. "What rumors are you making up? Before your mother passed away, your Aunt Li and I were colleagues. If it weren't for you, would I have married your Aunt Li?"

　　"I asked you to go to the countryside so that people wouldn't say that I, as a stepfather, was abusing my stepson! Your father is in this position, and there are many people who want to bring me down, so my reputation must not be ruined! You are my biological daughter, how can I harm you?"

　　"You really disappoint your father." Jiang Anguo looked at Jiang Youtao with eyes full of disappointment and heartache.

　　The original owner had lost her mother and was very dependent on Jiang Anguo, her biological father. In order to get Jiang Anguo's useless verbal praise, she backed away step by step.

　　From giving up her new room to Jiang Jiabao, to becoming a maid for the whole family, to now being forced to go to the countryside to replace Jiang Jiabao.

　　If nothing unexpected happens, the original owner will definitely be able to come back after the college entrance examination is resumed. By then, she will be exactly 18 years old, which is the right age to get married.

　　Based on Jiang Youtao's understanding of Jiang Anguo, he will definitely sell the original owner for a good price, and she will definitely be sucked dry by Jiang Anguo for the rest of her life.

　　Jiang Youtao is not the original owner. If she lets Jiang Anguo take even the slightest advantage of her, she will be the loser.

　　Jiang Youtao changed to a more comfortable standing position and looked at Jiang Anguo calmly: "Why are you angry? Well, probaby you are angry out of shame."

　　Jiang Youtao's words made Jiang Anguo so angry that he unbuckled his belt and started to whip Jiang Youtao: "You have really grown up and become so arrogant that you dare to talk to me like that. I will beat you to death today."

　　At this time, a person jumped out of the room. She rushed over and hugged Jiang Anguo: "Old Jiang, Old Jiang, what are you doing? The child is so big now. If you beat her, how will outsiders look at her?"

　　Li Xiuqin looks very ordinary. If you don't look carefully, you can't find her in a crowd. But she has a good voice. She is in her forties, but her voice sounds like a girl in her 20s.

　　She also understands her own strengths, and speaks slowly and gently, with a hint of coquettishness in her voice from time to time.

　　Men are animals who think with their lower body. When the lights are turned off and their faces cannot be seen, they can only speak. Li Xiuqin's voice is particularly interesting to men at night.

　　Jiang Anguo really likes Li Xiuqin.

　　Looking at the original owner's memory, Li Xiuqin was a very volatile person. Who would have thought that what she just said was to persuade Jiang Anguo? But in fact, Jiang Anguo's anger became even more intense.

　　"She's afraid of being seen? Listen to what she just said. What nonsense! If what she just said was heard by someone with ulterior motives, how would you and I live in the factory? A girl of sixteen or seventeen, and she has no sense of manners at all!"

　　Jiang Anguo became more and more angry as he spoke, and Li Xiuqin tried to stop him, saying softly and tenderly:

　　"The child is blaming us, Lao Jiang. You are being too unkind. I told you long ago that we couldn't do it that way, but you insisted that Jiabao was Lao Zhang's only child. You couldn't let him suffer that!"

　　"If you ask me, what's the point of suffering? Jiabao is one year older than Youtao, so he should be the one to be judged in terms of seniority. What does it have to do with Youtao? You insist that you're afraid of people stabbing you in the back, so why is it like this?"

　　At the end, Li Xiuqin started crying and punched Jiang Anguo's chest lightly.

　　Jiang Anguo looked sad.

　　Jiang Youtao was too lazy to watch the two people acting. The original owner had too many such scenes in her memory. Whenever the original owner needed to do something, the couple would act out the same thing, changing the soup but not the medicine.

　　She blew the dust off her fingers and said impatiently, "Alright, stop acting. The Zhang family is reluctant to send their only child to the countryside to suffer. Do you dare to stand at the door and yell at me?"

　　"You two have changed your last name, and if you two continue to say such things, it's as unnecessary as taking off your pants to fart. You two are the only ones who are afraid of being criticized? Do you have that thing?"

　　"If you two hadn't said it, I would have thought you two were a pair of snakes and scorpions. You two are so poisonous that you can be together. The phrase "made for each other" was created just for you two."

　　Jiang Youtao looked at Jiang Anguo and said, "In the past, I thought that you were my biological father, and remarrying and reorganizing the family would indeed bring conflicts. I didn't mind being embarrassed for you, so I didn't stop you. But look, I've been backing down step by step, and now it's come to this. I don't want to back down anymore. I'll go to the countryside as an educated youth, but from now on, whether I die in the countryside or become rich and return to the city, we should just treat each other as strangers when we meet, and it's best if we don't even say hello."

　　When Jiang Youtao first entered this body, she met the original owner in a daze. She had only one request, that is she want to cut off all ties with Jiang Anguo's family.

　　This was exactly what Jiang Youtao wanted. She was used to her freedom and had no interest in finding a father for herself, but she was not idle either.

　　Of course, before severing ties, one still has to do what needs to be done, and the original owner's revenge must be avenged.

　　How could Jiang Anguo allow Jiang Youtao to escape his control? She is sixteen this year, and she can get married at eighteen. At that time, she can at least get a dowry. If the timing is right, maybe she can even get some benefits for the family!

　　Li Xiuqin had the same idea as Jiang Anguo. She had even planned who to marry Jiang Youtao to.

　　The younger brother of the director of their cannery had a son who was fourteen years old and had some mental problems. He would take off his pants and wander around the streets every day.

　　She had heard from the factory director's wife that she would find a perfect wife for her in two years.

　　The betrothal gift is 1,000 yuan, and you can also find some benefits for the girl's family. Right now, the idiot is too young, and it's useless to marry her off. In two years, it will be just right, Jiang Youtao will be 18 years old, and the little idiot will be 16 years old, so they can live together.

　　Jiang Anguo broke free from Li Xiuqin's restraints and rushed out holding the belt. Jiang Youtao snorted, walked around them both and rushed to the door.

　　Although it is working hours, there are still many people in the family compound.

　　"Help, help, my dad is going to beat me to death."