Chapter 1: Returning to Age Twenty

Spring, 1989.

At the entrance of the ward in the County People’s Hospital.

"Doctor, is my sister really okay?"

"She's really fine."

"Then how could she have suddenly fainted?"

The young man, his face still showing traces of childishness, his hair dyed a yellowish-blonde, and trying his best to look like an adult, turned back to glance at Bed Number Five.

His eldest sister, who was fair-skinned, beautiful, and had a terrible temper, now had a large, swollen bruise on her forehead. She lay there stiff as a board, her eyes staring straight at the ceiling, motionless.

It was as if her soul had left her body.

Gao Qingmiao grabbed the doctor’s white coat, insisting he take another careful look.

Otherwise, he wouldn't know what to tell their parents when they arrived later.

The doctor was incredibly annoyed.

But fearing that this yellow-haired kid, who was a size sturdier than himself, might impulsively cause a scene, he helplessly returned to the bedside.

"Open your mouth, look up, move your hands, move your feet, say 'ah'."

Gao Qinghe, lying on the bed, followed the instructions one by one, expressionless: "Ah."

Gao Qingmiao was excited: "Sis, you finally spoke!"

The woman’s fixed pupils slowly shifted, glancing at him.

Whether it was his imagination or not, Gao Qingmiao always felt that this look from his eldest sister was full of disdain.

The doctor sighed, "Sigh~ She’s really fine. It’s just a bit of hypoglycemia. You can leave once this IV drip is finished. Remember to eat on time from now on."

Gao Qingmiao finally felt relieved.

He said he was going to get the medicine and chased after the doctor as he left the ward.

From far away, the young man’s loud voice could still be heard in the hallway.

"Doctor, won't my sister have any sequelae? She hit her head on the ground when she fainted. Could it have hurt her brain? She won't become a fool, will she?"

"...The swelling will go down in a couple of days. She won't become a fool."

The corner of Gao Qinghe’s mouth twitched.

The movement of her facial muscles pulled at the bump on her forehead, and an incredibly real sense of pain struck her instantly.

This forced her to accept the fact that she had been brought back forty years by that thing in her head calling itself the 'Good Woman System.'

And she had become the foil to the villainous, wicked woman in a period novel.

It was a period novel titled *Virtuous Wife and Good Mother*.

It told the story of the smart and kind heroine, Hao Huaping, who, after graduating from university and starting work, met and fell in love with the widower Zhou Zhenghua, who had a daughter. Eventually, they overcame worldly prejudices and numerous obstacles to achieve a happy ending.

In the book, the heroine Hao Huaping was a great people's teacher.

She cherished her poor stepdaughter, used love to reform her patriarchal mother-in-law, and relied on her father’s connections to wholeheartedly support her husband’s career.

She also gave birth to a son with the male lead and took a talented woman from a prestigious family as her daughter-in-law.

Her stepdaughter was cultivated by her into a college student, and after graduation, she devoted herself to rural education.

After the male lead, Zhou Zhenghua, achieved success in his career, he did not forget his humble wife. The couple was very loving, often attending various charity events together, and were the quintessential model couple in their circle.

At sixty, Hao Huaping had a harmonious family, both a son and a daughter, and became the most beautiful lady praised by everyone.

A hundred years later, the couple was buried in the same tomb, their lives complete.

And what about Gao Qinghe?

In the book, she was the male lead Zhou Zhenghua’s ambiguous childhood neighbor, who loved him but couldn't have him, and turned that love into hate.

Arrogant, irritable, vicious, money-grubbing, selfish... these were all adjectives used to describe her.

She spent her whole life dedicated to destroying the couple’s relationship and their family harmony.

After the male lead’s first wife died in childbirth, she took advantage of the situation, hypocritically helping to raise the child and take care of Zhou Zhenghua’s mother.

Just when she thought she could take the top spot, the heroine Hao Huaping appeared and snatched it away.

In a fit of rage, she married the coal boss Jiang Baohai, whom she had previously rejected on a blind date.

Every day, she made her husband sabotage the male and female leads.

As a result, not only did she make the couple’s bond grow deeper, but in the end, she caused her husband to go to prison and her younger brother to be beaten to death by gangsters.

Her younger sister dropped out of school, was deceived into being taken to a remote mountain village, and never managed to leave the mountains for the rest of her life.

Her mother died young in middle age, and her widowed father was left in the village, unable to hold his head up.

As for her, she ended up wandering the streets, a crazy woman everyone wanted to beat.

"A crazy woman?"

After reading the plot, Gao Qinghe laughed in anger.

She, Gao Qinghe!

The wife of the richest man in the Southwest!

Just a moment ago, at her sixtieth birthday banquet, she was wearing a custom-made piece from a top luxury brand, holding a crystal wine glass, sporting a perfectly maintained face that didn't look a day over sixty, and maintaining a curvaceous, devilish figure, accepting the flattery of all the guests as a successful woman.

She would become a crazy woman?

Sensing her murderous intent, the system remained unhurried.

【In fact, that birthday banquet was the peak of your life. Twenty minutes after the banquet, the special task force was going to storm the banquet hall to arrest Jiang Baohai, and your fate was about to take a sharp turn for the worse.】

Gao Qinghe’s eyes were cold.

The system continued, unhurried: 【I apologize for taking the liberty of bringing you back to 1989 and causing you such a fright.】

【Please allow me to formally introduce myself. I am the Good Woman Cultivation System. You can call me Xiao Hao, Xiao Nv, Xiao Ren, or Xiao Xi, Xiao Tong, or you can give me a nickname if you like.】

【First, congratulations on receiving a chance to turn over a new leaf.】

【As long as you follow the system’s prompts to complete tasks, reform yourself, strive to be a virtuous wife and good mother to gain the male lead’s favor, you can change your tragic fate, take the heroine’s place, and be reborn.】

Gao Qinghe: "Get lost!"

The system trembled. It thought to itself, as expected of a vicious female supporting character, she has no manners.

Gao Qinghe swept her eyes around, grabbed the wooden mallet next to the washbasin stand, and without hesitation, aimed it at her own head and struck hard.

The system screamed: 【Host, what are you doing!】

Gao Qinghe ignored it.

Some bullshit system, daring to tell her what to do?

Although she was sixty, she stayed up late surfing the internet every single day.

She used the most expensive face masks, had the most advanced medical beauty treatments, and stayed up the latest.

She had read plenty of web novels; in those stories, the systems and hosts were symbiotic.

She wanted to see, if she died, could this damn system still survive!

The system was terrified.

【Detected that the host has a strong suicidal tendency and a poor attitude toward repentance. Initiating punishment mechanism immediately...】

【Punishment one!】

A strong electric current suddenly hit Gao Qinghe. She couldn't hold the wooden mallet, and it fell to the ground with a dull thud.

She froze for a moment, then turned and slammed her head against the mud wall.

【Host is incorrigible and has a poor attitude. Punishment two!】

An even stronger electric current struck Gao Qinghe, making her unable to stand. She fell to her knees, her whole body convulsing, tears streaming down her face, unable to stop herself from making painful sounds.

The system thought she had learned her lesson, having given two sticks and preparing to offer a carrot to soothe her.

It never expected that while convulsing, she would poke a slender finger, trembling, into the scattered power strip holes on the floor.

The system was incredulous, horrified, flustered, and at a loss... it started to cry.

A bad woman who bullies the system!

With a sobbing tone, the system issued its final electric shock warning

【Punishment three... wuwuwu~】

Gao Qinghe was shocked unconscious.

When she woke up again, she was in the county hospital bed.

With a large, blue bump on her forehead.

The Good Woman System shivered, not daring to make a sound.

It only silently added one line to its host’s [Arrogant, Irritable, Vicious, Money-grubbing, Selfish] profile: [Wolf-level Ruthless].

More ruthless than a wolf!

(End of chapter)