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Famine in the 70s: Starting with Taking Care of My Brother's Educated Youth Widow

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Li Jianguo was reborn in 1970 filled with regret—his negligence had led to the deaths of his brother's widow Su Xiaotang and her baby during the famine. Now, his brother had just died, leaving Xiaotang, an educated youth (zhiqing), pregnant and labeled a 'jinx' by villagers. Li took them home despite the gossip, using his past-life knowledge of hybrid breeding to secretly grow potatoes and fixing bikes to trade for grain. But when he made sweet egg soup for Xiaotang at night, she asked through teary eyes, 'What do you want?' Was it redemption, or the unspoken love he'd hidden in his past life? As the famine worsened and the village chief tried to transfer Xiaotang to a harsher post, Li clutched his newly harvested potatoes and shouted 'no' to fate for the first time: This time, he'd protect her and the baby, and give Xiaotang all the tenderness he never dared to express in his previous life.

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