The Green Tea’s Crushing Victories in the ’70s

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Tong Xuelu had the nickname Queen of Green Tea.

She was stunning in looks, has a shapely body, and had a lot of suitors, although she had never been in any serious relationships.

By the time she was done being a green tea and was about to be a nice person, her retribution had caught up to her!

She had transmigrated into a book. Into the 70s where materialistic goods were rare and she was a poor soul who was the fake daughter of a wealthy family!

Per the story, she would be face slapped by the real daughter who was rebirthed, be married to an old man who had once been married, and finally die from domestic violence.

Tong XueLu: ……I’d rather continue to be a green tea.

Raise three bosses of the future and be a salted fish such that all she had to do was to lay around and wait for things to be handed to her. [check]

Cheat her way into a government-run restaurant and have good food every day. [check]

Use her agility and wit to avoid being faceslapped by the real daughter. [check]

As far as an excellent green tea was concerned, she would be able to handle any scripts handed to her and still end up the winner.

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Wen Rugui, a physicist, was young, handsome and had his entire life ahead of him. He had, however, let his research distracted him from starting a family.

All of his bosses were eyeing him to become part of their family.

Until one day.

Wen Rugui brought a charming girl into his research facility and with love in his eyes announced, “This is my fiancee. We are here to report our upcoming matrimony.”

His bosses: Shocked beyond words.

His female colleagues: All hearts are broken.

Tong XueLu: Sorry, all. My charm is but a passive skill.

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The Green Tea’s Crushing Victories
满级绿茶在年代文躺赢
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Back to the Sixties: Farm, Get Wealthy & Raise the Cubs (3)
How to Thrive in the ’60s (2)
Villainess Wants To Turn Over A New Leaf (2)
Transmigrating into a Novel: My Cannon Fodder Husband is Almighty (2)
Strict Wife of the ’70s Manages the Household (2)
Almighty Military Wife (2)
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lynhsk
lynhsk rated it
June 30, 2021
Status: c1
I would recommend this book as a good read. It touches on mental health illness and the encouragement the ML has from the FL. Really a touching story!
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ttukkisama
ttukkisama rated it
June 8, 2021
Status: Completed
This is actually quite good novel. The plot, the characters are all pretty good.

The minus point is too much patriotism, but considering the timeline of the plot, is understandable.

Another minus point is how some of the MC's abilities was too abrupt and doesn't make sense. It just appeared suddenly when she needed it.

Other than that this is a pretty decent novel.
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JennTheAddict
JennTheAddict rated it
June 1, 2021
Status: Completed
One of the best novels I've read in its genre. I especially love the female MC. The best portrayal of a strong female lead that actually solves the majority of her problem herself.
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Pau
Pau rated it
May 13, 2021
Status: Completed
Not bad.

What I really like about this story is there's no cheat like system or magical space.

But I think the story can be polished more. MC's life is too smooth sailing, and some part need more detailed plot.
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Kei-Em03
Kei-Em03 rated it
April 23, 2021
Status: Completed
MTL: about 3.5☆ readable enough.

Review: 4.5☆ good read ❤

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It didnt take the usual route of other novels in this era like selling things in the black market to be rich. They go to work. They get rich slowly too. Issues come their way and its good at keeping readers at their toes. I love the novel's concept of a green tea female protagonist. She's not the goody two shoes. She's smart, feisty, scheming and cunning but definitely not in the bad way. I like that everytime someone wronged her, she would most likely plot to send them to jail (or to farm for rehabilitation in this era). They dont kill the antagonist personally, but through the justice system with true evidence. I like that some antagonist died on their own. There are times that she's powerless, but she will surely beat people back, and sometimes on a weird way. The novel is not heavyly focused on just romance, but well rounded. There are bits of her in family-siblings interactions, workplace, school, business, friends, romance with ML, etc. Alot of cooking at the first half. I like that problems come up every now and then. Problems are also not easy peasy. I like that it happens just when things started to slow down and relaxing. Problems come up and you will be wondering how she would solved it.

I love ML, for being the shy and innocent one. Especially when MC is the one who will always take advantage and eat his tofu. I love how MC is the green tea and ML is the cold face with a sharp tongue. And I feel awful for ML when it was slowly revealed how he was treated when he was a a child and when his mental state collapses.

The brothers and sister of MC is adorable, specially MianMian. MC and ML's kids are superduper adorable. The girl inherited ML's cold face and sharp tongue. While the boy inherited MC's green tea attitude 😂. Lots of cute kids moment, there's alot of funny moments with ML and his friends too.

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wisheswerefishes
wisheswerefishes rated it
March 11, 2025
Status: --
I completed this. In the raws, this is 163 chapters (276 pages in the raw version I found). The chapters available on FC (that are not behind a paywall) stop at about halfway through the actual story, and I finished the novel in the raw (by right-clicking translate to English in Chrome) which worked beautifully. I wished I had done that from the start, and I would not have had to been confused through the entire first half of the story by the constant wrong names and wrong words being... more>> transposed in the text.

That's for the translation. As for the story itself, I finished it at any rate. I really liked the novel at first. Like a lot of online novels, it started out very strong but kind of floundered in the second half. The MC has a very cold personality and she is very strong. I love an OP MC, so that was great for me. The ML was not a typical ML, and that was a nice surprise, but ended up not being my cup of tea. I should have paid closer attention to the tags, because it just wasn't to my taste.

The story was good, but the pacing was off. By the time the MC graduated college, it felt like the story should have wrapped up, but it went on with time-jumps and multiple arcs that, in my opinion, dragged on too much, and were not very riveting. I'm glad I read it, but it was a struggle to finish and I won't be re-reading it. When I swapped to the raws and saw how much novel was actually left, instead of feeling excited I felt a little bummed out - if that makes sense. It just dragged.

Someone in the reviews said that the MC only cared about herself, and I would say that the person who wrote that probably never finished the novel, because the MC ends up loving the ML very much. She didn't instantly love her new family (believable), but she did grow to love them. She wasn't a likable type of character though. Its hard to pull off a tough, smart, unforgiving FL and have her also be likable, but it can be done. I enjoy that vibe a lot more tbh.

All in all it was okay, but not great and I won't be rereading it. It got 3 stars from me because I was willing to read the entire thing, I liked that it diverged from the usual transmigration story with the ML being the innocent person in the relationship, and I thought it was fairly realistic in people's thoughts and actions. It wasn't too stressful to read, and things were resolved in a timely manner. I took off those two stars because it got boring in the second half and because the MC didn't really give many warm-fuzzy feelings. I like a tighter plot and more sweet/happy feelings in a romance. <<less
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Shaw Johnson
Shaw Johnson rated it
October 8, 2024
Status: c300
Started out okay but progressively became infuriating and horrid.

True to the title, MC is indeed a green tea. Shameless, self-serving and thirsty. From the get go, she only approaches people and help out with benefits involved. Aside from that, she just stands and pretends to be air.

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Come 300+ chapters or so, her Co-worker QingQing which she has a fairly good relationship with at work clearly had troubles and last chapter I read before dropping, the bastard manager am her was now apparently in a relationship. Clearly she was being forced. MC also knew she was timid. If you ask me why she didn't help any sooner was because she wasn't that beneficial compared to the others she helped out cause of clear benefits. Worse is MC has an attitude that she is high and mighty all the time.

Oh and MC is partially at fault btw, she riled up the manager. She also isn't clueless about it but just doesn't want to help yet.

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Couldn't stand anymore how she keeps on pretending and being so self important.


Read other green teas before but this was the worst, especially with the MC. She's no better than the dogs she looks down upon when she just extends her hands for benefits.

The others at least actually had solid ground to stand on when taking the moral high ground and such. MC here goes beyond where she really stands. <<less
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kritika8624
kritika8624 rated it
September 15, 2024
Status: Completed
I am madly in this novel. Every character has their own charm and uniques. My favourite thing is that FL and ML both have their shortcomings, they aren't perfect. Unlike other novel where women is the enemy of women, in this novel women have their own brains and not everyone female character is falling in love with ML which I find I quiet refreshing. The character of children are fablous. You'll get to see a lot of comedy and drama in this. In short everyone should read this.
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Xise19
Xise19 rated it
June 28, 2024
Status: c449
I'M GONNA CRY.I LOVE IT.

MC is a smart green tea, I love how smart she are. MC also don't mess with anyone if they don't provoke her. She help people while also trying to get a better life. Her social skill are crazy. She's easy going and funny.I love her.

The story contains childcare, romance, comedy, family's love... My heart feel fulfilled. It's the first time that I read so many chapters without getting bored, to be honest I read 449 chapter in 2 days on WuxiaClick.

ML is such a male... more>> wife, I really like him!He's the perfect husband.

The antagonist were just s*upid, I really hated them all to be honest.

The 3 siblings of MC are so funny and adorable.

Great story! <<less
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Akime yuko
Akime yuko rated it
December 18, 2023
Status: Completed
One of my favorite of this genre and author. I really love the progress of ML and FL relationship and how scheming the FL are, also love the siblings relationship. Overall a solid 10/10 and a very enjoyable read for me not a boring chapter either
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MakiG
MakiG rated it
August 31, 2023
Status: Completed
4 starssss supposedly. Really nice read, MC was not too OP and ML is super sad backstory but sweet despite some disabilities. Agree with the person who said too much shooting. Lol.
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LiterallyNobody
LiterallyNobody
June 20, 2023
Status: Completed
At first, I think the ML and the FL wasn't quite a match or maybe because I was just used to an assertive type of ML. I also stopped reading it about 92 chapters as it wasn't complete yet and I don't have the patience to wait haha

Anyways, I pick it up all again now. And I can say that their dynamics is good and I actually like the ML very much. Aside from him, doing everything for the FL, what I like the most is when he realized that... more>> if a girl (that not the FL) is trying to make a moved on him he would totally break their fantasy and be straightforward about how he didn't like them.

P.S. Still not completed so might edit it later

Edit; 06/21/2023

So, I decided to read in MTL and finished it.

I don't really know how to articulate my review concisely but here's my review after finishing the whole story:

First of all, I just want acknowledge the plot twist near the end

where
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ML was revealed to be actually suffering from schizophrenia. Altho, if you observe it all throughout the story you'd actually see some clues, but idk I have a theory that maybe the author doesn't know how to make a transition of ML from being shy and reserved one to a kind of domineering ML? Tho, I'm not sure about it but coming from FL's POV wherein she said that ML became more possessive of her? Or something near that.

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Next, the small details, as I said in my earlier review I kinda feel like the romance between the FL, Tong Xuelu, and the ML, Wen Rugui, isn't an emphasis and also the romance factor is lacking but
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reading further more in the story, I realized that they're quite sweet and full of love. Though, maybe what gives me that kind of thought in the beginning is because their love language was quite subtle, you wouldn't notice it at first but you observe you'll have that kind of sweet feeling in you.

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Xuelo learns that Rugui like fish, so after (although even before they did) they confirmed their relationship you could observe all throughout the story that everytime Rugui is at home or Xuelo goes to his workplace, she would always cook fish in different kind of dishes which is just so sweet

or for Rugui, since he doesn't really know how to pursue a girl or be romantic at all, he would try to learn from people around him and writing notes about it which is in my eyes it's like wanting to make a memo about it or it was that important to wrote it down. Altho, Huang Min's advice was quite funny tho, it went well for the ML most of the time but Zhou Yan? He's funny guy

and never learns actually cause every HM's advice most probably failed him yet he always obeys it. Yet it was quite commendable that he's going that far just to pursue his girlfriend, knowing that era where patriarchy is prevalent.

Next, let's talk about certain side characters:

  1. Gu Yilan
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    Idk if I remember her name correctly but I just realized with her character that naive characters are actually more annoying than the antagonists. I really hate her in the part where she actually tried to doubt her husband and Xuelu, it's given but Xuelu at that time is comitted to Rugui already. Also, it adds to the fact that maybe she was coax by Tong Zhenzhen. I mean why would you believe someone you know for like days or a week over someone you know that is a good person even before you met her. Okay, let's say it's the lack of communication that's why she wasn't close with Xuelu but she was already betrayed by someone she knew since childhood, I think enough to actually be more wart with people around you. Anyways, good thing it ends well for them and maybe that already teach her a lesson.

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  2. Jiang Baihui
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    Again, I'm not sure about the spelling of their names but I just want to say that this character really come so far before she let her horns out. When her character was introduced I'm actually already wary of her, but since she's got so far in the story I feel like maybe she's not that bad, and yet again near the end, she was revealed to be an antagonist.

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  3. Jiang Baihui and Liang Tianyi
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    As I said in the review above, I thought that maybe their character are like supporting protagonist? I mean something like that cause I'm actually very positive about them as the story goes, not until the wedding of Xuelu and Rugui. Jiang Baihui shows like a little signs of blackening which I hope doesn't happen as I go in reading and I was bound to be disappointed unfortunately
    I actually think that maybe they could be like our FL and ML but now that I think about it, I feel like maybe their character are build just so to make an comparison between them and the protagonist as if you observe it, both pairs are quite similar. Rugui being part of the research affairs same as Liang Tianyi and Xuelu being a foreign language student same as Jiang Baihui. In addition, I feel like it wasn't unreasonable for Liang Tianyi to commit that mistake as he has an expectation already. I mean, he was being hired for higher position outside his country, but he chose to be patriotic and comeback yet they made feel like his accomplishment wasn't given an importance.

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PS. Can't write anymore, I'll continue tomorrow or some other time.

Edit;06/23/2023

So, let me just finished my review.

I just want to say that I always think about it whenever the FL did something out of ordinary like not totally like that but something like:
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her saving the siblings (Tong Xiaoming, Tong Jiaxin, Tong Mianmian) with their supposed to be destiny after Tong Zhenzhen's rebirth or saving Xiao Jiu from his kidnappers.

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Idk but I overthink what would be the natural thing that would happened. What do I mean by natural? Like what would have happened in those cases that wasn't supposed to happened if she didn't transmigrate nor would TZZ rebirth. The sibling's future have been told but what about Xiao Jiu?

Would he be saved? Or whatever? Anyways, I'm just curious about it haha!

Also, I would like to add that I didn't realize that the novel has the slice of life tag in it. Maybe that's why I'm a little bit shock when Rugui's grandpa shows signs of aging and how they were told in the novel

I mean that's normal to happen but it's just unexpected for me that the author actually added that little detail. Also, their end in the first life was just so

Speaking of it, I just remembered, so amidst reading the story I realized that Uncle Zong, even though somewhat a servant? Or something like that of Rugui's grandpa, I realized that he was there along way the story yet we don't have any background of his character nor his family. But at the same time I thought about it, the next moment revealed characters telling them they're Uncle Zong's family which of course wasn't true unfortunately

Anyways, I'm not sure if the MTL's not just completed or it wasn't actually told what would happen to some side characters. Like for example, FL's friend which is Fang Jingyuan or her brothers and sister, I'm so invested with her sister, Tong Mianmian, story. I'm just curious if TMM and Xiao Jiu ended up together and if so, how?

Cause their story is just so cute and can be even make to be another book.

Anyways that's it haha <<less
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IrisBay
IrisBay rated it
May 27, 2023
Status: Completed
The character that I really like was the 3rd sibling of the MC. He was funny and thankful. Even though he loves designing, he give up just to follow the steps of his grandpa. Luckily, his wife had a fashion business, so his talent was not totally wasted.

Overall the story was good. It had the good flows from beginning till the end. It wasn't bad at all. Each characters had specific roles.

It was not bad to try reading this novel.
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trash_generalist
trash_generalist rated it
March 3, 2023
Status: Completed
This is my second time reading this novel! The first time, I didn’t have the chance to write a review. I enjoyed it the first time around and read it till the end, this time, I only read up to the 110th chapter, but I dropped it not because I disliked it but because I remember the novel a bit too well XD. So it’s not as exciting as the first time. Anyway, I consider is a pretty good read. Very much worth it for the characters alone. And, as... more>> far as story being set in the 1970s go, it’s very unique because it’s not centered on village life.

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SUMMARY: FL, Tong Xuelu, transmigrates into a novel as the fake daughter of the Tong family. When she transmigrated, the reborn real daughter has already revealed her identity, leading to the original owner hanging herself and being replaced by the FL. ANYWAY, not wanting to become the real daughter’s punching bag, the FL decides to split and live with her biological family (of which only her younger siblings are left). Along the way, she encounters the ML (Wen Rugui) time and again — purposefully, as the ML has facial blindness that doesn’t work on MC.

As mentioned, this novel is set in the 70s, but it’s a little different from the ones I’ve read previously. Mostly due to the focus being on urban living rather than rural living (lots of similar novels start in a village, but this one has them smack down in the Capital City, offering a different perspective of the times).

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THOUGHTS: Actually, the author makes a lot of bold moves. Especially with the main characters. The FL is not the shy and stubborn idiot that you see almost everywhere else. She’s pretty shameless and doesn’t hesitate to get what she wants. In contrast, the ML is portrayed as soft and shy. I love this aspect of the novel most, since the two characters are shown to interact quite a bit. Well, ACTUALLY, most of the important characters here are a lot of fun and quite memorable (not including the cannon fodders and villains, of course. They’re pretty wretched in this story). I recommend reading this for the great interactions between the characters as well as the unique era perspective. It’s a bit dramatic sometimes, there’s always something happening and things become w but overly ridiculous every now and then. But overall, it’s fluffy, sweet, and very satisfying to read. Oh, the MTL is 70-75% readable. The names are fine, some slang doesn’t translate correctly though. And the banter doesn’t always come across right (I’m looking forward to rereading this when the TL is completed!) As for the rating... this novel deserves 4 stars! At least 4.25/5. <<less
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tedy2004
tedy2004 rated it
December 20, 2022
Status: Completed
I really enjoyed this novel, through all its journey, it didn't feel rushed but fast paced, with not whatsoever filler. The author kept the plot, balancing the elements of Genres in this novel and connecting them so well, in the end making it a half-Josei genre.

Especially, the characters, not only the FL and the ML, but others as well, they felt fleshed out. It really helped to read the novel through different pov's, leading to still being interesting.

Overall, I do recommend it. The MTL is 80-85% understandable.

P.S.
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There are bed scenes, which are a bit detailed of the bed scene's aftermath

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Miyacherry
Miyacherry rated it
November 17, 2022
Status: Completed
After reading few transmigration novel on 70's era, I think that the 1st qualification is one should be expert in cooking.

One of the 70's novel that I love reading. One that this set different with other, is the character of the main ML, or should I say, his health condition. I genuinely surprised that this type of novel can dishes this kind of character, and the way it built the tension is done well.

The ending also satisfying.
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Devanshi
Devanshi rated it
November 6, 2022
Status: Completed
This one of the few novels where there is actually character development. The MC is shown logical and a person with iq which is rarely seen. She uses the opportunity presented to her and makes best use of it. Loved the romance, it is at very nice pace and very realise so you actually feel it. Its worth a read
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weewooweewooweewoo
weewooweewooweewoo
December 8, 2021
Status: --
pretty good, especially for this genre. Honestly, she's barely even a green tea to be honest more so just opportunistic

some of the social interactions are really weirdly written like how could this possibly happen IRL, especially with the ML. He's a little too overbearing for my taste but it's still pretty sweet

has typical chinese novel problems with racism/chauvanism/misogyny/anti-lgbt+ stuff

as usual I find it strange how quickly an MC adapts to very more conservative and prejudiced social environment
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Clarimel7
Clarimel7
March 3, 2025
Status: Completed
Highly recommended for "strong female character" lovers.

Tong XueLu has capability, ingenuity, leadership, self awareness, broad-mindedness, and self-love. I truly admired all her decisions. She was hardworking. Don't be misled by the introduction of "pursuit of becoming a salted fish".

Wen RuGui is the loyal man every woman dreams of.
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He has many issues: not recognizing female faces and schizophrenia, but his strong feelings for his partner made him recover and live a better life.

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DeeAnn
DeeAnn
November 16, 2024
Status: Completed
I forget when I read the story... but the story is deeper than the summary, especially withher husband...I like this story so much
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