Name: Newlyweds in 1970: The Widow Foil in a Period Novel
Author: Congee Fish Tuo Tuo

Synopsis

From the start, Lin Su had been dealt a terrible hand. In everyone’s eyes, she was a scheming woman who would stop at nothing to marry into the city.

Captain Gu, the most promising, aloof, and distinguished man in the family compound, was framed and forced to marry an illiterate country girl.

Everyone in the compound waited to laugh at him and see just how uncouth his bride would be.

But before she had even married him, word spread that she had accomplished something remarkable and received a factory award for “exceptional intelligence.”

On their wedding day, the pretty bride smiled at everyone she met, her eyes crescent-shaped and her dimples faint. She was impossible not to like.

Then the bride was specially hired by the massive machinery factory, becoming the highest-paid person in the entire compound.

Wait, what?! How was this an illiterate country girl?!

Only after marrying him did Lin Su learn that she had transmigrated into a book, ending up in a melodramatic period novel about a widow.

As a minor character in the original story, what was there to do but grab a stool and watch the drama unfold?

The usually aloof Captain Gu looked up at her coolly, then filled her palm with sunflower seeds and said, his voice tinged with indulgence, “Eat while you watch.”

Other names

A Delicate Bride Arrives at the Compound in the 1970s七零大院来了个娇媳妇Alternate title on Fanqie

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