Li Meng, the Village Girl Who Turned Her Life Around

Name: Li Meng, the Village Girl Who Turned Her Life Around
Author: Wishing You Peace and Joy Year After Year

村姑李梦的逆袭人生

by Wishing You Peace and Joy Year After Year (岁岁欣安)

Status: Completed
Length: 1.1M Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 1y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

In the countryside of a tumultuous era, there are always dirty secrets that can't be spoken of.

To help her brother marry, the young Li Meng is forced to quit school and pressured into marriage. She pins her hopes on the boyfriend she has only just started dating.

But her boyfriend coldly abandons her for the sake of his future, leaving without a word.

In despair, Li Meng can only obey her family's arrangements and marry Zhou Mo, a young man with a terrible reputation in the village.

Li Meng has already resolved to accept her fate and make the best of things, but then she suffers a terrible humiliation.

On their wedding night, Zhou Mo makes an excuse to leave and slips into the woods with his former lover. The relationship the newlyweds haven't even begun to build is shattered completely.

After just three days as Zhou Mo's wife, Li Meng becomes one of millions of women left behind when he goes away to work.

And that's not all. Her mother-in-law is also involved in an illicit affair.

Li Meng doesn't want to spend the rest of her life tangled up with these awful people, so she resolves to fight back.

But her brother has gone away to work, and her father is an eccentric. Li Meng has no help or support.

At her most desperate moment, Zhao Huaiyi, the teacher who once shared a brief romance with her, steps in decisively and helps her regain her freedom.

But in this deeply feudal and backward place, she can't return to her husband's family, and her own family won't take her in. Where can she go?

This book tells the story of the clash between new and old ideas in the 1990s, and of a heroine who resists arranged marriages and bravely pursues love and a career.

There are no golden fingers. This is a realistic story, not a pure wish-fulfillment novel, and it depicts the real circumstances of women left behind in that era.

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537Chapters

6.4kReads · 30 days

1.2MReads · all time

513Shelf adds, last 14 days

8.7Score

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