Reborn as the Villainous Cannon Fodder in a 1970s Novel

Transmigrate into a book + male-male leads + period setting + building wealth

Jiang Zhi wakes up to find himself inside the novel "The Lucky Girl of the Seventies", as the younger brother of a sent-down youth who picks fights with the heroine, Xie Tangtang. Jiang Zhi is a sent-down youth tricked into going to the countryside by his stepfather. As the child of a martyr, he was exempt from being sent down, but his younger half-sister and biological mother conspire to send him in someone else’s place. Once there, he and his villainous older brother relentlessly target the heroine. In the end, she sees through them and strikes back, leaving him to die alone and sick.

Xie Ke is a soldier discharged due to injury. He should have been entitled to the best benefits and been able to go home to recuperate, but when his biased mother learns that he is gravely ill and needs money for treatment, she promptly splits the family apart. Besides his injured leg, Xie Ke is also heartbroken. But he survives, only for his family to keep playing the victim and exploiting him. In the end, he dies young and sick. Given another life, he is determined to stay far away from his parasitic family.

Together with the whole village, they build prosperity. This is a fictional setting. Open ending.