Back to the 1980s: Dumping the Jerk and Finding Shelter with the Chaste Factory Director

[Scheming beauty x abstinent, cold-faced factory director + marriage first, love later + devoted husband + putting scumbags in their place + building a career in a bygone era]

Li Xinyue transmigrates into a melodramatic romance novel as a lovesick heroine who treats the deranged male lead like her whole world. She turns the tables and kicks the gloomy, twisted man to the curb.

Then she flashes a dazzling smile and corners the director of the steelworks while he’s on a blind date.

The man is dressed to the nines, his features cold as ice.

Li Xinyue accidentally chases away his blind date once, then twice...

“Director Lu, marry me. I’ll keep trouble off your back, make you look good, and, while I’m at it... borrow your connections?”

Lu Chengzhou’s eyes darken. “What are you up to?”

“Nothing much,” Li Xinyue says, her red lips curling into a smile. “I just want to become a big star everyone can see, in an era when even movies are a rare treat.”

No one expects that the woman everyone once mocked for climbing the social ladder and seeking an easy life will soon use the opportunities Zhou Yanzheng gives her to rise from an ordinary young wife in the steelworks family compound all the way into show business.

She competes for roles and sings patriotic songs. The lovesick girl who once chased after the second male lead now stands onstage, shining so brightly that no one can look away.

When people accuse her of using a man to get ahead, Li Xinyue loops her arm through Zhou Yanzheng’s and smiles boldly. “So what if I’m using the factory director? The stepping stone I chose is steady, and he’s happy to pave the way for me. Can you say the same?”

Zhou Yanzheng watches the woman shining beside him. His Adam’s apple bobs as he swallows the words he’d meant to say, “Stop drawing so much attention to yourself,” and hands her a thermos instead. “Don’t overwork yourself. I’ll pick you up tonight.”