After My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Hitched Myself to a Big Shot in The 1970S

Li Xia transmigrates into a period novel as a beautiful but lazy, greedy character with a bad reputation. According to the plot, she'll first set her sights on a battalion commander who's returned to his hometown to visit his family. But the female lead, a woman reborn into the same village, seizes the opportunity and gets to him first, ruining Li Xia's reputation in the process. Li Xia decides to stop causing trouble and pursue another battalion commander instead, hoping to escape her miserable situation. But after they get engaged verbally, her cousin sticks her nose into things. The man breaks off the engagement and turns around to marry the cousin. Fine, fine. So one after another, they're all stepping on her to climb higher, huh? Seething with anger, Li Xia turns her attention to the battalion commander's superior, Regiment Commander Gu Baiyang. - For several days in a row, Regiment Commander Gu, who's come to the countryside to relax, has been watching her make a fool of herself. Li Xia gives up on changing her fate by getting married. She stops his car and asks, “Regiment Commander Gu, do you need a housekeeper? Could you take me to the provincial capital?” “A housekeeper?” Gu Baiyang scoffs lazily. “I've already got one in the back seat.” In the back seat, her former nemesis gives her a smug smile. “Xiaxia, I'm going to work as Regiment Commander Gu's housekeeper.” Li Xia is dumbfounded, but when she thinks of the horrifically miserable fate awaiting her, she can't give up this lifeline, no matter what. “Then, Regiment Commander Gu, do you need a girlfriend?” Gu Baiyang: “...” So she really is a scheming woman, bent on climbing the social ladder. The man gives her a cold look, steps on the gas, and speeds away. Li Xia watches the dust billowing in the air and sighs. Looks like she'll have to stay in the village and deal with all the troublemakers. But before long, the man drives back and says coldly: “Didn't you want to go to the provincial capital?” “Get in.” Li Xia: “...” - Theme: Work hard to make life better.