From Fishing Boat Hand to Meteorology Expert

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Blurb:

When Jiang Zhi opened her eyes again, she was back in 1979.

After dying, she unexpectedly discovered that she was the dead wife of the male lead in a business novel aimed at male readers.

Her entire existence revolved around the male lead:

The male lead needed a beautiful wife, so fate forced her to leave home with nowhere else to turn but to marry him.

The male lead wanted to cultivate the image of a golden bachelor, so both her children died in a fire before they were a year old.

Jiang Zhi: ...This plot is seriously messed up!

If she couldn’t afford to cross him, she could at least stay away, right?

Jiang Zhi promptly packed her things and ran, heading straight for Pengcheng Harbor, where she became a proud... fishing boat deckhand!

Fisherman A: It’s about to rain. Deckhand, hurry back to shore!

Jiang Zhi: Nonsense! There won’t be a drop of rain for miles. Get the nets down, and make sure you cast them properly!

Fisherman A looked at the dark clouds overhead and argued his case.

But half an hour later, not a drop of rain had fallen. As Jiang Zhi returned with a boat full of fish, everyone was left eating their words.

And you call that an ordinary deckhand?

Jiang Zhi had a secret since childhood.

She could predict the weather, knowing when it would rain and when the wind would blow.

Thanks to that, the fishing boats she went out on always returned safely and fully loaded.

She used her secret to build a fortune and grow her business, becoming a wealthy merchant everyone envied.

Until later, when her ex-husband, also reborn but constantly thwarted at every turn, failed to win her back and reported her for profiteering, hoping to force her into marriage...

Jiang Zhi promptly tossed aside her fishing nets and clapped her hands, dissolving her business and joining the weather station on the island.

She picked up her books again and chose to start at the bottom as a civilian employee in the military district.

When severe weather approached, she predicted it in advance and directed deployments with precision, keeping military personnel and civilians safe.

When meteorological equipment proved inadequate, she used her golden finger to work backward from the data, continually researching and improving it, greatly advancing the study of meteorology.

People in later generations would marvel at how crucial her choice had been.

[Let’s look back at the pioneers who brought dawn to our nation’s meteorology. If she had stayed on the path of entrepreneurship, meteorology wouldn’t have advanced by leaps and bounds like it has today!]

*

At twenty-five, Regiment Commander Duan Shiyu has a bright future and a handsome face. He should be quite a catch.

But finding him a wife has become the biggest headache for everyone on the island, because he’s utterly clueless about romance!

Everyone is curious about what kind of extraordinary woman will finally win over the notoriously high-minded Commander Duan.

Until one day, someone sees him following the island’s new meteorological expert around, serving her tea and water and doing every chore without complaint...

When someone asks how the two met, Duan Shiyu takes off his waterproof apron and calmly replies:

“It was a sunny afternoon. I was on leave, back home and resting.”

“And then someone introduced you to Expert Jiang?”

“...Then she came to my door to sell fish, and I caught her profiteering.”

[A bold, resilient, grass-like fisherwoman vs. a stern, devoted military officer who says one thing but means another]

1. The ex-husband is reborn; he is not the male lead.

2. This is a fictional setting with an entirely imagined backdrop.

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Blurb:

As the Empire’s most popular Omega, Princess Yuluo is beautiful and nobleborn, the apple of the royal family’s eye. She has every quality of an untouchable flower.

Everyone secretly wonders what kind of Alpha someone as perfect as her could possibly fall for.

The ever-loyal knight commander by her side?

The refined young duke she has been engaged to since childhood, her childhood sweetheart?

Or the marquis who has spent years stationed abroad, defending the border?

Until one day, Yuluo has a dream.

She has become the villainess in a melodramatic romance novel. The more impressive her backstory is at first, the more stupid the author makes her later on whenever she tries to cause trouble for the leads.

The male lead is an Alpha who has just transferred into the academy. According to the author, he was born lowly, yet is cool-headed and resolute. Despite enduring a lifetime of unfair treatment from fate, he remains unyielding.

Yuluo falls in love with him at first sight, but doesn’t know how to express her feelings because of her personality. So she keeps picking on him, pushing him farther and farther away, until he comes to hate her and vows that one day, when their positions are reversed, he will trample her underfoot.

In the end, he succeeds.

The story ends with the male lead overthrowing the Empire and establishing a Federation, wielding immense power and glory. The heroine, a daughter of a minor noble family, never gets her unrequited love returned, but she stood by the male lead from beginning to end, providing him with resources and connections. Her family rises with her, soaring to the top overnight.

Everyone gets a happy ending. Only Yuluo, the wicked villainess who made trouble at every turn, ends up hated by all, with her family destroyed and her country fallen.

The princess, soon to lose her family and be trampled underfoot, looks thoroughly disdainful. “Tsk.”

*

Ulysses has never considered himself a lucky person.

A drunken father, a timid mother, and a broken home always on the brink of collapse. If he weren’t an Alpha with a strong physique, he might have died in some corner long ago.

Later, he receives an admission letter from Saint Lian Academy, the paradise every commoner student dreams of attending. He thinks this will be a fresh start, and that he can finally have a home without shouting.

“Our academy doesn’t have many rules. There’s only one thing you need to remember: be careful. You can offend anyone you like, just don’t offend Her Highness the Princess,” the senior student responsible for orientation warns him.

It’s not that the princess has a bad temper. On the contrary, she’s the kindest person he’s ever met. It’s just that there are plenty of Alphas at the academy who call themselves the princess’s dogs, all jealously watching anyone who tries to get close to her.

Ulysses misunderstands and takes the warning to heart. He sticks to certain areas, avoids talking to anyone unless absolutely necessary, and lives like a ghost.

Until a week later, when someone forcibly presses down on his shoulders and makes him kneel.

The princess, whose temper is said to change without warning, sits in the seat of honor. Her gaze roams over him again and again, undisguised, before finally settling on his face. Her voice is cruel:

“You’re more qualified to be my dog than they are.”

*

The princess is cruel.

She bullies him, controls him, toys with his feelings, then discards him without hesitation...

Ulysses grits his teeth and swears that one day he’ll turn the tables and bring her to her knees.

But at the coronation of the Crown Princess, he kneels as her newly appointed knight. His red eyes blaze with a blood-red fervor he can’t hide as he pledges his loyalty to her:

“I swear on my life: until the Grim Reaper claims my soul, I will belong entirely to you. Your will shall be the light that guides my path.”

“I swear by my blood and sword to protect the princess forever.”

#Reader advisory:

1. Special setting: Royal family members with royal blood are naturally unaffected by heat and rut. The heroine can smell pheromones but cannot be influenced by them, and cannot be permanently marked.

2. The author wrote this while losing their mind over their personal tastes. The male lead will suffer.

3. The heroine is wicked, spoiled, reckless, and always looks down on everyone from above.

4. The male lead is a virgin. At first he suffers and resists; later, he kneels and begs for the heroine’s attention, taking joy in what she loves and hating what she hates.

5. Fictional setting with a lightly Western fantasy-inspired backdrop.

Theme: It’s better to rely on yourself than on others.