The Cannon Fodder Wife's Comeback to Wealth [The 1980S]

[A career-minded beauty with maxed-out cooking skills x a loyal, brilliant researcher] [A practice piece set in the 1970s. The ending is a little rushed, so subscribe at your discretion.] 1: Pei Li, who had spent half her life working in the food industry, transmigrated into a book, landing in a melodramatic 1970s novel about a pampered, beloved heroine. She became the cannon-fodder wife of the original novel’s villainous tycoon. The original Pei Li was so fat and lazy that no one in the village would marry her. She married a man her father had rescued along the way, but after the wedding she kept making trouble and forcing her injured husband to do hard labor for money. His condition worsened until he was half-paralyzed, and he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. But Pei Li knew that the bedridden man before her would eventually escape the Pei family, build a business empire with his own hands, and become the biggest villainous tycoon on the original heroine’s road to wealth. Pei Li looked at the shabby adobe house, the penniless family, and the body that left her panting after just a few steps. Fat? Fine, I’ll lose weight! A business empire? I can build one too. A villainous tycoon? If I can’t afford to offend him, I’ll pamper him and send him on his way. Isn’t that enough?! But once his legs were healed, and his father, an army commander, came looking for him, the man refused to leave. He called her “darling wife” at every turn and doted on her to the point of spoiling her. Relying on her skills, she started small with a street stall, then moved from a traveling stall in town to a shop in the city. Before long, she had opened a chain of restaurants, and her business was booming. She reinvested her profits, making money from money, and rose to become the richest person in the country. The villagers who had once mocked the fat girl and watched her for a laugh stared in shock as her family moved from the village to town, then to a villa in the city, climbing ever higher. [Coming soon: “The Daily Life of a Dual-Income Couple Raising a Child in the 1970s.” Please add it to your collection!] In the residential compound, the young couple living in the eastern wing were the neighbors’ favorite sweethearts. After graduating from medical school, Su Xuezhen became a pediatrician at a hospital. Cen Bai completed his military service and was assigned to the police station. Their families were a good match, and after being introduced by a matchmaker, they fell in love at first sight and married. Su Xuezhen was lovely and sweet, with a wonderful disposition. Cen Bai was tall and dashing, and their life together was blissful. A year later, Su Xuezhen became pregnant. Just when she thought her happy life would continue like this, she suddenly came down with a high fever one night. When she woke up, she discovered she had gained a special ability: when she touched someone’s hand, she could hear their thoughts. A family moved into the compound, a husband and wife with a little boy. On moving day, the wife, Gu Hongqing, came to visit with a basket of egg cakes, but kept glancing into the house. Su Xuezhen reached out to take them and touched her hand. The next moment, she heard Gu Hongqing’s thoughts: “That poor fool actually has a pretty face.” Su Xuezhen: “???” It wasn’t until she heard more of Gu Hongqing’s thoughts that she realized this was a 1970s novel, and her family was the original heroine’s foil. In the book, both families had two working parents. The original heroine’s family seized the opportunities to get rich, becoming wealthy and renowned business magnates. Her family, on the other hand, stuck to their old ways and clung to their jobs. All they could do was envy the other family and breathe in their car exhaust as they trailed behind. Getting rich overnight isn’t the only measure of success. Su Xuezhen said, “There’s nothing shameful about keeping my job through my own hard work!” Gu Hongqing had transmigrated into a 1970s novel as its lucky heroine. She knew her neighbors were the foil family, always destined to be outdone by hers. But she waited and waited, only to see Su Xuezhen become a nationally renowned pediatrician and Cen Bai earn the title of National First-Class Hero Model after solving one cold case after another. In the end, their family was on a completely different path from hers. Reader’s Guide: 1: The male and female leads are natives of this world, born after 1955 according to their ages, and have certain limitations in their outlook. 2: The heroine can hear people’s thoughts by touching their hands, but mainly uses this ability for pediatric treatment and to deal with scumbags. This is not a wish-fulfillment story about getting rich. 3: A slice-of-life story with lots of child-rearing scenes, including a second child. It follows the ordinary life of a dual-income family in the mid-1970s. Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.