The Pretty Young Widow's Life Raising a Child [The 1980s]

Coming next: The Lazy Female Side Character Is Everyone's Darling [The 1980s]. The blurb is at the very bottom. If you're interested, please add it to your want-to-read list~

Blurb:

Designer Jiang Miao transmigrates into a book, becoming a minor widow character in a novel set in a bygone era.

In the book, her husband dies young,

then her vicious mother-in-law and cruel sister-in-law throw her out, and she eventually freezes to death in the bitter wind.

Her young child grows up eating meals provided by neighbors and becomes the story's biggest villain, locked in a bitter struggle with the male lead.

When Jiang Miao transmigrates, she and her child have already been driven into a dilapidated shack at the east end of the village.

In the howling winter wind, the child, lips blue with cold, lies softly against her chest, using its small body to shield her from the wind.

When the child sees her wake up, it calls her in a soft, lisping voice: "Mama."

Jiang Miao's heart melts. She takes the child to the village chief's home and, with tears and a silver tongue, gets back her husband's death benefits and three large tiled-roof houses.

She raises the child to be handsome and well-groomed, widely read, and a leading scientific researcher while still young.

Drawing on the experience she gained in her previous life, she also becomes one of the country's top fashion designers,

even leading a team abroad to compete in various design contests and winning plenty of gold awards.

After winning her first design award, Jiang Miao places a matrimonial ad in the newspaper, hoping to find a considerate, family-oriented man willing to marry into her family.

On the third day the ad has been posted around town, her husband, who was supposedly dead for over a year, comes back...

New book: The Lazy Female Side Character Is Everyone's Darling [The 1980s]

As a top-tier couch potato, Tao Shan transmigrates into a book.

She becomes a tacky, troublesome cannon-fodder villainess in a novel set in a bygone era. She's married to a poor, ugly, abusive man from the village,

and eventually suffers endless abuse before dying horribly at his hands.

After getting her hands on the plot, Tao Shan chooses to marry into the Gu family, whom everyone in the original story looks down on.

In the original story, her husband Gu Yunfeng is never home and only comes back once every few years.

But she alone knows that Gu Yunfeng is doing research in the northwest. Though he rarely comes home, he sends a large allowance back every month.

A life where she doesn't have to take care of her husband and can lie around while money rolls in is simply wonderful.

Before marrying into the Gu family, Tao Shan has a terrible reputation, and she assumes the whole family will despise her.

But to her surprise, her supposedly stern and heartless military father-in-law always brings her snacks,

her fiery, short-tempered mother-in-law makes her beautiful new clothes every day,

and her one-year-old niece even takes chocolate she doesn't want to eat out of her pocket and tries to feed it to Tao Shan.

Even her husband, who spent his whole life in the northwest in the original story, submits a transfer request to return to the capital.

Tao Shan just wants to laze around, but everyone treats her like a darling.

Tao Shan: ? This isn't how the story was supposed to go!

At the research institute, everyone has heard that Group Leader Gu's wife is tacky, difficult, and utterly disagreeable.

They all think it's no wonder their group leader never goes home. He's handsome, well-groomed, comes from a respectable family, and sends so much money home every month. Surely he could find any kind of wife he wanted?

Yet Gu Yunfeng has no intention of divorcing her, and he sends even more money home every month.

Then, during a group business trip, they pass by the Gu home and see Tao Shan waiting at the door in a red dress.

The men are all intensely jealous: Their group leader gets to have a beautiful wife waiting for him, even though he only comes home once every few years. What makes him so special?

If you're interested, please add it to your want-to-read list!

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