A Beauty Like Honey in the Eighties

Just when she thought that, halfway through her life, she was destined to achieve nothing, she received news that she had scored well on that year's college entrance exam and could have gone to university in the capital. Someone had taken her place and rewritten her life. To uncover the truth, she sought out Xiao Shengtian, a former neighbor who had since risen to great success. Back then, he had told her, “If anything happens, come to me.” The moment she called, Xiao Shengtian, now a prominent figure, rushed over without hesitation to help investigate the long-buried truth. Just as everything was about to come to light, she was reborn. She returned to age seventeen, when she was the prettiest girl in all the surrounding villages and a celebrated talent in the commune. Xiao Shengtian, meanwhile, was just a wild, unruly boy whom everyone avoided like the plague. With a foxtail grass stem between his teeth, he raised his thick brows and grinned at her with bright, brazen eyes. “Back from school, high school girl?” Reborn, Gu Qingxi wants to start over and put her life back on track. She also wants to ask the question she's been longing to ask. So she tilted her head and softly asked him, “Were you waiting here just for me?” And for the first time in his life, the fearless Xiao Shengtian blushed. Upcoming story: The 1980s: Marrying the Neighbor, Old Wang (original title: The 1980s: Swapping Husbands) Dongmai's husband is no good in bed, but she doesn't know any better. She thinks that's just how it is, and that life is fine. The demobilized soldier next door, Shen Ming, gets married, but before the wedding banquet is even over, his new bride is demanding a divorce. Dongmai goes over to talk her out of it. The bride says, “He's mean and fierce, never says a word, and he's dirt poor!” Dongmai speaks from the heart: “Shen Ming earned honors in the army and has seen the world. Once the reforms come, if he works hard, you'll have a good life.” Who knew the bride would snap back, “Then why don't you marry him? If you want to, you marry him. Stop trying to talk me into it!” Dongmai has no idea that the bride has just been reborn from a year in the future. She knows Shen Ming is about to fall into a trap, and she's finally come to her senses: she wants money, not love. Dongmai can't persuade her. The neighbor gets divorced, and Dongmai, unable to have children and despised by her in-laws, gets divorced too. Later, Dongmai marries Shen Ming, the poor neighbor everyone looked down on, while the former bride marries Dongmai's wealthy ex-husband. The two women swap men, remain neighbors, and go about their lives seeing each other every day. Everyone says Dongmai and Shen Ming are a perfect match: one can't have children, and the other is dirt poor. Shen Ming's career takes off and he makes a fortune, while Dongmai gives birth to two children in a row! The reborn ex-wife is dumbfounded, and the ex-husband, who still has no children, is mortified. -- Shameless promo time! -- 1) My sweet, completed stories are waiting for you in my author page: Born to Be Empress / Back in the Marquis's Household / A Lady Marquis Appears Out of Nowhere / The General's Little Darling / The Royal Darling Fubao's Seventies / Miya's Seventies / A Sweet Wife's Seventies / Five Powerful Men Kneel Before Me and Call Me Mom 2) Visit my author page to soak up some good luck and give it a follow: tap the top right, then Author Page, then Follow. Theme: Work hard, build a fortune, and make a good life in the 1980s