The Sweet and Spirited Young Educated Woman of the 1970s

Updated with about 4,000 words a day, usually in the evening~

After being ground down by the 996 work schedule until she’d lost the will to live, Xia Qingqing howled at the heavens: “I want to live in an era where people don’t have to work overtime, just once!”

She collapsed in front of the livestream camera. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a period novel, becoming the fake heiress who was actually a cannon-fodder character, one who starved herself to death in the book.

At that moment, her birth parents were taking the real heiress to trade away the fake heiress’s future in exchange for a job for the real one.

After a speechless moment, Xia Qingqing dug out her marriage contract, signed up to go to the countryside as an educated youth, and took all her birth parents’ gold, silver, cash, and ration coupons with her when she left.

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The educated youths sent to the countryside weren’t popular with the villagers. They never got enough to eat and were too exhausted to work, and the brigade leader had little faith in delicate Xia Qingqing.

Before long, Xia Qingqing had one proper job and two side gigs. Best of all, they were all easy: she could slack off and clock out on time!

Along the way, she also landed a tall, handsome, ambitious, gentle, reasonable, talkative, generous, upright, and exceptionally rare good man from an older generation~

But there was one thorny problem.

It seemed she’d married the wrong man. She knew she’d married the wrong man, and she knew he’d realized it long ago, but he didn’t know that she knew she’d married the wrong man and knew that he’d realized it long ago. Um...

Liang Shen, a future tycoon who was currently only a Level Two worker, had a secret.

He wasn’t the man named in his beloved wife’s arranged marriage contract.

If he told her, he was afraid he’d lose his wife.

If he didn’t, his conscience tormented him.

So even though he offered her his whole heart, every last penny of his wages, and tried every trick he could think of, he still felt that a rough country man like him wasn’t good enough for his beautiful, dazzling wife.

One day, after a night of passion, his wife sat in bed combing her hair. He dropped to his knees on the cold red-brick floor and told her the truth.

To his surprise, his wife gave him a lazy, knowing glance, her eyes full of allure. She wasn’t surprised at all.

[A resilient little-sunshine heroine VS a proactive, rough-edged, service-oriented hero]

Bonus scene:

Years later, their mama’s-boy little bundle of joy reached the age when romance between men and women caught his interest. Clutching Xia Qingqing’s leg, he asked curiously, “Mummy, Daddy has such a bad temper. How did you date him for so many years?”

Xia Qingqing thought for a moment. “Maybe because he’s a lovesick fool who always treats women right, and he’s self-conscious but has abs. He’s a rough guy who occasionally sheds a tiny tear.”

The little bundle of joy was stunned.

He slowly turned around. “Self-conscious? Shedding tiny tears? Are you talking about my quiet, steady Daddy, the one who wears a suit and sunglasses and looks like a gangster?”

Both the heroine and the hero have career storylines.

Includes plenty of descriptions of Northwest Chinese cuisine~

[I’m constantly revising this, so please support the official release. Thank you so much~]

Coming next: "Seeking a Son-in-Law in the 1980s: Everyday Life in the City". Blurb:

Fed up with her relatives nagging her to get married, Meng Dongqing spends every day posting absurd things online. Her post titles include, but aren’t limited to, “How to Bring a Husband Home,” “A Husband for Zero Dowry,” “Are There Any Guys Left Who Aren’t Materialistic?” “A Pretty, Pampered Son-in-Law,” and “Seeking a Virtuous Husband to Marry Into the Family.”

Then she stays up far too late and transmigrates to the 1980s. There are four sisters in her family, and their clan demands that one of them bring a son-in-law into the household.

None of the four sisters is willing, and the arguments keep coming one after another.

Meng Dongqing is delighted. A pillow delivered just as I’m getting sleepy? What a deal! I’ll do it!

After she volunteers to seek a son-in-law, her whole family feels they’ve wronged her and throws everything they’ve got into finding a man who’s perfect in every way.

When they ask what she wants, Meng Dongqing hands them a piece of paper with a string of requirements written like a rhyme:

Can cook and do housework, handsome, sweet-voiced, and tall

Doesn’t smoke or drink, has a clean circle of friends and few female acquaintances

Well educated, good with numbers, emotionally steady, and even-tempered

The clan members’ faces darken. “What kind of nonsense is this? Where are we supposed to find a man like that?”

Meng’s mother slaps the table. “Only a man like that is good enough for my Dongqing!”

The mood turns tense. Just then, there’s a knock at the door, and a handsome face with a voice as clear as jade appears. “Excuse me, are you looking for a son-in-law?”

There’s big news at the factory: the most beautiful flower in the Meng family has taken in a gloomy pretty boy who’s returned from the production corps, has no job or family, and is going to eat her out of house and home!

Running through the snow with a hunting rifle in hand, Meng Dongqing wipes the sweat from her brow and laughs. “We’ll see who eats whom!”

Bian Bai believes that, because of his family circumstances, selfishness, coldness, and ruthlessness are simply in his nature.

He agrees to marry into the family for practical reasons, too.

It’s just that when love comes along, it really doesn’t make any sense.

Theme: Face life with a positive attitude.