The Spendthrift Wife of the Nineties

Coming soon: The Materialistic Woman of the 1980s and The Fake Heiress Who Became Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel. Please add them to your reading list. Li Jing was famous in the compound for being a spendthrift. She loved shopping and bought things every day. Her family could barely afford to keep her, so they married her off to a nouveau riche man. Her nouveau riche husband was handsome and wealthy, and he didn't stop her from shopping. Li Jing had no complaints. This was great, and she was very satisfied. Until their wedding night. They were both exhausted and fell asleep, and she had a dream. She dreamed she was the spendthrift wife in a period novel, a foil to the heroine. She shopped obsessively and spent recklessly, until one day she worked her nouveau riche husband to death. After that, she fell into poverty and ended up homeless, without even enough money for a bowl of cold rice noodles... Li Jing woke up terrified. After waking, she felt her nouveau riche husband's head beside her and said, "Honey, don't die young. I love you so much I couldn't live without you." Her nouveau riche husband said, "...The card I prepared for you is in the cabinet. Go use it tomorrow. Now go to sleep. I'm exhausted." How could anyone say no to shopping? Li Jing couldn't. And her handsome nouveau riche husband gave her a new card every day, making it even harder to resist. But to keep her husband from working too hard and help him live longer, should she buy something different this time? Like houses? Shopping malls? Gold mines? A doting, love-struck tycoon x his beautiful wife who loves to shop Reader note: 1. The heroine has a mild shopping addiction, but she doesn't know it herself. 2. The original heroine transmigrates. The original heroine won't be vilified. Although they are foils to each other, they have no grudges and will become good friends later. 3. The hero is a love-struck doting husband. He doesn't think there's anything wrong with the heroine's shopping habit. He loves her. 4. The heroine isn't a strong female lead, but she will have her own career. Content warning: The heroine isn't perfect and has psychological issues. The story isn't told from an all-knowing perspective. Sometimes her unconscious actions may be inappropriate or even foolish. Coming soon: The Materialistic Woman of the 1980s. Blurb: Ji Mengxi was the unwanted stepchild who followed her mother's third marriage into a compound, but everyone loved her. She was beautiful and kind, and she could sing and dance... Every second-generation kid in the compound liked her and fought over the chance to marry her, except Bo Sheng, Bo Jun's older brother. Bo Sheng was tall and imposing, with an aura that could swallow mountains and rivers. He was one of the most prominent figures in the compound. He couldn't stand women like her, who were fake on the inside. As it happened, she couldn't stand Bo Sheng either. He was an old-fashioned, upright, conservative old man. She wanted nothing to do with him. She was tired of living hard. She never wanted to go back to eating rice bran and fighting dogs for food. She just wanted to marry someone obedient, gentle, and rich. The first time Bo Sheng met Ji Mengxi, she was fourteen and had just moved into the Cheng family home with her mother after the marriage. The girl was so beautiful and clean she looked like a gardenia newly blossomed on a branch in the courtyard. Too bad that gardenia was poisonous. On her first day there, a Cheng family girl was beaten. In her first year, a Cheng family son fell out with his sister over her. By the fifth year, the group of brothers in the compound, once so close they shared their trousers, were fighting over her until they were bloodied and their friendship fell apart. His younger brother Bo Jun even made a fuss at home about marrying her, and wanted to give up joining the army to go into business and make a fortune for her. Bo Sheng thought they were all completely insane. Even worse, there was another version of himself inside his head, constantly shouting that he should marry her. In the middle of the night, while he was asleep, that other self would sneak out to play a snail maiden for Ji Mengxi. When he saw Ji Mengxi kissing someone in an alley, he was so devastated he felt his soul leave his body, yet he still told Bo Sheng to clean up after her... Later, he went mad too, even more so than the others... Across two lifetimes, Bo Sheng wanted only one person: Ji Mengxi. Reader notes: 1. The hero is reborn, and at first his two selves haven't fully merged. (Little Bo Sheng by day, grown-up Bo Sheng by night.) 2. The heroine is materialistic, genuinely so. She really does want to marry up, but she's also truly outstanding. 3. The heroine will have a career. 4. The age gap is six years. 5. I haven't figured out the content warnings yet. I'll know once I get to writing it. Theme: If you love someone, you won't hold it against them for being ill.