A Reconstituted Family in the 1960S

My new novel, My Whole Family Transmigrated Here [The 1980s], is now available. Synopsis: Su Mei, who died in a zombie horde, is woken by a child’s cries. The moment she opens her eyes, someone hands her a military medal and offers a solemn “My condolences!” After years of eating moldy food in a post-apocalyptic world of endless yellow sand, Su Mei suddenly sees lush green mountains, clear flowing streams, and fish, shrimp, black goats, and duck eggs regularly brought over by the neighboring island’s land-reclamation team. She decides that honoring the original owner’s last wish and raising her two children is absolutely worth it! Zhao Ke returns from the border, bloodied from battle, carrying his comrade’s military medal. He receives a divorce telegram from his wife in Lu City. He returns home, confused, to find that his once-gentle, kind wife has suddenly become a different person. After completing the divorce, he rejoins his unit carrying his eldest son, whose right leg was crippled in a beating, and his one-year-old second son in his arms... Zhao Ke decides his most pressing task is to find a nanny. Su Mei has no formal job and is about to be sent back to her hometown. She panics. The quartermaster admires Su Mei’s skill at controlling fire and thinks he has found the right person to hatch duck and chicken eggs. The next day, he introduces Su Mei to Zhao Ke. They are close in age and each has two children. Zhao Ke thinks that if he hires her as a nanny, people will gossip once they spend enough time together. Better to marry her instead. Su Mei thinks: This man is devoted to his work, busy with training, and often away from home for long stretches. I can raise the children however I like, and he turns over his wages and ration coupons on time every month. He’s the perfect husband. Special note: The male lead’s ex-wife is reborn. A powerful fire-element ability user from the apocalypse × a scheming, calculating man This story takes place in a fictional parallel world. It focuses on food, clothing, daily life, family matters, and romance, with no sensitive topics. My new novel, My Whole Family Transmigrated Here [The 1980s], is now available. After her quick transmigration ends, Yang Bao is sent by the System into the world of a book. According to the plot, the college entrance exam will be reinstated that year, and by the end of the year, her mother will receive an admission letter from a university in the capital. Her father, who hates studying, will also find a way to get permission to return to the city. The couple will divorce by agreement. One will take the eldest brother, the other the second brother, and they will leave her behind on the farm. On the first day after she transmigrates into the book, her father climbs out of a ditch and rushes to the hospital. Standing by her bedside, he murmurs, “Mingzhu, is that you?” Yang Bao’s long eyelashes quiver. In the first world she transmigrated to, she saved a corrupt prime minister, and the prime minister father named her “Mingzhu.” On the second day after she transmigrates into the book, her mother wakes from a coma and hugs her, sobbing. “Zhuzhu...” Only her powerful mother from the wasteland called her that, because they were both crazed with hunger for meat. On the fourth day after she transmigrates into the book, her eldest brother comes to see her at the town hospital and cautiously asks, “Yang Bao, do you remember the first mecha I made for you?” On the Nth day after she transmigrates into the book, some children from the farm corner Yang Bao beside a stream. Her second brother rushes over, drops onto all fours in front of her, and barks furiously at them. Could this be her twin brother from the world of animals, a Shar-Pei? At first: Dad only wants to make life better for the family and give his daughter a good home. He submits articles, goes to school, stays on as a teacher, and opens a law firm. Mom’s goal is to have meat at every meal, but after finding a copy of The World Wildlife Alliance in the wasteland, she starts raising one rare animal after another. There aren’t many toys for children in the 1980s, so Big Brother doesn’t want his little sister to miss out on anything in childhood. He makes her toy after toy. Little Brother has an amazing sense of smell but is quite the handful. All he wants to do each day is play with his little sister. Later: Dad becomes a famous lawyer and professor, at home and abroad. Mom becomes an environmental ambassador and horticulturist. Big Brother enters the gifted youth program early, then goes on to graduate school and a research institute. Little Brother joins the army at eighteen and is stationed at the border. Criminals everywhere call him the “King of Hell.” Reader’s guide: An ensemble cast and cozy everyday life. Coming next: The Era of Returning to the City Yang Qiudie is born into the year 1956 and is never able to fully control her body. She is mentally disabled and slow to speak. After her parents pass away, she lives with her grandparents. In 1972, her grandfather dies saving a sent-down youth named Chu Chen. Her grandmother falls ill soon afterward, and to repay his debt, Chu Chen agrees to marry Yang Qiudie at her grandmother’s bedside. When the college entrance exam arrives, their daughter is already three, and Yang Qiudie is pregnant again. Chu Chen hesitates over whether to take the exam, so Yang Qiudie picks up a pen and writes the character “Take it.” The university admission letter arrives: Peking University. Everyone in the village worries Chu Chen will leave and never come back, but he decides to bring his wife and children with him to school. In her previous life, Yang Qiudie was a perfumer. Before leaving, she insists on packing half a sack of rotten wood (agarwood) and taking a pot of broad-leaved plants (orchids). That autumn, a flower shop and a perfume workshop open on a street not far from Peking University. Reader’s guide: Primarily everyday life. Completed novels: I Picked Up a Treasure-Hunting Snake [The 1960s] and My Sent-Down Youth Husband Was Possessed by an Ancient General Theme: A strong youth makes a strong nation; a prosperous youth makes a prosperous nation.