Reborn as the Sickly Ex-Wife of a Male Side Character in a Period Novel

A new period novel is out: "The Short-Lived Tycoon's Beautiful Wife in the 1980s." A pampered, fiery rich beauty heroine versus a sharp-tongued, secretly sincere hero who insists he doesn't like her, then falls hard. Eight-year age gap. About this story: Wen Li is lazy and a natural homebody. If she can lie down, she won't sit up. One day, she gets transported into a period novel. She becomes the woman in the book who married the second male lead, but eventually ran off with a young intellectual because her husband was away from home all the time and she couldn't stand the loneliness. In the story, the second male lead is the captain of a transport brigade. And being a transport brigade captain means having money and food! Wen Li, who once dreamed of doing nothing and living off her savings but now has no choice but to struggle to survive, says, “Sure! I can handle being lonely. I absolutely won't run off...” But she arrived too early. The original owner hasn't accidentally fallen into the river yet, hasn't been rescued by the second male lead, and hasn't latched onto him and agreed to marry him... Wen Li: Does she have to put on a live performance as a “great swimmer” who falls into the river and cries for help? Sigh. Surviving isn't easy. Li Bao sighs. If she wants to survive, she'll have to rely on herself! Jiang Yuan's stepmother has started pressuring him to marry her niece from another branch of the family again. Jiang Yuan says, “Give it up. He'd rather go out and pick up some random woman than marry that lazy, fat lump who does nothing but lie around and eat.” But the moment he steps outside, he really does pick up a young woman from the river. She had been trying to save someone and unfortunately got a cramp in her foot... The young woman has a slender waist and a delicate, captivating beauty. She'd be lovely to look at even if he just brought her home as an ornament. Jiang Yuan is smitten. When rumors about them start spreading, the young woman nervously twists the hem of her clothes in her pale, slender fingers and asks whether he'll marry her. He falls silent for a moment, then nods. And so begins Jiang Yuan's life as both father and husband after marriage~ What can he do? He married a delicate little darling, and now she's the apple of his eye, his precious sweetheart. A pampered beauty versus a seemingly upright but secretly wicked older man. Reading notes: 1. Set in an alternate version of the 1970s. 2. Ten-year age gap. All my stories have age gaps~ 3. The heroine has no golden finger. If she has to have one, it's her beauty and sweetness. 4. This is mainly a sweet, doting story about the heroine's growth. She's adored by everyone, but later she'll go to university and build a career of her own! 5. The heroine's family are her real family, not people who took over the original owner's family. 6. My dear readers, this story has a new title. It was originally called "Transported Into a Period Novel to Marry a Good Man." Don't get mixed up! An explanation for why I closed the comments section: There was a lot of controversy about the title before, and I tend to pay too much attention to the comments. It affected my ability to write the later bonus chapters, so I impulsively closed them. There's no other major issue. I'm just terrible at coming up with titles and kept putting it off. My friend actually came up with this title... New period novel: "The Short-Lived Tycoon's Beautiful Wife in the 1980s" Synopsis: Lu Jiao is reborn. She returns to the 1980s, to the year she turns sixteen and is asked to choose between her father and mother. This time, Lu Jiao chooses neither. She persuades her “parents,” who are about to run off together for love, to transfer the house to her and pay her a huge lump sum in child support. Then she takes off for Lincheng to find Gu Yu. In her previous life, to let Gu Yu die in peace, she gritted her teeth and let him believe that she didn't love him and only cared about his money. It had been eating away at her. This time, she's going to show Gu Yu through her actions that she doesn't just want his money... She'll also keep an eye on him, make sure he drinks less, smokes less, and exercises more, so he doesn't die young again and leave her a widow! But when Lu Jiao sees Gu Yu walking toward her in a floral shirt, baggy ripped jeans, and flip-flops, with a shaggy blond mullet and a wound on his face, she feels like her eyes are going to fall out! What happened to her handsome, composed, and clever husband who always had everything under control? Gu Yu is a notorious hooligan. He rode the wave of reform and opening up, made a small fortune, and became Lincheng's most eligible bachelor. In Gu Yu's dictionary, women mean trouble. Getting too close to women would shorten his life... When his mother asked him to look after Lu Jiao, the sixteen-year-old girl next door, it only strengthened his conviction. She's so delicate and spoiled, you can't criticize her or cross her, and she loves telling him what to do... If he doesn't listen, she even cries, and her tears drive him crazy... Until Lu Jiao turns eighteen and comes of age, old enough to date. Gu Yu snuffs out the cigarette in his hand and drags Lu Jiao home while she's confessing her feelings to a young man. Fine, then. I might as well be the one whose life gets shortened! From then on, Gu Yu raises a little princess, afraid she'll melt if he holds her in his mouth, and afraid someone will snatch her away if he doesn't keep her safe in his palm. Everyone soon knows that Gu Yu, the cold-faced terror of Lincheng, is afraid of his wife! A pampered, fiery rich beauty heroine versus a sharp-tongued, secretly sincere hero who insists he doesn't like her, then falls hard. Nine-year age gap. Theme: When you're in dire straits, facing reality is the only way forward.