The Pampered Life of the 1970s

Coming soon: My Top-Tier Star's Long-Lost Older Sister and The Male Supporting Character's Beautiful Younger Sister Awakens (1980s). Please add them to your collections.

Blurb:

Ever since her mother died, Geng Lihua's life had been nothing but endless chores, endless scolding and beatings, and endless hunger.

After finally making it to eighteen, she found that her childhood betrothed had married her cousin, who had always bullied her.

As she watched her cousin swagger in with her former fiance, Geng Lihua lifted the curtain. A handsome educated youth from the city, Wei Tang, stepped out.

He smiled warmly, his eyes crinkling. "Lihua, you've finally agreed to date me?"

The villagers of Dayan Village thought Geng Lihua would end up abandoned, just like her mother.

Her aunt even said bluntly, "What makes you think Wei Tang likes you? He can't handle country life, so he's looking for a free maid to wait on him!"

Geng Lihua thought, A free maid is fine, as long as I can get out of this house.

But married life wasn't at all what she expected:

She picked up a washbasin to do the laundry, and her husband immediately took it from her. "Wifey, you don't need to do the washing. I'll do it."

She had barely picked up a knife when he stopped her. "Wifey, put that down. What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."

Geng Lihua stood uneasily in the room. So what exactly was she supposed to do now that she'd married him?

Wei Tang showed her through his actions: all she had to do was let him pamper her.

The village women watched Wei Tang call her "Wifey" at every turn and worry that even carrying a block of tofu might tire her out. They went home and grabbed their own husbands by the ears. "Look at how Wei Tang treats his wife!"

The village men complained, "Wei Tang, can you stop making life impossible for the rest of us?"

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Reader's guide:

1. The male lead is reborn; the female lead is not.

2. This is a story about healing each other.

3. The heroine is rather insecure at first, but grows more confident with the hero's encouragement. The hero is her greatest golden finger.

Coming soon: My Top-Tier Star's Long-Lost Older Sister

Shen Yunlu had always thought she was just a background character in the book she lived in: a background character with a bit of a golden finger and a tiny bit of money. Then Shen Yundian showed up at her door.

This unlucky, scandal-ridden top-tier star was about to be cyberbullied into depression and death, and he was her own younger brother!

He even invited her to join the sibling variety show Together Through Thick and Thin, the very show that would get him cyberbullied!

The scandal-ridden top-tier star Shen Yundian was going to appear on the variety livestream Together Through Thick and Thin with his older sister Shen Yunlu. All kinds of rumors were flying around online.

They said Shen Yunlu had only just been found, and was a complete country bumpkin.

They said she'd grown up in an orphanage, couldn't communicate with people, and had a strange personality.

They said Shen Yundian thought she was embarrassing and didn't want to bring her on the show at all.

On the first day of the show, viewers crowded into the livestream and saw the young woman walking ahead of Shen Yundian. Her raven-black hair, snow-white skin, and red lips were so beautiful they could hardly look at her.

Viewers: This is a country bumpkin? Then what does that make us, dirt clods?

Haters: Ha! So what if she's pretty? Shen Yundian even looks down on his cousin, whom he grew up with. Why would he care about some sister he picked up from an orphanage?

And yet...

To keep Shen Yunlu from going hungry, Shen Yundian worked in the fields until both his arms were covered in sun rash.

Shen Yunlu didn't like egg yolks, so Shen Yundian gave her the whites, even though he didn't like yolks either.

He even reluctantly watched a movie with her when she wanted to see one starring his sworn enemy, Xu Mengzhou.

Haters: It's all fake, every bit of it!

But when they saw the first guest Shen Yunlu had invited, an internationally renowned genius artist, they were green with envy. That was someone their own idol could never get to appear on the show.

When they saw her second guest, a famous web novelist with several bestselling IPs awaiting screen adaptations, the haters were completely green-eyed. Just who was Shen Yunlu?

When they saw her third guest, a maverick director whose very first film had won the Palme d'Or, even the haters' own idols were jealous. What was the point of attacking Shen Yundian? They should be currying favor with Shen Yunlu instead.

"Sis, do you need another little brother to bring you tea and water?"

Shen Yundian: I am my sister's only little brother, thank you!

Shen Yunlu only wanted to help her unlucky little brother escape the fate he'd had in the book. She never expected to become famous herself through the show!

And once she became famous, she even picked up an award-winning actor as a little brother.

Watching Xu Mengzhou blush as he obediently called her "Sis," Shen Yunlu thought, Good grief, how is anyone supposed to resist that?

The Male Supporting Character's Beautiful Younger Sister Awakens (1980s)

Zhao Jing dreamed that she was a character in a book, and that her brother Zhao Wei was the book's cannon fodder.

In the original story, Zhao Wei grew up with the male lead, Fu Tian. Fu Tian started with a braised-food stall, then built factories and companies on the strength of his culinary skills. His products sold across the country and overseas, and he became the nation's richest man, winning the admiration of countless women.

Zhao Wei, meanwhile, could only inherit his family's pastry shop and live a dull life. Even his girlfriend broke up with him after falling for Fu Tian.

Devastated, Zhao Wei was egged on by his no-good friends and started picking fights with Fu Tian. He lost every time, eventually racked up huge debts, and had no choice but to sell the pastry shop and take a dangerous mining job in Africa, where he died far from home.

When Zhao Jing dreamed about the book, Zhao Wei was just about to make a move against Fu Tian's braised-food stall.

To keep her brother and the Zhao family from meeting the same end as in the book, Zhao Jing could only cling to her brother's clothes and beg him through her tears not to ruin his life.

Luckily, Zhao Wei doted on her. He focused on running his little pastry shop and never went looking for trouble with Fu Tian again.

Zhao Jing sighed in relief. Great! As long as her brother didn't pick a fight with Fu Tian, she could keep happily buying braised snacks!

Zhao Jing never expected her greed for food to bring her brother into conflict with Fu Tian again. This time, though, her brother had become the owner of a famous nationwide pastry-shop chain.

Meanwhile, Fu Tian cornered her in the alley outside her home. "When are you going to tell your brother about us?"

Zhao Wei had bought delicious food for his little sister. Before he could even get home, he saw his pretty sister being cornered and kissed in the alley by Fu Tian. He threw down the bag in his hands. "Screw you, Fu Tian! How dare you lay your hands on my sister?"

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