A Guide to Happiness for a 1970S Supporting Actress

[Pre-publication novel in my profile: "Transmigrated as the Tycoon’s Substitute Bride", please add it to your reading list!] When the first thunder of spring sounded, Chu Xia unexpectedly learned that she was the devoted female supporting character in a male-centered period novel, destined to spend her whole life sacrificing for the male lead. When the male lead needed love, she gave up the life-changing opportunity she had to the heroine he loved. When he was lovelorn and wanted a family, she offered up her family’s assets and married him. When he needed a career, she sold the family’s courtyard house and little restaurant, putting all her assets toward his startup. When his career took off, she stayed home to care for his parents and even raised the illegitimate child the heroine sent him. Chu Xia: ??? This is ridiculous. Whoever wants to be such a fool of a supporting character can take the job. She certainly won’t! Was she incapable of spending her own money? Or making her own fortune? Break free of the male and female leads, and refuse to be a fool. With a courtyard house in hand, cook delicious food and open a restaurant. Make a comeback in every way, from beauty to wealth. Pre-publication novel in my profile: "Transmigrated as the Tycoon’s Substitute Bride", please add it to your reading list~ Chu Yu had been working late for three nights straight to meet a project deadline. To stay awake during her overtime, she put on an audiobook. The novel was based on the life of Xie Zhirun, Jiangcheng’s richest man, and told the story of his rise from having nothing to amassing a vast fortune. Xie Zhirun’s early life was extremely tragic. After his father abandoned him, his mother also died in an accident. Then his betrothed, who had once been engaged to him, looked down on him and ran away the night before their wedding. On the wedding day, he went to the bride’s family home to fetch his new wife. The person wearing the wedding dress was his fiancée’s younger sister, a beautiful girl with the mind of an eight-year-old. Xie Zhirun gritted his teeth and accepted his intellectually disabled bride. Not long after they married, she accidentally slipped into a river and drowned. Chu Yu couldn’t help exclaiming, “What a tragedy!” After saying that, she got up to fetch some water from the break room. But after taking only a couple of steps, her vision went black and she collapsed on the floor, dying at her workstation. When she woke up again, Chu Yu discovered she had transmigrated into the book. She had become the beautiful, intellectually disabled bride, dressed in bright red wedding robes and about to take her older sister’s place at the wedding... Theme: Be the protagonist of your own life.