Please add my new book, Climbing the Ladder in the Seventies, to your reading list. The blurb is below.
Yu Qing transmigrates into a book as the foil to the heroine of a period novel.
In the original story, she resorted to underhanded tactics to marry Lu Qingbai, a demobilized soldier, so she could highlight the heroine’s good fortune and happy family. She made life miserable for her in-laws. Her husband didn’t love her, her mother-in-law disliked her, and things ended with her mother-in-law jumping into a river, her husband resenting her, and her son growing up out of control and landing in prison.
The book describes Yu Qing with a hint of regret: “They were both educated youth sent down from the city, and first cousins on the heroine’s side. She was pretty, too. But she was stubborn and obsessed with competing against the heroine, unable to see the importance of the people around her, and that’s how she ended up like this.”
Yu Qing: This man is rich, handsome, and overflowing with masculine charm. Wouldn’t it be better to keep such a catch for myself?
Yu Qing rose on her tiptoes and planted a kiss on Lu Qingbai’s cheek. “I’ve stamped you, so you’re mine now. From now on, you’d better behave and be my man!”
She thought it would be a marriage without much feeling, but the more time passed, the sweeter life became. First they moved to the city, then she joined the army as a military spouse. The man who seemed so cold and hard doted on Yu Qing with all his heart.
Completed period novels: The Household Intrigue Champion Becomes a Supporting Character in a Period Novel; Yu Guifei's Husband-Taming Routine in the Seventies; The Empress in the Seventies
Reader's guide:
1. The heroine isn't especially kind. She can be selfish and materialistic.
2. The male lead and the original heroine have no romantic relationship.
New book: Climbing the Ladder in the Seventies
In her previous life, Xue Mingzhu was the kind of high branch many people wanted to climb. She was beautiful and came from a good family. She went to the countryside to gain experience and improve her prospects.
But before she could return to the city, disaster struck her family.
Later, she married Cui Zhicheng, a man she knew well. He was considerate, her in-laws were kind, and her stepdaughter was caring. Even after an accident left her unable to have children, Cui Zhicheng stayed by her side, and her parents-in-law comforted and indulged her.
Who would have guessed that her husband's family had reported her family, and that their comforting words were only a way to get their hands on the things her parents had left behind?
Even her stepdaughter, whom she had treated with genuine affection, was only pretending to win her over and deceive her. Behind her back, she would sneer, “My stupid stepmother...”
Many people urged Xue Mingzhu to accept things as they were. Her birth family was gone, so she had to rely on her in-laws. Her stepdaughter was grown and didn't need her looking after her, and would get married sooner or later. They'd been married for years, so she should stop making trouble.
But Xue Mingzhu refused.
She was done being a gentle, kind stepmother, and she was done with this life. Whoever made her miserable would get the same in return.
Just after she had her enemies sent to prison, Xue Mingzhu was reborn.
When she opened her eyes, she was back in her days as an educated youth. Back then, she was still the high branch everyone envied, and Xie Kuan was guarding the southeastern border.
She was grateful that her family had not yet suffered disaster. Things seemed to be unfolding differently this time, and there was still time to change everything.
In this new life, Xue Mingzhu would not only protect her family, but also seek out the man who had once liked her, and for whom she had also felt something.
Xue Mingzhu traveled thousands of miles to find the man who had helped her tirelessly in her previous life. Unable to hold back, she asked, “Do you still mean what you said back then?”
And the man who had once been bold enough to try to steal her away blushed.
Xie Kuan was stubborn and had fists of iron, but he was the most handsome and promising young officer in the military.
When word got around that Xie Kuan had agreed to a matchmaking date at his family's urging, plenty of girls were heartbroken and secretly hoped his match wouldn't measure up.
Who could have imagined that one day a delicate, lovely young woman with snow-white skin would suddenly arrive, said to be Xie Kuan's fiancée?
Everyone was stunned...
Theme: Work hard, be brave, and build a better life