A college student volunteering to teach in the countryside was driving her SUV to buy groceries when a turn in the mountain road sent her back to the 1960s.
Rice requires ration coupons, meat requires meat coupons, oil requires oil coupons, and even a piece of poplin calls for an industrial coupon.
Su Yan looks down at her tiny denim shorts and long-sleeved beige blazer, then shivers as she hides in a cornfield.
In an era when you need a letter of introduction just to go out, how can she keep people from mistaking her for a hooligan and having her arrested?
Warning: This story is made up. It’s about everyday family life and romance. No historical nitpicking, please.
The Other Woman, Blurb One:
Lu Ze placed first in the imperial examinations at all three levels. He entered the secretariat as a senior official and later served as governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi. Shrewd and ruthless, he was feared by everyone.
When he returned home to visit his family, he spotted a woman walking through Yiyuan Garden beneath an umbrella. She had skin like ice and bones like jade, and each step seemed to produce a lotus blossom.
Lu Ze dropped several hints, but the little maid pretended not to understand.
Lu Ze sneered. She could have been a respected concubine, but instead she insisted on becoming his illicit lover, with no proper status.
In the end, Lu Ze ate his words. He eagerly offered her the position of his legal wife, only to be rejected at every turn.
Blurb Two:
Qin Shu transmigrated into the body of a young maid in a family whose ancestors had served as Hanlin scholars for generations.
For a servant family like hers, the best outcome was to marry another servant, and have children who would continue serving as servants.
She set out to find a suitable match. A little landowner, looking rather foolish, told her, “Ping'er, you’re a first-class maid in a rich household. I’ll do whatever you say.”
Qin Shu saved up a great deal of silver, waiting to be released from the household when she turned eighteen. Then her master returned home for a family visit.
Lu Ze lifted Qin Shu’s chin with his fan. “I can give you wealth beyond your wildest dreams. What do you say?”
Qin Shu pushed the fan away, her expressionless face full of disdain. “Master, this servant won’t be a concubine.”
Theme: Live in the present.
