The Bold Flower and Her Sweet Husband in the 1970s

Also known as The Springtime of the Iron Rose. Please hit the favorite button first. Thank you!

Blurb:

After transmigrating, Nan Chuchu became the only daughter of the brigade in Wangxiang Village, and its notorious iron rose in the 1970s.

Her only family member had died three years earlier. Thanks to the powerful fists she'd trained from childhood and her magnetic personality, Nan Chuchu grew into the big sister of Wangxiang Village, with a gang of loyal followers. No one dared bully her.

Then a delicate, fair-skinned sent-down youth named Gu Qingshao arrived in the brigade and moved into the little courtyard at the Nan home. They went everywhere together and ate and slept under the same roof. Naturally, the iron rose devoured the little rabbit.

But if all you eat is rich food, you'll end up with indigestion.

Nan Chuchu had planned to lie flat in this second life. But with golden opportunities everywhere and a clingy, whimpering sweetheart by her side, she finally gave in and went into business, becoming one of the first great women in the business world.

With her multidimensional space and an eye for the times, she developed high-quality fruit and vegetables on a large scale, providing top-notch produce for people's tables.

She rented farmland, built greenhouses, planted crops on a large scale, and put up processing plants. She was determined to create the era's leading agricultural supermarket chain, so people of her time could eat food they could trust and feel safe about.

As a little girl, Nan Chuchu could be the big sister of the Wangxiang Village brigade. As an adult, she could become a leader with a conscience in the new business world.

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Gu Qingshao had been sickly since childhood, the sort who would stop eating as soon as one bite filled him up. Ever since he came to Wangxiang Village and met Nan Chuchu, everything tasted delicious, he was always thirsty, and he could walk without getting winded or run with energy.

Strange, isn't it? Gu Qingshao thought it was great, so he decided to cling to the iron rose, who was as good as a miraculous medicine.

And what about the talk of living off his wife later on? The little rabbit grows sharp fangs, gets a little scheming, and plays the fool to catch the tiger? Impossible. Absolutely impossible.

A rabbit is a rabbit. Isn't it wonderful to stay close to the iron rose and live off her? He certainly thinks so. He enjoys it all the way to becoming a top research scientist.

As for the second-generation kid who, thirty years later, is being told by his mother to take over the business empire and by his father to carry on the family tradition by becoming a leading geoscientist...

The second-generation kid, now all grown up: bursts into tears.

This story is a slow burn (important!). I originally planned to write a pure romance, but then realized I prefer plot, so the career-building storyline takes up more space in the middle and later parts.

If that's not your thing, please read something else.

There is a golden finger, but the focus is on the heroine's hard work. A funny, lighthearted, and inspiring story.

Reader's note:

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Completed stories: Zhou Nan's Everyday Farming and Fortune, and The Buddhist Way of Picking Up Junk

Coming soon: My Lady and Arriving Forty Years Early. If you're interested, please add them to your favorites. Thanks, everyone.

Theme: Stay positive and work toward a better life.