Sweet Love in a Period Drama Full of Angst

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Blurb: Qin Nian, a fashion designer, transmigrates into a period melodrama. The heroine is beautiful and adored, the belle of the military families' compound by the machinery factory. But at sixteen, she discovers she was switched at birth and is actually a fake heiress.

According to the plot, the heroine first refuses to leave, then uses her beauty to seduce the factory director's son and gets pregnant before marriage. She makes a scene, belly and all, demanding to marry into the family. In the end, she miscarries and becomes a pariah at the factory. On the day the director's son gets married, she hangs herself from a crooked tree outside his home.

Qin Nian... What a ridiculously melodramatic author.

Then the family she'd transmigrated into sent a representative to tell her, awkwardly, "Niannian, the blood test results are in. Your blood type doesn't match anyone in the Qin family. You're not our child."

Qin Nian... What a goddamn cruel fate!

The people in the compound waited so long for a spectacle that the flowers nearly wilted. They never got their laugh. Instead, they could only watch Qin Nian, armed with a golden finger, feast on rich food, wear stylish dresses and shoulder-padded suits, and win herself a legion of fans. They could only stare in frustration.

Then a local punk showed up. They heard he was fat-faced and could knock someone's jaw off with one punch, and that he'd set his sights on Qin Nian, now the belle of the whole neighborhood. The people who had been about to leave hurried back to watch...

Town crier: The punk's going to beat up Qin Nian!

Everyone: Wow!!!

Town crier: Qin Nian beat up the punk!

Everyone: ???

Town crier: Qin Nian and the punk are dating!

Everyone: So Qin Nian likes ugly guys!

When Qin Nian was later seen strolling with her arm linked through someone's, everyone gasped. "Where'd that handsome young man come from? We've never had anyone so good-looking at our factory!"

The jealous crowd: So what if he's handsome? He's still just a punk!

Then the military commander came to inspect the factory, and the punk sauntered over with a grin and called out, "Grandpa!"

The commander snorted. "You brat! Bring your future wife over so I can meet her!"

Everyone: Is it too late to get on Qin Nian's good side?

Jiang Yi had a pair of flirtatious eyes, and when he smiled, he looked roguish and wicked. Big girls and young wives would blush whenever he glanced at them and spit out, "You little hooligan!" Before long, the nickname caught on. He didn't mind. Being a hooligan was great. No one dared tell him what to do.

Until he saw Qin Nian. He really wanted to be a hooligan just this once. With his hands in his pockets, he curled his thin lips into a wicked smile and gave her a flirtatious wink. "There are girls this pretty around here? How about we get acquainted?"

To his surprise, the girl across from him blinked her starry eyes and looked him up and down at the same time, her gaze brimming with interest. "How can someone have such perfect proportions? Let me take your measurements for a pattern, will you?"

Jiang Yi's pale earlobes instantly turned red as pomegranates...

Blurb for "Being a Sweet-Talking Girl in a Contrast-Type Period Novel"

The universally adored Qin Mianmian transmigrates into a period novel built around a contrast between two women. The heroine is clever, well-behaved, and socially savvy, while Qin Mianmian is a taciturn, tough-as-nails tomboy!

After seeing the original owner's saintly record of self-sacrifice, Qin Mianmian nearly vomited blood and wished she could transmigrate back. What a miserable life!

When she was young, her older sister said, "Mianmian, I'm scared to go." So she volunteered to take her sister's place and go to the countryside, only returning to the city many years later.

At last, she made it back to the city. Then her sister-in-law said, "There are too many people at home, and we don't have room for you. If you think that man you're dating is decent, little sister, you might as well marry him." So she hastily married a man she'd known for only a month.

Afterward, she raised three children on her own while supporting her lazy husband. In her old age, afraid of burdening others, she moved into a nursing home...

Qin Mianmian... This woman was a truly iron-willed tomboy!

Meanwhile, the heroine, her foil, stayed in the city, took the college entrance exam after it was reinstated, married her childhood sweetheart, and became a general's wife. She later built a successful career, had her story turned into a bestselling book, and spent her later years surrounded by children and grandchildren.

Qin Mianmian: To hell with being someone else's foil! I've got things to do. Who has time for comparisons?

On Qin Mianmian's first day, before her older sister could say a word, she chirped, "Oh, that's so scary! Big Sis, you have to write home often. Mianmian will be thinking about you all the time. You can do it, you can do it!" Please, hurry up and go!

Her sister... Is this really my little sister, the one who can snap a chicken's neck with one hand?

In Qin Mianmian's first month, she hid behind her older brother and pointed at his new girlfriend with her little finger. "Oh, she's so scary! She's so mean!" Time to find a new future sister-in-law!

Her brother: She can bully even a sweet, well-behaved girl like my sister. What a cruel person!

In Qin Mianmian's first year, the girl shrugged her little shoulders and sniffled, "I'm so sad..."

Some people rushed over to ask if she was all right, others showered her with care, and even the local young tough personally crouched down to change her shoes.

"I told you those shoes were uncomfortable to walk in, but you wouldn't listen."

Throughout her life, Qin Mianmian never envied anyone. She was the star everyone else looked up to.

Theme: True love comes first