My next novel, The Little Herbalist of the 1970s, launches in the middle of next month. Please add The Gentle Beauty of the 1980s to your reading list!
Blurb:
Xu Man transmigrates into a book. Her character's husband is rarely home, her mother-in-law is biased and harsh, and her father-in-law is old-fashioned and conservative. She abandons her children and tries to escape the country, only to fail and get dumped in the middle of a vast desert?
Looking at the three little ones staring up at her, she realizes: Aren't these the future big villain and his younger siblings from the period novel her friend was reading?
Xu Man: I've become the big villain's mother? What a challenge!
But her husband comes home and builds all kinds of new machines, while her youngest daughter is always tinkering with something new. Is she really the most useless person in the family?
The male lead's blurb: My wife used to ignore me, but now she clings to me every day to build new tools. But I've still got research to do at the base. What am I supposed to do?
P.S. 1. A brilliant but tragic beauty from her past life x an aerospace engineer
2. The female lead focuses on farming and cooking, but she'll also put some effort into her career.
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Coming soon:
1. The Little Herbalist of the 1970s
A young educated youth arrives in Lihua Village. She can identify all kinds of herbs and is a skilled doctor, but she's sloppy, stiff, and boring. When she gets stern, she's just like a she-devil, so everyone avoids her.
But Zhou Dongyang knows that his wife is sweet and gentle, and always cuddles up to him, asking for kisses and hugs and to be picked up.
The team members all think their production-team leader looks fierce, like a violent man who doesn't know how to treat a girl gently and yells until she cries. It's no surprise he'd end up a lifelong bachelor.
But Su Yan knows her man is strong but timid. When he's drunk, he complains pitifully to their three-year-old daughter, “Your mom was mean to me just now. She yelled at me!”
2. The Gentle Beauty of the 1980s
Renowned TV host Gu Zheng has a fulfilling life. Her only regret is that she didn't meet Lu Weiming sooner, so she could have made him take care of himself and kept him from dying so young.
Who would have thought she'd transmigrate to this small city in the south, becoming the younger neighbor of Lu Weiming, who has just moved back from the countryside?
At their first meeting, before she can go over to introduce herself, he snaps, “How dare you trespass on my turf? Get lost!”
Gu Zheng can't help feeling wronged. Who is this hooligan, casually claiming territory like a local tyrant? Where's her tall, gentlemanly husband?
Male lead bonus scene:
Years later, Lu Weiming has risen to a high-ranking position. The outside world describes him as aloof and stern, a hard man with no mercy.
The few people in his social circle are left dumbfounded.
His everyday conversation is clearly all about “the flowers my wife arranged,” “the pastries my wife made,” “the massage chair my wife gave me,” and “the wine from 1982 my wife saved for me.” Wife this, wife that...
It makes you want to block him every other minute.
Theme: Building a strong country through science and technology takes generations of hard work.
There seems to be a slight problem here. That loofah could not have been sold for one or two yuan a piece in that era. After all, a loofah cost only one or two cents a pound. A loofah is actually the meridians that are separated from the melon meat after it has fermented and rotted.
So what is the male protagonist's name? Now Neng Neng, now Tie Zhu, and also, how do you pronounce Neng Neng?
Either read it as nainai or negneng
Having said that, I've seen this, but I'm really not used to the male protagonist's name. I think there is really no need for the author to give the male protagonist such a name. Such a male protagonist's name will reduce the article's points a lot.
Ah, am I the only one who doesn't like the male protagonist?? The original owner's three children ended up in that situation mainly because of their irresponsible father. They were squeezed by their grandparents and relatives and became as thin as a bamboo pole. Anyone with eyes can see it. Not to mention that there are other children in the family for comparison. Their monthly salary is tens of dollars and their children have nothing to eat. It is too cruel to force them to become gangsters and take drugs when they grow up. Moreover, why didn't the heroine talk about the situation of the children at home? Even if the hero cannot resist the family, she should let him express his attitude to his parents. The result was revealed in such a downplay?
I have to say, I thought that the simple worker was my husband? Hahaha
Check in, check in, check in, check in
The most promising one doesn't love him, and he's not his own biological child!
Where is this powder a specialty? Want to eat
Seeing this, I am still curious as to why the author came up with this name for the male protagonist in the first place. I know the word nian nai, but I still accept the incompetence and always think of it as nengneng... So tired... Hahahaha