My Whole Family Are Heroines in a Feel-Good Story [The 1970s]

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Blurb:

Tang Xiaotang is a cotton candy sprite. She looks soft, cute, and sweet, but she's ruthless at heart and loves keeping a little book of grudges. One day, she transmigrated into a book.

The original girl was a minor cannon-fodder character. Her biased grandmother left her mentally disabled after a fever, and she was forced to take the female lead's place on a blind date with a man whose wives had all died. Not only was her engagement money stolen, she was also left to starve to death.

Her mother and two older sisters had it even worse. They all ended up with cheating men, abusive men, and mama's boys...

Tang Xiaotang thought it was hilarious. Someone as adorable as her wasn't going to starve to death, not in this lifetime. She was great at dealing with scumbags and putting the worst people in their place.

Everyone in those days lived hard lives, but she was determined to make life sweet for her family. After all, she was so sweet herself.

Men couldn't be relied on. They would rely on themselves.

The whole family was full of female leads from wish-fulfillment novels: a champion of household battles for a mother, a top-student domineering CEO for the eldest sister, and a beloved green-tea actress for the second sister. Behind Tang Xiaotang's back, they came clean to each other: poor Xiaotang was the only one in the family without a golden finger, so they decided they had to treat her even better. Later, they discovered Tang Xiaotang was the real big shot.

[Sharp-witted soft girl x Taciturn tough guy]

Qin Jiang had outlived three fiancées and planned to remain a bachelor for life. His trip to the countryside for a blind date was just a formality. He never expected to find Tang Xiaotang, a girl as sweet as her name.

She looked at him with her big, dark eyes and said softly, "Company Commander Qin, I'll wait for you to come back and marry me."

W-who could resist that?

Qin Jiang put on a stern face and saluted her. "Comrade, please behave appropriately."

But his earlobes were so red they looked ready to bleed.

A thousand-year-old tree was finally blooming!

Upcoming: The Rebellious Female Side Character Awakens in a Period Novel:

Everyone said Fourth Uncle Yun was lucky. His family was dirt-poor, yet he had raised two little girls as beautiful as fairies. His biological daughter, Yun Shan, was especially lovely, kind, and sweet-tongued, warming the hearts of everyone around her.

His adopted daughter, Yun Zhi, was even prettier, but her temper was unbearable. She was arrogant and domineering, fussy and troublesome, and if she was unhappy, she made sure everyone else was too. The people around her all wanted to strangle her.

The day Yun Zhi awakened, she had driven the whole family to exhaustion. Yun Shan, ever considerate, stepped forward. "I'll marry in my sister's place."

"Dream on! Why should I give you my man?" Yun Zhi frowned prettily, let go of the rope she had been trying to hang herself with, stepped down from the stool, and huffed at Yun Shan. "If anyone's marrying him, it's me. I'm not letting you steal him!"

Everyone was exasperated: There she goes again.

After all, this wasn't a happy match. She was marrying Jiang Tingzhi to bring him good fortune and ward off his illness.

Jiang Tingzhi was the biological uncle of the original novel's male lead, and also the man who killed his father. Not only was he seriously ill and bedridden for years, he seemed mentally unwell too, with unpredictable moods that made everyone fear him.

They said he was incredibly ugly...

But that was just hearsay. Yun Zhi mentally reviewed the original story, and Jiang Tingzhi was actually handsome. More importantly, he was rich.

If she married him, she'd have more money than she could spend and could keep doing whatever she pleased. Why not? But as she carried on, she noticed that both the male lead and his uncle were looking at her strangely.

Wasn't this supposed to be the female lead's role? Yun Zhi, the side character, couldn't care less: She's a troublemaker forever, and everyone else is a nobody.

Jiang Tingzhi married a village girl who was a complete handful, and she made the whole Jiang family chaotic. Just wait, she'd drive Jiang Tingzhi to his grave in a month at most.

But who knew Yun Zhi had a special talent? She could drive the living to their deaths, but she could also bring the dead back to life.

A year later, Jiang Tingzhi accompanied his wife to the department store, shopping bags hanging from his hands and neck. A passerby recognized him and was stunned. "Didn't the rumors say Jiang Tingzhi had been angered to death?"

Yun Zhi was tired from shopping. She kicked off her high heels and ordered him sweetly, "My feet hurt. Carry me on your back~"

The passerby thought: They say Jiang Tingzhi is vicious and gloomy, with a sinister, unpredictable nature. If he knew how to cherish a beautiful woman, I'd chop off my own head for you...

Jiang Tingzhi not only scooped her into his arms, but also put his own leather shoes on her feet.

The passerby thought: Rumors are just rumors.

Yun Zhi's eyes welled up as she pounded his chest with her tiny fists. "I don't want you to carry me in your arms. I want a piggyback ride. Don't you love me anymore?!"

The passerby thought: She really is a handful. So some of the rumors are true after all.

Yun Zhi found all sorts of creative ways to get herself into trouble, until everyone thought it was only natural, and that she was so fragile she couldn't live without him.