An Island Businesswoman in a Period Novel

Currently updating. Please add The Gentle Trap He Set and My Magical Dessert Shop to your reading list. Completed period novels: The Eighties' Biggest Sucker Has a Few Skills and Daily Life Striving in the Northwest in a Period Novel Upcoming period novels. Please add them to your reading list: Reclaiming the Land in the Sixties: Starting with a Dugout Hut, The Sickly Beauty Heads West to Reclaim Wasteland in the Sixties, Marrying the Sickly Young Master of a Period Novel, and Harbor City Rose, 1955 Please add Global Ancestral Awakening: I Bound Two Systems, The Top-Tier Star's Younger Sister Is a Little Vampire Princess, and My Magical Dessert Shop to your reading list. One-sentence summary: She marries her childhood fiance the first time they meet, and finds success in both her career and love! Jiang Suining transmigrates into a period novel as a beautiful, foolish village girl who was deceived out of her arranged marriage. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces a choice that will determine her life: Follow the plot, help her best friend frame her fiance, break off the engagement, and marry a widower to become his children's stepmother! Tear up the script, expose her best friend, marry her fiance, and follow the army to a remote island, where she'll be left alone as a military wife! Hearing her fiance's solemn promises, that he would hand over his wages, take care of all the housework, and agree to a list of rules, she tears the script to pieces: A husband who gives you money and stays out of your way? A life where you win without lifting a finger is right here! Who knew that once she followed the army to the island, opportunities would be everywhere? There was no chance of taking it easy. For the sake of beauty and good food, she had to work hard! From diatom sunscreen cream and slimming sun-protective clothing to a garment factory and a tidal-energy cold-storage facility, she proved that women could hold up half the sky. She worked so hard that her name became famous across the whole island! But wasn't the original book supposed to say she'd be left alone as a military wife? This man was clearly more than capable! Zhou Xiaomei was reborn. In her previous life, she had coaxed and tricked her best friend Jiang Suining out of her engagement, then married Lu Ye, a workaholic who didn't understand romance or how to get ahead. This time, she decisively returned the engagement to her friend. She would become an official's wife, marry a model husband who doted on his wife, and become the stepmother of three big shots. But after getting what she wanted, she never imagined that Lu Ye, who hadn't understood romance in her previous life, would become the island's most famous doting husband. For his wife, he worked tirelessly to clear the land and grow roses all over the mountains. For his wife, he got up in the middle of the night to stew nourishing seafood porridge by the stove. For his wife, he dived for pearls in the pouring rain to make her a birthday present. Meanwhile, she had endless laundry and cooking to do every day, and also had to outwit three naughty kids from time to time. The model husband who had once doted on his wife had become a hands-off manager, and her life was a miserable mess. Watching Jiang Suining shine on television and in the newspapers, Zhou Xiaomei tore up her diary from her previous life. I got reborn for nothing! Reading guide: **A career is the foundation of love, and the male lead supports the heroine's career unconditionally. **A slow-paced farming story with an ensemble cast and everyday family life. The heroine focuses wholeheartedly on her career from chapter 47. **The economic situation is based on the late 1970s and early 1980s. **The period setting is partly fictional, with some original details. Please don't nitpick. Blurb for The Sickly Beauty Heads West to Reclaim Wasteland in the Sixties "Comrade Gu, your wife got so drunk she mistook someone else for her groom!" "Well, your wife went to the wrong bridal chamber, too." The two newlywed couples stared at each other. Who was supposed to wear the cuckold's hat? On her wedding night, Su Tao got drunk and was sent to the bed of a top scientist. She and her cousin Su Ying, who despised the harsh conditions of the Northwest, ended up in each other's bridal chambers. The foreign-returnee scumbag hugged Su Ying, overjoyed: At last, I'm rid of that sickly woman! Gu Minghui touched his eyes, which had yet to recover from snow blindness, and sneered: I've struck gold. In her previous life, Su Tao was a sucker. She raised her scumbag cousin's illegitimate child, endured her husband's affair, and died of depression. Her entire family had drained her of her last drop of blood! In this life, her memories awakened. She took the snow-blind scientist her cousin had wanted nothing to do with, reported the scumbag for bigamy, grabbed a shovel, and headed to the Great Northwest. Endless Gobi, endless yellow sand. Dressed in a snow-white sheepskin vest, Su Tao sat by the stove in a warm earthen house, sipping lamb and vermicelli soup and eating crisp sesame flatbread. On the enamel plate was freshly baked meat from the pit oven. Eating husks and drinking the bitter Northwest wind? Not a chance. Ride camels to dig for cistanche, then sell desert herbs across the country. Teach forest rangers to use machinery to build straw checkerboards, creating a thousand-mile windbreak forest that astonishes the central government. Grow ten thousand mu of "snowfield cotton" in Baijiantan and make the front page of the People's Daily. Rescue Przewalski's horses and raise desert wolf cubs, becoming a living bodhisattva to the animal kingdom. The first thing Gu Minghui saw after regaining his sight was the girl in the sheepskin coat, smiling more brightly than the sun. The man who had promised to focus on his career and stay out of romance was secretly writing poetry in the lab again: I've calculated the path of the shifting dunes. You are the only variable in my life that cannot be calculated. What happened to the aloof research machine? Who is this man writing love letters with mathematical models?! Later, Su Ying's foreign-returnee husband proved useless at everything and failed at everything he tried. Su Tao and Gu Minghui were both written into textbooks, and the state awarded them the Medal for Desert Control Couples. She was adored as the wildest red rose in the desert. When the sandstorm swept away all that was false, the true pearl finally bloomed in the Gobi. "Gu Minghui, didn't you say we'd focus on research and stay out of romance?" "Allow me to correct you: I meant we'd do research while falling in love." Thesis: Women can hold up half the sky