Take Out That Protagonist [The 1970s]

Upcoming: A Delicate Beauty in the Era Novel. Please add it to your favorites. (Blurb below.)

[Blurb]

Lu Ruyin, an outdoor survival enthusiast, transmigrates into a book.

In the original story, she was a top-tier rich beauty and the female lead's rival. But even the most elite rich beauty couldn't withstand the dazzling power of the protagonist's halo...

First, the heroine He Caiwei stole her place at university. Then she framed Lu Ruyin and got her sent to the countryside for rustication. Before she was even twenty, she died a miserable death amid illness and hardship.

Lu Ruyin: Does this author have something seriously wrong with them? A thief who stole someone else's place at university gets to be the protagonist?

System: Ding! Hello, Host. Your mission has begun. Eliminate the protagonist before the deadline. Please note: "You may not use any extreme measures."

Lu Ruyin: ?

System: Host, please learn to be self-reliant. Don't disturb me while I'm slacking off unless it's absolutely necessary.

Lu Ruyin: ...

While He Caiwei sweats over picking up scrap metal and mixing soap at the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers University, Lu Ruyin quietly sets herself a small goal: get into Qinghua University.

When He Caiwei sneaks back to the city and becomes an undocumented person, hiding from everyone, the provincial culture bureau director visits Lu Ruyin three times to invite her back to work in the city.

When He Caiwei gets conned out of her money and used by her foreign boyfriend, Lu Ruyin lounges on the sofa, watching her husband peel an apple for her, and sighs, "Made in China really is better."

A few years later

The System returns from slacking off: "Since you completed your mission ahead of schedule, you are hereby awarded a two-bedroom apartment, a secondhand bicycle, and an ordinary boyfriend."

Lu Ruyin: Let me show you around my two-story villa with a garden, my countryside courtyard home, my Liberation-brand car, my Red Flag-brand car... Oh, and let me introduce you to that handsome professor in the kitchen. He's my husband.

[Blurb for A Delicate Beauty in the Era Novel]

Hu Qiqi is the princess of Qingqiu, a fox spirit with a throne waiting at home and unmatched beauty. Yet she somehow becomes the tragic second female lead in an era novel.

Her role is to provide the heroine with money and a house, then get humiliated by her.

The heroine eventually becomes a famous singer, gaining both love and wealth.

Meanwhile, Hu Qiqi's reputation is ruined, and she dies in childbirth.

After arriving in the story, Hu Qiqi decisively cuts ties with the heroine and turns around her reputation in the village.

But country life is hard and exhausting. Without her magic, the little fox can't lift a finger or carry a load, and she's about to go hungry.

So the proud little princess sets off down the point-of-no-return road of clinging to a powerful man...

Lu Yan is antisocial and has been to a reeducation-through-labor camp. Everyone in the village is afraid of him.

Except Hu Qiqi, who's not afraid at all and always likes to follow him around.

Fed up, Lu Yan corners her against a wall. "I'm a bastard. I love bullying people."

Hu Qiqi gazes at him pitifully. "But I like you, you bastard."

Lu Yan: Oh no! She's got me wrapped around her finger.

Lin Caidie is a butterfly spirit. Jealous of the princess of Qingqiu, she writes a novel with herself as the heroine.

In her novel, she starts from the bottom and ends up on top, eventually marrying into a powerful family.

Meanwhile, the princess of Qingqiu grows uglier and uglier, hated by everyone, and dies in childbirth.

One day, Lin Caidie discovers she's transmigrated into her own novel and become the heroine.

She sits back and waits for the fox princess's life to go downhill.

But...

Why is she even more beautiful?

Why is she on TV?

Why has the powerful male rival become her boyfriend, too?

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