The Supporting Female Character in a Period Novel Has a Red Packet Group

I’m out of inspiration for this story, so updates will be irregular for now. I won’t abandon it, but please enter at your own risk. Sorry.

[Story Blurb]

In the novel Reborn to Be a Stepmother in the 1970s, the heroine, You Xiangmei, died a miserable death in her previous life. After being reborn, she refuses to let her cousin marry that man in her place again. Instead, she will become a stepmother to his three children, treat both them and their father well, and build a happy, prosperous life, while making sure everyone who wronged her in her past life gets what they deserve.

As for her cousin, she feels she owes her, but she introduces her to another good man. When she returns to her hometown and sees her cousin surrounded by children, she is reassured. From then on, she can wait in peace to become the future wife of a business tycoon.

You Xiang, meanwhile, is You Xiangmei's unlucky cousin.

After a stroke of fate puts You Xiang in a bonus group for supporting characters, she learns the story's plot. You Xiang: So your idea of a good man is a lunatic who abuses his wife and children because he's not right in the head? You can keep him! I'll decide my own future!

While You Xiangmei waits for the male lead's wife to die, You Xiang separates from her family and leads the entire production brigade to prosperity!

While You Xiangmei prepares to marry the male lead, You Xiang gets a job as a technician at the county's machinery factory!

While You Xiangmei is busy raising the male lead's three children and running the household, You Xiang becomes the top scorer in the provincial entrance exam and is admitted to the best university in the country!

When You Xiangmei finally gets the male lead's consent to have his child, You Xiang makes a major contribution at a research institute!

Later, You Xiangmei sees You Xiang being interviewed on the news. Proud of her own lofty status, You Xiangmei is stunned. How could You Xiang be even more impressive than in her previous life? It can't be!

You Xiang: What's so great about romance? Isn't building a career much better?

Blurb for my next upcoming story, The Real Daughter in a Period Novel:

Fang Youyou died saving a child. When she opened her eyes, she had become the cannon-fodder real daughter in a period novel. She had a husband and a son, and her life was happy and complete.

But the real daughter was merely a foil for the adopted daughter. The period novel told the heartwarming story of the adopted daughter, beloved by everyone, living happily ever after.

Her five-year-old son would grow up to be a great villain and die a horrible death. Her educated-youth husband was the adopted daughter's devoted admirer, and this cannon-fodder real daughter would be poisoned to death with pesticide by her husband.

Fang Youyou: My fists are clenched! Don't try to stop me!

But as Fang Youyou waits for her husband to poison her so she can catch him in the act, she realizes something is off about him. This weakling can carry water without breaking a sweat and kill a wild boar with one punch? And he treats her and their little one really well? Her son doesn't act like a five-year-old either?

One day, her husband, Lu Yixing, accidentally calls her "wife."

Fang Youyou immediately fixes her gaze on him. Oh, got you at last!

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Zhou Xiaoya was adored by everyone all her life. She lived to a ripe old age, with no better life imaginable, and closed her eyes with a smile. But when she opened them again, she had returned to the most beautiful age of her life. Fang Youyou, who had once stood in her way, was still around, but Zhou Xiaoya knew Fang Youyou would bring about her own downfall. As for her, everything would go smoothly, and she would still be everyone's darling.

But Zhou Xiaoya waits and waits, only to watch Fang Youyou and Lu Yixing grow close and fall in love. They both get into university and become a celebrated couple, while their son is praised as a once-in-a-century prodigy. Later, Fang Youyou builds a business empire and becomes the richest person in the country, finding success in both love and work. She is the very picture of a winner in life.

As for Zhou Xiaoya, her adoptive parents resent her, her birth parents bleed her dry, her husband is sick of her, and her children dislike her. She's a complete joke.

Theme: You only get one life. Be independent and strong, strive to improve yourself, and face hardship and fate without fear. Forge a remarkable life of your own.