The Courtyard Beauty of the 1970S

When Gu Shunhua realized she was the female supporting character in a period novel, she was buying roasted sweet potatoes in Dazhalan Alley. A familiar Beijing accent reached her ears. "Are you buying them or not?" Gu Shunhua put down the sweet potato and ran straight for the train station. According to the story, she would temporarily divorce her husband so she could return to the city. But just as they were about to divorce, her cousin Chen Lu would take advantage of the situation and marry her ex-husband, bearing him children. He would rise to success, and her cousin would enjoy a life of luxury, while her own children would end up in prison for embezzling company assets. The book mentioned her in a regretful, self-satisfied tone: "Gu Shunhua wasn't really a bad person, just a little selfish and shortsighted, like any ordinary person. She was also frightened by the hardships of life in the countryside, and would stop at nothing to return to the city. In the end, she threw away a perfectly good marriage." Gu Shunhua: To hell with that! She rushed back to the countryside and saw her twin children. She pulled them into her arms. "Wherever I go, you go with me. The three of us will never be apart!" Ren Jingnian, who was fiddling with the radio, saw his wife. "Why are you back already?" Thinking of the husband in the book, who doted on the female lead but ignored his own children, Gu Shunhua straightened her back. "Do you want me never to come back? Do you want to mistreat my son and daughter?" Ren Jingnian: "?" Gu Shunhua: "We can divorce, but I get the kids and you get the donkey." Ren Jingnian: "...What did I do wrong?" Chen Lu admired her boss and wrote a romance novel based on him. Then she herself transmigrated into it. By then, the tide of reform and opening-up had begun. The big boss was young, though married, and she thought she had a real chance. But... Why hadn't they divorced yet? Why weren't they divorced? Why not? Why? Theme: A sent-down youth returns to the city in the 1970s and strives to make her own way.