The Villainous Little Wife in a Period Novel

[Next up: Reborn Sixties Couple] Xin Tian is eighteen when she suddenly realizes she’s living inside a whole stack of novels set in the era. Her dad is the scoundrel from the first novel, a shameless rogue. Her mom is the stepmother from the second, lazy and greedy. Her older brother is the cannon fodder from the third, ruthless and cruel. Her older sister is the female supporting character from the fourth, sinister and deceitful. Xin Tian quietly looks at her family. Her dad, a factory director, is packing for a training program at school. Her mom, hailed by the public as a shining star of model operas, is working on a new book. Her older brother, a company commander home on leave from the army, is unpacking local specialties he brought back from his base. Her sister... Her sister isn’t home. She’s in the capital representing her school’s outstanding students at an exchange. Xin Tian: So the novels really are all lies. That means there’s nothing to worry about if she’s taken a liking to the uncorrupted villain from the fifth novel, either. Just look at him holding a book and standing beneath the trees, all scholarly and refined. He’s nothing like the vicious villain described in the novel. Until one day, by chance, Xin Tian sees the young man near her home and watches him use a book as a club, brutally knocking two people unconscious. “...!” Xin Tian takes two steps back. The young man looks over, hurriedly smoothing out the book in his hands, his voice tense. “They started it.” “They were trying to steal the book you gave me.” Upcoming novel: Reborn Sixties Couple Meng Qin works diligently, but in middle age she is forced into early retirement. After waiting half a year for a government-funded overseas study opportunity, she loses it to a newly assigned college graduate because her educational qualifications are too low. When she gets home, she finds divorce papers on the coffee table. Her vision goes black, and Meng Qin is reborn in the early days of her marriage. Thinking about how her in-laws and brother-in-law will exploit her like a workhorse for the next twenty or thirty years, she glares at the man standing by the bed with a silly grin. Their eyes meet, and Meng Qin unexpectedly hears her husband's thoughts. [My wife looked so good when she was young.] [If we were young again, we wouldn't have to get divorced!] Meng Qin looks at the man, whose lips haven't moved: ? Was he reborn too? Theme: Mutual understanding