The Beautiful Ex-Wife of the Eighties

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Blurb:

Jiang Zhuyu awakens to discover that she is the foil in a period novel.

Her cousin Jiang Zhumei, the heroine, is born lucky. After marrying a gang leader, she rides the wave of reform and opening up, and the two become a wealthy power couple.

Jiang Zhuyu, on the other hand, marries Hu Dachun, the gang leader's good-for-nothing friend.

She struggles to raise children and run a wonton shop,

only for her husband to cruelly divorce her in the end. She and her child are killed by a car while crossing the street.

Jiang Zhuyu looks at this book with its twisted values and waves her hand.

I'm done with this!

First, Hu Dachun brings his poor cousin into the house.

Then Jiang Zhuyu takes her child and leaves.

After the divorce, she runs the wonton shop with one hand and looks after her little one with the other, then soon marries again.

Her new husband is a divorced soldier who has just left the military.

He has a daughter too, and plenty of money.

Everyone says he's got a terrible temper, and that he and Jiang Zhuyu are bound to fight once they marry.

But no one expects that her new husband will not only make money, but also do absolutely anything for her.

The way he looks at her is almost wolfish. Once he sets his sights on her, no one can drag him away.

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Only after getting married does Jiang Zhumei realize

that she is the heroine of a period novel with a bright future.

Her husband will eventually become the owner of a major state-run restaurant, and their rise to the ranks of the wealthy is only a matter of time.

Jiang Zhumei happily waits for the good life to begin.

But she never expects her life to take such a strange turn,

while her cousin Jiang Zhuyu, who was supposed to be a mere foil, goes from strength to strength and opens wonton shops all over the country!

Jiang Zhumei just can't understand it. How did things turn out this way?

Please add The Pretty Female Supporting Character of the 1970s to your reading list!

Zhong Yu is beautiful and slender, the undisputed flower of the cotton mill.

One day, she wakes up to discover that she's the tragic female supporting character in a period novel.

Her scumbag father and stepmother are determined to arrange a job for her stepsister and stepbrother, so they insist she marry the deputy factory director's son.

But he's a despicable man who sleeps around,

and a year later, she will die in childbirth, with no one taking her to the hospital. She and her baby won't survive.

Zhong Yu refuses to meet the man and instead marries Xie Minshan, leaving everyone at the cotton mill stunned.

Xie Minshan is the factory's notorious jinx. He supposedly brings misfortune to his parents, has a terrible temper, and is raising two children.

Everyone wonders whether Zhong Yu will be beaten to death or cursed to death if she marries a man like that.

But to everyone's surprise, after they marry, Zhong Yu doesn't die. Instead, her foul-tempered husband pampers her to no end!

What's more, she quits her factory job and starts her own business, eventually becoming one of the country's leading fashion moguls!

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As one of the first entrepreneurs of the reform era, everyone considers Xie Minshan's life a great success.

His career is thriving, his children are successful, and his only flaw is that he never remarried.

No one knows

that Xie Minshan never married at all. The children are the orphans of his comrade-in-arms,

and the woman everyone thinks of as his wife was the girl he cherished all his life but never managed to get closer to.

Burdened by heavy responsibilities, he didn't dare ask for her hand.

He could only watch helplessly as she married the wrong man and suffered through a painful marriage,

then died in agony along with the child she never got to meet...

Xie Minshan is consumed by regret and hate.

He spends the rest of his life mired in remorse and revenge.

Even after he tears the Xu and Zhong families that caused her suffering to pieces,

he cannot ease his grief and regret.

Reborn, Xie Minshan opens his eyes to find that he and the girl are married, and they're lying together in the bridal bed.

Her hand is touching his abs, and a shy, playful smile appears on her lips.

With reddened eyes and a hoarse voice, Xie Minshan asks her, "What are you doing?"

After gazing at her for a moment, he smiles. "Never mind. Let me do it!"

Theme: Work hard and create happiness with your own two hands.