After the Pretty One Became the Obsession of a Brooding Male Lead [The 1970s]

[This story is incredibly sweet. Read about the sugary everyday life of a beautiful young widow and her loyal, rough-hewn husband.]

Su Cui realizes that she's drowning and someone is rescuing her. In her panic, she clings desperately to her rescuer. When she comes to, she discovers she's transmigrated into a book.

She's now the brainless female antagonist in a period novel, a woman who envies and schemes against her young, pretty sister-in-law, only to meet a tragic end.

Looking at the taciturn, rough-hewn man who rescued her, Su Cui remembers the two bloodsucking families, her husband's and her own. She immediately clings to the man in front of her.

Shen Congnan has never been one to socialize with the villagers. He works in silence and speaks little. Because of his political background, no one has ever thought much of him.

Until the day the beautiful young widow at the village entrance asks him if he wants to marry her. Only then does Shen Congnan realize that none of the world's countless colors can compare to her radiant smile.

He vows to rise above everyone else and give her a happy life...

[2]

Li Meifeng hates her vixen of a widowed sister-in-law. Ever since she married into the Li family, she's charmed Li Meifeng's older brother so completely that he cares more about his wife than his mother, and she even caused his death.

What's more, she seduced an educated youth who'd been sent down to the countryside and went back to the city with him to enjoy the good life, completely forgetting her brother.

After being reborn, Li Meifeng's first move is to pair her vixen of a sister-in-law with the gloomy, rough-hewn man at the end of the village, because she remembers that the man was later arrested for profiteering.

That handsome educated youth is hers. While seducing him, she waits to see Su Cui make a fool of herself. Instead, Li Meifeng's own reputation is ruined, while Su Cui moves to the city with that man and lives the good life...

Reader's guide:

1. The female lead transmigrates into a book, the female antagonist is reborn, and the male lead is a native of the world.

2. The book the female lead read before transmigrating was set in the world after the female antagonist was reborn.

P.S. Check out the author's latest completed novel, "Raising Three Big Villains [The 1970s]." Here's the blurb:

Looking at the three filthy children scavenging for food in front of her, Lin Chuxia knows they have a bright future ahead of them. They'll become big villains, take revenge on society, and take revenge on her, too.

That's because she transmigrated into a book, a period novel in which she, Lin Chuxia, is the stepmother. She abuses the three young villains in every way, and ultimately starves to death on the street, unable to find anything to eat...

Lin Chuxia takes the three little ragamuffins home, scrubs them clean, and takes them into the mountains to dig up bamboo shoots and wild vegetables. She teaches them from a young age to love their country, be kind, and study hard...

While out on a mission, Xie Jingming has a nightmare. After his death, his three children are abused by Lin Chuxia, the woman he just married. They grow up eating garbage they scavenge, and have to work to support her. If she's in a bad mood, she yells at them and beats them.

As soon as the mission ends, he rushes home with candy, biscuits, and dried meat, ready to send Lin Chuxia packing. Instead, he finds three chubby, spotless kids happily gathered around her, giving her everything he brought back.

Xie Jingming is furious. He wants to see what kind of bewitching potion Lin Chuxia has given them.

In the morning, Lin Chuxia enthusiastically hugs the cool eldest boy and smothers his little face with exaggerated kisses and praise. "Our eldest is amazing! What would Mom do without you?"

At noon, Lin Chuxia boldly wraps her arms around the gentle second boy and lifts him up with youthful enthusiasm. "Which field does our second boy want to conquer today? Mom will come with you."

In the evening, Lin Chuxia gently picks up the timid third boy and settles him on her lap, soothing him. "Our third boy is the bravest. You didn't cry at all..."

Later, the iron-willed Xie Jingming lies across Lin Chuxia's lap and throws a full-on tantrum. "When are you going to pamper me, too?"

[Important] The three kids aren't her biological children. Xie Jingming adopted them after their parents, his former teammates, passed away.

Theme: A happy, fulfilling life is something you have to work for with your own hands.