The Island Bride of the Seventies

- Pre-release story: The Eighties’ Delicate Little Maid. Its blurb is at the very bottom. (I’m a revision maniac. The published text differs from pirated copies, and I’m only responsible for the published version.) Blurb: The day a moonflower spirit finally cultivated a human form, she failed to survive the heavenly tribulation and became Jiang Anning in the 1970s. Her injuries make her sleepy and give her a huge appetite, earning her a reputation as the laziest, greediest woman in the Radio Factory housing compound. In the 1970s, when people have little food or clothing and believe women should shoulder half the sky, Jiang Anning is the least popular choice of bride, no matter how beautiful she is. An old family agreement lets her choose one of the unmarried men in the Zhou family to marry. She picks Zhou Xingyun, the most eager and, on the surface, the mildest and most honest one. The night before the decision is announced, she dreams that she marries Zhou Xingyun. He already has someone he loves and only marries her because he doesn’t dare disobey his grandfather. After working herself to the bone for the family, she spends her whole life as a wife in name only, then dies of illness on New Year’s Eve. After waking, she immediately changes her choice. Just as she’s at a loss over whom to pick, Zhou Xingyun’s younger uncle, a soldier stationed on an island, comes home. * Zhou Enjin is the youngest deputy regiment commander on the island. He is handsome, but cold and unsmiling. His eyes are especially intimidating. One look from him is enough to make anyone shudder. Because of this, he’s never been able to find a wife. He doesn’t mind and devotes himself entirely to work, becoming a major headache for the military leadership. When people hear that his family has arranged a blind date with a delicate, pretty woman, they assume she’ll run away in fright like the others. Instead, he immediately submits his marriage application and takes his new wife to the island. Jiang Anning wears a snow-white polyester dress and delicate red sandals. Following behind Zhou Enjin, she greets everyone with a sweet smile. The others worry: She really is beautiful, but she doesn’t look like she can handle hardship. Can she truly adapt to the island’s harsh, difficult life? Basking in the scorching sun and full of energy, Jiang Anning, the real tropical flower, says: That’s no problem at all. Before long, everyone discovers that Jiang Anning, who looks so delicate she needs looking after, can knock a wild boar unconscious with one punch and works harder than the most industrious woman on the island. Her private vegetable plot is overflowing with vegetables and fruit. Her cooking is varied and delicious, and even the chickens she raises are plumper than everyone else’s. After marrying the most promising officer, she also makes her way from a lazy, greedy cautionary tale to a celebrated tycoon, accumulating a vast fortune through her own efforts. She’s the perfect example of how appearances can be deceiving. Jiang Anning smiles shyly. I just have a tiny bit of talent. Content warnings: 1. The story includes Su Yu, a woman who transmigrates into a book. She’s the protagonist of a series of stories set in a particular era and the female lead of a future book. 2. The island is fictional, based on islands in the south. If you like this, you can also bookmark Su Yu’s story, The Drama Queen Educated Youth Thrives in an Era Novel. Su Yanwan was sold by her gambling-addicted father to a matchmaker as a child and trained to be a courtesan. When she came of age, a salt merchant bought her, and she became a target in the scheming battles between the women of his household. Relying on her beauty and business acumen, she caught the eye of an honored guest visiting the household and rose to become the favored concubine of a prince, living in luxury. She helped the prince’s household turn its losses around and amassed a fortune, only to be discarded once she was no longer useful, dying a violent death. When she awakens, she has transmigrated into the 1980s. According to the story, her stepfather and mother want to climb the social ladder and urge a scumbag to ruin her virtue. After she marries him, her husband abuses her. Her stepfather’s family benefits from it and turns a blind eye to her suffering. Even after she is beaten to death, they accept hush money from the scumbag. When Su Yanwan first transmigrates, she’s locked in a room, waiting for the scumbag to ruin her that night. She tricks her mother into letting down her guard, knocks the scumbag out, and runs without looking back. In this life, I decide my own future, whether it’s marriage or career. No one can force me. Whatever I want, whether it’s a man or money, I’ll get it. Jin Ze is the most promising young officer in the residential compound and the leader of the younger generation of the Jin family. He was raised with strict family values, self-discipline, and integrity. His marriage and political career have long been arranged. All he has to do is follow the path his family has laid out to reach the top. But then she appears. Jin Ze knows she’s self-serving, smooth, and vain. He knows she’s cunning and cold, and that not a word she says is true. Yet he still falls for her sweet talk, step by step, unable to pull himself away. Theme: Love life, and build wealth through hard work.