Raising Kids and Getting Rich in a Period Novel [The 1970S]

Mai Sui, a partner in a clothing brand, dies suddenly at work and transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era, becoming the ex-wife of the male lead, Li Jianhua. In the book, she is jealous and unreasonable, forcing her innocent husband, Li Jianhua, and the female educated youth Su Ruoxi into each other's arms. After the divorce, she goes out of her way to make trouble for the male lead and oppose the heroine, with the predictable result. Her two older sons are little demons from childhood, and grow up to wreak havoc wherever they go, until they are executed by firing squad. On the day of their execution, firecrackers go off in celebration throughout the surrounding villages. Her daughter, jealous of her beautiful and kind half-sister, repeatedly tries to frame her, only to fail and then get tricked by one of the sister's admirers. As for Mai Sui herself, unable to bear her sons' execution and her daughter's ruin, she goes mad. By contrast, the heroine Su Ruoxi is the very model of a good wife and mother. With her encouragement, Li Jianhua becomes one of the first people to go into business after the reform and opening-up. In the end, Li Jianhua becomes a local tycoon, Su Ruoxi becomes the tycoon's wife, and their two children grow into outstanding people. After recalling the entire plot, Mai Sui wants to curse. Looking at her three little ones, aged five, three, and one, and then at their bare, mud-walled house, she feels like crying. "Mom, wake up!" "Mom, my tummy's hungry!" "Mom, waah..." The grown-up single woman Mai Sui's heart melts. How could these little darlings be demons? They're adorable little kids! She's going to be their mother. Who cares about the male and female leads? Wouldn't it be better to raise her three children, build a fortune, and reach the peak of her life? In her previous life, Su Ruoxi returned to the city with her husband, who was also an educated youth. They struggled to make ends meet, spending most of their lives scraping together enough for food and daily necessities. Luckily, she was reborn. This time, she would live differently. So she decisively broke up with her educated-youth boyfriend and hitched herself to Li Jianhua, the future tycoon. She successfully got Li Jianhua to divorce his wife, and his three children went to his ex-wife. Su Ruoxi felt she was already a big step closer to becoming the tycoon's wife. All that remained was to wait for the reforms and opening-up, then get Li Jianhua to go into business. But can someone tell her why that hot-tempered divorcée, who used to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation, suddenly has a cheat ability? She becomes a seamstress, opens a garment factory, and builds her own clothing brand. Even her three children become pillars of the nation. Meanwhile, despite having the advantage of foresight, Su Ruoxi keeps getting thwarted. Watching Mai Sui stand beside her tech-mogul husband with a radiant smile as they ring the gong to celebrate their company's listing, Su Ruoxi bursts into tears. Key points: The heroine has a romance, but her career comes first and love comes second. She isn't a pushover or a saint, and she never lets a grudge go unanswered! My next novel, Back to the Nineties: No Longer Spoiling My Brother, is open for pre-orders. Please add it to your collection! Li Yinan doesn't realize until the day she dies that she's been living inside a book. She's the cannon-fodder supporting character, and her younger brother's wife is the transmigrated heroine. Looking back on her life, Li Yinan finds it ridiculous. How did she end up as if she'd been cursed, giving everything unconditionally to her younger brother and sister-in-law and forgetting even her own husband and daughter? She handed her husband's clients and business to her brother. Whenever her sister-in-law fancied something of hers, she let her take it. When her daughter and nephew quarreled, her daughter was always the one made to suffer. She even took the money her husband needed to save his life and gave it to her brother to invest. In the end, her brother said, "I lost it," and all the savings she'd painstakingly accumulated by living frugally went up in smoke. Her husband also passed away because he missed the best time for treatment. After that, her daughter wanted nothing to do with her. The girl never spoke to her again, not even before she died. Consumed by regret, Li Yinan is reborn and returns to the day her brother and sister-in-law get married. She decisively puts the 10,000 yuan wedding gift in her bag, then takes out five 100-yuan notes. From now on, to hell with the transmigrated heroine, to hell with making things easier for her, and to hell with the idea that an elder sister should be like a mother. Whoever wants to spoil a younger brother can do it themselves. In this life, she just wants to live well, make it up to her husband and daughter, and fulfill her old dream of becoming a CEO. Content warnings: 1. There was a reason the heroine was such an extreme younger-brother spoiler in her previous life. This time, she's seen the light. She's no pushover, and once she wakes up, no one can control her. She won't let her family of origin bleed her dry again. 2. There are episodes of standing up to awful people, but not too many. The main focus is the heroine building her career. Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.