My Years of Holding the Line on a Desert Island [1970S]

Coming soon: Second Marriage in the 1960s and In That Distant Frontier [1970s]. Please add them to your reading list! Since the 1950s, a group of people have guarded the nation's coastal defenses on the islands at the southernmost edge of the country, defending them with their devotion and their blood. Jiang Chaowen never understood her father. Why would he rather spend his whole life guarding that barren island than return home to live with her and her mother? She grew up with a mother but no father, bullied and mocked at every turn, told she was a child her father didn't want. It wasn't until she was very old, just before her death, that she read an online report about coastal troops guarding the islands. It praised the moving deeds of generations of soldiers and mentioned her father's name. Only then did she learn that the father she had resented all her life hadn't stayed away because he didn't want to come home or be reunited with them. It was his duty and his mission. Regret and guilt kept her from resting in peace. After dying of old age in bed, she opened her eyes again and found herself back in 1970, at eighteen, just before she was sent to the countryside. Thinking back on the past, she realized her father was still holding his post on South Island and had yet to die protecting the coastal fishing boats. She was young, and there was still time to make things right. So she went to South Island of her own accord, made peace with her father, and joined him in guarding the island. They grew fruits and vegetables, built coastal defenses, and along the way, she found love... May 19, 2021. The blurb has been screenshotted and posted on Weibo. Another upcoming novel: The Rebellious Supporting Villainess in a Period Novel Blurb: It wasn't until Li Yuzhen died that she learned she had transmigrated into a period novel called The Great Stepmother of the 1970s, where she was the foil to the heroine, Tang Yiyi. When Tang Yiyi transmigrated into the book, she had read part of the plot. Defying her parents' objections, she married Zhou Jianguo, a regimental commander with three children and a late wife, and became their stepmother. After the wedding, she followed the army north to a construction corps. Thanks to her talents and beauty, she thrived in love, work, and raising the children. In the original novel, Li Yuzhen was a young educated woman sent down to the countryside. To avoid grueling labor, she married a local farmer named Song Dazhi and became a foil who highlighted the heroine's many abilities. She did a terrible job raising her children. Her husband and in-laws beat and tormented her, and she herself became twisted and resentful, unable to stand seeing the heroine do well. She spent every day scheming against Tang Yiyi, only to be slapped down again and again, until she ended up abandoned by everyone and utterly miserable. Thinking back on her past, Li Yuzhen wanted to call herself an idiot. The first thing she did after being reborn was divorce the man who looked decent but favored sons over daughters, said one thing to her face and another behind her back, and let his mother beat and berate her. She took her two daughters, pregnant with her third child, and set out to live her own life. She would never again play the rebellious villainess who brought about her own ruin and served as the heroine's foil! - After Li Yuzhen divorced, everyone waited to see her make a fool of herself. They never expected her to support herself through hard work, not only avoiding starvation but raising all three children well. She stopped picking fights and getting herself into trouble, and even married the hunter next door. They lived happily ever after, with their days growing brighter and more prosperous. The scumbag: Impossible! How did this lazy woman, who couldn't even lay an egg, become so hardworking and beautiful? The scumbag's mother: Oh, my precious grandson, those new clothes, the new fabric, the new house, and all those stacks of cash were supposed to be under my control... How is this wretch doing better and better after leaving our family? Tang Yiyi: Huh, why is Li Yuzhen so different from the way the book described her? I'll keep an eye on her for a while, so she doesn't hurt my children. I'm a good stepmother, after all! Blurb dated June 4, 2022. Screenshotted and posted on Weibo. Second upcoming novel: Second Marriage in the 1960s Blurb: After reading a period novel called Reconstituted Families in the 1960s, Su Man woke from a dream to find herself in the book. She had become a bizarre supporting villainess who put on airs like a rich young lady, made life miserable for her first husband until he died, then threatened to die herself until a young army officer married her. In the original novel, the male lead, Xu Qifeng, was handsome and powerfully built. Though his family background was unremarkable, he had become a regimental commander at a young age. Just as Xu Qifeng was about to get together with the heroine, his white moonlight, Su Man used her father's position to force him to marry her. After their marriage, Xu Qifeng treated Su Man with icy indifference and pretended she didn't exist. Su Man wasn't easygoing either, and they often argued and fought. Their marriage lasted less than a year before Su Man's father was sent to the frontier. Xu Qifeng took the opportunity to demand a divorce and marry his white moonlight instead. Coldly abandoned, Su Man went mad and set off on the path of a villainess who caused trouble and brought about her own ruin. Within five years, the original heroine had her killed in the countryside. Now, Su Man has transmigrated into the book and has been married to Xu Qifeng for less than a day. To save her own life, she finds Xu Qifeng, who avoids her like the plague, and says solemnly, "I've decided to let you and your white moonlight be together. Let's get a divorce." Xu Qifeng wears a crisp military uniform, his gaze as cold as an icy cellar. His reply is unexpected: "You want a divorce? Fine. We'll talk about it after I'm dead." Su Man: ? Something about this plot seems off... April 11, 2021. The blurb has been screenshotted and posted on Weibo. Third upcoming novel: In That Distant Frontier [1970s] Blurb: Yang Qiujin was the belle of Hongqi Production Brigade. At eighteen, she followed her parents' wishes and married Chen Shengqing, a fellow villager. Chen Shengqing was handsome, broad-shouldered, long-legged, and ambitious, a model young man. He had no romantic feelings for Yang Qiujin, but his mother cried, made a scene, and threatened to kill herself, so he had no choice but to marry her. Less than a month after the wedding, he was drafted into the army. He was gone for six years, and after earning numerous military honors, he rose to the rank of deputy battalion commander, making him eligible to have his family join him. At his mother's insistence, Yang Qiujin took their five-year-old son and set off for the northwestern frontier to join him. She knew Chen Shengqing didn't particularly like her. Their marriage had been arranged by their parents, so what basis could there be for affection? She didn't ask for much. She would take care of her son and focus on her own work. Chen Shengqing could do whatever he liked. At first, Chen Shengqing felt the same way. But after spending day and night together through the harsh years on the frontier, he changed his mind. This woman is wonderful in every way. How could I have been so blind as not to fall for her from the start? A story of a couple who marry first and fall in love later. The male and female leads are both natives of their world. No one transmigrates or is reborn in this story. June 21, 2022. The blurb has been screenshotted and posted on Weibo. Theme: Defend the country and serve its people, make brave sacrifices, and strive relentlessly.