Teaching in the Nineties

Recommended: the completed historical novel *The Most Beautiful Star of the 1980s Song and Dance Troupe*. It's a great read. The blurb is below. The end of the universe is taking civil service exams and applying for government jobs. Not long after Lin Shuyue graduated, her lover became a vegetable, and her life as a wage slave hit one setback after another. Just to get by, she picked up study materials for a teaching certificate, hoping only to find a stable job. But overnight, Lin Shuyue traveled back to 1998 and became Lin Xinyue, a proud middle-school teacher! But who would want to be a teacher in this era? Obviously, she should head to Shenzhen, Shanghai, or Beijing, work hard and make money, and buy a house and a shop... Just as she was getting ready to pack up and leave, the System she was bound to activated its clock-in-and-teach mode. Lin Shuyue: "..." Fine. She could clock in dutifully before leaving. There would still be time to make a fortune. But the moment she got her hands on the class roster, she was stunned. What? The business moguls, romance queens, top-tier stars, medical prodigies, and aerospace pioneers mentioned in the novels she'd read before transmigrating were all in this class! Lin Shuyue was a little dumbfounded... * After graduating from military academy, Chen Jiayuan joined his unit. He was injured during a mission and fell into a coma, but his soul traveled to the 1990s, where he became a PE teacher. The new teacher looks so much like his girlfriend. But perhaps it's just a coincidence? ##Reader's Guide## The story takes place mainly between 1998 and 2001. At heart, this is still a slice-of-life story about rural life. Blurb for *The Most Beautiful Star of the 1980s Song and Dance Troupe*: Chen Mingzhu, who loves dancing, transmigrates into a historical novel and becomes the foil to a pretty, spoiled young woman in the family compound of an arts troupe. Her new identity: a little maid. In the original story, the spoiled young woman is the star of the song and dance troupe. Proud by nature, she loves being the center of attention and makes a scene at every turn. In the end, she breaks up with the male lead, whose cool-and-cocky persona has fallen apart, and gets together with the wealthy second male lead who has risen to prominence. The little maid has a tragic background. After coming to the city, she has to carry the spoiled young woman's bags. Though she has a secret crush on the male lead, she can only marry a fellow villager who runs a jianbing stall. But now, Chen Mingzhu is clever and determined, with a dream of dancing. Through sheer hard work, she gets into the city's song and dance troupe and sets her sights on becoming its star. The spoiled young woman keeps acting out, never realizing that the male lead has already set his sights on Chen Mingzhu, who has emerged from her cocoon as an excellent dancer and a beauty. So the spoiled young woman can't take it anymore... Chen Mingzhu: "I'd rather dance than date. Don't even ask." Her ambitions aren't limited to this little troupe. She wants to be the star on a much bigger stage. * Word is that young, handsome Professor Lu from the architecture department married a former maid, and the campus's brightest students sneer at her humble rise. But when they see the professor's wife watering flowers in the little garden at his home, they fall silent. No one told them that the professor's wife was beautiful and elegant, with a smile that made her more lovely than the flowers. One day, the students watch a performance of the third generation of *The Silk Road* and are struck dumb. Isn't that the professor's wife? It turns out she's the lead dancer, a principal dancer at the National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, and a national first-class dancer. "Professor Lu, your wife is incredible!" Professor Lu smiles faintly. "I nearly ended up in a crematorium trying to win her over." Notes: 1. A cool, cocky professor x a classical dance beauty. 2. Overall, this is a sweet romance. The male lead's crematorium remark is a joke. 3. Time period: the 1980s to the 1990s. Theme: It takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to cultivate a person.