Eighty-Eight: Marrying Her Ex-Husband's Boss

Please add my next book, The Supporting Female Character in a Period Novel Refuses to Follow the Plot, to your collection. Given a second life, Wang Mei knows that working hard without complaint gets her nowhere. Whoever wants to be a child bride can take the job. In her previous life, Wang Mei and Xu Yining each married a factory worker from the same production brigade. The difference was that Xu Yining was a pampered young woman from a big city, and her husband was successful and knew how to treat his wife well. Wang Mei, by contrast, was the foil: the Wangs had raised her from childhood as a child bride and treated her like a workhorse. She was ignorant and foolish. Her husband had once been a backup suitor for Xu Yining, and even after getting married, he still lusted after other people's wives. They lived in the same residential compound, yet after finishing her own chores, Wang Mei still had to help the pampered Xu Yining. Wang Mei even cared for her during her postpartum confinement. All because of a joke about their children marrying someday, once Wang Mei could no longer have children, she was driven out to make room for another woman. Everyone said Wang Mei was a poor little thing, with her husband sharing a bed with another woman. To everyone's surprise, Wang Mei soon made a fortune in business and lived better than anyone. The Wangs, meanwhile, had let a treasure slip through their fingers. Her ex-husband was furious: his boss's new wife was the ignorant, foolish ex-wife he had cast aside. Preview: The Supporting Female Character in a Period Novel Refuses to Follow the Plot, available in my author profile. Tian Tang unexpectedly obtains the plot of a novel and discovers that she is a cannon-fodder character whose job is to give the heroine a golden finger. Her parents both have stable jobs, and the family is well-off. They had arranged a job for her through connections long ago, but to keep her cousin Tian Ying from being sent to the countryside, she begged and pleaded until she gave her job placement to her cousin. Her mother was forced to quit her own job early and give it to Tian Tang instead. They both start working at the factory. Her cousin is kind and outgoing, quickly becoming friends with everyone, while Tian Tang cares about no one but her cousin and ends up being bullied at work. Tian Tang is devastated. Worse, now that she has become self-aware, it is already too late to change anything. They have been working at the factory for over a month, and all the troublemaking that was supposed to happen has already happened. No wonder she was bullied. It was all her cousin's fault. Fortunately, there is one thing she has not had the chance to turn down: Ren Jiacheng. He liked her back then, but Tian Tang was egged on by her cousin to believe he was an unreliable delinquent. After she rejected him, her cousin shamelessly went to comfort Ren Jiacheng. Now that she knows the plot and Ren Jiacheng's future, Tian Tang agrees to be with him. Rather than give her cousin a golden finger, she might as well claim the biggest golden finger for herself. Theme: Live life with determination and keep striving.