Contract-Divorced Couple Travel to the 1970s

[Coming soon: A Virtuous Wife No More in the 1980s]

[Story blurb]

Three years into their arranged marriage, Han Jiaoyang handed Xu Lu divorce papers and said, "I won't stand in the way of you and your childhood sweetheart getting back together."

Xu Lu signed without hesitation. "I hope you and your confidante grow old together."

That night, Xu Lu went out partying at a nightclub. Hah, who needs a jerk like him? He cheated, then tried to pin the blame on her!

As Han Jiaoyang was drinking and laughing with friends at a bar, he still couldn't help thinking of her cool, distant face. Hah, he'd let her go, and she'd made up some so-called confidante for him.

When Xu Lu woke up, she discovered she was lying beside Han Jiaoyang.

Mr. Han, who was always in a suit, was wearing a yellowed white undershirt with several holes in it. He looked several years younger, his hands behind his head as he stared at the ceiling with a scowl.

"Don't just laugh at me. Take a look at yourself."

Xu Lu stared down at herself in disbelief. She was wearing a blue shirt and baggy gray pants, her hair tied in a ponytail with a red ribbon. Looking around, she saw a drab earthen house, a white enamel washbasin decorated with red flowers on a shabby wooden cabinet, and an enamel spittoon at the foot of the bed.

A wave of dizziness swept over her, and memories that weren't hers filled Xu Lu's mind.

She had transmigrated into the body of a sent-down youth from the 1970s who shared her name. To avoid being accused of having loose morals, she had married Han Jiaoyang, who was also a sent-down youth.

Last night had been their wedding night.

Clearly, Han Jiaoyang had transmigrated too.

Hah, she was an expert at pretending to be married to someone in name only. First, she'd make a fortune. Then, after the college entrance exams resumed next year, she'd ace them and kick her husband to the curb.

---- Coming soon: A Virtuous Wife No More in the 1980s ----

Everyone said Song Qiufeng was lucky, but no one knew she had been miserable enough to die.

No matter how much Song Qiufeng achieved, people thought her greatest success was marrying well.

She couldn't have children, but her wealthy in-laws never held it against her. Although her husband, Du Weining, had a mistress and a child outside their marriage, she was still the legitimate wife.

After an accident that had been deliberately arranged, Song Qiufeng got another chance to choose.

When she woke up, just like in her previous life, her former husband's uncle was driving her to the city where her university was located.

The journey would take two days. This time, she didn't feel anxious like she had before. Instead, she lay peacefully in the back seat and slept.

When she woke up partway through the trip, her eyes met the deep gaze of her former husband's uncle as he studied her in the rearview mirror.

"Xu Donglin, I won't marry your nephew. I'll marry you!"

When they arrived, with her former husband's whole family watching, Song Qiufeng took Xu Donglin's arm. "After we get married, I don't want to live here. The way they look at me, it's like I'm meat on a chopping board."

Everyone in her former husband's family: !!! (Is it really that obvious?)

Xu Donglin, dressed in his military uniform, stood tall, with strong brows and bright eyes. He frowned slightly. The strange girl who'd said on the way that she wanted to marry him had actually meant it?

Of course not! Song Qiufeng just needed a pretend husband to get away from that family.

But the words "pretend husband" didn't exist in Xu Donglin's dictionary. He was diligently fulfilling every duty of a fiancé.

In her previous life, her mother-in-law came to see Xu Donglin and asked, "Young Master... I mean, Donglin, didn't you say you could get my Weining into a military academy and arrange a job transfer for my husband?"

Xu Donglin replied coldly, "My fiancée doesn't need you to look after her, and she doesn't like you."

Song Qiufeng poked her head out, startled. "So you're a fake uncle?"

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