The Black Lotus Wins Big in a Period Novel

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Blurb:

Li Ye transmigrates into a period novel as the heroine, whose life has been rewritten by someone who transmigrated into the book.

In the story, Li Ye was originally the hero's wife and destined for a happy life. But a transmigrator with a golden finger schemes to make her remarry a widower in the village. She toils for half her life, only for her furious husband to suspect her of adultery and beat her to death.

Li Ye: ...Maybe I should just keep playing the black lotus.

Kicked out by her husband's family?

Fine. Hand over the compensation, child support, and living expenses.

Her birth family threatens to sell her child to pay off their debts?

Then she'll leave them for good, move to the city, and live well. She'll even raise a future big shot and sit back to enjoy the rewards.

The transmigrator tries to frame her again and again?

Then she'll use someone else's hands to take them down, giving them a taste of their own medicine and sending them straight to prison.

For a black lotus, fighting with people is endless fun. Wherever she goes, she can make a good life for herself.

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The soldier Li Kaiji is dignified and promising, with a bright future ahead of him. Too bad his family's backward thinking forces him to marry Li Ye, a narrow-minded, shallow, and boring woman.

Those around him feel sorry for him and urge him to divorce her and pursue true love.

Li Kaiji doesn't love Li Ye and sees her only as a responsibility, but he's never cared about true love. Why bother divorcing her?

That is, until he returns home laden with honors, only to find his wife has run off and his child is missing, while an unknown woman smiles obsequiously and claims she's his wife.

Li Kaiji: ...He only needs one responsibility, and that's enough.

But when he finds Li Ye, he discovers that the once shallow and boring woman has changed.

Years later, Li Kaiji submits a marriage application to his superior. The name in the spouse field is unchanged.

His superior: ...Didn't you say she was just a responsibility?

Li Kaiji: No, this is true love.

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Pang Wei is a five-star chef. But when she opens her eyes, she has transmigrated into a period novel as the biological daughter who was switched at birth.

The real daughter was raised in the countryside, leaving home at dawn and returning after dark to toil in the fields. The impostor daughter, meanwhile, was doted on by both parents from childhood and cherished like the apple of their eye.

When the real daughter comes of age, she is finally brought back to the family compound. But beside the elegant, refined, and talented impostor, she seems like a clumsy, ugly duckling, and everyone laughs at her.

Faced with her parents' favoritism, the real daughter constantly clashes with the impostor, trying to reclaim what belongs to her. But the impostor exposes her, and she ends up as the villainess with a tragic fate.

After transmigrating into the book, Pang Wei looks at the family's bare, earthen-walled house and the Pang family members sitting in a row, gazing at her with shining eyes. She can't help but fall into deep thought...

Forget the whole real-or-fake daughter business. She'd better solve the problem of putting food on the table first, then save up to open a wildly popular snack shop in the eighties.

As for romance... Hey, that young, handsome scientist over there, how about a skewer of crispy, delicious, perfectly juicy barbecue?

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Ge Xian thought he'd devote his whole life to scientific research, until he met Pang Wei.

He doesn't care for food or understand gourmet cuisine, yet he shows up at her shop every day, right on time.

Pang Wei smiles and asks, "Hey, do you really like barbecue that much?"

Ge Xian smiles back. "Yeah."

After a lifetime of keeping his desires in check, the scientist finally develops a worldly longing: he wants to take the shining star in his heart home with him.

Theme: Even in the harshest circumstances, let yourself shine.