Marrying a Junk Dealer in the 1970s

Lu Yunsu transmigrates into a period novel as the female cannon fodder. This is the plot she faces:

Her live-in son-in-law brings home an adopted daughter for her, since she can't have children. Later, she discovers that the girl is actually her husband's illegitimate daughter.

Her best friend visits every day to fuss over her, but in truth, she uses every moment Lu Yunsu is away to get intimate with her husband.

Her parents trust her live-in son-in-law and leave the family business in his hands. Once he has power, he abandons his wife and elderly in-laws, then marries her best friend.

In the end, Lu Yunsu discovers that the daughter she worked so hard to raise is the child of her best friend and husband. The girl doesn't want to live in poverty with her and happily throws herself into her birth mother's arms. The family lives happily ever after.

After reading all that, Lu Yunsu nearly spat blood.

So when she returned to the day her father brought a man home and told her to marry him, she looked at that disgusting face and firmly refused!

Her father said, “Zhang Yaoren is handsome, hardworking, and sweet-tongued. What exactly don't you like about him?”

Lu Yunsu sneered. He was only pretending.

She declared, “I'd rather marry a scrap collector than him!”

Wu Ze, passing by as he collected scrap, looked puzzled. “?”

Later, Lu Yunsu defied her father and really did marry a scrap collector. Later still, that scrap collector became the richest man in the city.

Xia Yinghong knew Zhang Yaoren would become the richest man in the city years later, so she befriended him early and even bore him a daughter, waiting for him to take over the Lu family and marry her. But for some reason, Lu Yunsu refused to marry Zhang Yaoren and married a scrap collector instead.

Later, the scrap collector became the richest man in the city, and Lu Yunsu lived well, growing plump and rosy-cheeked. Meanwhile, Xia Yinghong stayed with Zhang Yaoren before he made his fortune, washing clothes, cooking, and raising a child every day until she became a worn-out housewife.

Theme: Work hard! Strive!