The Seventies: After Marrying the Male Lead Next Door

Blurb

Jiang Lai transmigrates into a world formed by the fusion of two books. As the heroine of the sweet romance novel The Beloved Little Wife of the Seventies, Jiang Lai and Su Erniu, heroine of the realistic novel The Little Stepmother of the Seventies next door, could not lead more different lives.

After a predictable falling-into-the-water incident, Jiang Lai and Su Erniu each end up with a fiance. The difference is that Jiang Lai is rescued by Shi Cheng, a street punk from the city who goes on to become the richest man in the country through business after the reforms begin, all so he can give Jiang Lai a good life.

Su Erniu, meanwhile, marries Ye Anguo, a soldier returning home to visit his family who has three children. She becomes their stepmother. Ye Anguo serves in the military his entire life, follows every rule to the letter, never takes a single cent more than his due, and lives in poverty all his life.

Reborn, Su Erniu doesn't want to marry Ye Anguo and live a "poor" life again. She does everything she can to get engaged to Shi Cheng, the future richest man in the country, while Jiang Lai ends up with Ye Anguo.

One day, Ye Anguo makes Jiang Lai angry, and the three children he adopted come to the rescue, surrounding her like three chubby little dumplings.

"Auntie Jiang, Uncle Ye is really handsome. Lots of young women and married ladies in the village like him. You won't lose out by marrying him." Little Dumpling No. 1.

"Auntie Jiang, Uncle Ye doesn't smoke or drink, and he never looks at pretty girls. He's very obedient, too. If you tell him to go east, he wouldn't dare go west, and he definitely wouldn't hide any spending money from you." Little Dumpling No. 2.

"Auntie Jiang, just marry Uncle Ye. He's already a regiment commander, but he's getting on in years, and no one but you will want him." Little Dumpling No. 3.

Then Jiang Lai meets Ye Anguo, who turns red in the face and ears whenever she flirts with him. When he gets embarrassed, he walks with his arms and legs moving in sync and even bumps into walls.

She, Jiang Lai, has switched husbands, but she's still living out the script of a sweet romance.

As for Su Erniu next door, changing husbands didn't change her realistic heroine role.

P.S. 1: A big bad wolf outside, a sweetie at home x a sweet, pampered darling.

2: The three children aren't the male lead's. He has never been married.

3: I wrote this because I've seen a lot of novels that portray city wives as villains.

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Title: Reborn: The Delicate Beauty of the Seventies

Author: Kuijia

Why do authors of military-wife novels love to make the male lead such a hero, with so much personal ability and such a bright future, yet somehow he can't even tell when the wife he's shared a bed with for years has been replaced by someone else? Wouldn't he at least suspect that a villain had taken her place?

Because of this one complaint, Lin Nan is reborn with perfect timing. But since she has arrived in her own body, she has no household registration or introduction letter, so she's an undocumented person and gets arrested and interrogated as a suspicious character.

Lin Nan cries. She'll never complain about authors turning their male leads into lovesick fools again. Please, Heaven, give her a lovesick male lead!

Guo Yongchang is a humorless man who wears a stern expression all day. He's a bogeyman to many soldiers. This very poker-faced man finds an unknown woman in his village. She's beautiful, with skin so delicate that even pulling weeds leaves her hands injured.

Guo Yongchang thinks this delicate woman doesn't look at all like someone who works in the fields. He can't help watching her, and before long, he falls for her and can't let her go. He spoils her like a treasure, and they spend their lives together.

Later, for certain reasons, Lin Nan gains incredible strength. It feels like even ten Guo Yongchangs couldn't beat one Lin Nan. Everyone thinks Guo Yongchang is going to become a henpecked husband, but in front of him, Lin Nan still acts all dainty and can't even open a bottle cap.

Title: After My Green Tea Persona Fell Apart, I Became Famous

Author: Weixiao Mihuang

Before she was reborn, Su Ziyu spent years struggling in the entertainment industry, but no matter how hard she tried, she could never escape the bottom ranks.

After she is reborn, Su Ziyu learns the truth: she is the cannon-fodder female side character in an entertainment-industry power fantasy, so none of her efforts were ever going to matter. Her entire purpose as a cannon-fodder character was to make the heroine shine. But now she's awakened to the truth, and she's done with this role. Let someone else take it! She's a little princess too, isn't she? She's had enough, so she's going to live however she wants.

During a variety show: The top-tier star Gao Shenghan falls into the water, and everyone is stunned. Su Ziyu jumps in to save him and, a few minutes later, carries him to shore over her shoulder like a sack of rice.

During another recording: The original heroine is supposed to show off by rushing to cook. Su Ziyu simply says, "I like eating food I've made myself. Other people's cooking doesn't suit my taste." The comments pour in with insults, but once Su Ziyu finishes cooking, the other guests are drawn in by the delicious smell. They ask her to cook extra for them, of course, after they've cleaned and chopped the ingredients. Su Ziyu only has to stir-fry them.

On set: The original heroine and Su Ziyu are cast in the same drama. The heroine plays the kind, innocent girl, while Su Ziyu plays the ruthless villain. After the drama airs, countless female fans scream their praises for Su Ziyu. "That actress is so cool! I'm in love!" "What kind of garbage script makes her leave so soon? I'm not interested in watching the rest of this drama now."

Su Ziyu binds herself to a System just to earn some retirement money. She never expects that dropping her persona and showing her true self will make her even more famous than the original heroine…

Not only does she become famous, she also earns huge rewards from the System, rising from a wage worker to a major investor. At last, she can film whatever she wants. If no one will fund it, she can invest in it herself. She only invests because she enjoys it, but all her projects become hits, making her a legendary figure in the investment world…

Gao Shenghan has always kept Su Ziyu at arm's length. He thinks she's fussy, affected, and speaks in a sickly-sweet voice. But after she rescues him from the water and carries him to shore like a sandbag, he realizes that being affected is just her persona. Little by little, he discovers more and more of her good qualities.

Gao Shenghan: "Su Ziyu, you saved my life, and I have no way to repay you... Giving you money would be a little vulgar…"

Su Ziyu: "No, no, I'm a vulgar person. If you want to thank me, just give me money. Then we'll be even, and the next time we meet, we'll be strangers!"

"…"

Su Ziyu turns him down without hesitation, but Gao Shenghan finds himself looking at her more and more often…

Su Ziyu laughs brightly as she chats with a cute younger guy, without sparing Gao Shenghan a glance.

Now Gao Shenghan is panicking. He can't sit still.

Unfortunately, winning her over won't be easy. His love interest is a block of iron when it comes to romance.

Theme: Realizing your own values is more important than anything else