After the Divorce in the 1980s

Pre-publication: Contract-Married Couple Transmigrate to the 1970s

[Blurb]

Everyone says Pei Xiu is lucky. She married Gao Liang, the first person in the village to get into college.

Later, Gao Liang's younger siblings also got into college one after another. With a whole family of college graduates, they all moved to the provincial capital.

Pei Xiu ran a snack business to put three people through college and even bought each of them a house in the provincial capital. But she didn't go with them, because she couldn't even speak standard Mandarin and would embarrass her glamorous husband and his siblings.

But their parents couldn't understand Mandarin at all, so why were they allowed to move to the provincial capital?

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After Gao Ling was reborn, she couldn't wait to make her older brother divorce Pei Xiu.

In her previous life, her affectionate and loyal brother clearly had no feelings for Pei Xiu, yet he never divorced her.

It wasn't until Pei Xiu was forty, when she was bitten to death by a venomous snake in their hometown, that her brother finally registered his marriage to the girlfriend he'd been with for years.

Their clever, lively nephew was mocked as an illegitimate child and could never hold his head up for the rest of his life.

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Pei Xiu got a new soul, and when her middle-school-aged sister-in-law came at her, baring her teeth and demanding she get divorced and leave, she smiled faintly. "Divorce? Give me back my dowry first!"

She wanted to see whether they could still get into college this time without the original Pei Xiu managing the household, earning money to support the family, and paying for tutors for Gao Liang's younger siblings.

And what about her husband, Gao Liang? Without the support of the original Pei Xiu's mysterious family background, could he still rise through the ranks, get rich, and outlive his wife?

[Pre-publication Blurb]

Three years into their political marriage, Han Jiaoyang handed Xu Lu a divorce agreement and said, "I won't stand in the way of you rekindling things with your childhood sweetheart."

Xu Lu signed without hesitation. "I wish you and your confidante a long and happy life together."

That night, Xu Lu went out partying at a nightclub. Hah, who needs a man like that? He cheats on her and then tries to pin the blame on her!

Even as Han Jiaoyang toasted and drank with friends at the bar, he couldn't help thinking of her aloof face. Hah, he was letting her go, and she actually made up a female confidante for him.

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

The perpetually suited-up Mr. Han was wearing a yellowed white undershirt with several holes in it. He looked several years younger, his hands laced behind his head as he stared at the ceiling with a face full of resentment.

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

Xu Lu stared down at herself in shock: a blue shirt, loose gray pants, and a ponytail tied with a red ribbon. Then she looked around. In the drab earthen house, the white enamel washbasin with red flowers on the worn wooden cabinet stood out, and there was an enamel spittoon at the foot of the bed.

A wave of dizziness swept over her, and memories that didn't belong to her flooded her mind.

She had transmigrated into the body of a female educated youth from the 1970s who shared her name. To avoid being branded as someone with an improper lifestyle, she had married Han Jiaoyang, another educated youth.

Last night had been their wedding night.

Clearly, Han Jiaoyang had transmigrated too.

Hah, pretending to be a married couple in name only was something she knew how to do. First, she'd build their fortune. Then, after the college entrance exams were reinstated next year, she'd top the exams and dump her husband.

Theme: The harder you work, the luckier you get