The Female Supporting Character in the Period Novel Isn't Going to Be a Doormat Anymore

[My new novel next door, My Timid Mom Was Reborn [The Seventies], is now up. Please add it to your collection, mwah!] After transmigrating into the material-scarce seventies, Ji Mian wasn't worried at all. Because the original owner's eldest sister, the female lead who transmigrated into a book, would arrive tomorrow with her own personal space. Just as Ji Mian was getting ready to laze around and coast to victory, things seemed to go a little wrong. On the first day after the female lead transmigrated into a book, she worked in the fields during the day, then went up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs at night and trade them for money at the purchasing station. On the second day after the female lead transmigrated into a book, the family worked in the fields by day, then followed her up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs at night. The lazy Ji Mian rubbed her chin and pondered. Could this be some sort of test set up by the female lead? On the third day after the female lead transmigrated into a book, lazy Ji Mian planned to go up the mountain with her, but the female lead pressed a hand to her shoulder. The female lead looked serious. "Mianmian, you're the smartest one in the family. Stay home and study. The revival of the Ji family depends on you." Soon, Ji Mian realized that she seemed to have transmigrated into the wrong book. The female lead not only had no personal space, she also seemed a little dim-witted. Looking at the family's drafty house and the female lead working hard to dig up medicinal herbs to support them, Ji Mian studied diligently under the female lead's earnest guidance, while also coming up with plans to make money. * Ji Yue never expected that destroying her personal space would earn her a chance to be reborn. She got her personal space at fifteen in her previous life, was controlled and exploited at twenty, and was reborn at twenty-one. Looking at her lively younger siblings, Ji Yue clenched her fists. This time, she would live a good, down-to-earth life. There was no point in taking shortcuts. She decided to make sure that her younger sister, the only person in the family to attend college in her previous life, studied hard. Much later, the Ji family rose to become the richest family in the country. Ji Yue suddenly realized: So her younger sister was the legendary female lead? 1. This could be considered a dual female lead story. The heroine and her older sister each have their own career and romance arcs. 2. Domestic life and the story of one family's struggle. Probably a slow burn. 3. There is a male lead, but he appears late. [Coming soon: My Timid Mom Was Reborn [The Seventies]] In the eyes of outsiders, Qi You was the very picture of a winner in life. By a twist of fate, she married Lu, the educated youth everyone was fighting over. Even after Lu passed the college entrance exam and returned to the city, he didn't forget to bring her and the children back with him. Her husband's family didn't look down on her for being born in the countryside, either. They even arranged a job for her. Her husband was ambitious, and both their children were outstanding, earning places at prestigious universities. Her in-laws were easygoing and never made life difficult for her. Who wouldn't praise Qi You for her good fortune? But only Qi You knew how much she suffered. Her husband treated her with icy politeness. He had married her only out of a sense of responsibility. Her in-laws ignored her, silently reminding her at every turn of the gap between her and her husband. Even her children weren't close to her. They treated her like a distant relative. All the years she spent giving and trying to please them amounted to nothing but an exercise in self-delusion. When she opened her eyes, she was back in the past. Qi You decided she would no longer abase herself to please her husband and in-laws. As for her children, she glanced down at the two little ones clinging to her. This time, she would never push them into her in-laws' arms herself. She could raise them well, and she would go to college too. She would no longer be anyone's appendage. [Coming soon: I Am the Female Lead's Cannon-Fodder Stepsister in a Period Novel] After being born into this world and living here for sixteen years, with a factory director's daughter for a mother and an exceptionally capable father rubbing his hands together as he prepared to start a business, Ji Lili had long thought she had the script of a winner in life. Until one day, a girl claiming to be her father's daughter appeared. Only then did Ji Lili realize she had transmigrated into a book. The female lead was none other than this stepsister, a woman who had transmigrated into a book with a conquest System. According to the plot, the female lead would first win over her father, bringing him and her mother back together, and then give birth to a younger son. After that, she would use her conquest System to win over her friends and classmates one by one, as well as the man she was engaged to as a child. As for Ji Lili and her mother, they were cannon fodder among cannon fodder. Her mother would be betrayed, causing an old illness to flare up and take her life, while Ji Lili would first have her engagement broken off and then be thrown out of the house. The rest of the family would use her maternal grandfather's connections and wealth to seize the opportunity of the golden age and become the richest family in the country overnight. After learning the plot, Ji Lili refused to accept it. She took her mother and divorced the pretty-boy husband, then encouraged her mother to start a business. Later, while the female lead was busy winning over Ji Lili's friends and classmates, Ji Lili received an acceptance letter from the country's top university. While the female lead was trying to win over Ji Lili's childhood betrothed, Ji Lili and her mother became regional tycoons. When the female lead succeeded in winning him over and married Ji Lili's childhood betrothed as she wished, she discovered that Ji Lili and the man by her side had become people everyone could only look up to. So was her conquest System just a touchstone for Ji Lili? Theme: Only those who keep their feet on the ground can succeed