Raising Kids on a 1970S Island

[Main story complete] Recommended upcoming novel: The Pretty, Prissy Big Sister in a Period Novel Blurb: Qin Rou is a preschool teacher with a gentle, soft-spoken personality. After being stabbed in the back by an armed assailant while protecting the children at her kindergarten, she unexpectedly transmigrated into a period novel as a vain, flamboyant supporting villainess whose personality was the exact opposite of her own. The cannon-fodder villainess Qin Rou is a troublemaking supporting character in a 1970s-era arts troupe novel, serving as a foil to the heroine, Xue Tingting. Xue Tingting is gentle and kind, while Qin Rou is glamorous, causes trouble wherever she goes, and is determined to marry up. In the end, she becomes a laughingstock and is despised by her superiors. After being attacked, Qin Rou is afraid of fierce, burly men. How could she possibly go on stage to perform? She only wants to apply for an early discharge. But the old Qin Rou had caused so much trouble that her comeuppance finally arrived: her superiors ordered her to go on a blind date with a difficult man. “She’s got the sharpest temper. She’s just the one to deal with that troublemaker.” Lu Yan, the troublemaker, comes from a distinguished family, has earned great honors, and committed a serious blunder. He is about to be posted to an island, and his superiors have told him to settle his marital affairs as soon as possible. Lu Yan has been set up on blind dates several times. His bad temper and lack of tact have made him famous for bringing countless beauties to tears. His father put it bluntly: “Find him the woman with the sharpest temper!” The most “explosive” troublemaker and the “spiciest” little pepper sat down for a blind date. Lu Yan: “...” She doesn’t seem all that spicy. Qin Rou: “...” This man is so tall and burly. I’m scared. Lu Yan: “I’ll take her.” At least she speaks nicely. Qin Rou: “...I’ll take him.” At least I won’t have to perform onstage after we’re married. The arts troupe’s leaders were dumbfounded: “...It actually worked?” Qin Rou’s fair-weather friends: “...She really managed to marry up?” Lu Yan and Qin Rou registered their marriage. “Just you wait, they’ll split up sooner or later!” “Can Qin Rou really go live a hard life with him on an island?” The women in the arts troupe and Lu Yan’s fellow soldiers all predicted their marriage would be a disaster and wouldn’t last. They were sure the couple would divorce within two years. Who knew that two years later, they’d have two children, and the former troublemaker would be dutifully washing diapers? * Qin Rou x Lu Yan Their sweet, chaotic everyday life as a couple raising children on a tropical island: walking on silver-sand beaches and eating caviar. * Note: This is the island story I announced a long time ago. It is a companion novel to She’s His Stepmother, Not His Sister and The 1970s: Transmigrating as the Villain’s Wife. The three novels are set across sea, land, and air, and this one follows the cozy everyday life of a couple who meet through a matchmaker and join the military family on a tropical island in the South China Sea. Recommended completed older novels: She’s His Stepmother, Not His Sister (The 1970s): The leads meet through a matchmaker, fall for each other at first sight, and she joins him at his post with her younger brother. An everyday story of a military family raising two adorable children. The 1970s: Transmigrating as the Villain’s Wife: A fashion designer transmigrates as a villain’s wife and dances in an arts troupe. The hero is the legitimate son of a prominent family in the residential compound and an air force pilot. Later, the heroine starts a business, has twins, and sells clothes and cosmetics. Here’s an upcoming novel: The Pretty, Prissy Big Sister in a Period Novel, probably launching around May or June. Blurb: Su Yan is the young owner of a cake shop. She has a sweet, innocent face, and everyone praises her as gentle and considerate. She is also gifted at cake decorating. Then an accident causes her to transmigrate as Su Yanting, a troublemaking supporting villainess in a period novel. Su Yanting is a beautiful village girl. Her parents arrange a good match for her with Zeng Yunjun, a promising officer from the neighboring village. Unfortunately, she causes a scene on their wedding day, and in a fit of anger, the officer marries her younger sister, Su Yuting, who has been reborn. When Zeng Yunjun marries Su Yuting instead, the original Su Yanting is furious with jealousy and starts making trouble for them without a thought. She tries to sabotage their relationship, but the more she schemes, the stronger the couple’s love grows... Su Yanting is nothing but a brainless cannon-fodder stepping-stone for the original leads’ romance, and she meets a tragic end. Su Yan becomes Su Yanting, changing from a well-behaved little bunny into a glamorous, high-maintenance troublemaker. The sensible thing to do would be to stay away from the leads and live a happy life of her own. But... She really wants to find out what it’s like to be a glamorous troublemaker! Looking at her gorgeous, foxlike reflection in the mirror, Su Yanting dresses to the nines and goes with Su Yuting to visit the male lead at his military base. Of course, she isn’t there to win him back. She just wants to annoy the leads. After dazzling the male lead’s fellow soldiers and making them all think, “The male lead must be blind,” Su Yanting is satisfied and plans to go home and drop her troublemaker act. But then... Just one extra flirtatious glance makes a battle-hardened man, full of murderous intensity, fall for her. The male lead’s superior comes to see her in person. “Comrade Su, will you go out with me?” Su Yanting: “...” Looking at the man’s six-foot-two frame, she wants to say no. But she’s timid, not a real troublemaker, and can’t bring herself to refuse. Afraid he’ll fly into a rage if she rejects him, she can only resort to stalling, close to tears. First she agrees to date him, then Su Yanting tries every way she can think of to make trouble, hoping to force him to give up. But he refuses to give up! Su Yanting gets further and further into her glamorous troublemaker persona, and turns a certain someone into a famous doting husband. * After being reborn, Su Yuting succeeds in ruining her older sister’s marriage arrangement, but never expects to become the one her future brother-in-law marries. She thinks her sister, who used to cause endless trouble, isn’t good enough for the man who will eventually leave the military and become a director. With her help, she simply wants to save him, not marry him herself. At first, Su Yuting feels guilty, but her older sister keeps going too far, pushing her straight into the arms of the man who was once her brother-in-law... And yet: “Su Yanting married someone else!” “Her brother-in-law actually regrets it!” More completed period novels by this author: The 1970s: Raising Children on a Sea Island The 1970s: Transmigrating as the Villain’s Wife She’s His Stepmother, Not His Sister (The 1970s) Theme: Stay optimistic and live life to the fullest in an era of hard work.