Raising a Baby with a Rock-and-Roll Veteran in the 1980s

[The next one is a little more imperial: The Restricted-Fiction Writer Whose Mind Is Being Read]

In the 1980s, just as China's first generation of rock veterans were beginning to rise.

In a little courtyard in a shabby alley stood a low card table and four wooden stools.

Two men in jackets clutched their guitars. "Brother Bian, listen to this bit I wrote yesterday."

The other two held battered notebooks and did the math. "Brother Bian, after deducting food and lodging from our last gig's pay, we're left with 5 yuan and 2 jiao."

All around them, children ran about, crying and making a racket.

Compared with respectable intellectuals, they were the most hopeless, out-of-place bunch in everyone else's eyes.

When Lu Beibei realized she was the supporting female character in a period novel, she was in the middle of discussing divorce with Bian Chu.

According to the original plot, she was about to abandon her husband and child, rely on her beauty, and throw herself at the professor next door, who had just returned from studying abroad. Unfortunately, the professor only liked her younger sister, who would eventually marry Bian Chu.

Bian Chu would go on to make it big across the country and become a leading figure in rock music. Her younger sister would accompany him on tour and enjoy a life of luxury, while her own two children, left unsupervised, would sleep in a coal-heated room and die of accidental poisoning.

Lu Beibei hurriedly wrapped her arms around her two children, who were as dirty as little mud monkeys but still alive and well. Even if the story had been written by the Emperor of Heaven himself, she couldn't let it play out like that!

No matter how ugly they were, they were her children. Maybe they'd turn adorable once she raised them a little?

Bian Chu asked, "Why do you want a divorce? Because you think I'm going nowhere?"

Cradling the children, Lu Beibei wept so hard her cheeks were streaked with tears. "No! It's because you're going to be so successful! You'll become famous all across the country! And you'll find my children a stepmother! After the divorce, the children are mine! Your cousin is yours!"

The eyes that had been cold ever since Bian Chu married her suddenly turned into a pool of deep water. He'd thought she looked down on him completely. He never expected...

But what was that about her cousin?

He patted her head, his voice gentle. "How about we don't get divorced? I'll work hard to become famous, and I'll always be good to you and the children."

Lu Beibei: ?

**

The reborn professor, swept up in the tide of the new era, finally came to realize that a woman like Lu Beibei, who dared to pursue happiness, was especially lovable. She was the one who truly loved him. He swore that in this life, he would never let her down!

He carried a copy of Shelley's Poems and kept wandering around the entrance to the alley every day.

But...

Why hadn't she come to seduce him yet?!!!

---Advance Preview: The Restricted-Fiction Writer Whose Mind Is Being Read---

[A ridiculous, unhinged little smutty story~]

A single mouse girl living alone in a painfully expensive 59-square-meter apartment, a writer with a rich inner world, a bleak reality, and a bold, reckless streak ✖ a supposedly celibate but secretly insatiable death-dealing CEO daddy, driven mad by the heroine

Lu Zaiyan, owner of a film and television company, bought the adaptation rights to a restricted-fiction novel.

He met Su Xi for the first time on the day they signed the contract in person.

He hadn't expected that an author with such an uninhibited, daring style would be a fair-skinned young woman with such a cool, detached air.

"I'm grateful that a big company like yours bought the rights to my work."

"I look forward to working with a big boss like you."

She was more articulate than he'd expected. Lu Zaiyan nodded in approval.

While they were signing, his pen fell.

When he handed it back, he accidentally touched the young woman's hand.

-'He really is a big boss! Even bigger than he looked online!'

-'I'll go home and write a bonus chapter for my wives to enjoy as a substitute, yay!'

Lu Zaiyan jerked his head up. ...?

Su Xi's novel was quickly adapted for the screen and became a nationwide hit. People online said Boss Lu had finally found a cooperative little fairy of a writer.

Little did they know that he was being tormented by the smut filling her mind, with a different play every day, until he developed severe insomnia.

Unable to take it any longer, he cornered the culprit in the stairwell and held her there.

The slender, demure young woman across from him put on an air of propriety. "Big Boss, please behave yourself. I'll sell my writing, not my body..."

Lu Zaiyan slammed his fist into the wall.

Who was the one saying they wanted both of them in last night's snake-charmer skit?

"Enough. You've been secretly in love with me for ages!"

A question mark slowly rose above Su Xi's head: ?

Secretly in love?

Who?

No listening, no listening. The turtle is chanting sutras!

*The male lead thinks the female lead is secretly in love with him, but she isn't. She's an easily satisfied, free-spirited daydreamer.

*Both leads are each other's first.

Theme: When a married couple work as one, their strength is unstoppable. Let's build a loving, harmonious society.