Everyone Knows the Plot Except My Love Rivals [Period]

Novel blurb:

The first rival in love

Li Cuiyun is the flower of Hongxi Commune, with thick brows, bright eyes, and a spirited air. Countless energetic young men want to marry her and bring her home.

Yet when it comes time to discuss marriage, she firmly turns down Gu Yang, a widower her aunt, the commune's women's director, wants to introduce her to.

They say his wife died on the very first day of their marriage, and that he's cold and rigid by nature.

Li Cuiyun chooses Wen Zhiyuan, a gentle, handsome educated youth sent to the countryside.

But who could have known that, a year into their marriage, just after she gives birth to a son, the college entrance exams will be reinstated, Wen Zhiyuan will repeatedly fail, and he'll start drinking and beating her?

In only a few short years, life wears Li Cuiyun down until she looks like a weathered old woman.

And just then, the widower she once rejected returns to the army, is honored with the rank of major general, and comes home in glory, the very picture of success!

Reborn into a new life, she can't wait to go to Gu Family Village and meet Gu Yang first. But can someone tell her who the dazzling, willowy woman beside Gu Yang is?

The second rival in love

Lu Ran of the military hospital is the unattainable beauty of the military compound. Pure and proud, and well-read, she has captured the hearts of countless outstanding men in the military.

Only Gu Yang remains unmoved. Not long afterward, Gu Yang retires from the army due to injury, and rumors say that a stain has appeared on his record.

Lu Ran scoffs and gives up on Gu Yang, who comes from a poor background, choosing instead Li Minghao, an outstanding young man from the military compound.

But not long after her wedding, Gu Yang is exonerated, and the stain is wiped from his record. For the next ten years, she watches him rise steadily through the ranks and reach the very top, while her husband, Li Minghao, permanently loses both legs in a mission and becomes a cripple.

Given another chance, Lu Ran decides to hurry to Gu Family Village right away, stand by Gu Yang through the lowest point of his life, and claim the place of his wife.

But how is it that Gu Yang is already married?

The third rival in love

Zhao Meimei is an educated youth sent to the countryside in Gu Family Village. She's the youngest, charming and lively, but nobody knows she's actually transmigrated from the future.

In 4021, X virus breaks out and zombies surround the cities. After three months of desperate survival, the country discovers that everyone who was bitten by zombies without becoming infected had taken a health supplement called Body-Strengthening Oral Solution, manufactured by the Gu Group.

After three years of united effort, the zombie crisis is resolved. Only then does the country announce that the supplement was originally developed thanks to the insistence of Gu Yang, founder of the Gu Group.

They say he never married, kept his distance from women, and lived so chastely that he left no descendants. Before he died, he donated all his wealth to the nation, with just one request: that they keep developing the supplement until it succeeded.

Zhao Meimei studies history and transmigrates from the future. She doesn't expect to win the heart of a powerful man, but she does want to spend one night with him and make her name in the history books.

But can someone tell her why Gu Yang, who was a bachelor in the history books, got married so early? And why does he dote on his wife like his life depends on it, then harshly tell her to... get lost?!

And then she actually does!

Xin Yao: ...

Sorry, I have no idea what's going on, but my dream guy chose me, chose me, chose me, hahaha!

P.S. I hope all the lovely readers who enjoy this book will discuss it peacefully. Sending love.

Theme: Taking a "shortcut" will get you nowhere.