An External Surgeon in the 1980s

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Synopsis:

Chen Fulan lived an honest life for half a century. Only when she died did she realize that all her life, she'd been making wedding dresses for others and serving as their stepping stone.

Reborn at fifteen, she returns to the year when a turning point in her fate is just about to begin. This time, Chen Fulan vows never to be a pushover again.

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Her uncle's family cheats her into quitting school and marrying for a bride price? Chen Fulan takes out a butcher's knife and sharpens it with a glint in her eye. "Sorry, whoever took the bride price can marry him!"

The benefactor she rescued in the mountains comes to thank her, but her aunt pushes her cousin forward to take her place? Chen Fulan walks out holding the token the benefactor gave her. "You've got the wrong person. I'm the one who saved him."

Her pregnant cousin comes to her before the college entrance exam, asking her to introduce her to a wealthy family? Chen Fulan holds up her admission letter from the Capital University. "Sorry, I'm going to college. You'll have to take responsibility for your own actions."

Years later, Chen Fulan finally becomes a qualified surgeon. As she leaves the operating room to accept flowers and thanks from a patient's family, a refined, strikingly handsome man in a suit kneels at the end of the corridor, holding flowers and a wedding ring, and proposes to her. He says he wants them to build an ordinary family together, a family of three, happy and whole.

Chen Fulan is stunned. "Weren't you a lifelong bachelor in my previous life? The kind who devoted himself to art and never married or had children?"

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Synopsis for Reborn as the Husband in a Period Novel's Foil Couple

In a period novel, the supporting character Li Xiangmei is paired with a good-for-nothing husband who is rotten to the core, simply because she was once the heroine's romantic rival.

In the end, Li Xiangmei, covered in bruises and consumed by despair, contrasts her own misery with the heroine's overwhelming happiness and throws herself into a lake.

When Liang Jingsheng arrives, the supporting character is about to give birth to her third child. Family planning officers are chasing her, and her good-for-nothing husband leaves her by the roadside. The panicked man falls headfirst into a lake. When he wakes up, his body is now inhabited by Liang Jingsheng, a virtuous young man from the twenty-first century.

At the hospital in the depths of winter, Li Xiangmei has just given birth. Barefoot, she cradles a tiny, dark, scrawny baby girl.

The heroine, Hong Yunxia, stands nearby in a bright red padded coat, comforting her. Her successful husband is at her side.

"Don't worry. I've already told the family planning officers that I'll cover your fine for now, so there's no rush to pay me back. As for Lao Liang, I'll persuade him to come back and live with you. You have three children now, so you need a man in the house... Huh? Lao Liang? You're here?"

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm here to take Xiangmei home."

Everyone thinks that since Li Xiangmei has given birth to another girl and borrowed money for her fine, Liang Jingsheng will beat her again when they get home.

Maybe he'll beat her to death. Poor thing.

Early the next morning, a group of people go to see Li Xiangmei's miserable state. But when they open the door, they find her lying in a bed of soft, white cotton quilts, carefully sipping a bowl of fragrant chicken soup.

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