The Lucky Star Plays the Spoiled Female Side Character in the 1970s

Preorder announcements: “Everyday Life of the Beloved on a 1970s Island” and “I Traveled to the 1980s with a Grocery Shopping System.” Blurbs below. Please add them to your reading list!

Blurb: Xia Ying, a laid-back koi spirit who has traveled to the 1970s, lies weak and sick in bed with a sigh:

After cultivating for a thousand years, I was struck by lightning while undergoing tribulation and transported into a book set in the 1970s. I became the spoiled female supporting character, a selfish, arrogant troublemaker whose only purpose is to frame the heroine, steal her man, and move the romance between the leads along.

Fortunately, the spiritual spring in my pocket dimension is still there. I have no interest in stealing a man, but with the spring and my good luck, I can keep making trouble!

Too bad spiritual energy is scarce here, and food is in short supply. So weak that I can't even open the entrance to my pocket dimension, Xia Ying is left helpless.

One day, after a chance encounter with Wen Yi, the male lead, a man as elegant as a fine jade tree and as radiant as the moon, Xia Ying finds the key: he is rich in spiritual energy and blessed with great merit, so he can open the entrance to her pocket dimension. A man is still worth stealing!

Song Yu, who is bound to a metaphysics System, can absorb other people's fortune. The person with the best fortune in Peach Tree Village is Xia Ying.

For years, Song Yu has relied on absorbing Xia Ying's fortune. She has grown more and more beautiful, and her luck has improved, while Xia Ying's life has grown steadily worse and her health has declined day by day.

Just as Xia Ying is about to die and Song Yu is about to take her good fortune for good, everything changes:

Xia Ying takes a casual stroll in the mountains and finds a century-old ginseng root. She slowly recovers from her illnesses by drinking ginseng soup.

She rescues a ragged old man by the roadside, only to discover that he is a commander and the male lead's grandfather. He wants to arrange a marriage for his grandson!

Song Yu, who has spent years trying to win over the male lead: He definitely won't agree!

Wen Yi is forced by the old man to go on a matchmaking date in Peach Tree Village. To scare the other party off, he says, “I've made it my life's mission to defend my country. In a few days, I'm heading to the border for my new post. It's far from the city, in a remote and inhospitable place.”

He expects her to back down, but the young woman sitting across from him has stars in her eyes. “A remote and inhospitable place? I like those! Take me with you.”

Wen Yi: ...Isn't she the village's famously pampered darling?

Blurb for “Everyday Life of the Beloved on a 1970s Island”:

The first thing Jiang Li does after being reborn is break off the enviable marriage everyone admires.

In her previous life, outsiders all said Jiang Li was lucky. She left her little fishing village to marry in the city. Her husband was honest and dependable, and her parents-in-law found her a job in town. Within a year of joining the family, she gave birth to twin boys and firmly established her place in her husband's household.

But living that life made Jiang Li feel more and more suffocated. Her husband didn't love her, and her parents-in-law saw her as nothing but a tool for producing an heir and a nanny to look after their son. Every day she was alive, she was unable to breathe freely.

Given a second chance in the 1970s, Jiang Li decides to live differently. She stays on an island with silvery beaches, sunshine, and the sea, and becomes the carefree youngest daughter of the Jiang family.

Here, her parents cherish her like a precious treasure, and her older brother dotes on her. As for marriage, Jiang Li has her eye on Lu Guannan, the most handsome young man sent to the island.

Later, Jiang Li's parents become major aquaculture entrepreneurs, her older brother becomes a leading researcher, and the handsome husband she picked up on a whim becomes a professor at one of the country's top universities!

Everyday family life and life on an island.

Blurb for “I Traveled to the 1980s with a Grocery Shopping System”:

Zhang Qiongfang travels from the apocalypse into a period novel and becomes a pitiful educated youth assigned to the Great Northwest.

The Great Northwest is short on supplies, covered in barren mountains, and dotted with vast deserts. With only a little of her special power left, Zhang Qiongfang resolves to turn all those barren mountains and deserts green.

Fortunately, the Dongdong System she used to buy groceries in her previous life has come with her. It offers fresh vegetables, all kinds of meat, prepared foods, and more...

To earn enough mental energy through the Dongdong System, Zhang Qiongfang rolls up her sleeves and grows vegetables and fruit, and raises poultry, cattle, and sheep. Before she knows it, she has turned the Great Northwest into the country's biggest grocery supplier.

Zhang Qiongfang only wants to earn mental energy and restore her special powers. She keeps her achievements to herself and focuses on building her team:

Her honest, overly filial father: Apart from honoring your parents, there's a big world out there. You could lay foundations and build houses.

Her smooth-talking, impatient mother: What fun is gossiping all day? You're a born star salesperson.

Her timid, risk-averse younger brother, who calculates the damage to his health with every step: The finance director position is yours.

Her naturally beautiful younger sister, who hopes marriage will change her fate: Isn't relying on yourself so much better? Come do livestream sales.

The only one who seems useless is the older brother she picked up by chance on the way to her assignment. He's a clean freak who insists on bathing every day, but the Great Northwest is desperately short of water. So every day, he goes off looking for water to bathe in. He's a lost cause.

Who would have guessed that one day, her older brother would give her several lakes and declare, “Look, I've secured all these lakes for you!”

Turns out her older brother is a max-level water-element power user!

A not-so-serious infrastructure-building story, ahem~

Theme: Treasure the present, the people around you, and everything you already have.