Taking the Kids to College [The 1970S]

[My next novel is Seven-Zero Female Supporting Character Is the Mountain God's Daughter. The blurb is at the very bottom.] ---------Blurb--------- In 1978, after more than a decade of silence, the country's institutions of higher education welcomed their first students admitted through the college entrance exams. Lu Xiayin made a name for herself as soon as she arrived. She was famous for her beauty and her sharp tongue, and the little girl holding her hand was just as famous for being adorable, like a finely crafted porcelain doll. When teachers and classmates showed their concern, Lu Xiayin thought of the heartless in-laws she had in her previous life and smiled faintly. "I'm widowed. And yes, she really is my daughter." Ye Huashi was the prized student of the director of the archaeological research institute. He was good at his job, handsome, and had neither father nor mother, making him the perfect candidate for a live-in son-in-law. Yet every matchmaker who came to propose was turned away without exception. Usually easygoing, Ye Huashi became a different person the moment marriage came up, his face turning frighteningly dark. His mentor said earnestly, "You still don't want to get married? How long are you going to put it off?" Ye Huashi looked confused. "It's not that. I just keep feeling like I'm already married." His mentor: ...That is the worst excuse I've ever heard! Later, people heard that his beloved student had remembered everything, quit his job, and traveled a thousand miles to find his wife. Later still, they heard that his beloved student's wife wanted a divorce. And later than that, he received an invitation from his beloved student to attend his wedding ceremony, held to make up for the one they'd missed. - Advance blurb: Seven-Zero Female Supporting Character Is the Mountain God's Daughter When the handsome educated youth sent to the countryside changed his mind and tried to break off their engagement, Chen Meichan fainted from shock. When she woke up, memories of her past life came rushing back. Chen Meichan was the daughter of the mountain god. After failing to ascend, she had transmigrated into a novel set in a bygone era, lost her memories, and become a cannon-fodder supporting character who shared her name. The heroine was the daughter of the village Party secretary, reborn from the future. In her previous life, she had callously abandoned the handsome educated youth who loved her so she could marry a city man. But she'd misjudged him, and her life only got worse. Meanwhile, the educated youth she'd abandoned married Chen Meichan, started factories and businesses, and became the richest man in the region. As soon as the heroine was reborn, she divorced her city-dwelling husband and rushed back to find the handsome educated youth. He bore her no grudge, and they hit it off immediately. He promptly dumped Chen Meichan. Chen Meichan: ...I don't need a man like that! Qikan Village sat at the foot of a mountain, with poor transport links and meager resources. The five members of the Chen family were so poor they never knew where their next meal would come from. But after Chen Meichan woke up: The cabbages, pumpkins, peas, eggplants, potatoes, and more in the family's vegetable plot kept growing in one harvest after another, too many to pick. Chen Meichan could scoop up a netful of live, wriggling fish and shrimp with a casual dip. A turn around the mountain brought back more wild ginseng, gastrodia, snow lotus, and other rare medicinal herbs than her basket could hold. The once-barren, bald mountain gradually turned lush and green, full of birds and beasts and laden with delicious, juicy fruit. The gaunt Chen parents grew plump. Their sallow, emaciated children ate until they were rosy and round. The older sister went to high school, and the older brother joined the army. When they came back, each had a city sweetheart by their side. The people arriving in a car to pick them up were Chen Meichan and her beloved, Xu Boyan. Xu Huanhuan had been reborn and immediately went to find her old love. She planned to wait for him to get into college, take her to the city, open restaurants and factories, and make her the wife of a tycoon. But as she waited, she watched Chen Meichan's life get better and better. Chen Meichan married a refined, handsome city man, bought a car, built a new house, and even set up a factory in the village... Yet her old love never got into college! Theme: Be independent and strong.