Transmigrated as the Canny Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel

Please add my new novel, The Era-Novel Stepmom Quits, to your collection! When sixteen-year-old Zhao Yongmei had a dream, she saw herself as the mother of another sixteen-year-old child. And not just any mother: a stepmother! At first, life in the dream went pretty well. Her husband had been married before, but they were loving and harmonious. Her son wasn’t biologically hers, yet he was obedient and filial. Then the child’s biological mother came back from abroad. Her husband and son wavered between the two women, and Zhao Yongmei realized that the happy life she’d enjoyed all those years was nothing but a castle in the air. The pain of the dream jolted Zhao Yongmei awake! What frightened her even more was that when she went to the factory where her uncle worked, she discovered that the people from her dream were real. Terrified, she hurried to pick up her textbooks, study hard, get into college, and find a boyfriend. As for being a stepmother, let someone else do it. She was out! Story blurb Shen Xia transmigrated into a novel as Shen Xialai, the second daughter in a large family, whom the heroine calls the Shen family’s “second schemer.” In the original story, Shen Xialai was silver-tongued and acted as a thorn in the side of the leads’ romance, scheming up every possible way to break them apart. Naturally, she couldn’t split up the male and female leads, and Shen Xialai ended up branded the “Shen family schemer.” The transmigrated Shen Xialai couldn’t be bothered with her romance-obsessed younger sister. Her first priority was earning enough money to pay for high school. Just then, the brigade leader’s granddaughter, Shen Honghong, was trying to force Lu Jiangnan, a male educated youth, into marriage. She claimed that every time Lu Jiangnan went to the county seat, he was secretly meeting her. She demanded that the police take her side: either make Lu Jiangnan marry her or arrest him for hooliganism and send him to a labor camp. Shen Xialai knew Lu Jiangnan wasn’t going to the county seat to meet Shen Honghong. So she stepped forward and said that she was Lu Jiangnan’s real girlfriend, producing both physical evidence and witnesses to prove it. Facing Lu Jiangnan’s grateful gaze, Shen Xialai quickly asked him, “Young man, want to do business? You pay me, and I’ll pretend to be your girlfriend so the locals won’t give you a hard time. I don’t charge much: two yuan and fifty a month. Three months in advance is cheaper, just seven yuan for a quarter. A whole year is an even better deal, only twenty-five yuan. That also includes one laundry service a month, one clothing-mending service, and one home-cooked meal service, all provided by your pretend girlfriend.” Lu Jiangnan’s heartfelt thanks caught in his throat. After a long pause, he finally said, “Then let’s start with one quarter.” And so, Shen Xialai earned seven yuan for a quarter, and Lu Jiangnan got himself a fake girlfriend. Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and live well.