Becoming the Male Lead's White Moonlight in a 1960s Novel

Please add my ongoing story, Going Mad with History, Gaining One Merit at a Time, to your library!

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Interstellar botanist Luo Shuman opens her eyes to find herself the male lead's idealized first love in a period novel about a womanizer.

The original owner has wealth and beauty, but terrible luck: she becomes a sacrifice on the womanizer's road to fortune.

Other people's idealized first loves become the objects of their affection. She ends up as grass growing on a grave.

Luo Shuman: [Old man staring at phone.jpg] No way am I becoming graveyard grass. Romance can wait. I need to plant a field and clear my head.

What? Everything is under public ownership now, and you need a quota to grow anything? Then nobody can stop me from planting in the barren Gobi Desert, right?

Want steamed buns made with white flour? Grow them in the Gobi Desert.

Craving sunflower seeds? Grow them in the Gobi Desert.

Want strawberries? Grow them in the Gobi Desert.

Want a boyfriend? Grow one in the Gobi Desert. Ah, no, he came running to me himself.

A few years later, a nationwide wave of educated youth heading to the countryside begins. Those assigned to remote villages in the northwest all look as if they're attending a funeral. Before setting off, they prepare themselves for hardship, suffering, and being worn down to the bone. But when they arrive, they discover a paradise on earth.

The educated youth: Well... this is actually amazing! It's like winning the grand prize.

Ji Sheng, after returning from studying abroad, heads to the northwest under an assumed name to devote his youth to serving his country. He thinks he'll spend his whole life giving himself to the nation, with atoms and quantum particles for company and no place for love. Then he meets the figure who planted a green city in the desert, and his heart falls.

Next story: My Aunt in the Stepmother Novel. Please add it to your library! QAQ

In a stepmother novel, stepsons are essential, and the maternal relatives the boys ought to rely on are usually nasty characters or cannon fodder, there to highlight the stepmother's virtues.

Ye Ning becomes one such nasty cannon-fodder character.

She shamelessly clings to her brother-in-law's family, hoping to use her status as his wife's younger sister to marry into the family. In the end, she fails and gets thrown out!

In a fit of humiliation and rage, she steals two children, but at the train station, human traffickers set their sights on her. She dies in an unfamiliar place, and only one of the children is ever found.

Ye Ning: ...

A train station, two kids... Is this from the start on hell mode?

Theme: Work hard to build a better life.