The 1980s: The Reborn Female Side Character in the Comparison Group Is Done Playing Nice

[The timeline in this story was set incorrectly a few months ago, and I accidentally started posting it... But I've been so busy with work lately that I haven't had time to update. I'm truly sorry, everyone! I'll post daily again once things calm down!]

Shen Yuwei is reborn after dying and learns that the world she lives in is nothing more than a book. And she is the female lead's foil!

Her wickedness exists solely to highlight how understanding and charming the female lead is.

In the book, she abandons her husband and children, makes trouble at every turn, then gets swindled out of her money and seduced by a scumbag after her divorce, before finally being pushed off a cliff.

Everyone connected to her meets a tragic end, too. Her husband dies in an accident while on a mission. Her eldest son gets sick and burns up with a fever because no one cares for him, leaving him mentally disabled. Her second daughter is kidnapped in her early teens and disappears without a trace. Her third son is caught in a natural disaster, dumped in the mountains, and left to starve to death...

She is reborn on the very day of her divorce.

Shen Yuwei takes a deep breath and, to her husband's astonishment, throws herself into his arms. "Who said anything about getting divorced? I'm not leaving!"

Out of the corner of her eye, she spots three pitiful, scrawny children peeking in from outside the door, and her eyes sting.

Damn that author! Even before she awakened in her past life, she hadn't done anything truly heinous. If the author wanted to create a wicked female foil, there was no need to make her husband's and children's fates so awful!

Since the story in this book is unjust, she'll change her own fate and her family's with her own hands!

Shen Yuwei refuses the unreasonable demands of the female lead, Shen Sisi, and doesn't give her the jade bangle left by her mother. Instead, she uses the space within the bangle to secretly start a small business and improve her family's life.

Before long, Shen Yuwei's business flourishes, and her life gets better and better. Her husband adores her, and each of her children grows up to be more accomplished than the last. They build the life everyone dreams of.

Meanwhile, Shen Sisi fails to snatch Shen Yuwei's golden finger, and all her schemes against her fall through one after another... Without Shen Yuwei as the wicked foil, Shen Sisi's protagonist aura gradually fades. In the end, the System abandons her, and she is reduced to a wisp of scattered soul.

Only then does Shen Yuwei discover that Shen Sisi is actually a mission-taker who travels between countless worlds.

If Shen Sisi had never existed, Shen Yuwei's life would have been just like the one she is living now!

And her rebirth was no coincidence...

Notes:

1. The female lead is reborn. The story mainly follows her daily life as she makes money and raises her children.

2. This is a fictional period setting with some original details. Please don't scrutinize it too closely.

3. The blurb may be adjusted slightly before posting begins. Written in January 2022, revised on May 2, 2023.

Theme: Be independent and self-reliant.