The Great Beauty of the 1970s Song and Dance Troupe

[Completed novels: The Sweetheart of the Seventh-Decade Courtyard and The Delicate Bride of the Seventies, see author's profile]

★ New novel: The Great Beauty Returns to the City in the Seventies, now updating

★ Blurb: Updates nightly at 9 p.m.

1. Qin Yuqiao, the star of the Zhaocheng Military District's arts troupe, twists her ankle before the New Year's performance.

While everyone outside celebrates the New Year, she lies alone in the quiet military hospital. Turning her head, she sees a "soldier" with an injured arm staring at her.

It's New Year's, and they're both fellow sufferers far from home, so she generously shares half her sunflower seeds with him.

Gu Tianzhun had been about to ask the young woman if she wanted a ride back to the barracks for the holiday. He looks at the seeds in his hand: ?

2. Two months later, at the spring performance, Qin Yuqiao leads the dance, dazzling the audience with a ballet adaptation of The Red Detachment of Women.

At the curtain call, Qin Yuqiao spots the sunflower-seed fellow from last time sitting beside a senior officer below the stage, gazing intently at her.

Only then does she learn that he isn't a soldier, but a battalion commander newly transferred to the military district.

3. An arts troupe leader sets Qin Yuqiao up on a date. She has a nice chat with the square-faced soldier across from her, and the two buy a pound of dried sweet potatoes at the supply cooperative. As they leave, they run into his superior, Gu Tianzhun. The soldier is assigned a task and has to leave early.

Gu Tianzhun shares half the dried sweet potatoes she bought. "What were you two talking about just now? I can take his place and talk with you."

Qin Yuqiao: ?

*

The head of the arts troupe teases Gu Tianzhun for stealing the troupe's beauty after meeting her only twice.

Qin Yuqiao: It was three times.

Gu Tianzhun: She was the one who won me over. Once with sunflower seeds, once with dried sweet potatoes.

[Alternate-history period story / many original details / all characters are natives of this world / no golden finger / everyday family life / cozy slice of life]

~~The period novel The Great Beauty Returns to the City in the Seventies is now updating. See the author's profile.~~

Su Nian comes from a wealthy family. She is clever, fair-skinned, and beautiful, but when her family suddenly falls into disgrace and her father is dismissed from his post, the family of three has no choice but to be sent to a farm in the countryside.

After seven years of walking on eggshells, news arrives that her father's status may be restored. Before she has even had a few days to celebrate, Su Nian overhears some local ruffians plotting to go after her.

Su Nian longs to return to the city and won't allow anything to go wrong. She has no choice but to take a dangerous gamble and pay off Xie Hui, the farm's most notorious tough guy, to deal with them.

She thinks everything is settled, but who could have guessed that Xie Hui would set his sights on her instead? She believes she's already paid him, but what Xie Hui wants is her.

Theme: Building a better life together.