Transmigrated as the Pretty Older Sister of the Era Novel's Heroine

[New novel “Stocking Up and Living Well in the Wasteland” is now underway] Lin Xiao woke up inside a period novel. The original owner was beautiful and delicate. Her stepfather broke off her childhood betrothal, her stepsister stole her well-off fiance, and then her stepfather married her off to a fool in exchange for a better future. Her married life was miserable, and she died within a few years. Lin Xiao: Why keep this garbage script around? I'm moving out and living my own life. Her stepfather thought that without him, Lin Xiao would come crying back to apologize in less than ten days. Instead, Lin Xiao immediately got back together with her handsome, capable childhood fiance and started earning money with her younger siblings. Her stepfather: What good can come of you being with a little hoodlum? You'll come back and beg me in three days! But Lin Xiao and her fiance bought a house, made money, went to college, became cadres, and steadily built a prosperous life. Her stepfather was furious to realize he could never reach her level. The villagers all praised Han Zhao for his good fortune: even a good-for-nothing hoodlum had found himself such a beautiful little wife. The neighbors in the compound praised Lin Xiao for her good fortune: her partner was gentle, thoughtful, and capable. A good man like that was as rare as a needle in a haystack. Lin Xiao: He's capable, sure. Gentle? Not a chance. He looks harmless, but in reality he's a... big bad wolf. * Han Zhao: Honey, those street hoodlums bullied me again. Lin Xiao: If they weren't cowering in a corner, I might almost believe you. * Dong Xiuzhi was reborn. In her previous life, she watched Lin Xiao and her husband dote on each other and Lin Xiao and her mother-in-law share a deep bond, while her own life was wretched. Now she was determined to live differently. She stole Lin Xiao's fiance! She stole Lin Xiao's wonderful mother-in-law! She wanted to see Lin Xiao cry and marry a fool, doomed to a miserable life. So why wasn't reality going according to plan? Why had her ambitious, promising husband become so depressed and degenerate? Why did her exemplary mother-in-law criticize her at every turn? And why was Lin Xiao, who should have been down on her luck, loved and cherished, with her life getting better and better? [The original novel's heroine is Lin Xiao's younger sister, not her stepsister. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, and I wasn't satisfied with the first two chapters either, but the story gets smoother and more enjoyable afterward. I hope readers will stick it out through chapter three. Kisses!] * Pre-release: “She Won't Be a Stepmother”: Lin Shu's handsome, emotionally distant husband died, leaving her to raise their children alone in very difficult circumstances. One day, she had a prophetic dream and discovered that she was the villainess in a stepmother novel. After her husband's death, she would take her children and remarry her first love. She would seem sweet but be bitter inside, exploiting her stepdaughter and serving as the evil stepmother foil to the novel's male lead. Her stepdaughter and the male lead would grow up together as childhood sweethearts and work together to get rich. Meanwhile, Lin Shu would be a vicious stepmother who made trouble at every turn. The children and Lin Shu would be slapped down by the male and female leads again and again, until Lin Shu died and the children met a tragic end too. Lin Shu: ??? My adorable, sensible little ones... How could I find them a stepfather? How could I let anyone bully them? She decided to raise the children on her own and live a good life. Anyone who slandered her husband would be reported to the commune. Anyone who bullied her children would have their cooking pot smashed. Anyone who tried to swindle her out of her husband's estate would get a broken head. Anyone who climbed over her wall would get their butt pierced... Just as the bad guys came knocking, her supposedly dead husband returned in a big Jeep! Lin Shu: Where the hell were you in my dream?! * Lu Shaotang was tall and straight, exceptionally handsome, but cold by nature. He'd been rigid, upright, and quiet since childhood, and few people liked him. It was only after he joined the army that he found his place. He had planned to devote his whole life to the military he loved, but his mother brought home a beautiful, delicate little wife for him. She was so lovely and moving, so fragile and helpless, that she melted his heart. He agreed. After they married, he learned that his little wife loved someone else and didn't like him. He quietly joined a special operations unit and was gone for years. After surviving countless brushes with death, he returned and heard that his little wife was going to remarry. He hurried straight home. Then he saw his helpless, delicate little wife swinging a thorny branch and lashing her first love across the face. Lu Shaotang: “...???” Was he mistaken about what his wife was like? Theme: You make your own way through life.