Recommending a friend's novel: "Pretty Koi Refuses to Be the Foil in a Period Novel" by Xizi Luo
Recommending my own upcoming novel: "Back to the 1980s to Marry a Rough-Hewn Man"
Shen A Qiao has recently been reading a book about a soldier who, after enduring one misfortune after another, finally sets out to take revenge on the scum who wronged him.
The male lead's disposable first wife in the book is also named Shen A Qiao. She clings to him when he's riding high, then abuses him at every turn after he becomes disabled, beats and berates his fallen comrades' orphan, and pressures him to divorce her.
Shen A Qiao stays up all night to finish the novel. The female cannon-fodder with her name makes her so furious she has to pinch her philtrum to calm herself down. All she can feel is sympathy for the male lead.
When she opens her eyes again, she's become the male lead's disposable first wife, and she's right in the middle of their divorce!
The tall, silent man sits at the table, about to sign something. Shen A Qiao suddenly rushes over and grabs his hand. To everyone's shock, she presses his broad palm against her lower abdomen, her heart pounding as she thinks:
[I'm pregnant with your child. Can we not get divorced?]
The divorce doesn't happen. The villagers can't help worrying that the third son of the Gu family and that child will have to keep enduring this woman's abuse. How pitiful! But things don't unfold the way they expect.
The Gu family's third son, who they thought would be abused, not only looks better and better, but also recovers the use of his injured leg and returns to the army as an officer. Later, it comes out that his biological father is a celebrated figure!
And the child earns excellent grades, gets into the country's top university as the city's highest-scoring student, and becomes the pride of the whole village!
When asked how they managed to become so outstanding, the two smile and give almost identical answers:
[First, you need an outstanding woman like my wife/mother. She's my lucky star.]
Shen A Qiao, the outstanding woman they speak of, now owns several mountains, runs a nationwide hotel chain, and has become a famous local tycoon.
The villagers who got rich alongside Shen A Qiao can't help exclaiming:
[That's right! She's our lucky star!]
[Woohoo!]
One devoted couple, body and soul
A cozy farming story, with family life and revenge against the scum
Recommending a friend's novel
"Pretty Koi Refuses to Be the Foil in a Period Novel" by Xizi Luo
#A Beauty Made, Not Born / Makeover Story / Max-Level Sweet and Satisfying Novel#
Chu Tang dreams of having a beautiful face.
Then one day, she transmigrates into a period novel as the female lead's foil.
In the book, the female lead steals the original owner's luck and becomes beautiful. She gets into a teachers' college, marries into a scholarly family, and reaches the pinnacle of her life.
Meanwhile, the original owner becomes a dark, scrawny, ugly girl. Her educated-youth boyfriend is stolen from her, someone else takes her place in the college entrance exam, and she dies a miserable death.
She arrives just before her wedding, in what could be called a hellish start.
When she learns that taking back her luck will restore her face and make her a stunning beauty,
the former study machine Chu Tang laughs. "Is this paradise?"
Help her gifted younger brother, who was supposed to die, grow up, and gain a devoted sister-brother's-boyfriend type of little brother. Check.
Reunite with the parents who have searched for her for over a decade, and be doted on by them. Check.
Build a thriving career and become the richest person in the area. Check.
Take the college entrance exam and be called the most beautiful top scorer. Check.
In her last life, she couldn't have what she wanted. In this life, everyone loves her... especially a certain man she can't shake off. Weren't they just supposed to be partners in an arrangement?
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Yin Baiting, an educated youth in the brigade, is tall and long-legged, with pale, cool-toned skin. He can't lift or carry anything, and he's a useless pretty face with nothing going for him besides his looks.
He's the female lead's beloved white moonlight.
Chu Tang has no interest in love, but people keep trying to arrange her marriage. Fed up, she goes to Yin Baiting and proposes that they become partners in an agreement, so they can both win.
The beauty, however, is very reserved.
Chu Tang has to work hard before he reluctantly agrees.
After the college entrance exam, Chu Tang is set to go to university in the capital.
The beauty is still cold toward her, so Chu Tang feels completely at ease. But on the night of the celebration banquet, she drinks too much and accidentally pins the beauty against a wall and kisses him.
Seeing his flushed face, she feels guilty, leaves him some money, buys a train ticket in the middle of the night, and runs away.
Then, during freshman military training, she suddenly sees her former pretty-boy partner transformed into the chief instructor. He strides over in black combat boots, his handsome face dark with fury. "You seduced me and then abandoned me. You think you can get away?"
Chu Tang: ...Wasn't it consensual?
How did I end up with a man pretending to be the victim?
#It's Thrilling to Flirt and Run#
Scheming, flirtatious beauty heroine x fastidious, aloof officer hero
Recommending my own upcoming novel
"Back to the 1980s to Marry a Rough-Hewn Man"
Beautiful, delicate sweetheart and handsome, rugged man
Only as she lay dying in her previous life did Xu Xiaomian realize how absurdly she'd lived.
The neighbor boy she thought genuinely cared for her had only been using her. Her cousin, whom she thought cared for her, actually had her eye on her man. Her stepmother's kindness was only a ploy to trick her out of her property.
In the end, she became gravely ill, and it was her rough-hewn ex-husband, who had a limp, who sold his car and house to pay for her treatment. Sadly, her time was still up.
When she opens her eyes again, she's back in the 1980s, on her wedding night with her rough-hewn ex-husband. A handprint marks the man's face as he holds an enamel basin and washes her feet, mumbling:
"I'm sorry you had to suffer by marrying me. I'll treat you well for the rest of my life."
He said only those words of love in their previous life, and he really did live up to them for a lifetime. Xu Xiaomian's eyes grow hot. She grabs his broad, strong hand and silently answers, "All right."
This time, she won't be fooled again. She'll stay by the man who loves her and live a good life with him.
Theme: When God closes one door, He will surely open a window for you.