A White Peacock Flies Out of the Shikumen [The 1970s]

In the spring of 1978, Bei Bitang spent days and nights on a green train traveling back to Shanghai from the northwest.

She was beautiful and young, full of hope for the future. She was about to return to the bustling Shanghai she had long dreamed of, reunite with her beloved mother and sisters, and see her college-student boyfriend, who was waiting back home. He was her first love.

Her boyfriend was an only child from a family with two working parents. He was also among the first students admitted to college after the entrance exams were reinstated, part of the now-famous Class of '77. Bei Bitang had already planned her life after returning to the city. Little did she know her boyfriend was dating two women at once and had latched onto a leader's only daughter.

Bei Bitang stood outside her boyfriend's school, staring in shock at the two of them acting all lovey-dovey. What was she supposed to do now?

But there was no way she was keeping that scumbag!

Cool beauty VS. elegant, handsome businessman returning from overseas. The male lead is chaste.

A fake relationship turns into true love.

Also known as: The Baby's Dad Gets Promoted to Official Husband

The Young Lady Makes Her Mark in the Seventies is currently being updated.

[Blurb 1]

Shen Minghu is eighteen, a native of the capital. Her family treats her like a princess, giving her the stars if she asks for them and never settling for the moon, which has made her proud and haughty.

But Shen Minghu has earned the right to be proud. She's beautiful and talented: she can dance ballet, play the violin, and speak English and French fluently. After the college entrance exams, she was admitted to Peking University as the top scorer.

At the time, Xu Peixi, from a small-town family, stood breathless outside the campus gates, lugging a huge pile of luggage and wearing clothes washed so often they had faded.

Shen Minghu walked past him, smiling and chatting with her boyfriend, a golden boy adored by all.

She caught his gaze by chance. Shen Minghu, who had no shortage of admirers, knew that look all too well.

A rich, beautiful heroine who never bows her head VS. A man from an ordinary family who struggles his way to the top while keeping his feelings bottled up

[Blurb 2]

After getting married, Shen Minghu suddenly learns one day that she's the haughty sister-in-law of the heroine in a period novel. This sister-in-law looks down on her ordinary-born brother-in-law from the bottom of her heart and orders him around. Years later, after her brother-in-law rises to power, the haughty young lady becomes his ex-wife and settles abroad in disgrace.

Hmph, a man who marries up, with his in-laws helping him along? Shen Minghu sneered. Help him? If she didn't trip Xu Peixi up, that would mean she had a heart of gold!

Reader's guide:

A marriage story set in a period novel, with a contractual marriage, love after marriage, push and pull, and a love-hate relationship.

The heroine acts crazy. The hero seems refined and noble, but he's a gloomy, unhinged man underneath. Once his wife is involved, he goes off the rails. Without their adorable child, this family would be a madhouse.

The heroine is a young lady who always stands above everyone else and will never fall into disgrace. The hero rises to power, then bows his proud head to her.

Completed work: Childhood Sweethearts, Innocent Love in the Sixties.

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