The Delicate Beauty Becomes the Jilted Fiancée in The 1980s

■ Coming next: Married to a Rugged Big Shot After a Marriage Swap [The 1980s]

■ Marriage first, love later. A sweet, pampered, high-maintenance female lead goes to the countryside and tames a rugged male lead.

Synopsis:

Su Zhi transmigrates into a period novel.

The good news: She's now a stunning beauty with fair skin and a fantastic figure.

The bad news: She's a cannon-fodder supporting female character who marries the original story's sinister second male lead.

Yue Chunhan once injured one of his legs while saving someone in the army. After being discharged, family circumstances forced him to lie low in a small mountain village, where he became known as the village's most notorious bachelor.

Yue Chunhan is tall and handsome, but has a chilling presence and a violent temper. He won over everyone who ever badmouthed him with his fists, and the village girls were so afraid of him that they kept well away.

The female character Su Zhi transmigrates into is a famous beauty from miles around, with a bewitching face and a voluptuous figure. She accidentally falls into the water while washing clothes by the pond, and Yue Chunhan rescues her. The whole village sees them clinging to each other in their drenched clothes, and the two are forced to marry.

But the female character is terrified of Yue Chunhan. She is frightened every time she sees him, and on their wedding night she looks for her lover to elope with her, hoping to escape Yue Chunhan.

Su Zhi transmigrates right into the middle of the elopement. The wall is decorated with red double-happiness characters, red candles burn on the table, and the lover in front of her tugs at her insistently, trying to get her out through the back window.

Su Zhi recalls the female character's fate in the original story. It seems Yue Chunhan catches her in the act right here, and the two divorce immediately.

After the divorce, the female character drifts through life, becomes someone else's mistress, and spirals into ruin, eventually dying miserably in one of her lovers' homes. Meanwhile, Yue Chunhan's business grows and grows until he becomes a famous entrepreneur across the region, with a family fortune that makes the villagers green with envy.

A miserable elopement or a bright future and wealth: anyone would know which to choose.

Su Zhi decisively pulls her hand away and shuts the window, her face cold. "Sorry, I think I love my husband a little more."

Lover: "..."

Yue Chunhan, hiding in the shadows: "..."

Yue Chunhan doesn't think much of Su Zhi. He's heard gossip about her more than once.

She's a promiscuous, flirtatious woman, greedy and foolish, with countless men falling at her feet. If not for an accident, he never would have gotten involved with her in this life.

But damn it, an accident happens.

After the wedding, he watches the alluring woman sit obediently on the edge of the kang and speaks in a low, emotionless voice. "I don't have many demands. Just take good care of my child. Otherwise, we can stay out of each other's way."

She hesitates, then nods along.

But only three months later, the man who was so cold on their wedding day completely loses control. He forgets what he said about staying out of each other's way and kisses her passionately and reverently, cupping her face.

"Zhizhi..."

The biggest gossip in the village lately is Yue Chunhan and Su Zhi's marriage.

Chatting over tea, everyone agrees that although Su Zhi is pretty, she's so frail that Yue Chunhan will probably beat her back to her parents' home on the second day of their marriage.

Everyone is waiting to laugh at her, even placing bets on how many days she'll last.

But they wait and wait. Yue Chunhan's leg heals, his business grows and grows, and even the town chief treats him with respect, yet Su Zhi still hasn't been driven away. They never get to see the spectacle they expected.

By the time Su Zhi is pregnant, whenever the villagers see them out together, Yue Chunhan is carefully holding her with a tender expression, as if he wants to cherish her in the palm of his hand.

The villagers are dazed.

...Is this really the same Yue Chunhan they know?

[Initially violent and sinister, later a devoted, fiercely possessive entrepreneur male lead × gentle, considerate, healing, sweet and delicate beauty doctor female lead]

1. The female lead isn't just window dressing. She has personal growth and a career arc.

2. The power dynamic between the leads reverses in the middle and later portions.

3. There is a reason behind the male lead's leg injury, and it will be healed later.

4. The male lead's child isn't his biological child. The child is adopted.

5. Both leads have flaws early on. Their romance turns sweet and doting in the middle and later portions.

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Coming next:

Married to a Rugged Big Shot After a Marriage Swap [The 1980s]

Synopsis:

Yu Tang transmigrates into a wealthy family in The 1980s. Before she can enjoy even a few peaceful days, a girl from the countryside shows up and exposes her as a fake heiress.

Yu Tang: Yikes, a real heiress and a fake heiress. What a cliché.

Even more clichéd, both girls are of marriageable age and have already been promised to someone.

Yu Tang is supposed to marry a colleague of her father's son in a month. He's gentle and considerate, graduated from college and got a steady job in a government institution, and is refined and handsome.

Meanwhile, the real heiress has been promised by her parents to a man from her village. He's strong, makes a living by farming, and his family even owns a fishpond.

Since the men the two girls are supposed to marry are so different, the real heiress's parents would never let their daughter marry a poor country boy with no future after finally being reunited with her.

So...

Yu Tang quickly packs her things and goes to the countryside, despite her adoptive parents' objections, to switch places with the real heiress.

The real heiress marries Yu Tang's father's colleague's son.

And Yu Tang is going to marry that rugged country man.

Sure, sure. I knew transmigrating to The 1980s couldn't be a life of luxury. (shrug.jpg)

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Ji Changfeng is pretty pleased after getting engaged to Li Chunfang.

Li Chunfang is quick and capable, and does a great job of everything. He can already tell they'll build a good life together.

He happily waits for her to join his household, but a few days later, after coming home from farmwork with his hoe over his shoulder, he finds a girl standing at the gate. Her skin is porcelain-white, and her features are so beautiful she looks like she's stepped out of a painting. She tells him she's come to switch marriages. Li Chunfang successfully found her birth family in the city and is going to marry someone there.

Ji Changfeng is stunned.

He looks the girl up and down and can't help thinking she seems frail, like a porcelain doll. She can't carry a shoulder pole or lift a hand, and clearly won't be able to do any work. H-how can she compare with Li Chunfang?!

And sure enough, it turns out exactly that way.

She strains her hand just building a courtyard wall, scrapes it picking fruit, and nearly sets the house on fire just trying to get a cooking fire going.

She even lazily orders him around. He has to draw her bathwater ahead of time and prepare the meals in advance. Even in bed, she's so delicate that she directs him, then calls it quits as soon as she gets a little tired, leaving him in a sorry state, drenched in sweat and gritting his teeth.

He ought to dislike her, but damn it...she has him wrapped around her little finger.

And she's made him want to earn money more than ever.

He's going to make a fortune! He'll give her lots and lots of money to spend! He wants her to enjoy the same comfortable life she had in the city, even out here. His wife deserves it!

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Li Chunfang is glad she came to the city to find her birth parents. She now has a wealthy family behind her, and a husband with a stable career and a secure government job.

Although she and her husband have little in common because of their different levels of education, and their relationship isn't particularly good, she believes she's still better off than Yu Tang, who went to the countryside to marry Ji Changfeng.

She feels a little smug. Ji Changfeng is a good-for-nothing hooligan. If she hadn't been unwilling to marry him, why would she have traveled all this way to the city to seek her birth family?

But when the next New Year comes around, Yu Tang and Ji Changfeng arrive by train to visit her adoptive parents. They're carrying bags and bundles, looking vibrant and happy, a handsome man and a beautiful woman.

Li Chunfang hears that Ji Changfeng has gone into business and is thriving, and that their life is getting better and better. She also sees the rough-around-the-edges Ji Changfeng carefully picking fish from the bones for Yu Tang at the table, then feeding it to her with tender, adoring eyes.

Li Chunfang can't believe how loving they are.

Is that Ji Changfeng?!

After finally recovering, Li Chunfang tries to put on a show of affection with her own husband. But when she turns her head, she sees him staring blankly at Yu Tang too.

They haven't seen each other in a year, but somehow Yu Tang, who has been living in the countryside, looks even more beautiful!

Rugged male lead × sweet and delicate female lead

Theme: A simple, ordinary life is the truest kind of happiness.