The Delicate Beauty of the Seventh-Decade Apartment Courtyard

[Please bookmark my upcoming novel, The Male Lead's Stunning First Love in a Period Novel!] Blurb: Jiang Rou was soft and graceful, with an exceptionally beautiful face. Men who wanted to marry into the Jiang family lined up one after another. In the end, the Jiangs chose Shen Chengdong, a dirt-poor man with four brothers, to marry into their family. On her wedding day, Jiang Rou unexpectedly discovered that she was nothing but a brainless female supporting character in a book. Her whole life existed only to serve as a foil for her outstanding older sister. According to the book, Shen Chengdong worked like an ox for the Jiang family for three years after marrying her, and the two treated each other like ice. When they still had no children after three years, Jiang Rou's parents persuaded them to divorce. After the divorce, Shen Chengdong's life took off, and he became the richest man in the country. She remarried a pervert, lived a miserable life, and became the laughingstock of the neighborhood. Looking at the man's broad shoulders and narrow waist, Jiang Rou fell silent for a moment and decided to pretend nothing had happened... She thought: There's no point worrying so much about what might happen in three years. I may as well enjoy every day while I'm young! But she'd barely had a few days to enjoy her carefree life when her belly started to grow... * Jiang Qiuyu was reborn at the age of ten. In her previous life, her younger sister Jiang Rou was smart and beautiful, and lived better than anyone else. She herself had been mediocre and achieved nothing. With a second chance at life, she would seize every opportunity and never let Jiang Rou outshine her again! First, she would find a way to go to college. Then, when it came time for the family to have a son-in-law marry in, she would get ahead of her sister and marry into a wealthy family. She thought her sister would have a hard life without the knowledge and opportunities she'd had in her previous life. But after everything was said and done, Jiang Rou still married the man who had cherished her in her previous life and became the most beautiful broadcaster in the country. Meanwhile, Jiang Qiuyu was swindled into bankruptcy, got divorced, and ended up even worse off than before. P.S. 1. Courtyard neighborhood, live-in son-in-law, raising kids, gossip, sweet everyday life. 2. Soft and lovely beauty x doting husband. 3. The leads are locals. The female supporting character is reborn. They are not biological sisters. Upcoming novel, The Male Lead's Stunning First Love in a Period Novel Blurb: Su Shengxia woke up one morning to find herself living in a book, as the male lead Xiao He's airheaded first love. According to the book, she had fair skin and a beautiful face, with a pure and innocent air. She was a famous beauty in the crowded Beijing courtyard neighborhood, but she was also foolish and difficult. She not only broke up with the male lead during the hardest time of his life, she also became the biggest obstacle to the relationship between the male and female leads. In the end, everyone turned against her, and she had to leave her hometown. The story was already one-third of the way through. The leads were returning to the city after taking the college entrance exams in the countryside, ready to reach the pinnacle of their lives. But as a “miser,” Su Shengxia was focused on something else... She had five hundred yuan in savings. If she used it all to buy a house, she'd be rich! * Little Scene: After three years in the countryside, Xiao He had finally returned to the city. The person he most wanted to see was Su Shengxia. But although they lived in the same courtyard, it was so hard to see her... One day, after finally cornering her against a wall, he gazed into the face he had missed so dearly. Before he could say a word, Su Shengxia reached out first. “Before we broke up, I gave you a watch. Give it back. I can still sell it for two hundred yuan.” Xiao He: “...” P.S. 1. Courtyard neighborhood gossip, rekindled romance, winning back one's wife, raising kids, cozy everyday life. 2. A beautiful, shameless money-lover x a stuffy, love-struck research genius. 3. 1v1 in body and heart, happy ending. [Blurb written December 26, 2023, screenshot saved] Theme: Happiness every single day.