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Title: "After My Divorce in the 1970s, I Became a Matchmaker [Book Transmigration]"
Blurb:
Ruan Qing transmigrated into a period novel and went straight from lifelong single to divorced, with a stepson thrown in for good measure. After returning to her hometown, she became a matchmaker. Later, keeping up with the times, she turned matchmaking into a proper dating agency with her own efforts. Who would have thought that while arranging a match for someone, she would end up introducing them to her ex-husband, bringing the past back to light? It turned out she had never gotten divorced!
So her ex-husband isn't her ex-husband, but her husband?
Does that mean she's been deceiving people as a matchmaker? After all, everyone came to learn from her because of her divorce experience.
The most important thing for a matchmaker is honesty and trustworthiness!
What should she do now that her husband has come knocking? Asking for advice online! It's urgent...
Blurb Two:
After her divorce, Ruan Qing returned to her hometown with her stepson. Her parents expected the whole village to sneer at her, but the villagers had some unusual ideas. As the only woman from the surrounding villages who had been to the capital and married into a wealthy family, she must be worldly and knowledgeable. They all recommended her as the village women's director, and everyone came to her for advice about their marriage plans.
Auntie from the western end of the village: You've lived in the capital, so you must know a lot. Take a look for me, will you? Is the young man they introduced to my daughter really from a well-off family?
Auntie from the eastern end of the village: You've married into a wealthy family, so tell me, will the son-in-law I've got my eye on make good in the future?
The neighbor's eldest aunt: Hey, I'm only asking you because you've been divorced. After all, you lived under the same roof as a mother-in-law from the capital. My daughter-in-law says she wants to go back to her parents' home and leave my son. Talk some sense into them. They absolutely can't get divorced.
The neighbor's second aunt: My daughter has high standards. Find her a man who can earn money. A factory worker or a government official, either is fine. We're not picky...
Ruan Qing: May I ask if you people have any manners?
By the time she came to her senses, the dignified village women's director had become a matchmaker.
But it wasn't bad. She could earn work points just by listening to people's family matters. If a match worked out, she got invited to the wedding feast; if not, she still got a bowl of cornmeal. A win-win!
The reputation of the Ruan family matchmaker gradually spread.
Neighboring village: A divorced woman working as a matchmaker? Good heavens! I've never heard of such a thing... Can you believe it?
We can!
Isn't that incredible?
It is!
Little Scene One:
One day, Auntie Qiao from the neighboring village came to see her. "Dear, my daughter wants to marry a soldier. Do you know anyone who could help?"
Ruan Qing, seeing right through her: Be specific. Does she want to marry a soldier, or an officer?
The daughter, blushing: ...An officer would be fine too...
Ruan Qing pulled out a stack of photographs. "Have a look and pick one."
Her parents looked at the pictures. "Wait, why does this one look so much like my former son-in-law?"
Ruan Qing picked it up and took a closer look. "Does it?"
She had transmigrated halfway through the story, and had never even met her ex-husband.
Little Scene Two:
Ruan Qing: Comrade, what do you think of this young lady? Guaranteed genuine! No retouching or filters on the photo!
Qiao Dongcheng, gritting his teeth: Ruan Qing!
Ruan Qing: You know me? ...You do look a little familiar. Are you a member of our dating agency too?
Qiao Dongcheng: I'm your husband!
Ruan Qing: What?
This Novel's Blurb
Xiao Du, a prolific online novelist, is struck down by the cannon fodder characters she created and has little time left to live. So, under the arrangement of the Online Fiction World Administration, she transmigrates into the worlds of web novels to save the cannon fodder characters and extend her own life.
Web Novel World One: "The Rise of Domestic Brands". On the eve of the smartphone's debut, counterfeit phones are everywhere. Domestic knockoff phone brands each use their own tricks to divide up the market. After the cannon fodder female character is made into the "other woman," she does all the work only for someone else to take the credit. Her scumbag boyfriend claims her phone development results as his own, destroying both her career and her love life. In despair, she jumps to her death.
Rescue Strategy: Stay away from scumbag men. A career is the best thing of all. Vow to become the first person in the country to develop a domestic smartphone.
Years later, authoritative media praise her: "The world's phones look to China, and China's phones look to Shenzhen. As a leader in the mobile phone manufacturing industry, Ms. Yuan and her team's achievements have changed the times! She's a genius!"
When you bloom, the butterflies will come.
Web Novel World Two: "Meeting You at the Best of Times". The cannon fodder female character ends her four-year marriage of convenience with her ex-husband. To save the only asset she received in the divorce, a guesthouse on the verge of bankruptcy, she accepts an invitation to take part in a dating reality show for ordinary people. After suffering one rejection after another on the show, her depression returns, and she ultimately takes her own life in front of the live cameras.
Rescue Strategy: Sorry, big sis only cares about ratings. What sunny young boys and pretty heartthrobs? What domineering CEO ex-husband? Line up, every last one of you!
Being love-struck isn't scary. Losing yourself is.
Web Novel World Three: "I Will Ride the Wind and Battle the Heavens". Xiao Ye, the cannon fodder second male lead, is the heir to Prince Guangping's residence. Poisoned in the womb, he has been unable to use his legs since childhood. His birth mother loathes him, his father doesn't care for him, and when he grows up, his brothers turn against him and the one he loves does not return his feelings. Dark-tempered and volatile, he is devoted only to the heroine, Yaoguang, and repeatedly risks his life to save her. In the end, he becomes a stepping stone on her path to the male lead and dies in the desert.
Rescue Strategy: Love him, protect him, and be willing to make the whole world your enemy for his sake!
Though the one you love is beyond mountains and seas, even mountains and seas can be overcome.
Web Novel World Four: The entertainment industry. A danmei author VS the second male lead of a BL drama.
Web Novel World Five: A love-struck, struggling high school senior VS a top student with a bright future.
... (manuscript in progress)
Content warning: Every world is a world inside a book. The logic serves the plot, so don't apply it to real life!
Theme: Confidence is an instinct