The Male Supporting Character in a Period Novel Gives Up [The 1960s]

Blurb One: Lin Xian transmigrates into the 1960s, becoming the son of Lin Wanzhu from Dalin Village.

The moment he is born, his parents burst into tears: "I finally have a son! Someone will take care of us when we're old!"

His brainwashed sisters cry too: "I finally have a little brother! Now we have someone to rely on!"

His parents spoil him rotten, while his sisters work like oxen for his sake.

Lin Xian: What a damn mess!

He splits an egg with his sisters, but his parents object. The girls swallow their drool and shake their heads. "The egg is for our son/little brother. How can they/we eat it?"

He tells his sisters to go to school, but his parents object and the girls agree: "Why should girls like them/us go to school?"

Lin Xian: ...

To make his sisters strive for success, Lin Xian gives up completely. He is useless at everything and comes last in every exam, just waiting for his sisters to make something of themselves and support him.

What Lin Xian doesn't know is that he has transmigrated into a book. He's the foil to the male lead, Zhang Yanxu, and the most incorrigible supporting male character in the story. His sisters were originally destined for increasingly tragic fates, but after he transmigrated, he not only changed the original plot, he also fired up his sisters and parents, filling his family with motivation and leading them toward different lives.

Blurb Two: The Dalin Production Team has two boys born in the same month and year. One is Zhang Yanxu, nicknamed Yanwa, and the other is Lin Mingxian, nicknamed Xianwa. Both have older sisters, making them practically foils for each other.

Yanwa is fair and well-mannered, a good boy. Xianwa is a grubby little monkey, racing all over the mountains. Yanwa treats his sisters gently and respectfully, while Xianwa orders his around. Yanwa comes first in every exam, while Xianwa is lucky if he doesn't get a zero. Yanwa's sisters get to choose whom they marry, but Xianwa's sisters need his permission. If he says no, his sister breaks up with her sweetheart!

The villagers shake their heads. "That Xianwa is a real little rascal! The way things are going, he'll ruin Zhuzi's family!"

But the Lin Wanzhu family only thrives more and more! His daughters all become golden phoenixes who have flown out of a chicken coop. It's only the son who fails to amount to anything.

Useless Lin Xian: He did try to work hard once, but his sisters were just too capable. Better to lie flat!

Important note: This is a story about a male lead who transmigrates and changes the fates of his sisters and parents, helping them find success. It's warm and lighthearted. The male lead lacked love in his previous life and treasures his family, and he and his family love one another dearly. He lies flat so his sisters can receive an education and find the drive to succeed. The career plot mainly focuses on the sisters, because I want to write about their success! The male lead simply doesn't focus much on his career, not that he can't earn money! He does not leech off his sisters. I personally don't think a male lead who has been reborn needs to leech off sisters who originally couldn't go to school just to survive! The male lead doesn't arrange for his sisters to marry powerful men. Some of his sisters will become powerful figures in their own right! Please don't imagine plot points or nitpick based on the blurb. Let's keep things friendly and harmonious.

The male lead is doted on by everyone, and his sisters are all little-brother fanatics. He doesn't focus much on building a career; the career plot centers on his sisters, parents, and female lead. The pacing is relatively slow and the story is fairly long. It's about everyone improving their lives together. There are few extreme characters, and the story focuses on everyday life.

Here's a preview of my upcoming story, "The Narration Says I'm the Saintly Female Lead [Eighties Cuisine]"

Blurb: Zhao Xiaorou is the daughter of the Zhao family and the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family. She's gentle, considerate, virtuous, and capable. Everyone who knows her gives her a thumbs-up: "Xiaorou is so kind!"

Kindhearted Zhao Xiaorou is washing the whole family's clothes in the dead of winter when she accidentally falls into the river and gets sick. When she wakes up, she's lost her memory and gained a superpower: she can hear a narrator!

Wait, what's a narrator? How does she know that the mechanical voice rambling in her ear is narration?

Never mind, that's not important.

What's important is that Zhao Xiaorou realizes something is wrong with her.

Everyone says she's kind, and the narrator says she loves to give. But when she sees delicious food, she wants it all for herself. When she hears a child crying, she wants to kick them into the air. She wants to punch her husband, kick her in-laws, and throw her parents and younger siblings into the river.

Zhao Xiaorou thinks it over. I must be sick.

I'm sick, so why won't you cut me some slack? You won't even let me eat something nice. That's just too much! I won't feel right until I beat you up!

Her husband and in-laws: "Is that what you call eating something nice? You borrowed money to buy treats! You're buried in debt!"

They're so angry they want to beat Zhao Xiaorou up.

The good news: Zhao Xiaorou can really fight.

Indeed: Her husband and in-laws wipe away their tears, begging Xiaorou to hurry up and leave. Her parents and siblings kneel in a row, terrified she'll get upset.

Later, everyone who knows Zhao Xiaorou says, "Ever since she fell into that river, Xiaorou's gone crazy! She not only loves beating people up, she's always hungry!"

Zhao Xiaorou, whose memory has returned: ...No, she just transmigrated into the female lead of a collection of period dramas, and speaking of which, there sure is a lot of delicious food here! I'm going to eat and eat and eat!

This is the story of a woman from the apocalypse who loses her memory and transmigrates into the female lead of a saintly, self-sacrificing period drama, enjoys delicious food, and reforms her awful family so they'll earn money to support her.

Theme: Everyone thriving together is what truly matters.