The Eccentric Couple of the Eighties

Coming soon: Seven Zeroes: Beloved Life on a Sea Island and Eighties: The More She Lies Flat, the Prettier She Gets. Please add them to your collection! Blurbs below!

When Chu Yingying woke up, she had transmigrated to the 1980s and become one of the oddballs in Qiongyu Village, notorious for being lazy and selfish and for constantly fighting her younger siblings over food and drink.

Soon, Chu Yingying discovered someone just like her: the other notorious oddball, Yu Hanwen, the boss of the company she had worked for in her previous life.

As an overworked wage slave, Chu Yingying had loved matching wits with capitalist Yu Hanwen in her previous life, though she lost more often than she won. Now she had discovered that the young Yu Hanwen was obedient and shy. Chu Yingying felt it was finally her chance to get her dignity back!

On a rainy morning, Chu Yingying would bring Yu Hanwen a bowl of red bean porridge and gaze at him tenderly. "These are the red beans from Wang Wei's poem, you know."

Then she would hold back her laughter as the blush on his ears slowly crept across his cheeks, feeling she had won back a point.

When a matchmaker brought people over for a meeting, Chu Yingying spoke outrageously. "I'm all about looks. I won't marry any of these people you've brought. They're not handsome enough."

The matchmaker asked in exasperation, "Then what kind of handsome person would you marry?"

Catching sight of someone about to walk past, Chu Yingying decided to tease him and answered loudly, "Someone like Yu Hanwen. He's as handsome as they come."

The figure stopped, his whole body seeming to stiffen for a moment.

Chu Yingying smiled, thinking she'd won another round, only to see Yu Hanwen turn around. His expression was cool, and his words brooked no argument. For a moment, she could almost see the man he would become twenty years later.

"You said it. I'll marry you."

The Chu family was overjoyed, and the Yu family was just as eager. The two families hit it off and arranged the marriage on the spot.

Chu Yingying: ...?

After being reborn, Lu Yanmei had two goals: first, arrange for her best friend Chu Yingying to fall into the water and marry her awful husband from her previous life, Ping Xiaopeng; second, marry Yu Hanwen, the village's most promising future success story.

The first plan went smoothly at first. But when she shouted that Chu Yingying and Ping Xiaopeng had fallen into the water, the ones who came up were Chu Yingying and Yu Hanwen?

Blurb for Seven Zeroes: Beloved Life on a Sea Island:

The first thing Jiang Li did after being reborn was call off the enviable marriage everyone thought she was lucky to have.

In her previous life, outsiders all said Jiang Li was blessed. She had married from a small fishing village into the city, her husband was honest and decent, and her parents-in-law had even found her a job in town. Within a year of joining the family, she gave birth to twin boys and secured her place in her husband's household...

But Jiang Li felt increasingly suffocated. Her husband didn't love her, and her parents-in-law saw her as nothing more than a tool for carrying on the family line and a nanny to look after their son. Every day she lived, she felt unable to breathe freely.

Returning to the 1970s, Jiang Li decided to live differently. She would stay on the island with its silver beaches, ocean, and sunshine, and remain the carefree youngest daughter of the Jiang family.

Here, she had parents who cherished her and an older brother who doted on her. As for marriage, Jiang Li had her eye on Lu Guannan, the most handsome of the new educated youths on the island.

Later, Jiang Li's parents became major aquaculture farmers, her older brother became a leading researcher, and the handsome but useless husband she'd picked up along the way became a professor at one of China's top universities!

Everyday family life, island living, and the daily joys of raising children.

Blurb for Eighties: The More She Lies Flat, the Prettier She Gets:

After twenty years of hard work, Su Jinshu finally achieved financial freedom and prepared to quit her job and live the lie-flat life of her dreams.

But before she could even start lying flat, she transmigrated into a novel set in a bygone era as the female lead's foil: her stepsister and a typical vicious supporting character.

Su Jinshu took in the ordinary little fishing village before her. Wasn't this the same village that would become an international metropolis in just twenty years?

Then she looked at her family's huge house and courtyard, both over two hundred square meters, and felt reassured. She wouldn't need to work hard for another twenty years in this life. She could lie flat for ten years and wait for the demolition compensation, worth hundreds of millions!

Unexpectedly, she became bound to a Lie-Flat Comeback System:

"Host, please take the college entrance exam and complete the first step toward a comeback."

Su Jinshu said, "I'm not going. Do you think someone with a relocation payout needs to take the college entrance exam?"

She thought it would shock her unconscious,

but the System's punishment turned out to be making her more beautiful. Su Jinshu's slightly plump body became slender and curvy, her skin grew fair and dewy, and her phoenix eyes grew more alluring with every glance.

The most educated young intellectual in the village blushed as he came to tutor her. Before she knew it, Su Jinshu had passed the university entrance exam.

Her sister-in-law and two nephews took her as their role model and followed her around every day.

Her two sisters-in-law made all kinds of delicious food for her, hoping she'd share her beauty secrets.

Even her mother-in-law, who had always looked down on her, became kind to her out of envy of her successful weight loss.

When her husband Song Yunyi, who had been forced to marry her and disappeared on their wedding night, came home, his gaze grew more and more heated.

Su Jinshu: I really don't have any beauty secrets. Please stop coming over!

Su Yao dreamed that her stepsister Su Jinshu married Han Yu, a truck driver with a secure government job. She lived comfortably, and though she never had children of her own, her stepson Han Long was even more devoted to her than a biological son would have been.

After waking up, the first thing Su Yao did was scheme to marry Su Jinshu off to Song Nanyi, a notorious village ne'er-do-well who spent his days loafing around...

Theme: Sincerity is the best strategy. Never forget your original intentions.