The First Beauty of the Compound [Period]

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The renowned mogul Qin Xiao had died. A leading figure in his field, he had lived only into his fifties, leaving people from every walk of life grieving his passing.

And he had remained alone until the very end, with no family or descendants, which left countless people sighing with regret.

Outside the Xishan Funeral Home, Lin Wanning, one of his many young admirers, could only silently offer him a bunch of white chrysanthemums.

But when Lin Wanning went home that night, she had a dream.

In it, she saw the Grandmaster Qin Xiao as a young man. It turned out that he, too, had once started a family and married.

Even more absurdly, his pretty young wife, renowned as the most beautiful woman in the compound, had the same name as her.

Unfortunately, before marrying him, the beauty had already given her heart to someone else. When her family ran into trouble, that man broke off their engagement, and she had no choice but to marry Qin Xiao, who was still a nobody at the time.

The young wife looked down on her husband, a man from a poor farming background. After they married, she couldn't forget her first love and kept up their affair.

Qin Xiao couldn't stand watching that man deceive and manipulate her. Once he had made his name, he used ruthless methods to expose the whole family and beat her former fiance to a pulp.

But his wife couldn't bear the shock of learning she had been deceived for years. Overcome with grief and anger, she took her own life.

From then on, Qin Xiao's personality changed completely. He drank obsessively, buried himself in work, and eventually fell ill from exhaustion...

Lin Wanning was so furious she nearly had a heart attack. She cursed at the dream: "You awful woman! Bah, bah, bah!"

The next second, she woke up in a fit of anger, only to find she'd transmigrated into the beautiful ex-wife who had never appreciated the mogul.

*

In early spring of 1977, Lin Wanning refused to marry a poor farmhand from the countryside outside Dongzhou and was crying and threatening to kill herself.

Just as her family prepared to tie her up, she woke from a nap seeming like a completely different person. Beaming, she pushed open the bedroom door that had been locked for ages and said brightly:

"I'll marry him."

Reader's note:

1. Some details are fictionalized. Set in the 1970s and 1980s: first sent to the countryside, then returning to the city.

2. Extra sweet, with both plot and romance.

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Blurb:

Ming Shu was reborn as a gorgeous country girl who shared her name.

Unfortunately, despite her beauty, the girl was an uneducated airhead who had just been dumped by her fiance, a sent-down youth.

Her scumbag ex thought she was too countrified and married an educated woman as soon as he returned to the city.

Ming Shu went to the city to demand an explanation, but fainted outside her ex's workplace before she could even get inside.

When she opened her eyes, she found a handsome man in uniform standing before her: six feet tall, refined and elegant, with a noble, scholarly air.

"Miss, you've been lying outside our workplace for three days. May I ask if you're in some kind of trouble?"

Freshly arrived in this world, Ming Shu stared blankly at his gallant, dignified face. She remembered it: years later, she had seen him in a national-level interview after the material had been declassified.

A national treasure of a scientific genius, he devoted himself to research and kept his identity secret for decades. Handsome and refined, he paid no heed to worldly affairs and treated the laboratory as his home. Before he died, he donated billions in earnings to impoverished mountain regions.

Handsome, kindhearted, and never home, he was just the sort of person Ming Shu, who had arrived with nothing, could shamelessly latch on to.

In full view of everyone, Ming Shu stepped forward and grabbed his trouser leg, calling out weakly:

"Husband."

Fu Jixing: ???

The research institute's assembled scientific bigwigs: !!!

A little scene:

Fu Jixing came across a poor woman. Usually coldhearted, he had a sudden fit of kindness and decided to take her in as his housekeeper.

This decision drew strong objections from his grandmother.

That little housekeeper clearly had too many tricks up her sleeve.

She knelt to wash clothes in the middle of the night, the skin beneath her collar so white it practically gleamed;

She went shopping with the old lady all dressed up, making everyone think she was the old lady's granddaughter-in-law;

She mopped the floor barefoot, swaying this way and that, with her apron tied far too tightly. It was completely improper!

"Get rid of her! With a fox like that in the house, who would ever want to be my grandson's wife?"

Fu Jixing, for his part, said that as a young and promising director of the research institute, a man of high status and power, he would never want a country girl who was all looks and nothing else.

Later, his grandmother passed away.

Fu Jixing took Ming Shu to visit her grave.

"Grandma, Ming Shu will be your granddaughter-in-law from now on..."

PS:

1. Set in the 1980s. Marriage first, love later. Extra sweet and doting.

2. Fictional setting with some invented details. Don't overthink the accuracy; just enjoy the story.

Theme: A couple united in heart can overcome anything.