Check out my completed novels The General Husband Who Came Through Time and I Raise Kids on the Frontier [The 1970s] and The Max-Level Drama Queen Becomes the Villain's Stepmother [The 1950s], as well as my upcoming novel I Became the Villainous Tycoon's Little Stepmother in the Republic of China.
Blurb: There's always gossip when a widow is around. Song Jingshu is unlucky enough to transmigrate into a book as a beautiful widow, and all sorts of rumors begin circulating behind her back.
Song Jingshu isn't the type to swallow her anger. Her personality is as fiery as her looks. With hands on her hips, she spends three days in the compound cursing people by name without naming them. After those three days, nobody dares bother her anymore, and the rumors disappear without a trace.
Song Jingshu leaves them with the words, "Only a shameless woman would make such a fuss," then goes home.
Just as she's getting her life with her child on track, her supposedly dead husband returns.
The man is tall and handsome, with a cool, distinguished air and an aura of abstinence.
That night, reunited after a long separation, Song Jingshu glares at the man who's not what he seems.
So much for being cold and clueless about romance?
So much for being an abstinent type?
"Where did the child come from?" the man asks, pinning Song Jingshu against the wall, a playful look on his face.
Song Jingshu swallows and dares to say, "I had it with someone else."
The man: ...You really dare to say that!
Upcoming novel: I Became the Villainous Tycoon's Little Stepmother in the Republic of China
Lu Yunman transmigrates into a period novel and becomes a mother without even having to give birth. Her stepson is sixteen, and in the Republic of China, that's old enough to marry and have children.
On the very first day after she transmigrates, Lu Yunman's husband dies.
It was a political and business marriage with no affection between them. If he's dead, he's dead. Lu Yunman isn't sad at all. She gets ready and marries him holding his memorial tablet, despite everyone's objections.
It's not that she's willing to be a stepmother. The world is just too hard.
Don't be fooled by all the modern bloggers saying the Republic of China was the most romantic era, with women looking stunning in cheongsams. It's all nonsense. Anyone who's actually studied history knows how miserable that era was for women.
Unwilling to be used by her family, reduced to a commodity, or left without enough to eat, Lu Yunman decides to attach herself to someone powerful.
Compared with an unhappy marriage and a stable life, living with dignity matters more.
Four years later, her stepson, dressed in military uniform, hands Lu Yunman divorce papers, his eyes blazing. "The Three Obediences and Four Virtues are shackles imposed on women. I hope you can pursue your own happiness."
Lu Yunman, who has caught his eye: "..." What a high-minded excuse!
(Neither lead is a good person in the traditional sense, but they have their limits. The blurb may be adjusted a little when the novel launches.)
Upcoming novel: The Fake Heiress Becomes a Little Darling Wife on a Sea Island [The 1960s]
When Wang Manyun transmigrates, the real heiress has returned. She's not only been kicked out by the wealthy family, but also abandoned by her fiancé.
She packs up without taking anything, leaves the wealthy household everyone envies with a carefree stride, and follows a tall, fierce, cold, and poor man to a sea island as a military wife.
Everyone thinks she took advantage of the wealthy family. But taking advantage isn't so easy. Her nominal mother is a pain to deal with. When she first got pregnant, she was full of happiness, eagerly awaiting the birth of her love child. But as time passed and she entered the late stages of pregnancy, the ugly stretch marks, soaring weight, and changing figure, along with all the other changes, made her resent the unborn child. After the child was born, whenever anything displeased her, she'd tell the child how much she'd sacrificed, inflicting all kinds of emotional abuse...
Wang Manyun knows the plot and won't indulge that unreasonable mother. The wealthy family has nothing to do with her. To hell with them!
Her fair-weather friends in the capital see Wang Manyun fall on hard times. They show sympathy on the surface but secretly rejoice. What good is being pretty? She's still a flower stuck in cow dung. A man that fierce must beat his wife.
Wang Manyun doesn't turn into a haggard housewife or get beaten. Instead, she becomes more and more radiant. When she glares at the fierce man with her big, watery eyes, he immediately crouches down and obeys her in everything.
By contrast, the reborn real heiress has become thin and sallow in the wealthy household, her eyes lifeless. The fake and real heiresses become a striking study in contrasts.
Meanwhile, Wang Manyun has more fresh seafood than she can eat on the island. During a year of natural disasters, everyone in the capital tightens their belts, but she complains that one lobster isn't big enough and another sea cucumber isn't plump enough, living a "luxurious" life where she has everything handed to her...
Upcoming novel: I Become Big Sis in 1980s Hong Kong
Shen Lingyun transmigrates into a period novel as the vicious female supporting character.
The vicious female supporting character has a powerful husband whose every stomp can make Hong Kong tremble.
They say this big shot, who rose from humble beginnings, has a bloody rise to power, deals with both the underworld and the respectable world, and has plenty of female companions and countless illegitimate children...
Because of all these rumors, the female supporting character gives him trouble in every way, at work, at home, and in public. She never gives him any respect, just because her family was the first to help him before he made his fortune.
Relying on that connection, the female supporting character, who considers herself beautiful, wealthy, and high-status, never looks her husband in the eye. In the end, she dies in an "accident" that was no accident.
When Shen Lingyun transmigrates into the story, she's at a pivotal moment.
The big shot is being held hostage while negotiating with a business rival. Should she rescue him or run away? In the original story, the female supporting character runs, then meets an untimely end.
"Bring everyone. Follow me." Shen Lingyun takes only a second to decide.
"Yes, Big Sis!" A huge group of bodyguards in black suits follows behind Shen Lingyun.
Theme: Build a great enterprise and nurture a happy home.