After I Lost the Will to Struggle in the Seventies

[After discussing it with my editor, this novel will go premium from Chapter 18 on September 23. The story is planned to be fairly short.] Xie Xinyao transmigrates into a book, a fictional period novel set in the late 1970s. On her fourth day after transmigrating, she discovers that transmigrating also came with a System. She learns that in this book's world, she's merely the foil to the heroine, a gentle, kind, virtuous woman blessed with every admirable quality. Life is hard, and the future looks bleak. The System encourages her to make the most of her perseverance, never giving up until she hits a wall or reaches the Yellow River. Xie Xinyao: ... Sorry, she doesn't have that kind of quality. Xie Xinyao's motto in life is: Hardships aren't scary. You just have to know when to let go. Fine, fine. Since the male lead belongs to the heroine, she'd rather die early and move on to another world. [Spoiler alert: The current outline has the heroine transmigrate into three connected worlds. There is a love interest, but he isn't one of the male leads in those worlds. He doesn't have much presence early on, but he does appear very early. (He isn't the System.)] Coming soon: Notes on Being a Stepmother in the 1980s. Please add it to your collection! Su Tong never imagined that after spending the night complaining about how capitalism's 996 work schedule exploited people, she'd open her eyes and find herself in the 1980s, when jobs could still be assigned by the state. She was so shocked her eyes rolled back... Well, she could only roll her eyes. There was no going back to the twenty-first century. In the 1980s, Su Tong's parents died young, so she was raised by her uncle's family. They weren't especially close, but she grew up safe and sound. She only had to graduate from technical school, then the state would arrange a job for her where she could coast until retirement. Her life would be complete. Things changed when her cousin, who had married into the Lu family, died unexpectedly. Her aunt worried that Lu Yicheng, a wealthy man with a large family business, would remarry and that his new wife might mistreat his biological grandson. She found Su Tong and said,