A Married Couple in the Seventh-Decade Courtyard

The main story is complete; bonus chapters are ongoing.

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Shu Ran dreams that she's the contrast female side character in a period novel.

According to the story, Shu Ran becomes love-struck and gives up her urban job placement to go to the countryside for a man. Before long, he dumps her. Heartbroken and depressed, she eventually dies of illness far from home.

Meanwhile, the female lead becomes Shu Ran's parents' goddaughter by becoming their sworn daughter. She gets the urban job placement, then lands a job at a state-owned factory with their help. There, she meets the talented male lead, and the two fall in love, marry, and have children in due course, bringing the story to a perfect happy ending.

After waking up, Shu Ran frowns at the frail, refined-looking man in front of her. How could she ever fall for a man like that?

Faced with his sappy confession, Shu Ran coldly turns him down. "We're not right for each other."

The man refuses to accept it and exclaims, "You haven't even tried. How do you know we're not right for each other?"

Shu Ran points at Xi Ce Yuan, who happens to be passing by. "Because I like him."

In her dream, Xi Ce Yuan is a quiet, hardworking man. The book says he doesn't respond at all to the female lead's advances and remains single right through the end of the story.

Shu Ran likes men just like him: handsome, well-built, ambitious, and strong-willed.

As luck would have it, a matchmaker arranges a blind date for them, and Shu Ran agrees without a second thought.

Their families are both employees at the same residential compound, so they know each other well. Their parents are happy with the match, and Shu Ran and Xi Ce Yuan soon get married.

At first, Xi Ce Yuan thinks his new wife is a little spoiled and clingy, and has trouble getting used to married life.

Later, when Shu Ran stops clinging to him, Xi Ce Yuan is the one who starts worrying: How am I going to coax my wife today?

Coming soon: Marrying the Eighties' Newly Rich Tycoon

Yu Nian wakes up to find she's become the eloping female side character in a period novel.

The original character looks down on her fiance because he's a nouveau riche, and is determined to elope with a two-faced scumbag. In the end, she loses both her money and her freedom, is forced to marry a widower, and lives a miserable life.

Yu Nian arrives on the very day of the elopement. The scumbag is waiting outside her window, expecting her to bring the money so they can run off by train.

Her fiance, reeking of alcohol, coldly demands to know if she's in love with someone else.

Yu Nian looks at the gorgeous man in front of her, glittering with wealth, and plants a kiss on him.

Her future husband is handsome, rich, and well-built. She'd have to be out of her mind to elope with someone else.

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