The Mom of the Foil Family Awakens in a 1970s Novel [The 1970s]

Xie Wanqing awakens to the fact that she is the mother in a novel's comparison family.

The heroine comes from a dual-income household and barely has time to look after the family, yet she raises her children to be successful, each one a top professional in their field.

But Xie Wanqing is a timid, fearful housewife, and her husband, a soldier, is away from home year-round. Her mother-in-law favors the other sons, taking her husband's allowance to support her eldest brother-in-law and younger brother-in-law's families. Xie Wanqing doesn't dare speak up, and her children are so hungry they're skin and bones.

Xie Wanqing dreams of what will become of her three children.

Her eldest is completely unruly, drops out before finishing junior high, gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, commits a serious crime, and goes to prison, his life ruined.

Her second child is young, idle, and uneducated, and marries an unemployed worker. Their life is a complete mess.

Her beloved youngest son suffers from a condition he was born with and dies before his seventh birthday.

For her children's sake, she resolves to change herself!

The viewers in her livestream offer her advice, and every time she earns their likes, good luck comes her way.

"When children are naughty, it's because they're starved for love and attention!"

Xie Wanqing cooks nutritious feasts, tells bedtime stories, kisses their bumps better, and hugs them when they cry. [Luck +5 + Finds a wild chicken delicacy]

"A mother is a role model for her children."

Xie Wanqing takes a firm stand against her biased mother-in-law, reclaims the allowance, finds a job, and goes back to school to take the college entrance exam. She's determined to make their life flourish. [Luck +10 + Meets a benefactor while out]

"A harmonious relationship between parents is key to a child's emotional stability."

That leaves Xie Wanqing stumped. What she fears most is her stern husband, as imposing as a mountain...

Thanks to her changes, the family's fate changes, too. Her children grow into outstanding people and set out on the path to becoming pillars of the nation.

My next book, coming soon: Spoiled Female Educated Youth of the Seventies

A female educated youth arrives in Kualong Production Brigade. She can't carry things or lift a finger, can't earn work points, and has no choice but to marry.

Su Ruoruo is just like her name: a peach-blossom face and a willowy, delicate figure. She looks like a real handful.

The man she chooses fits the old saying, "Every pot finds its lid," perfectly.

Because she's set her sights on the village's handsomest and laziest young man.

A high-maintenance girl and a lazy man: who knows what kind of chaos their life will bring!

Everyone waits for a show, only to discover that their life keeps getting better and better, and they become an exemplary household in the production brigade.

After Xiao Lin's parents died, he developed a strange illness. Every day, he felt listless, short of breath, and tight in the chest.

He was full of grand ambitions but had no energy to pursue them, and people secretly mocked him as a lazy man.

After marrying Su Ruoruo, his back stopped hurting, his legs stopped aching, and even his cold home grew warm.

He digs out the imperial cuisine recipe journal his mother left behind and sets out on the road to becoming a future restaurant mogul.

In an era of scarce supplies, Xiao Lin works culinary magic. Every night, he pesters Su Ruoruo to taste his dishes:

"Ruoruo, are the oil-braised prawns good?"

"Ruoruo, is the pea cake sweet enough?"

"Ruoruo, isn't the sandboard chicken delicious?"

"Ruoruo, I want a taste, too." Xiao Lin runs his fingers over Su Ruoruo's rose-petal lips.

Many years later, an entertainment magazine gossips that if restaurant tycoon Xiao Lin had abandoned his first wife and entered a business marriage, his empire would be even more impressive.

Past middle age, Xiao Lin appears on an entertainment show for the first time.

Still elegant and handsome, he sighs, "Ruoruo is the benefactor fate sent me." He holds up an old photo of himself and Su Ruoruo.

That night, the trending topics are #MrsXiaoIsAnAbsoluteBeauty# and #MrXiaoMarriedOutOfHisLeague#

Theme: Mom is a superhero.

Luo Xi has always thought her life was smooth sailing, whether it was becoming an overnight sensation for her acting as a teenager or winning the Best Actress award at the youngest age ever.

Bad luck seemed to have nothing to do with her.

But after waking up, she finds herself transmigrated into a cheesy showbiz power fantasy novel as the love-struck villainess who opposes the heroine.

Bad news: she's now plagued by bad luck. Not only has her scumbag boyfriend dumped her, but her roles have been stolen, netizens are tearing into her, and at the end of the plot, she will die of depression.

Good news: she knows exactly how the story unfolds.

The sweet-and-innocent heroine comes to provoke Luo Xi and knock her off her pedestal. Netizens flood the internet, calling her a "fake green tea" and a "homewrecker."

Luo Xi smiles faintly. "You picked a fight with me? Then you must have mistaken me for a pushover."

Instead of suffering through the plot, she might as well go crazy and wreck everyone's plans.

You call me a fake green tea?

Now that Luo Xi knows what's coming, she avoids every pitfall, leans into her fake-sweet persona, takes down the scumbag boyfriend without lifting a finger, and fights the white lotus heroine with her own tactics.

The heroine, tears glistening in her eyes as the scumbag holds her, reproaches Luo Xi for her despicable methods, insisting that even if someone told her about them, she would never use them.

Luo Xi looks with interest at all the roles she has landed and can't help laughing.

So what if I'm a fake green tea? You still lost to one.

Everyone knows that the celebrated actor Fang Muzhen is refined and distinguished, has never had a scandal in all his years in the industry, and is the man countless actresses want to get close to.

Everyone knows that he hates people who put on airs. But Luo Xi, the female lead of his current production, A Thousand Mountains with You, is exactly the kind of person who loves putting on a show.

Everyone wants to see Fang Muzhen make Luo Xi cry. Some paparazzi even spread rumors that he'll kick her off the production.

But...

One day passes peacefully.

Two days pass with them treating each other politely.

Three days pass with them getting along harmoniously.

Just as everyone starts to think the paparazzi have lost their touch, a very blurry photo appears out of nowhere, yet somehow captures the perfect atmosphere.

Under the hazy moonlight and dappled shadows, a man in a black trench coat gently wraps an arm around Luo Xi's waist. No matter how you look at it, their relationship seems far from ordinary.

The photo causes an uproar. Everyone wonders who was pictured with Luo Xi. The speculation grows, and netizens guess everyone except Fang Muzhen, the one person they don't dare suspect.

Until the celebrated actor posts a clarification himself:

[Stop guessing. The person in the photo with Luo Xi is me.]

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Fang Muzhen thought he would never fall in love.

Until he met Luo Xi.

Theme: Stop overthinking yourself into misery.