The Foil Group's Educated Youth Gossips in a Period Novel

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I finished revising the earlier chapters on February 17, 2025. If you read them before, you may need to read them again.

Coming soon: "After Marrying the Male Supporting Character in a Period Novel." The blurb is below~

Blurb:

After Wen Huaixi died, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. The original Wen Huaixi and the female lead, Jiang Chanyuan, were foils to each other in a period novel.

Their families lived in the same residential compound. Both were blended families, and the girls had followed exactly the same educational path. The only real difference was how their parents treated them.

Jiang, a young educated woman sent to the countryside, got a stepmother and then a stepfather who treated her badly. Bullied by her stepmother and forced to go down to the countryside, she had a tragic background that inspired pity. Yet she was hardworking, earnest, and dependable.

Wen, another young educated woman sent to the countryside, had a stepfather who treated her like his own daughter, and relatives on her maternal side looked after her after she went down to the countryside. Her life was happy and comfortable. Yet she was spoiled and lazy, always trying to shirk her duties.

Back in the city, Wen Huaixi had been the one living well, and after going down to the countryside, that was still the case.

But you can't rely on your parents forever.

Through her own hard work, Jiang married a promising young man who got into university, and their children were smart and adorable.

Wen, on the other hand, married a good-for-nothing and had a daughter. She was beaten so badly during her confinement that she could no longer have children, and ended up raising her daughter alone.

At the end of the book, the female lead became the wife of the richest man and lived a happy, carefree life. The original Wen's family lost their jobs, and without anyone to protect her, Wen ended up cleaning the female lead's family's shopping mall.

Wen Huaixi didn't want to marry a good-for-nothing, nor did she want to be the female lead's foil. A thoroughly lazybones, all she wanted was to slack off, eat well, and live her own life. But everything changed when she met Song, a young educated man who barely appeared in the original book.

Wait, what? Nobody told her the Jiangliu Brigade was a gathering place for novel characters!

In a rebirth-and-regret novel, while Jiang Chanyuan, the reborn female lead, tries to win over the male lead, the transmigrated female supporting character goes all out to curry favor with the richest man. She even reveals a secret Jiang Chanyuan never told him in either life, and most desperately wanted to keep hidden...

Wen Huaixi, who accidentally discovers the secret: Wow, female lead, that's not cool! How could you keep something like that from him?

In a fake-versus-real heiress novel, the city parents send their real daughter to the countryside in place of their fake daughter. The real daughter steals money from the family and signs the fake daughter up to go down to the countryside instead, only for both of them to end up in the same place...

When the real heiress's city parents come to visit their two daughters, Wen Huaixi stares wide-eyed: The fake heiress looks more and more like her city parents. Are you sure you mixed up the babies back then?

In a spoiled-wife-and-stepmother novel, the man says he's never been married and adopted his fallen comrade's children. But why do these kids look so much like him?

Wen Huaixi happens to meet the mother of the man's fallen comrade: Oh! Your son was driven to his death by a scumbag and a homewrecker?

Wen Huaixi has a wonderful time watching all the drama, but the young educated man who rescued her...

Didn't we agree we'd part ways once the trouble was over, with no hard feelings? Why do you keep sticking so close to me?

[Important] This story is entirely fictional. Any depiction of selling, raising, or eating wild animals is wrong, and is included solely for the plot.

Reader's guide: A domestic slice-of-life story, not a story about a strong female lead.

Blurb saved as a screenshot on August 8, 2023

Coming soon: "After Marrying the Male Supporting Character in a Period Novel"

Blurb:

After Li Ying died, she was reborn in the 1970s. After a soldier from her village rescued her when she fell into the water, she had a dream. In it, she was the male lead's ill-fated ex-wife in a period novel.

This was how the original story described it:

The male lead's ex-wife, Li Ying, was a young educated woman sent to the countryside. After accidentally falling into the water, she happened to be rescued by the male lead, who was home on leave.

The male lead had come back to marry his childhood sweetheart, the female lead, but Li Ying ruined everything.

She fell into the water in summer, and her wet clothes clung to her body, revealing her lovely curves. The male lead quickly covered her with his own clothes, but he'd already seen her.

The villagers didn't care that the male lead had only been trying to rescue her. All they knew was that they had a juicy scandal to spread.

Did you hear? Li Ying fell into the water and was rescued by that guy!

Really? That guy saw Young Educated Woman Li naked?

Oh, I knew that little Li wasn't the virtuous type. She's got the face of a temptress. Maybe she'd been seducing him for ages!

The rumors grew more and more outrageous, and with every retelling, Li Ying's reputation was ruined further.

To save her reputation, the male lead painfully broke up with his childhood sweetheart and married her.

After the wedding, Li Ying honored her in-laws, but they despised her as a spoiled young lady who couldn't do a thing. She was kind to her husband's younger siblings, but his sister called her a homewrecker who'd come between her brother and his sweetheart. She cared for her husband, but he treated her coldly, because he only loved the female lead.

Moved by what the male and female leads had sacrificed for her, Li Ying let the female lead take whatever she wanted from her and worked herself to the bone for her in-laws, ruining her health.

In the end, all her hard work and kindness earned her not even a shred of compassion.

After Li Ying died, the childhood-sweetheart female lead had just divorced her husband. At last, the male and female leads got their happily-ever-after, just as the readers had hoped.

In a family that adored the female lead, she could do no wrong.

She didn't do any work, and her in-laws said she was destined for great things, not menial labor. She bossed around her husband's younger siblings, and they said it was because their sister-in-law loved them. She didn't have to try to please her husband, because the male lead doted on her in every possible way.

Even Li Ying's children liked the female lead as their stepmother and dutifully helped care for her child.

And in the very end, Li Ying proved with her life that it wasn't that her in-laws were difficult to get along with. She was simply the problem.

After waking from the dream and finishing the original story, Li Ying was stunned and utterly baffled.

She wanted to give every member of that hypocritical family a good slap.

In the dream, she'd been touched by the male and female leads' sacrifices. She didn't want them to lose their chance at love because of her, so she hadn't agreed when the male lead proposed to her to save her reputation.

But the male lead kept persuading her, the female lead kept insisting, and her future parents-in-law joined in, telling her she had to marry him and shouldn't gamble with her own happiness.

When she still refused, they held the wedding banquet without her consent and came to fetch the bride without telling her, the person getting married.

In the end, she only agreed to the marriage so that the family of the man who'd saved her wouldn't be humiliated in the village because of her.

They were the ones who'd insisted on the marriage, so why had they treated her with such contempt afterward?

Meanwhile, the male lead, forced to separate from the woman he loved, got promoted and made money because of Li Ying, becoming a prominent figure. And because of the children she left behind, he could keep getting benefits from the Li family, before finally living happily ever after with the female lead.

So she was just a sucker who got him a promotion and money, right?

Li Ying didn't want to sacrifice herself for this hypocritical, insatiable family. When the male lead pressured her to marry him and the original plot began to repeat itself, she turned to the male supporting character, who had quietly loved her all along.

"Wen Jianqing, want to go get our marriage certificate?"

Hah! They wanted promotions and money? She'd make sure they got neither.

I wish those two scumbags well. May they be chained together forever!

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