The Island Beauty of the 1970S

[My Parenting System in the Seventies is currently updating. Please add it to your favorites!!!] Lin Biqing transmigrates and becomes the daughter of Lin Dajun, an eighth-grade fitter at a parts factory. She has just graduated from high school and must choose between going to the countryside as an educated youth or getting married. Lin Biqing doesn’t want either option, but she has no choice. In the seventies, agricultural machinery is scarce, and farm work is almost all backbreaking labor. She touches her fair, delicate face and looks at her slender arms and legs. In the end, she chooses marriage. Mu Jie is a navy officer stationed at a northern island. He’s handsome, and at such a young age he’s already a deputy regiment commander. His career is thriving, but at twenty-eight he’s still a bachelor. His family and superiors are all going gray with worry, and his mother even pretends to be ill to trick him home for a matchmaking date. And so the two of them are paired up. Lin Biqing looks at the man brimming with masculinity and asks with her clear almond eyes, “Will you hit your wife?” Mu Jie shakes his head. “No.” Lin Biqing: “Can you do housework?” Mu Jie: “Yes.” “Will you hand over your salary?” “Yes!” “If your wife and mother have a disagreement, whose side will you take?” “Of course I’ll take my wife’s side. She’s the one who’ll spend her life with me, unless she’s completely in the wrong.” Lin Biqing smiles. This man is handsome and capable, hands over his salary, does housework, and isn’t blindly obedient to his parents. Men like him are rare in this era. It’d be a real loss not to marry him. Mu Jie sees the young woman’s smiling eyes and sweet dimples and finally relaxes. He’s passed the test at last. A pretty, delicate young wife arrives at the island’s military family compound. Everyone sees how soft and delicate she looks and worries she won’t be able to stand the hardships and will make a fuss about leaving. But who knew this young wife was so capable? She can turn seawater into freshwater, dive, sail a boat, and... If you ask what she can’t do, it’s cooking. Mu Jie quickly steps in. “Wife, are you tired? Hungry? I’ve got your wash water ready. I’ll go cook right away!” Everyone is stunned. Is this really Regiment Commander Mu, the man who used to care only about work and avoid women? Since when did he become a househusband? Blurb for The Workaholic Supporting Female Character in the Seventies Shen Mengjin has just received an offer from a famous company and is ready to make her mark when she gets into a car accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s become a supporting female character in a period novel. The heroine is her twin sister: beautiful and outstanding, adored by their parents and praised by everyone. Shen Mengjin is plain and average, a little ugly duckling in her sister’s shadow. “Look at your sister...” The original owner heard those words all her life. They say that a person either breaks down or breaks bad under pressure. The original owner chose the latter and set out to oppose her sister at every turn. She steals her sister’s clothes, friends, and job opportunities. After her sister is sent to the countryside, she even steals her fiance... In the end, she gets nothing and ruins her own life, while her sister finds a good match, builds a career, does charity work, becomes famous and wealthy, and enjoys a loving marriage and a happy family with children. Shen Mengjin’s take is: Why steal anything? Isn’t building your own career much better? But when her family goes out of their way to find her sister a job and blithely tells Shen Mengjin to go to the countryside, she nearly breaks bad too. Is it so hard to find a job? All it takes is a recipe. Is a job so hard to get? You’re just not working hard enough. Before the Reform and Opening Up, Shen Mengjin works herself to the bone to get promoted. Afterward, she works herself to the bone to make money. Of course, she also manages to win over a handsome young police officer, marry him, and have a child. The man, dressed in his police uniform and holding their child, watches his wife working on another report and asks plaintively, “Wife, what matters more, making money or us? You haven’t hugged us in two days.” Shen Mengjin pulls them both into her arms. “You’re both important.” Just as she’s firmly holding on to both her career and love, the heroine, her sister, comes to confront her. “Why did you suddenly stop stealing my things?” If Shen Mengjin had kept stealing from her, her sister wouldn’t have married her ex-boyfriend from her previous life, who is now her husband. He’s a loser who often looks down on her. Her husband in her previous life was rich, handsome, and treated her well, but unfortunately he married someone else this time. Shen Mengjin rolls her eyes at the sky. Only now does she understand how important the supporting female character is. Theme: Love requires mutual compromise and understanding.