The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead's Reversal in the 1970s

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Wu Yaoyao wakes up one day to find she's transmigrated into a melodramatic period novel, where she's become a delicate orphan who never lifts a finger around the house.

After her grandfather falls ill and dies, some village thugs harass her. Luckily, the male lead shows up and drives them away.

The original owner is hopelessly love-struck. She falls for the male lead even though he already has a girlfriend, grows jealous of the heroine, and, egged on by the male lead's rival, does all sorts of things to target her. In the end, the male lead has had enough and drives her out of the village.

Though the original owner had lived comfortably, she is ultimately schemed against by the villain, loses everything, and dies miserably, with no one to claim her body.

When the lecherous thugs come to harass her, Wu Yaoyao swings a broom and sends them running.

Even as a helpless, delicate orphan, she isn't someone you can push around!

But with no man in the house, and no family to protect her, she never feels safe.

Wu Yaoyao quickly thinks of the male lead's cousin, a powerful background character in the original novel who keeps his distance from women and never marries.

Word is, his family is pressuring him to get married.

Wouldn't a sham marriage and a partnership for life be a win-win for them both?

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Everyone watches as Wu Yaoyao, always looking for trouble, goes even further and starts pursuing the village chief's son, ordering him around and sending him all over the place every day.

The villagers are all waiting for a show.

But instead of seeing Wu Yaoyao get divorced, they watch her build a big factory and make a thriving business. The cold and aloof village chief's son turns into a complete henpecked husband.

[Please note]

1. Told from the heroine's perspective.

2. The original novel's setting is a parallel world, and some details will be different. These are the author's own additions.

3. Reading is meant to be enjoyable. If you come across something you dislike, please stop reading in the free chapters.

My Life Raising Pigs in the Eighties

Mo Zhou transmigrates.

With two little piglets he just bought.

He suddenly becomes the cautionary tale of a failed entrepreneur who returned to his hometown to farm.

The villagers all say that Mo Zhou is all looks and ambition, but has nothing between the ears, and still dreams of becoming a tycoon.

Even his family tells him he might as well marry into a well-off family and become someone else's son.

Mo Zhou: No! I'm going to change my fate by raising pigs!

Older Brother: You were sickly as a child and never worked in the fields. You can't even raise pigs. You get out of breath just carrying a hoe.

Sister-in-law: We can't afford to have another freeloader in the family.

Younger Sister: Second Brother, be good. Listen to Big Brother and Sister-in-law.

Mo Zhou: ...

You really don't believe in me?

I really can raise pigs!!!

Notes:

1. The male lead is genuinely great at raising pigs. He's a professional! (The author, of course, isn't.)

2. A slice-of-life story about everyday family life.

3. The gong is a local. To be determined.

Theme: Keep striving to improve.