Following My Husband to the City in the 1990S

Coming soon: *The Child Bride of the 1950s* and *The Gold-Digging Girl of the 1980s*. Please add them to your reading lists! Synopsis: Gu Ruo and Meng Tian grew up together. When they were children, Meng Tian was the village’s young master, with delicate features and fair skin. Back then, Gu Ruo only ever played with him. Later, Meng Tian’s family suffered a sudden upheaval, and he left home to find work after graduating from junior high. Gu Ruo chased after his train, crying for a long time. A few years later, Meng Tian came back. Everyone in the village said he’d returned rich. Gu Ruo saw that handsome, distinguished Meng Tian again. But by then, Gu Ruo had failed her college entrance exams, and her family was trying to force her to marry a cripple over a bride price of 3,000 yuan. Gu Ruo didn’t want to marry a cripple or spend her life in the countryside, where she could see exactly what lay ahead. She found a way to escape and went to Meng Tian. She told him to marry her. Meng Tian did, and spoiled her until she forgot her worries and pain. All she wanted was to go to the coast and live a better life. It wasn’t until she and Meng Tian reached the coast and he led her into a makeshift shack at a construction site, with its filthy, chaotic surroundings, that she learned the truth: to marry her, Meng Tian had told a monumental lie, deceiving the entire village. Ever since he and Gu Ruo pretended to be bride and groom when they were seven, Meng Tian had wanted to marry her. But Gu Ruo was beautiful and excelled at school, while he wasn’t good enough for her. To give himself a chance to marry her, he went to the coast with the village’s Fourth Uncle as soon as he graduated from junior high. He took on the hardest jobs, scrimping and saving until he had put away a sum of money. Then he returned home before the New Year, posing as a nouveau riche migrant worker who had made his fortune. It was all because the night before he left for home, he’d had a dream. In the dream, Gu Ruo’s family married her off to a cripple from a neighboring village for 3,000 yuan in bride price. He was violent, and less than three years into their marriage, he beat her to death in a drunken frenzy. When Meng Tian returned, all he saw was her, covered in blood, her body cold and pale. Meng Tian loved Gu Ruo. He had to save her, had to marry her. He would let her keep studying and give her the best life possible… Reader notes: 1. The everyday struggles of a poor married couple. 2. The heroine does not transmigrate or come back reborn. She is a local girl, not naturally strong, but she works hard. 3. The hero has partially returned reborn, but his memories are incomplete. He has no major golden finger, and builds his career through his own hard work. Coming soon: *The Child Bride of the 1950s* Synopsis: At five, Fang He was separated from her family and taken in by Old Madam Yu, who raised her to become Yu Nian’s child bride. When Fang He was sixteen, Yu Nian decided to join the army. Old Madam Yu couldn’t talk him out of it, so she forced him to marry Fang He before letting him leave home. After that, Yu Nian vanished without a trace. Fang He became a widow, enduring cruel gossip and suffering in the village. When she was twenty-two, Old Madam Yu fell gravely ill. Before she died, she gave Fang He a letter and told her to go find Yu Nian. It turned out that the husband she thought was dead was alive. Not only that, he had built a successful career and become an officer. But he no longer loved Fang He. After settling down in the city, he had secretly returned home once, hoping to divorce her and pursue the woman he truly loved. Old Madam Yu, however, had wanted to use Fang He to keep her son tied to her and refused to agree to the divorce. Fang He couldn’t accept being abandoned, and the village’s backward, oppressive ways left no room for her either. Taking the address Old Madam Yu had given her, she went to Yu Nian’s military unit. Later, she made a scene at his wedding, refused the wife of his superior’s offer to find her another match, and insisted that Yu Nian start a life with her again. Yu Nian compromised for the sake of his career. But you can’t force love. They became the military unit’s most notorious unhappy couple, and even in their fifties, they kept up with the times and got divorced. At fifty-five, Fang He married again. Her husband was sixty, handsome and dignified without looking old, and had once been the superior of Yu Nian’s superior. He treated her even better. Their late-life romance was quite romantic. Sadly, their happiness didn’t last. Years of suppressed misery had made her sick, and less than a year into their life together, she passed away. When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day after she had disrupted Yu Nian’s wedding. The wife of his superior was just about to talk her into accepting an introduction to another man. Xie Qinghe had been promised in marriage to a girl as lovely and delicate as a jade doll. Their betrothal had been arranged when they were still swaddled infants. He had known from childhood that she was to be his wife and that he had to treat her well. But then a bombing tore them apart, and he lost her. For years, he searched desperately for her. At last, when he was twenty-eight, she appeared before him, a child bride to someone else. But that was all right. He could take her back. Reader notes: 1. In this life, both are each other’s first; in their previous lives, they weren’t. Their paths crossed in the wrong way, so they didn’t meet at first, and the hero spent his whole life looking for the heroine. 2. Inspired by the mother of the male lead in my first historical-era novel. Theme: Once you love, you love for a lifetime. Work hard and strive to improve yourself for her.