The Lazy Villainess Enjoys the Drama in a Period Novel

My new story next door, *The 90s Nanny Remarries Up*, is now online. Please add it to your reading list! [Blurb] Jiang Baozhu transmigrates into a minor early-story character in a period novel. The original heroine is her cousin. After they both go to the countryside as educated youth, they fall for the same male lead. In the end, the leads fall in love with each other, while the cannon-fodder character is written out. Unable to accept it, she jumps into a river and kills herself. A textbook plot device. Jiang Baozhu: Unbelievable! A widower with three kids is this popular?! The competition to become a stepmom is this fierce?! What a rotten world! After working herself to death in her previous life, Jiang Baozhu just wants to be a lazy fish. The male lead? Stepmom? Cannon fodder? Forget all that. Get out of my way. Watching the drama is much more fun. * Supplies are scarce in the 1970s. Even with the Jiang family often sending money and packages, Jiang Baozhu's life is still pretty hard. So she decides to latch onto someone and enjoy the good life. She looks over the men in the production brigade until she finally sets her sights on Song Minghong, the younger son of the accountant, Song. Sure, Song Minghong spends every day loafing around and never doing anything useful, making him a good-for-nothing in the villagers' eyes. But he's the Song family's treasured youngest son, handsome with rosy lips and pearly teeth, a feast for the eyes of anyone who cares about looks. And the smell of meat often wafts from the Song home, making her mouth water. The Songs seem like a good match! In the original story, the original Jiang Baozhu jumps into the river and takes Song Minghong, who tried to save her, down with her. What a fateful connection! After getting married, Jiang Baozhu's mother-in-law is the production brigade's women's director, so there's gossip to enjoy every day. Like a melon-eating badger in a melon patch, Jiang Baozhu is wherever the gossip is. What a happy life! Song Minghong: Honey, take me with you! * On their wedding night, Jiang Baozhu discovers she has a golden finger: good fortune comes to hard-working people! In this life, she's a treasure-hunting mouse come to life. Wherever there's treasure, Jiang Baozhu the Treasure Mouse is sure to be there. Jiang Baozhu searches under the bed: Your secret stash is mine now. Song Minghong: ... * With her golden finger, Jiang Baozhu fills her own private vault with ginseng, gold, antique paintings and calligraphy, then lies back as she rises to the top. Note added 2023/12/07 Here's my next upcoming story, *The 90s Nanny Remarries Up*. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list! Lin Anran transmigrates into a novel set in the 1990s. She's not the heroine, a supporting character, or even a villain. She's just the nanny in the home of the leads' benefactor, a character who doesn't even have a name. Her only line in the entire novel is, “Please wait a moment, sir is on the phone.” Lin Anran: ... Later, after getting together with someone, the leads come to visit, and Lin Anran says, “Please wait a moment, my husband is on the phone.” * Zhou Heyuan has been a born winner since childhood. He comes from a military compound, is handsome and brilliant, and built a successful business with a group of friends. By his early twenties, he was worth hundreds of millions. Countless people have their eyes on this eligible bachelor, but before any of them can make a move, Zhou Heyuan gets married! And his wife is a village girl and nanny with only a middle-school education, divorced because she can't have children! Everyone is flabbergasted, certain the two will soon divorce. While everyone waits for her to get divorced, Lin Anran uses the golden finger she received when she transmigrated to grow flowers and sell expensive orchids. She makes beauty products and skincare creams, attracts a huge base of loyal customers, and opens a beauty salon, becoming a rich woman. A man? She'll put him aside and let him amuse himself. They can talk after she's made her money. Zhou Heyuan: ... Here's another upcoming story, *Making a Fortune in the 90s Entertainment Industry*. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list! Jin Liqiu is born into the Jin family as their youngest daughter. Sixteen years later, she awakens memories of her past life and realizes she's transmigrated into a period novel about the entertainment industry. Her second-oldest sister is a naturally gifted actress. One film makes her famous as soon as she debuts, but in the legendary life of the novel's heroine, a famous award-winning actress, her sister is only a brief supporting character. Their parents suddenly die in an accident. Their eldest sister marries an abusive man and is beaten to death. Their second sister is betrayed by her boyfriend, sabotaged by a rival in the industry, and ultimately dies by suicide after falling into depression. A talented actress is buried in the darkness of the past. Jin Liqiu, the youngest Jin sister, doesn't appear in the novel at all. But the important thing is that the story has already begun. Her parents are still alive and well, her eldest sister has just suffered her first beating, and a director has chosen her second sister for a film role! Jin Liqiu: Great. First, I'm going to beat that wife-beater to a pulp! * Years later, the three Jin sisters appear on a popular celebrity interview show. The host asks, “Everyone says the three of you have each contributed to half of the entertainment industry. Do you agree?” Jin Liqiu smiles faintly. “I'm just an ordinary author and screenwriter.” The eldest sister, a gentle woman who's actually a tyrant on set: “I'm just an ordinary director.” The second sister, a naturally gifted actress and a total drama queen: “I'm just an ordinary actress.” The host and audience: “...” We've heard the words “just ordinary” so many times, they don't sound like words anymore! Theme: Focus on yourself and be the main character of your own life