New novels available for advance reservation: "The Women's Director of the 1970s" and "The Village Girl Goes to the City in the 1990s"
On the day she was forced to go on a blind date with an old man, Zhou Qiuqin went behind her stepmother's back and got married to a young intellectual who had just arrived at their brigade to work in the countryside.
Her stepmother was furious and jumped around, declaring that Zhou Qiuqin's marriage was doomed. “What good is being handsome? He can't carry heavy loads or do hard work. Just wait, you'll suffer!”
Zhou Qiuqin wasn't afraid of hardship.
In her eyes, nothing was as miserable as having to get by under her stepmother's thumb.
Besides, the young intellectual she'd married looked delicate, but he was actually tall and long-legged, with endless strength hidden beneath his clothes. He could carry her in his arms and walk around the house ten times without breaking a sweat or even trembling.
The young intellectual took on every heavy and exhausting chore around the house, leaving Zhou Qiuqin with so little to do that she was practically bored.
Su Qing'an: “You're not idle. Your job is to watch me work and inspect the results when I'm done.”
The newlyweds lived a sweet life together, thoroughly rubbing it in her stepmother's face.
But when the wave of young intellectuals returning to the cities swept through the brigade, her stepmother perked up again, excitedly telling the villagers, “That young intellectual comes from a very important family in the city. Why would he want a country girl like Zhou Qiuqin? Just wait and see. He'll abandon her, and she'll be left in the countryside forever!”
The words had barely left her mouth when Su Qing'an walked past her, one hand carrying their luggage and the other holding Zhou Qiuqin's hand.
A villager asked, “Where are you two going?”
Zhou Qiuqin: “Back to the city.”
Her stepmother wasn't giving up. “The young intellectual's family will surely look down on Zhou Qiuqin and force him to divorce her...”
Before she could finish, Su Qing'an's ingratiating voice came from nearby. “Grandma knows you like gardening, so she's been collecting all kinds of vegetable seeds for ages. Mom knows you like sweet braised pork, so she's already learned how to make it. My little nephew has been saving his pocket money, looking forward to showing you every corner of Ancheng... Everyone can't wait for you to come home.”
Stepmother: “...”
What kind of ridiculous luck had Zhou Qiuqin stumbled into? The man she'd randomly picked to marry was actually this wonderful!
New novel available for advance reservation 1:
Title: "The Women's Director of the 1970s"
Su Guiying is the women's director of a mountain village brigade.
She's young, capable, and trusted by everyone in the brigade.
But lately, she's run into a tricky situation.
The new male intellectual keeps finding excuses to come over to her. Since their first meeting was when she saw someone bullying him, she asked if he'd been picked on again. But he wouldn't say. When she pressed him, he just looked at her with red-rimmed eyes. It was enough to make anyone fret!
Zhou Qiutang was once a young man in a matriarchal world.
He woke up in a strange world and found he'd become a young intellectual sent to the countryside.
But he adapted quickly, accepted the unexpected change, and put the domestic scheming techniques his father taught him to good use. He got the director, Su Guiying, to think he was being bullied, and from then on she took especially good care of him.
But why did she treat everyone else the same way?
She should only be nice to him!
Yet she couldn't see through his feelings at all, and even asked if someone was bullying him. That only made him angrier, and he stared at her with red-rimmed eyes.
Yes, he'd been bullied. By her!
New novel available for advance reservation 2:
Title: "The Village Girl Goes to the City in the 1990s"
Guo Shang is Chen Feng's second wife.
During a late-night heart-to-heart, Chen Feng told her that she had two great regrets in life.
One was moving to the city too late and missing the chance to make her mark during the economic boom. The other was meeting her too late and losing so many years together.
When Chen Feng woke up, she had been reborn.
Bonus scene:
In her eyes, her wife was refined and elegant, gentle and steady, and believed that harmony was the best policy.
But when she was young, she was bold and fierce, and preferred to let her fists do the talking. She kicked away the hooligans who caused trouble at her market stall.
She also didn't take her time wooing her like she had in their previous life. Back then, it took two months before they exchanged contact details. Now she gazed at her with burning eyes and declared her love openly and ardently. “I like you. Let me be your boyfriend.”
Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and make the most of every day