The Beautiful Young Wife of the Gobi Desert in the 1970s

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Pre-release: The 1960s, After I Became a Wolf Child. Please add to your reading list.

After graduating from the agricultural sciences graduate program, Jiang Jingyue gave up a high-paying, secure job and returned to her hometown to farm. She went from a complete novice to a local expert, and just as she was about to reap the fruits of her labor, she woke up as the hapless younger sister-in-law in a melodramatic period drama.

The original owner had started helping her older brother's wife, the female lead, raise her children at fifteen. Seven years later, her family called her home, thinking her hardships were finally over. But the female lead came chasing after them, pregnant with her third child.

To help the female lead raise her children, the original owner didn't marry until she was thirty, when she married a widower and became a stepmother, continuing to raise children. She spent her whole life caring for children, yet none of them appreciated her. In her twilight years, she was passed around like a ball and died of hunger in a rented room, her life one long tragedy...

With a new soul in her body, Jiang Jingyue quit, cut ties with her family, and escaped the living hell. All she wanted was to return to her old line of work. Unfortunately, the timing was terrible. Educated youths were returning to the cities in droves, so how could she go against the tide and move to the countryside?

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Jiang Jinghui was reborn. In her previous life, she had followed the school's arrangement and gone to Ningxia to teach. When she arrived, she found the conditions appalling, beyond all reason. To make her life a little easier, she married Feng Ruinian.

Feng Ruinian had some ability. They weren't rich after marriage, but at least they had enough to eat and wear. Yet in middle age, when she returned to her parents' home and saw her older sister-in-law living in a military compound back in the city and riding around in a car, she couldn't accept it.

So she cried to her mother three times a day, refusing to go teach in the countryside. Jiang Jinghui's mother had no way to deal with her and asked her second daughter to take her place. She expected another few days of drama, but Jiang Jingyue agreed at once.

Jiang Jinghui: "???"

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People said of the Gobi, "There is one windstorm a year, blowing from east to west. Strong winds come every third, sixth, and ninth day, and gentle breezes blow every day." They thought the Jiang family's delicate second daughter would be blown away by the first gust.

That was what everyone in the machinery factory compound thought, and the people of Wangshui Village thought the same.

But then...

Jiang Jingyue dug wells at the school and started growing vegetables in greenhouses. She even leased the desert to plant grapes. Step by step, she became a winemaking expert, eventually bringing Ningxia wine to the international stage and leading the whole village to prosperity.

By the time she had made her name, the reborn woman and the original female lead were still battling it out on an island.

Pre-release: The Delicate, Adorable Daughter-in-Law on the Grasslands in the 1970s. Please add to your reading list.

Among the herders of the Alxa Grassland, the highest-ranking horse tenders are almost all men, and women are few and far between. Saren is one of those rare women. Sadly, her husband died young, and she had no children of her own. Her adopted Han son works as a doctor in the city, while the daughter-in-law left at home is timid and weak, fainting at the sound of a horse. When Saren grows old, who will take her place?

Reborn, Saren saw her daughter-in-law's true colors. She acted weak and pitiful, but as soon as she was left in charge of the household, she took all of Saren's money, tricked her into going to the city, and then abandoned her. After Saren died, they wrapped her in a straw mat and called it done. She could not return to the Eternal Blue Sky, something she could never accept as a Mongolian woman.

Saren stormed out of the yurt, determined to throw the ungrateful wolf out of her home. But then she saw this: A Wuzhumuqin horse had been spooked and was charging wildly, about to trample the neighbor's little grandson. At the critical moment, Song Ruoyin suddenly appeared like a flying leopard. She grabbed the saddle, swung herself onto the horse, and clamped her legs around its belly. She loosened the reins, and the horse sprang into the air. When it landed, it reared up on its hind legs. Dressed in a Mongolian robe, Song Ruoyin seemed to merge with the horse, suspended in midair like a small mountain.

Saren looked closely. Wasn't that her delicate, gentle daughter-in-law?

That night, Saren also witnessed her daughter-in-law tear a steppe wolf apart with her bare hands...

Song Ruoyin, who had torn apart zombies with her bare hands in the apocalypse, opened her eyes to find herself on the grasslands in the 1970s. Thankfully, her immense strength had come with her. So, despite her petite, delicate frame, she rode horses and herded livestock, then went home to eat the hand-pulled meat, milk tofu, and milk skin her mother-in-law had made...

Song Ruoyin: My mother-in-law is the best mother-in-law in the world.

Saren: My daughter-in-law is the best daughter-in-law in the world.

As for her husband (son), he could come home if he wanted, or not. Better yet, he could stay away for the rest of his life. Cheng Fangmu had come home to visit and was standing at the door when he overheard the two women talking. He promptly quit his job.

Cheng Fangmu had been secretly in love with Song Ruoyin for twelve years. He had only just managed to get close to her when he woke up in the 1970s. Unable to bear it, he picked up a scalpel and slit his own throat. When he opened his eyes again, nothing had changed, so he had no choice but to accept reality. Then he discovered that the original owner's wife was also named Song Ruoyin. Cheng Fangmu rushed back to the grasslands that very night. The face he had longed for appeared before him, and thinking of their relationship now, he blushed in secret.

Song Ruoyin offered to get a divorce.

Cheng Fangmu: "...Who wants a divorce? Not me. Definitely not me."

Song Ruoyin: "But there's one condition. First, have a baby with me."

Cheng Fangmu, coming back to life: "Is there really such a good deal?"

A year later, Cheng Fangmu had become a livestock veterinarian on the grasslands. Returning from delivering a lamb, he wrapped himself around Song Ruoyin. "Wife, my midwifery skills have improved again. How about we have another baby?"

A delicate beauty who takes what she wants by force versus a taciturn, flirtatious man of iron.

Pre-release: The 1960s, After I Became a Wolf Child.

The little "monster" Lin Keding, unloved by her parents, found herself in the Nagusi family in the 1960s.

This family was different from others: They especially adored girls. Of the fourteen children in the youngest generation, they doted on the original owner, who had an intellectual disability. Ever since she was carried off by a wolf at the age of three, the family, once among the best-off in the banner, had spent so much searching for her that now they were barely scraping by.

Recently, everyone in the pastoral region had been talking about how the wolf child from the Nagusi family had returned all by herself. The eight-year-old girl was soft and cuddly, like a little snowball, and dragged a fat yellow sheep in each hand.

As expected of a descendant of the grasslands' strongman, she would surely grow up to be the best hunter in the banner, just like her grandfather.

The Nagusi family: Their little Dingdang is so adorable. Why would they make her do rough work like hunting???

Her hale and hearty grandfather brought down a white fox. Smiling, he stroked Lin Keding's head. "Once we finish your fox-fur hat, your little head will stay warm all winter."

Her underage older brother went on his first hunt and returned victorious with a pair of Mongolian felt boots. The boots were stuffed with Lin Keding's favorite sweets.

The yurts where her older brothers lived had only two old felt rugs, while all the good things went to Lin Keding's yurt: copper basins, aluminum kettles, wall hangings, and carpets. It was warm and well furnished.

It wasn't just the Nagusi family who doted on her. Even the wolves had her in mind. When a severe snowstorm struck and wolf packs attacked the herds, every household suffered heavy losses except the Nagusi family, whose livestock the wolves left alone. They even brought Lin Keding yellow mutton to eat.

No one at the border garrison was unaware that the Jian family had a little menace, Jian Wensheng. He had been a wild troublemaker since childhood, and even after joining the army, he was undoubtedly the most rebellious troublemaker in the unit.

Of course, there was no denying his ability. He became a regiment commander at a young age, but even as he approached thirty, he still acted as recklessly as ever. His superiors issued an ultimatum: He had to settle his personal affairs immediately.

Jian Wensheng brought home a little girl, fair-skinned and spotless, who looked as sweet and obedient as could be.

The whole military compound shook their heads. "Is this the wolf child the organization arranged for him? She looks like a little lamb. How could she possibly keep that reincarnated Monkey King in line? Won't he bully her until she cries every day?"

But then Jian Wensheng rode horseback with Lin Keding, taking her for a spin. When she told him to go west, he didn't dare go east. When Lin Keding wanted milk skin, Jian Wensheng milked the sheep himself and made it for her. When their child was born, the troublemaker Jian Wensheng cried and fought to be the one to wash the diapers.

PS: The female lead is the original owner.

Set in a fictional world. The golden finger is exactly as described in the blurb: outrageously powerful.

A cozy, lighthearted, funny story about daily life.

The family relationships come first; the romance comes later.

Theme: Women should stand on their own.