The Female Side Character's Aunt Remarries a Powerful Man [The 1970s]

After Wen Congyin transmigrates into the aunt of a vicious supporting character in a period novel, she has to choose a husband.

On her left is the factory director's son, an excellent match on paper but actually a cheater.

On her right is a man with a nephew in tow, required to serve in the military with him, and from a politically blacklisted family.

Without a second thought, Wen Congyin chooses the man on her right.

Everyone thinks Wen Congyin has gone mad. She turns down the factory director's son, who doesn't even mind that she has a niece in tow.

But Wen Congyin takes her niece and follows the man to his military post.

The people in the compound wait for a joke at her expense. A politically blacklisted man, with two children between them? Surely this family will be at each other's throats.

But in the first year, the man's family is exonerated and receives commendations.

The second year, news arrives that Wen Congyin has stopped being a nurse and become a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. She's made a name for herself, with medical skills so extraordinary they seem almost supernatural.

The third year, the fourth year...

A few years later, word reaches the compound that the two children, the man's nephew and her niece, have been admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University. The whole country is abuzz.

Everyone is green with envy.

Wen Congyin has transmigrated into a sensitive era. To protect herself and her niece, she sets her sights on a straight-laced military big shot from the original story. He's temporarily fallen on hard times, but he's shrewd and has a bright future ahead of him.

In the first year of their marriage, the man tells her he's not one for romantic entanglements and hopes his partner will focus more on her career, too.

Wen Congyin immediately claps her hands in delight. What a coincidence, so is she!

Many years later.

Wen Congyin is working overtime at the hospital, seeing patients.

The man arrives with their daughter in his arms to bring her dinner. "Director Wen, your daughter says she misses you."

Looking at her daughter, who hasn't even grown teeth yet, Wen Congyin falls silent.

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New novel now available: I Really Don't Want to Set Up a Food Stall to Make Money [Gourmet]

Gu Qianjin gets bound to a Gourmet Stall System.

The System can improve her cooking, let her set up a mobile food stall, and keep leveling up. It even offers a reward that multiplies any money she loses.

Gu Qianjin: Wait, you said losses get reimbursed?!

Cute and clueless System: That's right. Lose a hundred, get a thousand back.

The System's intention is to encourage its Host to work hard and improve her cooking, but it never imagined it would meet a black-hearted Host like Gu Qianjin.

Why work hard setting up a stall when losing money is so much faster?

I'm sorry, but if I don't take advantage of this, I'd be letting all of China down.

To lose money, Gu Qianjin sets up a stall selling fried skewers outside a school with strict rules that forbid students from buying snacks.

The sharp-eyed grade director and the school's crafty leaders make it clear: if even one student manages to buy a skewer, she loses!

But Gu Qianjin never expects the students to go all out for a skewer, using every trick in the book: creating a diversion, drawing the enemy out, faking their own deaths, and more.

After a month of hard work, Gu Qianjin hasn't lost a single cent. The students' fitness has improved so much that they break the city's record in the hundred-meter sprint. On the day the winning student receives his medal, he delivers an impassioned speech from the podium, thanking Gu Qianjin for giving him so much practice running from the school leaders and being chased by them.

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What a miscalculation. Who knew those students would try so hard!

Gu Qianjin decides to move to a new location, heading straight for the entrance of the best gym in the city. She refuses to believe she can sell her beef noodles there and actually make money!

But she never expects beef noodles to taste even better after a workout.

First, one gym member pretends not to care, then the word spreads from one person to another.

When the gym trainers and their clients run into each other in front of the beef-noodle stall, they all fall silent.

Clients: Coach, you...

Coach: Listen to me. Beef is high in protein, and noodles are a source of carbs. Together, aren't they the perfect fitness meal?

Gu Qianjin: ????

After a year of hard work, Gu Qianjin is forced to become the food ambassador for S City. Thanks to her alone, she makes a forgotten ancient temple in the mountains popular, brings attention to cultural relics deep in the forests, and saves a movie theater on the verge of closing...

When the head of the city's Cultural Affairs Bureau presents Gu Qianjin with a medal, she sheds "moved" tears.

All she really wanted was to lose money!!!

Theme: See what shines in one another, and accept each other's strengths and weaknesses.