My other novel, "The Apocalypse Scavenger Travels to the 1960s," is now underway. It is set at a major Third Front factory in Southwest China. Its blurb is at the very bottom~
Blurb:
Wen Ya is reborn as the pampered young lady of a wealthy family in a novel set in the 1950s. Her family abandons her, a scumbag man cheats her out of her heart and fortune, and she eventually dies a tragic death.
The good news: She knows the plot and can change her fate against all odds.
The bad news: She's the wealthy man's illegitimate daughter, a disposable extra who exists only in other people's gossip, with a mere few dozen words to her name.
To stay alive, she sets her sights on Gong Bai, the tough soldier from the reconnaissance battalion in the book.
Tall, long-legged, with a straight nose and a shapely rear, he's exactly her type.
Of course, most importantly, he comes from the right background and is the kind of man who can protect her.
In the book, he disappears on the battlefield. The two children he adopted are left dependent on others, and when they grow up, they become obstacles to the male and female leads' love and careers. They are disposable villains, doomed to die.
Looking at the future villains, now a sociable little one and a shy little one, she presents Gong Bai with a prenuptial agreement:
"I'll take care of them for you, and you give me a place to live. We'll owe each other nothing."
After they marry, Gong Bai heads off to the battlefield. Everyone mocks Wen Ya, saying, "Being a stepmother is no easy job."
Wen Ya takes her two little rascals and travels far away to Hunan Province. At the state-run supply and marketing cooperative, she takes on two goals: raising the kids and building a business!
The little rascals become her devoted protectors, and the pampered flower turns into a capable manager at the cooperative.
Only the war raging in the north remains a knot in Wen Ya's heart.
When Gong Bai appears before her, alive and covered in wounds,
"I've come to keep my promise."
Wen Ya freezes, her lashes trembling. "What promise?"
"To protect you for the rest of your life."
[Reader's Guide]
1. Everyday life in the 1950s. This is not a face-slapping power fantasy.
2. The heroine is clear-headed, calculating, and career-driven. The hero is serious and reliable, hard-mouthed but soft-hearted. Their romance unfolds gradually.
3. The story features child-rearing, career, and family plotlines, with a more serious tone. Readers who prefer a fast pace and intense conflicts may not enjoy it.
Next up for pre-order: "The Apocalypse Scavenger Travels to the 1960s"
In the 24th year of the natural disasters, scavenger Xiang Yun is strangled to death by an ultra-evolved plant on the outskirts of an evolution forest.
When she opens her eyes again, she's a kidnapped bride locked in a woodshed by bandits.
Outside, the bandits shout, "We'll make her a bride tonight!"
Xiang Yun doesn't know what a bride is, but she has no time to figure it out.
Because she smells food.
The door is kicked open. A bandit holds up a steaming plant root and leers at her. "Be good. You need to eat well so you can do your part."
Xiang Yun stares, transfixed. Food!
After she takes them down one by one, five bandits lie sprawled on the ground.
Xiang Yun squats on the threshold, reverently holding the thing called a "sweet potato" and taking a big bite, skin and all.
*
When Captain Cheng arrives to rescue her, he finds bandits sprawled unconscious across the ground and a red-clad bride sitting on the threshold, munching on a sweet potato.
Her cheeks are puffed out like a squirrel's.
"Did you... beat them?"
Xiang Yun nods, hiding the sweet potato behind her back.
Captain Cheng is silent for three seconds.
"...We came to take you home."
Xiang Yun gives him a serious look, then takes out the sweet potato she'd hidden and breaks off a thumb-sized piece for him.
"Here. You can't have more."
*
Her in-laws think she's "no longer pure," while her birth family says, "A daughter who's married is like water poured out."
Xiang Yun looks from one side to the other.
Neither of them wants to feed her.
She points at Captain Cheng. "I'll go with him." He didn't take her sweet potato, and he even gave her candy.
Everyone: ?
Captain Cheng is silent for a long while, then gives a slight nod.
*
At first, Cheng Chen only wants to give Xiang Yun a place to stay.
But he never expects her to be such a mystery.
Give her a meal, and she can carry enough for two people all by herself.
When the factory's old Soviet-made machine tool breaks down, she crouches beside it, listens, and identifies a shattered spindle bearing.
When they ask how she knew, Xiang Yun says without expression, "I heard it."
The whole factory starts saying she's a machine expert.
Only Cheng Chen knows that everything this expert does is just to earn herself a full meal.
And she won't settle for one less meal.
Reader's Guide:
1. An alternate historical setting against the backdrop of Third Front construction in Southwest China, focused mainly on daily life and career.
2. The heroine comes from an apocalypse caused by natural disasters and is obsessed with food.
Theme: Even in adversity, keep hope in your heart
It's written here and there, and the plot is all incomprehensible.
It's pretty good, but there are several paragraphs that are repeated.
The person Chen Fang is talking about cannot be an enemy or a special agent, right?
It was originally 200, but the heroine quoted 500. If you want to return it to someone else, can't you just return what was stolen here? Not having enough money is what the thief should worry about. As long as the watch has a name, you have to pay cash. When it comes to money, there is nothing like the hard-working style of chronicle writing. No amount is too much, and the author has plenty of money in his pocket.
Sun Shirong's lingering ghost is so scary! Having such bullies makes one wonder if the grassland pastoral areas have not been liberated yet?
Hope you can get your certificate smoothly!