The Sixties Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Marries the Male Lead

Please add my other novels to your favorites: Marrying a Coal Tycoon in the Eighties and The Great Hong Kong Island Novelist of the Eighties.

Blurb: Qiao Xiangwan transmigrates into a book as the male lead's childhood betrothed, the girl rumored to have died young.

It's 1965, and a storm is brewing.

As the daughter of a capitalist, Qiao Xiangwan quickly packs her bags and shamelessly heads to the capital to find her future husband.

The hottest news in the residential compound lately is that the local troublemaker is being pressured into marriage, supposedly to his childhood betrothed.

That day, everyone in the compound heard the troublemaker roar, "I won't marry her!" before slamming the door and storming off.

Everyone gathered around to gossip and watch the show, certain that the young woman who'd come to force the marriage would be unceremoniously thrown out.

They waited and waited, only to find out that the troublemaker had actually gotten married, and to his childhood betrothed, no less.

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Qiao Xiangwan, one half of the betrothed couple, thinks the male lead is a glittering golden thigh she can cling to. She's determined to do just that!

The only problem is that the male lead in the book, Lu Yebei, is an unfeeling block of wood.

No matter how hard Qiao Xiangwan tries to flirt with him, her winks might as well be aimed at a blind man!

With little time left, Qiao Xiangwan grows disheartened and decides to find another golden thigh to cling to.

Well, the other soldier in the compound seems like a good choice.

One dark and windy night, Qiao Xiangwan returns from a romantic evening with that soldier. The moment she turns around, someone pins her against the wall, hands on hips.

The man's eyes seem ready to devour her as he lowers his head. His voice is full of barely contained fury. "Qiao Xiangwan, well done. You've actually dared to have two men on the hook at once."

Qiao Xiangwan looks at him, completely bewildered. Two men? What is he talking about?

After that, Lu Yebei seems like a different person, keeping an eye on her everywhere and saying he won't give her the chance to find a second man.

---- Coming soon: Marrying a Coal Tycoon in the Eighties

Shen Zhiwei transmigrates into a novel as the male lead's ex-wife, the woman who abandoned her husband and child.

The ex-wife ran off with most of the male lead's money and her lover, only to end up losing both her lover and the money.

Shen Zhiwei looks at the three-story villa, every bit as nice as the ones in her future, her sweet, fair-skinned son, and all the money she could ever spend. She gets to be a mother with none of the pain.

When the abandoned man asks if she still wants a divorce, Shen Zhiwei waves her hand and declares, "No divorce."

Why would she divorce him? This is the life of her dreams.

Besides, although the male lead in the book is cold toward his ex-wife, he's generous with his money.

She doesn't have to wait on a man, and she still gets money. It couldn't be better.

But later, Shen Zhiwei, who can't get out of bed until noon and has to rub her aching back, curses the novel for being a scam and demands the return of her cold and ruthless male lead!

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In her previous life, Shen Zhiwei was a screenwriter with plenty of talent but no chance to put it to use.

In the blink of an eye, she arrives in the 1980s, when China's film and television industry is just getting started.

Most importantly, her husband is a coal tycoon. He has plenty of everything, but money most of all.

By the standards of the future, the coal tycoons' investment era was the golden age of Chinese film and television: few hassles and plenty of money.

So, honey, give me money! Invest!

She wants to make TV shows and movies!

Li Zhaoyan arches an eyebrow. "Wife, you know what you'll have to give me in return."

Shen Zhiwei agrees through her tears. At least the man is handsome and has a great body, so it's not a bad deal.

---- Coming soon: The Great Hong Kong Island Novelist of the Eighties

Zhong Ruoying wakes up to find herself a pretty young woman on Hong Kong Island.

Her father is dead, her mother is sick, her brother gets into fights, her sister is rebellious, their home is bare, and she's at a loss.

The family of four is crammed into a home of barely forty square meters, doing everything in this pigeonhole of a flat.

It's the 1980s, a time when culture is flourishing on Hong Kong Island and novels of every kind are springing up like mushrooms after rain.

Zhong Ruoying grits her teeth, picks up her pen again, and vows to write something earth-shattering.

At first, publishers tell her work is dog shit, not even fit to use as toilet paper.

Later, every publishing house on the island is fighting to publish her books.

Some people call her a writer who only knows how to write melodramatic fiction.

Later, they weep over her serious literary works.

Some say her novels will never find an audience outside China.

Later, physicists from around the world compete for the chance to discuss the mysteries of the universe with her.

They call her the queen of romance, an anatomist of human nature, and a giant of science fiction.

Theme: Life gets better when you strive for it