I Transmigrated into a Male-Oriented Period Novel as a Painter

[I Love Revising My Work, and Only Take Responsibility for the Official Version]

Wen Ci transmigrates to 1975. The moment she opens her eyes, she finds herself at the bottom of a lake, surrounded by green water.

She climbs ashore and saves someone. Before she can even catch a glimpse of a good life, her bloodsucking uncle's family comes rushing over, scheming every which way to make her go to the countryside in place of her wicked cousin.

Wen Ci: "?"

She rolls up her sleeves and quickly deals with her criminal relatives. Those who belong in prison go to prison, and those who should go to the countryside go to the countryside. Just as she steps aboard the train to a happy life, she discovers that this is actually a male-oriented period power fantasy?

The good news: she isn't part of the male lead's harem.

The bad news: she's the villain the male lead considers a thorn in his side.

The original owner of her body in the book is a devoted fan of the number-one heroine in a period novel. The male lead betrays the heroine, and the heroine forgives him. But she won't. All she wants is to crush that womanizing male lead!

The male lead engages in speculation and profiteering? She reports him.

The male lead hits on girls? She reports him.

The male lead smuggles cultural relics? She reports him again.

In the end, the ruthless male lead kidnaps her and throws her into the sea on the way to Hong Kong.

The male lead failed to keep a low profile and build up his power in his first life. Reborn, he is riding high, using his knowledge of the future to get his way at every turn. He even sets a trap to bring her under his control?

Wen Ci learns the plot: Her fists clench.

Luckily, Wen Ci isn't alone on her path to beating up the male lead. She has the "Doll Drawing" System. As long as she wins the dolls' affection with her drawings, she can redeem magical abilities.

[Ma Liang's Rainbow Brush]: The same magical brush used by the young Ma Liang. Whatever you draw can become real.

[The Midas Touch]: Get the things you have always dreamed of.

[The Crayon Shop]: A candy house every child loves.

[...]

With such tempting features, who wouldn't want to level up?

Wen Ci has no choice but to get off her lazy backside, trapped in an endless cycle of "draw, earn doll points, level up, draw, earn doll points." She works like mad, but when she looks back, her points are still at zero!

Picture books? She draws a few.

Movie theater art department? She works there for two years.

Children's books adapted into movies? Wow, that sounds promising!

Wen Ci beats up the male lead while working hard on her art. As she keeps striving, she gradually reaches the pinnacle of her artistic career, leaves her homeland, and ventures to distant corners of the world.

Children of every skin color get to see picture books from the East.

Official blurb:

A story about an illustrator whose talent falls short, who returns to her homeland in the 1970s, overcomes the fate set out in the original book, improves her artistic skills, and gradually achieves the dream she once held.

[Blurb published on February 16, 2025. Screenshots have been taken, and the entire creative process has been documented.]

Upcoming period novels:

"The Delicate Weaver Girl Lands in the 1970s | From Ancient Times to the Present"

"Accelerated Agricultural Research | The 1950s"

Zhu Yu is a PhD student at an agricultural college.

She spends ten years in school and ten years farming. No matter how many times she experiments with hybrid crops, she fails just as many times. At long last, success seems within reach, but overnight the experimental pigs next door devour her test fields.

Zhu Yu: The sky is falling.

She cries out to the heavens: "Granny Heaven! Could you let me succeed just once?"

Granny Heaven hears her plea and packs her off to her homeland in the 1970s overnight. From the start, she's in a remote mountain ravine in the southwest. She opens her eyes beneath a crumbling roof and falls asleep at night to the soothing grunts of pigs.

Zhu Yu closes her eyes serenely: Maybe I should just die and get it over with.

But she can't die, so she still has to get on with her career.

Zhu Yu rolls up her sleeves and joins the cooperative experimental farm, the place everyone least wants to work. The project has been underway for seven years without a single result, and its prospects are visibly bleak.

From a pot of garlic chives to a cherry tree,

then a recommendation to attend university,

and finally a successful place at an agricultural research institute, where she takes part in the country's most cutting-edge crop hybridization project.

Granny Heaven favors her, granting her the golden finger every agricultural student longs for.

With a plot of experimental farmland and a time accelerator, Zhu Yu can control the growth period of every plant. Experiments that normally take months or even years are compressed into just a few days and nights.

Failures can be cut short in time, while successes can be put into practical research.

With her new crops, Zhu Yu joins her country in reaching the pinnacle of agricultural science worldwide.

Theme: Life is small, yet great.