Daily Life with the Army in the 1960S

The neighboring novel, Nine-Nineties Hong Kong: Gossiping About the Rich and Powerful, has just started publishing. Please add it to your collection~ [Blurb]: In 1962, Lin Xiuli is about to graduate from Beijing Normal University. The moment she receives a love letter from a famous, talented student at her school, memories of her previous life return, and she discovers that she is the tragic heroine of a period novel. In the novel, she accepts the letter and becomes the talented young man's girlfriend. After graduating, she marries him and has children. During that decade, her husband is implicated because of his overseas connections and sent down to the countryside, where they endure endless hardship. When the turmoil finally ends, her husband goes abroad and never contacts her again, leaving her alone to suffer and raise their children. Years later, he returns to China as a wealthy man, but he has already started another family and is surrounded by children and grandchildren. He has come back only because he is dying and wants her forgiveness. For the children's sake, she nods through her tears. At last, she has waited for him to return, and she dies with a smile. Lin Xiuli: ... The plot is hard to judge, but whoever gets a tragic life, it won't be her! Lin Xiuli returns the love letter unopened. She comes from a proud family of poor peasants and has no interest in the talented male lead with overseas connections. Hmph. She turns around and signs up for a university social, where she hits it off with Gu Lingyun, an officer studying at a military academy. They get together, graduate, marry, and she decisively follows him to his military posting as an army wife. They settle into a peaceful, cozy life. Blurb saved on 2025/01/25 Please add the upcoming novel Nine-Nineties Hong Kong: Gossiping About the Rich and Powerful to your collection: After Lin Haoyu dies suddenly, she wakes up inside a novel about Hong Kong's rich and powerful in the nineties. The original owner didn't even make it into the story as a passerby: she was merely the heroine's cousin, who died young. When Lin Haoyu opens her eyes in a body that should be dead, she finds herself facing a playboy father, a shrewd mother, a rebellious younger brother, and her own frail self. The good news is that the Lin family is one of Hong Kong's wealthy clans. This life, she's starting out in Rome, and won't have to grind her way from an orphanage to the workplace like she did in her previous life, working herself to death. Great! She's here to join this family, and from now on, she's the laid-back older sister! Heh, let her put her hands on her hips for a moment first~ Hong Kong's wealthy families are like one enormous melon patch. Lin Haoyu becomes the little critter hopping around to eat up all the gossip. She bounces from one scandal to the next, lies back and lies flat, and gossips to her heart's content, all while enjoying a rich and satisfying life among the wealthy. One day, the Lin family's head, namely her grandfather, puts her forward for a political marriage. Her match is the young head of the Xie family, Xie Zhijin. Everyone knows Xie Zhijin is capable and ruthless. With a forceful hand, he has cowed his father, uncles, and all his Xie relatives of the same generation into keeping their heads down. Lin Haoyu takes one look and sees that he's handsome, rich, and stays out of trouble with women? Isn't this the perfect man from a wealthy family? Lin Haoyu waves a hand: Perfect. She can carry on lying flat and eating gossip somewhere else. Xie Zhijin agrees to the marriage at first simply because Lin Haoyu seems pleasant enough. Later, the way he looks at her becomes anything but innocent. Please add the upcoming novel Everyday Gossip in the Big Courtyard to your collection: On his wedding night, Qi Fengnian dreams that he is the villain in a novel, always scheming against the male lead. Yet every scheme of his ends up helping the male lead, and in the end, Qi Fengnian inadvertently propels him to become the richest man in the country. The day after the wedding, Qi Fengnian wakes up and looks at his sweet, charming wife, Su Xiaowan. In the novel, they are the villainous couple: he picks fights with the male lead, while his wife goes after the heroine. In the end, the two of them are infuriated to death together. Qi Fengnian: "..." * The day after her wedding, Su Xiaowan wakes up with some kind of System that rewards her with food for gossiping. After figuring it out, she finally understands: as long as she watches the drama unfold, the System rewards her with delicious food! Su Xiaowan, who is strong but often goes hungry, suddenly lights up: I'm eating gossip! As luck would have it, the big courtyard she has married into is full of commotion every day. From then on, Su Xiaowan is on the front lines of every bit of gossip, rushing to wherever the action is. She truly eats her fill of gossip. Whenever Su Xiaowan goes gossiping, Qi Fengnian is always trailing after her. Since he belongs to her, she takes him along to gossip and protects him, occasionally feeding him some of the food she has left over. Then she makes him hand over his entire salary. Life is wonderful~ Qi Fengnian, threatened by his wife with her fists: "..." Theme: Walk your own path and be the one in control of your life.