Fairy, Want a Massage Tonight? [The 1980s]

New novel: "After Forcing Myself to Marry a Sharp-Tongued Tycoon, Life Got So Sweet"

[Why do I have to die as soon as I transmigrate into a book?!]

Gao Yuexiang was a hundred times unwilling to follow a script that had her die young.

She regretted hastily clicking on the male-oriented web novel that popped up before she went to bed. Now she had become a mayfly in the life of the male lead, Ke Guoan, destined to live only a few short years.

But the world was vast.

How could she resign herself to that fate?

So she seized the moment and married the male lead, making up for the original owner's regret at never having married him.

Next, she closed off the male lead's harem. No more one man with a harem of women!

Then she returned to her old profession: SPA massage therapist. In the modern era, she had been at the top of her field. In the 1980s, she was practically the founding ancestor of the profession.

*

Ke Guoan was an economics professor hailed as a child prodigy, who had enjoyed every kind of first-class resource in his adoptive parents' home.

But there was one blemish on his life.

Back in his hometown, there was a childhood betrothed waiting to marry him.

She was a fly in the ointment of his glorious, brilliant future. In this modern age, who would want a wife left over from the feudal past?

He decided to go break off the engagement in person and give her some money to settle things.

That day, he ran into a pretty girl on the road with his younger colleague. She was so beautiful that her face was impossible to forget, but he thought of it as nothing more than a brief encounter.

Not long afterward, he found out that she was his fiancée?

And she'd been subtly seducing his younger brother to take her out of the mountains, wanting to break off the engagement even more than he did, just so she could marry his brother.

What a way to turn a sister-in-law into a younger brother's wife!

Furious, he called her by her full name. "Gao Yuexiang, I'm telling you..."

"Go ahead," she said, tilting her head up without the slightest fear.

He put a stack of money on the table and said, "This is the bride price. Please accept it."

Gao Yuexiang: ??? Why isn't this male lead following the original story and refusing to marry? Is he going rogue?

Younger brother: "Big brother... Why are you going back on your word? What happened to that tough talk about never marrying her, even if it killed you?" (He's upset that his sister-in-law is about to become his real sister-in-law.)

Onlooking villagers: "Well, I'll be! That girl used to be filthy and smell bad, like some wild person. She took a bath and turned into a bewitching little fox! What kind of sorcery is that? I can't take it!"

Reader's Guide:

1. Everyone loves the heroine, and the hero loves her even more.

2. Set in a fishing village in Shenzhen in the mid-to-late 1980s.

3. The heroine has her own career arc and is determined to become a wealthy businesswoman.

4. The hero's other women are all red herrings. There are criminal investigations and business battles, plus the hero has a double identity.

[Novel opens on August 23, 2025]

Tang Wan thought the happiest thing was marrying the person you loved.

But her husband said their marriage was the stain on his life.

Because she'd forced him to marry her.

~

There was a village called Tangjia in a remote county in the Qinba region.

The beautiful village belle was famous for miles around.

That day, the villagers nearby were gossiping. "I heard the Jiang family from Yanjing is coming to marry Tang Wan."

"It's not just something you heard. They're coming to take her away tomorrow."

"Huh? Why the rush?"

"They're afraid the engagement will fall through. After all, their families haven't seen each other in thirteen years, ever since the famine. Who can say nothing has changed in all that time?"

~

On their wedding night, Jiang Zhixiao told Tang Wan all about her mother's misdeeds.

With tears in her eyes, Tang Wan told him, "I don't believe you. My mother would never force anyone to marry!"

Jiang Zhixiao coldly gave her two choices: "Either divorce me, or become a widow."

This was the man Tang Wan had longed for for eleven years.

She'd thought they were in love with each other, but it had all been in her imagination.

She briskly wiped away her tears and said, "If my mother really forced you into this marriage, I'll clear your name."

~

Jiang Zhixiao came from an educated family in Yanjing and currently worked as an aerospace satellite engineer.

He'd gone to Tangjia Village during the famine just to find a way to survive. He came back later to retrieve a relative's ashes, only to be forced into marriage under threat.

It made him treat Tang Wan coldly, but Tang Wan didn't mind clearing his name.

She made him sound like some innocent young maiden...

~

She really had forced him to marry her, and Tang Wan agreed to a divorce.

But they never got divorced, and she ended up going with him to Yanjing.

They would eventually divorce anyway, so why not use the opportunity to put down roots in the city and build a life for herself?

She started with the sewing skills she was best at, first trying to get a job at a factory, then show them what she could do.

Then she gradually earned a good reputation and made friends, while learning to keep up with the times and developing hand-guided embroidery into a semi-automated process.

Her accomplishments were enough to help her go from a country girl to a city resident. And perhaps not having a husband wasn't such a bad thing.

After all, among all her suitors, she could always find one or two to her liking.

Besides, she was officially Jiang Zhixiao's distant cousin, so there was no need to cause him any trouble.

~

Jiang Zhixiao used to tinker only with his satellites. Now he was also learning to figure out Tang Wan's little schemes.

He knew she wanted to work, support herself, and live without worrying about money.

So he quietly put opportunities in her path, and slipped her money whenever he could, pretending it was no big deal.

At first, he thought it was simply a friendly gesture for the sake of the feelings they'd shared as children.

Later, he thought it was gratitude for her clearing his name.

It turned out that his feelings for her had grown as they spent time together, and he'd ignored all the warning signs.

That was, until Tang Wan brought him a filled-out divorce form.

He panicked.

~

Tang Wan was worried that the wheat harvest was just a few days away. She might not be able to get time off from the factory to go back and help, and she'd also heard that Jiang Zhixiao was leaving on a long business trip and wouldn't be home.

It left her utterly exhausted.

Half a month later, when the wheat had been harvested and he was back, she finally learned why his fair skin had turned bronze.

That night, she asked him, "Are we still getting divorced?"

He said, "Everyone in your village says I'm a capable son-in-law. Next year, I'll go help your father with the farm work again."

Tang Wan held back a laugh and said, "Who wants a pampered city boy like you doing farm work?"

Jiang Zhixiao laughed heartily. "You've graduated. You're already sharper-tongued than I am."

So, "Life is different with everyone, but with Jiang Zhixiao, it's just too sweet!"

Theme: Getting out of poverty is a prerequisite for a stable, happy life.