The Spendthrift Wife of a Hong Kong Tycoon [Period]

The Xu family, newly wealthy in Hong Kong, have a problem.

Their son, Xu Jingnian, spends his days watching opera, drinking tea, visiting flower fairs, and betting on horse races. He throws money around and lives in outrageous luxury.

At this rate, he’ll squander the entire family fortune.

After discussing it, the old couple decide to revive the engagement they arranged years ago with a family in the mainland countryside.

They’ve heard that the Lu family’s youngest daughter, Lu Qingyin, is thrifty and meticulous, and knows how to manage a household. Maybe after they marry, she can help Xu Jingnian rein himself in.

When the young woman arrives from the countryside, she’s dressed plainly, with two holes in her socks. The old couple are delighted. The more they look at her, the more satisfied they are, and they hurry to arrange the wedding.

Unexpectedly, their daughter-in-law drops the act on the second day of marriage.

“The mattress is too hard. Replace it with an imported one. The gold bracelet is too thin. Get me one set with diamonds. What? My monthly allowance is only three thousand? No way. Add two zeroes.”

The old couple are stunned.

Lu Qingyin already knows her fate: she’s the disposable first wife in a male-lead novel.

The male lead transforms from an idle playboy into a self-made tycoon in Hong Kong, enduring a disastrous family downfall along the way. That fall is a crucial turning point in his story, and no one can change the plot.

So on the second day of their marriage, while serving morning tea to her parents-in-law, she comes clean. “The family is bound to go bankrupt eventually, but we’ll make a comeback afterward. So we might as well spend all our money as soon as possible. From now on, I’ll run this household extravagantly and live in comfort, enjoying a life of wealth and luxury while I can.”

The old couple: Their son’s spendthrift ways suddenly don’t seem so hard to accept, because their daughter-in-law seems to have a serious problem with her head!

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When Feng Xiuyun opens her eyes and finds herself back in the 1970s, she’s in despair.

There are only two paths before her:

Either marry the village official’s twenty-year-old idiot son, who still wets the bed.

Or refuse the marriage, after which her father will be assigned heavy labor and fall, becoming disabled; her mother will be ostracized and spend every day in tears; and her brother will be framed for theft and thrown in prison. The whole family will suffer terrible reprisals.

According to the plot, Feng Xiuyun should seek the support of the powerful Li Zhuo at this point.

Li Zhuo is a renowned scientist who has been sent down to the countryside. A year later, he’ll be exonerated and reinstated, becoming a figure who can make the entire scientific community tremble.

If she can get this powerful man on her side, her family won’t have to worry about revenge.

But Feng Xiuyun doesn’t do that.

She simply spreads out the 70-Day Crash Course to Becoming a Village Official and The County Magistrate’s Self-Cultivation, which she requested from the System, and starts studying them in earnest.

Li Zhuo knows he’s living inside a book, so he isn’t surprised when Feng Xiuyun comes to see him. According to the plot, after rejecting the marriage, she’ll ask to marry him. They have no feelings for each other, so he plans to turn her down.

But Feng Xiuyun just spreads her hands and says, “Can I borrow your college entrance exam notes?”

Li Zhuo: ?

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