A 1970s Substitute Bride, but the Big Shot Is Reborn

[A 1970s Substitute Bride, but Her Husband Is Reborn]

Lin Peizhu transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era as the younger sister of the cannon-fodder heroine's original wife.

In this life, her cannon-fodder older sister has been reborn. Unwilling to be sacrificed by the Lin family again, she tears up her marriage contract with the male supporting character and turns to her childhood sweetheart to pledge herself to him.

The Lin and Lu families' marriage was arranged by the older generation. Her sister refuses to go through with it, even threatening to take her own life, so the marriage falls to her younger sister, Lin Peizhu.

[Factory director, wealthy, never comes home. Two years later, he meets his white moonlight and proposes a divorce, willingly splitting the family assets in half.]

Isn't that pretty much like getting a job at a big company to build up her resume?

Recalling the plot, Lin Peizhu sits in a shack in a crowded courtyard and agrees without hesitation.

The Lin family turns down the match they had already accepted with the butcher's son, then hurriedly arranges a meeting with the Lu family.

The man is much as the novel's few scattered details described him: steady in temperament, mild in speech, and better-looking than she expected.

With their engagement in place, the meeting is just a formality, and three days later the two of them successfully register their marriage.

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Lu Mingzhen has been reborn.

To outsiders, he has an excellent background, earned military honors while serving in the army, and then made himself a factory director after retiring. His life should have been perfect.

But Lu Mingzhen has just come out of a failed marriage.

In truth, that marriage should have ended two years ago. Or perhaps he should never have agreed to it in the first place.

After the divorce, he heads south on business and is reborn two years in the past after an accident along the way.

Given a chance to start over, he decides to end this marriage, which will bring misery to them both, ahead of time.

But when Lu Mingzhen returns home ready to negotiate with the other party, someone else walks out of the house.

"Lu Mingzhen?"

A slender, pale fingertip waves in front of his eyes, its pad tinged with a delicate pink.

She blinks, her lashes fluttering as she smiles. "Why do you look like I've startled you?"

He is startled.

The woman in front of him is not Lin Peirong, the woman who treated him with icy courtesy in his previous life, pined for her childhood sweetheart, and cuckolded him two years later.

Lin Peizhu thinks Lu Mingzhen is a little strange.

Ever since he returned from his last business trip, the man who used to go half a month without seeing her has been showing up around her every few days.

Today he asks if she needs help with work, tomorrow he asks if she has enough money, and a few days later he even invites her to the movies...

Finally, one day, Lu Mingzhen drinks too much and accidentally falls asleep in her room.

*Slow-burn melodrama, a steady, gentle romance

*I write what I want, just indulging my own tastes.

Theme: Loving yourself is the best fortune of all.