Back to the Prosperous Years to Live an Ordinary Life
回到红火岁月做俗人
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Doesn't this resemble the male and female leads?
I played around with AI for a while and drew the female protagonist.
It's passable, but the female soldier photo looks Korean... The description is: A Chinese female college student from the 1960s, oval face, braided hair, simple clothing; the image has low color saturation, a dull and faded photographic feel. Replacing "female college student" with "textile worker, saleswoman, teacher, actress, middle school student," etc., Will generate different effects. Want to try it?
Anyone else hate courtyard houses as much as I do? 😂
Women in the 1950s
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The author's writing style is quite good, and the historical descriptions are as realistic as possible. It's very well written. Recommended! However, the plot arrangement is really disappointing. In my opinion, out of the 100 chapters the author wrote: 20 chapters—finding food 20 chapters—cooking food 20 chapters—delivering food to the mother-in-law's family
This is a very good novel, and I hope it continues to be so. Historical fiction should at least be consistent with the circumstances of that time, rather than trying to understand the daily life of the 1950s and 60s with today's thinking.
It's not cold yet?
I have some good news for everyone: negative reviews for this book will be automatically deleted. One of the reasons I stopped reading it is that if you can't use your online space to help others or even make a living for yourself, what's the point? It's just a plain, diary-like post. Besides, with your mother-in-law's status, no one else will starve, but you won't.
The plot progresses too slowly, leans too much towards slice-of-life, feels too fragmented, and offers almost no satisfying moments. It also lacks the depth of documentary literature. Web novels should be web novels; I dropped it after a while.
The furniture factory suggested making prefabricated components... Pretty stupid... Furniture is inherently prefabricated. Because it uses mortise and tenon joints, the technology needs to be kept secret. So, selling finished or semi-finished products would immediately reveal the technology to experts. In those days, this was taking away someone's livelihood.
The chapter about catching the tiger ended in defeat.
The author doesn't seem to have a clear idea of what they're trying to write. If you're writing a slice-of-life story, why give yourself such an overpowered cheat code? Other characters use cheat codes to advance the plot, but you're using a powerful backer just to go crazy in real life?