Showbiz in 1979: Starting with the Queen of the Kingdom of Women

The female lead is clearly Zhu Lin, but these past few days it's been Gong Xue all the time. What's wrong with us? Do we still want multiple female leads in this 80s? This kind of wishful thinking in the romantic storyline is getting annoying!

I've read up to the latest chapter and it's pretty good. Like the book featuring the protagonist Lin Weimin, it's still a top-tier read at least for now.

If you think Zhu Lin's writing is good, then don't write Gong Xue's. In today's society, everyone longs for a happy marriage. It's annoying to read a novel and then be greedy, wanting more than you have. Just stick to a single female lead.

Having read many historical fiction novels, I think it would be fine to use the original names of authors like Zhu Lin and Gong Xue without adding character cards. Novels like "The Golden Age of 1979" and "The Queen of the Daughter Kingdom" both used their original names without character cards.

I recently read it twice. I really enjoyed Zhu Lin's romantic storyline. However, every time Gong Xue appeared, the male lead seemed like a completely different person; it was the kind of feeling that made me frown as I read, which was very awkward. I really like the author's writing, but it would be even better if there were some boundaries between the male lead and Gong Xue. 🙂

The angle of approach is quite unique, unlike many period novels that are simply copied. This was originally based on the protagonist's job working on the railway, and most of the content is related to railways, making it much more believable. The part with the chubby guy earlier was a bit nonsensical.

Your opening is a bit toxic. The male lead was sent to the countryside at the age of 15. If the male lead hadn't time-traveled, he would still have died in the end. In that era, there was no way the 15-year-old male lead should have been sent to the countryside.

You wrote the pursuit of Zhu Lin in the beginning so movingly, but then the ambiguous relationship with Gong Xue later on felt awkward. Some people use Bai Juyi's book as an example; I also found the later parts of "The Story of the Stone" and "Dai Chin" very awkward. It would have been better not to write it so movingly at all; you could have just started a harem and focused on your career.

I don't know why authors who write about that era always describe Zhu Lin and Gong Xue as beautiful. In reality, they were quite ordinary-looking, and I didn't find them particularly pretty. In that era, people lacked nutrition and had to work. They had all been sent to the countryside and worked in farms, so their skin wouldn't have been very good. Without makeup, they were really quite ordinary.

There are too few female leads! She doesn't act like a cultured person at all, much less like a literary giant!