The 1970s: The Cannon-Fodder Foil Gets Close to the Aloof Chief Engineer and Is Spoiled Like Crazy

Song Nuan cried her eyes out.

Only on the day she died did she realize that the world she'd lived in for more than twenty years was actually a melodramatic novel.

And she was merely the female lead's "foil," a cannon-fodder character whose intelligence had been forcibly lowered to make the heroine look good.

Song Nuan looked at the tragic ending the book had written for her and her family.

She died young of breast cancer!

Her husband, a chief engineer, was blown up while repairing a machine!

Her grown daughter was tricked by a delinquent with dyed hair, and both mother and child died!

Dead, dead, dead! They all died!

Then she looked at reality:

A handsome, wealthy, devoted husband. Check.

In-laws more generous with money than candy. Check.

A genius daughter with off-the-charts IQ. Check.

She fell into deep thought.

Author, I refuse to accept that lousy ending you wrote! If you can't write a decent life, then get out of the way!

This time, Song Nuan wouldn't just stand up for herself. She'd tear that book to shreds and live out a glittering ending as the true heroine!