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 when she was about to die did she realize that the world she'd lived in for more than twenty years was actually a melodramatic novel.

And she was nothing but 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 would die young of breast cancer!

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

Their grown daughter would be tricked by a blond-haired punk, and both mother and child would die!

Dead, dead, dead! They were all dead!

Then she looked at real life:

A handsome, wealthy husband who cared for his family [expression]

In-laws more generous with money than with candy [expression]

A genius daughter with off-the-charts intelligence [expression]

She fell into deep thought.

Author, I refuse to accept the lousy ending you wrote! If you can't make this life work, then get out of the way!

This time, Song Nuan wouldn't just stand tall. She would tear that book to shreds and live out a dazzling ending as the true leading lady!