Back to the 70s as the Male Lead’s Ex-Wife

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Zhang Xiaofang transmigrated into a novel as a little village girl, the ex-wife of the male lead in a period drama.

In the novel, the male lead was a young, handsome educated youth sent down to the countryside. He was so handsome that the foolish daughter of the village head knocked him out and dragged him home. The male lead didn’t want to marry her, but the village Communist Party secretary[1] promised him a ticket back to the city for university if he did. When the male lead refused, the Secretary’s family conspired to trap him and later forced him into marriage.

After they had a child, the village Communist Party Secretary kept delaying his return, claiming the child was too young and needed his father around. This went on until the reintroduction of college entrance exams (1977), and even then, they refused to let him leave—eventually forcing the male lead’s parents to come and demand his release.

Zhang Xiaofang nearly burst a blood vessel reading about it. She had never encountered such shameless cannon-fodder characters. Worse, the Secretary’s daughter shared her name… It was so disgusting she almost passed out from rage.

After going on a rant, Zhang Xiaofang woke up in the novel—as the village Communist Party secretary’s daughter, right at the moment she was dragging the male lead home…

[1] 村支书 (cūn zhī shū). A Party Committee Secretary is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the de facto highest political office of its area of jurisdiction. Wikipedia.

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七零之穿成男主前妻
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Review
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SheMiao
New SheMiao
Nov 16, 2024
Status: c35
At first I thought it would be very difficult for FL to imitate the behavior of the original body, but apparently the only difference is the advanced knowledge of the future.

So the behavior in the original body is wrong and in FL it is normal.

I also think it's strange that ML finds FL's speech funny, I always feel like she has the same tone of voice as any other nosy woman in the village.
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natsume_serenade
New natsume_sere
Nov 15, 2024
Status: Completed
This is Bambi, the translator! I read this novel about three times already. I just keep coming back to it because it's so funny, and heart-warming and the male lead and female lead are so adorable together!

In particular, this author writes well-rounded characters. Even when you start hating a character, the author ends up showing you another part of it that makes it slightly less annoying, and by the end you're like, "Well, that's human life, you don't always like other people!" and, "people are not always good and bad,... more>> sometimes they have a both of each". Even so, this is not a serious story, it is more on the funny side.

This happens a lot because the leads live in Zhangzhuang, a rural village where the majority of them are surnamed Zhang (all related). Thus, the female protagonist, Zhang Xiaofang, has sixteen uncles and great-great aunties LMAO. The interesting part is that Zhang Xiaofang is foolish (acting like 8 when she's 18) and the female lead takes full advantage of that to be witty and do chaos (it's not annoying at all, more on the funny side). I think one thing I appreciate about Zhang Xiaofang is that she doesn't look down on the era's natives like they don't know a thing, but instead truly lives her life with them. Due to a series of events, she ends up marrying the handsome male lead, the educated youth, Fang Jianping, as her living-in son-in-law and since she's foolish, he doesn't see her as a woman and ends up taking care of her tenderly like he would to a child (which obviously wins our Zhang Xiaofang's heart).

The leads grow up together as adults, since they're around 18-ish in the first chapters, and go to university together when they're around 25-ish. What is endearing is how they slowly fall in love with each other. I especially love the trope of "everyone but the couple knows they're both in love". I adore a dense protagonist so much. And this would be the male lead. Xiaofang lets the male lead take her time. After all, he saw her as the family's mischievous child but when she begins acting her age, (and after all the emotional rapport from years) he begins developing feelings for her as a woman. What I love is that the author doesn't stop the story when they confess, but they take us to the university with them, when they meet the male lead's family, when they get jobs in the city, and when they raise their child, Tongtong. I am particularly fond of Tongtong, he's just so adorable!

I can't wait to read this story with all of you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did (and do!) <<less
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