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This is really not what I was expecting. It's more slice-of-life, for one thing. Unlike most similar stories set in the same era (1970s China), this novel focuses more on daily life than in making money. In this way, it serves as a pretty simple read. I ended up not finishing it because I'm not really the slice-of-life type of person. But I still enjoyed reading about the main characters — who can be said to be pretty unique in terms of motivations and base personalities.________SUMMARY: The FL, Su Xiaoman, finds herself being reborn in the 1970s as a newly wedded cannon fodder from a historical novel about two educational youths. The original owner of her body was the type to love the poor and disdain the rich. And accordingly, after ended up being married to the ML (Xie Mingtu), was very unhappy. There's a lot more going on in the background, but the main point is that Su Xiaoman's transmigration is pretty tricky. The ML at this stage had not yet been ab*sed by the original owner, but he had been beaten down by his fake adoptive parents. Knowing of what would happen to the ML in the future, the FL is sympathetic and decides to live as a pseudo-husband and wife with him for now. And so the story proceeds in this way. With an optimistic but rather simple FL without high ambitions slowly cleaning up a highly talented/genius ML who had been buried under the mud.________THOUGHTS: First things first, in terms of quality, I'd say it's not bad. It's a simple and cute romance. The experience would have been better if the TL is a little cleaner (the current TL is edited MTL, I think, the quality is okay, but needs some editing.) The MTL is readable but a lot of the jokes and nuance is also lost, making it difficult to truly judge the story without any bias. I deciding to give this novel a rating anyway because I'm not sure I'll be rereading it in the future. It's not my type of novel, after all. It's too vanilla for my taste. That is, if you enjoy simple romances where there's no real goal or direction, just an account of the min character's sweet daily life, then by all means! This novel is definitely for you. As for me, I enjoyed it well enough (mainly because I thought the characters were pretty interesting), though it's definitely nowhere close to being a favorite. AHH I'm just going round in circles now XD. Straight to the rating! I've decided to give this novel a 3.25/5. Not enough to round up to 4 stars, but still not bad.
