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

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.