Non-BL Reading List (BG novels, Non-Romance)

095. Fu Bao in the Seventies

Translator: N/A

Title: 福宝的七十年代

Chapters: 196 + 4 Extras

Tags: Mary Sue MC, 70s, countryside, 

Synopsis:

After Nie Family got a pair of twins, they didn't want to raise Fu Bao anymore. They said that Fe Bao was born with bad luck.

No one in the production brigade wanted her, the Gu Family caught the word "Fu" by lottery, and had no choice but to adopt Fu Bao.

The former adoptive mother cursed: Whoever loves to raise, then they can raise her! Whoever raises her will suffer from bad luck for eight lifetimes!

The reborn daughter secretly thought: In this life, I will drive you away. Everything you have enjoyed in Nie Family will now belong to me.

But none of them expected that since Fu Bao came to the Gu Family, everything went smoothly and luckily in the Gu Family. They became a rich family in the production team. Fu Bao was also favored in the Gu Family.

The reborn daughter kept waiting for the good days to come to their family like in the last life but it was in vain.

The former adoptive mother, holding her weakened body, finally panicked.

Impressions: MC is like that heroine in rebirth cannonfodder novels XD

Our MC is a 'blessed child', she was picked up in the forest and was raised in a nunnery. Laters, when the nunnery was closed down, the government arranged for her to be adopted in the nearby village. MC was adopted and she lived a good life at first. With her 'blessing', the wife of the family became pregnant with twins: 1 girl and 1 boy. But the girl was actually reborn.

In the first life, their family prospered, they got rich, his twin brother went to college. She dropped out of school early but went to work in a state factory. MC also went to University, met her teacher's younger brother and they got married and lived happily ever after. MC is very loved by their family and she feels jealous and thinks that MC has 'stolen' her family's love/affection belonging to her. So the reborn little baby girl starts scheming to make her mother dislike MC, and she somehow succeeded. (Wow)

So our MC was kicked out of the house and became an unwanted child. They held a lottery in the village again and this time, she was picked up by a family which already had many kids. After getting MC, their family started prospering/getting lucky. There are bumps from time to time, either the rebirth little girl trying to sabotage MC or MC's previous adoptive mother sabotaging her new family. Or aunts/sister-in-laws of the new family who disagree with having an additional child to their family. But MC IS LUCKY, the grandmother/matriarch of their new family has recognized it. Same with MC new parents, new brothers (3 older bros) and some cousins (some became jealous of MC instead). So MC is also well-loved in this life. She meets ML early, a 13 y/o educated youth who just instinctively want to be good with MC and take care of her~~

Anyways, MC's happy life and her old family's unlucky life is shown side by side. Rebirth lil girl tries to take advantage of future knowledge, but they are just UNLUCKY, and some opportunities that they got in the 1st life went to MC's new family in this life. She also tried having the 'genius' halo but as they grow older, MC has already caught up with her and the rebirth girl has already exhausted what she learned in the previous life. 

Hmm.. laters, there are natural disasters and MC would have this prophetic dreams and would try her best to save their whole village together~ Then the University arc and MC's 'long lost daughter of a wealthy family' identity is exposed. MC & ML also finally meet again and then after much ambiguousness, finally got together at the end. Ending is their wedding.

Extras are little buns (twins), rebirth antagonist POV, and then ML taking about MC about their...hmm... connection(?)/why they feel familiar/ML feels he has to guard her.

Hmm.. this also has a long childhood arc, and it was okay. It's just that the antagonist's rebirth was kind of meaningless(?) If you think about it, she basically destroyed their family's life since they were so prosperous in the first life when the MC was still adopted by them, and in this life, they remained poor and was also very miserable. She is...evil (a scheming toddler) but her means are soo low-level. Being reborn didn't really improve her IQ.

MC is...Mary Sue. I mean, she's a blessed child, smart, pretty, loved by her family, loved by many guys (there's an ex-cousin, ML, the husband from the previous life etc). She is also a Holy Mother, thankfully not the self-sacrificing type but the 'must-save-everyone' type. And reaally, she's also aware of her strange/miraculous powers. I can imagine that MC's first life is just. like. this. one. The rebirth low IQ villainess just added some tinny tiny bumps to her in this life.  

It's just that MC's ability is just soo...indiscriminate(?). Whoever is bad to her will be unlucky (for the cannonfodders) which is okay; but there was also her friend which has a different view from her: MC thinks marriage is like in the books, you fall inlove, romance etc; while her friend thinks more practically. It's important to consider whether the other person can provide for her/give her a good life. So really, its just a difference in opinion but after they've discussed it (friend was just telling MC her own views) and MC disagreed in her heart (they didn't really fight or anything), her friend suddenly became unlucky??? Yikes, I can feel the heroine's halo shining brightly.

Overall, I like the childhood arc when our MC is just a slightly smart adorable little foodie. The middle school/highschool arc is kind of her Holy Mother phase and then the University arc is the idol drama arc where MC & ML are in the ambiguous 'he's-just-a-big-brother/we're just friends' stage plus the 'long lost rich daughter' family drama.

Read this for a Mary Sue MC~