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

111. Adored Koi in the 70s

Translator: Explore

Chapters: 169

Tags: countryside, 70s, FAMILY, poor to rich, lucky MC, side CPs!!

Synopsis:

Dong Feng Community has two Qiao. The elder Qiao was short and stuttered with a fate of a cannon fodder. The little Qiao was smart and beautiful and she was born a winner.

Their father was paralyzed, little Qiao encouraged her mother to remarry and leave the paralyzed father to Elder Qiao.

Elder Qiao, who was destined to live a miserable life, became lucky after saving a small koi.

The paralyzed father stood up and became a supermarket chain tycoon.

One of her younger twin brothers became a medical brain and the other became a star.

As for herself, she had changed her body, owning fair skin and beautiful long legs!

Father loves stepmother, grandparents hold her in their hands and dote on her.

Huo Chi, the big boss, drove back in the limousine, proposed to Elder Qiao in public, and spoiled her like a little princess!

The days of being adored couldn't get even better!

Watching the wealthy Qiao family, the remarried mother regretted it and cried to come back.

Little Qiao panicked even more: This script is wrong...

Impressions: Wow, it's quite long or it feels that way cos we get to see every one of MC's cousin (in her generation) plus her aunts and uncles all got their own CPs. lololol.

As per synopsis, novel starts when MC was still a little bun. She is the older twin, her younger twin sister is reborn. In the last life, the younger twin sister was a fool, the transmigrator entered her body and couldn't control it so she watch 'herself' grow up being mocked/bullied by everyone. After she was reborn in this life, she hated MC cos she feels like it was MC's fault why she was born as a fool in the last life. MC's mother also hated MC cos she also feels its MC's fault that she almost died when she was giving birth.

So MC was abused since she was a child, treating her as a maid instead of a daughter. MC Dad tells the mom to stop it, but of course, she doesn't listen. Laters, MC Dad gets into an accident trying to save MC and ends up paralyzed. Mother and younger twin sister didn't want to stay in this family anymore cos now that the Father can't work, they're bound to have a hard life. MC's grandmother (in the Father side) finally intervenes and ask the couple to divorce. MC stays with Dad and Younger Twin Sis follows their Mom. MC happen to save a fish/koi, and the koi gave her blessings plus jade beads/water that can be eaten/used. MC uses it on herself and she slowly turned white and pretty, gave it to her Dad to slowly cure his body and gave it to her grandparents and the rest of the family.

Next development is mostly on the family side, MC's Aunts/Uncles get divorce to escape bad marriages. And then meet better people and remarries (including MC Dad). Meanwhile, MC's mother and younger twin sis is having a hard life, reborn twin sis makes plans but her Mother is a pig teammate and always ruins it. When MC Mother is also reborn, they became more and more at odds. Life keeps getting better and better on MC's side (Love and Career), while they go from bad to worse.

MC meets ML early. ML is a 'bad element' and sent to their village to reform. But MC was taught by her grandma that sometimes people that are said to be 'bad' aren't really bad. MC sees them pitiful and helps them. ML and her become friends. Actually, ML had seen MC in his dreams so he's been interested in her since he saw her in real life. Laters, ML fakes his death and joins the army so he will be worthy of MC.

MC grows up, her family becomes more and more successful. Cousins finds their own side CP. The economic reform happened, and their family slowly become rich and moved to the Capital. MC also goes to University and officially gets together with ML. ML builds a company, waits till graduation to propose marriage to MC. MC Mom and twin sis has gone offline somewhere along the way. Ending is MC & ML get married and then have twins~

I was a bit uncomfortable with it at first, since MC was really a kid, not some reborn person, and was being abused by her Mom, and tricked by her own twin sister. Laters, MC finally gets 'lucky' and it starts getting better. It isn't solely focused to MC but rather their whole extensive family: Grandparents, Aunts/Uncles (MC Dad's siblings) and her cousins. They each get their focus and side CP along with it. Aside from the First couple (MC Dad's eldest brother), all the others are divorced and happily remarried. Like MC mother and younger twin sis, the situation of the ex-husband/ex-wife will be shown from time to time as contrast. MC's family isn't completely perfect/harmonious because the First Aunt is rather annoying/malicious but she is suppressed by the Grandma and also a source of comedic relief. (Grandma is my fave character!)

Anyways, read this if you like side CPs and poor to rich for the whole family. Nearest reco: Fu Bao in the Seventies, for another lucky MC, but that was more MC-centric.