“Lying Flat as a Second-Generation Supporting Character in a Military-Era Novel”

Everyone says Xia Qinqin is a blessed girl.
As an only child in the 1960s, she wears little leather shoes, drinks sodas, and eats chocolate.
With her parents and grandparents all holding stable jobs, she never lacks food or clothing. Since life is already good, why struggle? Just lie flat and let the adults carry her forward.

But after she follows her mother to a military island, Xia Qinqin realizes she can occasionally hear what people are thinking.

“As expected of the wasteful mother-daughter pair from the novel. Always dressed up. No amount of money can withstand their spending.”
“So this is the cannon-fodder female supporting role. Being pretty is useless—she still can’t give birth to a son.”
Xia Qinqin: I’m telling my mom you’re talking bad about her!

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“The cannon-fodder male supporting role is actually quite handsome. Too bad he married a spendthrift wife.”
“In the novel, this male supporting role becomes a big shot. Should I cling to his thigh now?”
“Hmph, even if he rises to a high position, he still can’t produce a son.”
Xia Qinqin: I’m telling my dad!

After learning from their daughter that they are the cannon-fodder male and female supporting characters, Xia Junshan and Meng Yufei are furious.
Who cares about protagonists? No one is ruining their family of three’s happy life.

To escape their doomed fate, the couple throws themselves into building their careers. As long as they become strong enough, no one can turn them into cannon fodder.

Thus, little Xia Qinqin can lie flat and play in peace again. Bad guys? Leave them to Mom and Dad.
A child’s most important task is to eat well!

Blurb 2:

After following her mother from Haishi to join her father on the military island, everyone—her grandparents and uncle—think she’ll suffer.
But Xia Qinqin feels nothing of the sort.

There’s no chocolate here, but there’s endless fruit—pineapples, coconuts, mangoes… The little foodie tastes them all.
There’s no zoo, but during tide-chasing trips she sees all kinds of small creatures—hermit crabs, sea snails, colorful shells… she can’t finish collecting them.

Preview for the Next Story:

During the 1990 New Year, the alleyways of Beijing are filled with the sweet smell of candied hawthorn and roasted sunflower seeds.
Jiang Qingning is startled by a firecracker and suddenly gains memories that don’t belong to her—she realizes she’s living inside a retro-era novel.
But the story has long since ended…

She is the daughter of the female supporting character from the extras—the “comparison group” character meant to highlight the heroine.

Naturally, the daughter of a comparison group character is also a comparison group.
The heroine’s daughter gets good grades and goes to college; the comparison group's daughter performs poorly and drops out of junior high.
The heroine’s daughter is cheerful and morally upright; the comparison group's daughter is vain and depressed.
…

Standing in a Beijing hutong, Jiang Qingning wonders—how did the version of herself in the book end up so miserable?
Born in the capital as an only child of two working parents—with two rental properties—her life should’ve been comfortable even if she didn’t try hard.

To avoid the tragic fate written in the book, Jiang Qingning decides she must work to change her destiny.
First step: transform the first-generation comparison group!
If the first generation succeeds, then as the second generation, she’ll naturally rise with them.

She doesn't want to be a comparison-group second gen—
She wants to be a rich second gen!

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