Guide to Happiness for a Supporting Female Character in the 1970s

At the first thunderclap of Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects), Chu Xia unexpectedly learns that she is a lovestruck supporting female character in a male-centered period novel, doomed to spend her entire life sacrificing for the male lead.

When he needs love, she gives up life-changing opportunities for the woman he loves.

When he needs a family, she marries him, offering her dowry and support.

When he needs a career, she sells her family’s courtyard house and small restaurant, investing everything to help him start a business.

When he becomes successful, she not only takes care of his parents at home, she also raises the illegitimate child that the female lead brings to him.

Chu Xia: ??? Are you kidding me?

If someone wants to play this tragic character, be her guest—but she’s not doing it!

What, does having money mean she doesn’t know how to spend it? Does owning assets mean she doesn’t know how to profit from them?

Breaking free from the male and female leads, she refuses to be a pitiful sacrifice.

Armed with her courtyard home, she opens a restaurant and cooks delicious meals.

From beauty to wealth, she stages a full-spectrum comeback.

Tags: Supporting Female Lead, Sweet Story, Satisfying Narrative, Period Novel, Light-Hearted