The Eighties Rugged Man's Heaven-Facing Chili Is Pretty Hot

Heads-up: The male lead adopts a boy, and the female lead remarries and becomes a stepmother. (Tomato has so many great stories. I hope you find one you like, and there's no need to say goodbye when you leave!)

[Reading Guide: Fictional Period Setting, Raising a Child, Following the Army, Marriage Before Love, Devoted Husband, Family Life, Transmigrate into a Book, Building a Fortune, Both Leads Are Each Other's First]

Only when she was reborn did Lan Xiuhe learn that she was the cheap adoptive mother of the male lead in a period novel. According to the plot, she would work like a beast of burden for the family her whole life, while his birth mother and her family lived happily together. In the end, this family would secretly give her infertility drugs, and the adulterous couple would literally anger her to death.

The more Lan Xiuhe thought about it, the angrier she got. To hell with that. Giving up her life for a family of bastards was a hell of a bad deal.

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At noon, beside the washbasins in the family compound, a rough-looking man stood with a cigarette between his lips. His big, dark hands washed a round bundle that fit in his palm. He kept glancing around with his oversized head, afraid someone might see, thinking about how he'd take it off tonight.

“Old Cheng, doing laundry again? Don't tell me you've put another hole in it today.” The teasing call came from a distance.

The burly man hurriedly stuffed the strange garment under his military uniform and pretended to wash it instead. His uniform was already covered in patches here and there.

“I'm a hardworking man. What's it to you?”

As he looked at the garment in his hands, a smile flashed in his eyes. Who would have guessed that this hole was a symbol of his happiness?