The 1970s: My Best Friend Becomes My Mother-in-Law, and I Win by Doing Nothing

[Building a career + family life + a touch of an ensemble cast] The romance comes much later.

After transmigrating into a book, Wei Ya discovers that her best friend, Song Zhizhi, has become her mother-in-law. What’s more, her friend is the foil to the female lead next door.

One is hardworking and devoted to her family; the other is the village’s most notorious lazy woman.

And her best friend is the latter.

Wei Ya is over the moon. Having her best friend as a mother-in-law to rely on is wonderful. She can live comfortably by sticking with her.

Later, Wei Ya realizes it’s great having the female lead next door. There’s fresh gossip to enjoy every day.

But what’s with the puppy-dog eyes from the guy in her family? She only helped him in a fight, so why does he look at her like he can’t take his eyes off her?

Song Zhizhi looks at the whole family, with the old, the young, and three strong men, and grins.

She can keep up her act and still eat her fill.

Having witnessed the changes of the times, she puts the men in her family to work, determined to lead them all toward a brighter future.

Life is getting better by the day, and she’s thinking she can finally lie flat alongside her best friend.

Then one day, her husband, who’s been missing for more than a decade, comes back and says he’s taking her with him to join the army. She doesn’t want to go. She really doesn’t.

Life at home is great: food brought to her, clothes laid out for her. Why should she go and wait on that jerk?

But that jerk’s gaze is so intense it makes her heart race. She wants to run...

After Qin Yan returns home, he finds his wife more and more pleasing to the eye. He turns to his rebellious son and says, “Second Brother, I order you to get your wife back into your own room tonight.”

Gu Second rolls his eyes. “If you’ve got what it takes, get your wife to kick mine out. Then both of us can get what we want.”