The Old Lady Is Reborn in the 1980s, and Spends Every Day Nagging Her Husband

[1980s + golden finger + realistic fiction + hard work and perseverance + everyday family life] Reader advisory: This is a growth-focused story about a strong female lead, with an emphasis on business and personal development. The whole family works hard to study, improve, and make money. If you’re looking for catfights and drama, this isn’t for you. The story is mainly about the ordinary everyday life of the era.

Zhou Shufen is reborn in 1985. The moment she opens her eyes, she sees her useless husband, Wang Jianguo, sitting at the door with a beer belly, puffing on a cigarette and sprawled in a rocking chair. In her previous life, she spent eight years looking after the old man after he was paralyzed in bed. In the end, her ungrateful children fought over the house at her bedside while she lay dying.

This time, she gets bound to a Husband Development System. Looking at her husband’s stats, she laughs: Stamina 35 (fatty liver and a slipped disc)? Technical Skill 40 (a fourth-grade fitter coasting through life)? Vision 20 (his lifelong dream is to retire and let his son take over his job)? What kind of man is this? No wonder she worked herself ragged in her previous life and still never got a happy life! There’s no way she’ll settle for such a dull life this time! She looks at the man beside her with “affectionate” eyes. “Old Wang, starting today, you’re going jogging, entering skills competitions, and learning to be a model worker. Whether you want this good fortune or not, you’re getting it!”

With a loudspeaker for square dancing in her left hand and her mother-in-law’s Lessons for Women ready to burn in her right, she takes charge. When her good-for-nothing husband suddenly becomes a pioneer in technical innovation, her feudal-minded mother-in-law starts dancing disco, and her children beg to go to college... Zhou Shufen watches the whole family transform, then turns around to discover that the System’s ultimate reward is actually...