(Transmigration, everyday life, sweet romance, personal space, marriage before love, family squabbles, taking down scumbags)
Shen Lanxue had been invisible all her life. She had older brothers and sisters and younger brothers and sisters, but no parental love, only endless chores.
She dropped out of school young, but managed to buy a house through her own hard work. Then a terrible fever sent her to the resource-starved 1970s.
The original owner was a pushover anyone could bully. She was picked on at every turn, and even an old scoundrel of a woman schemed to make her daughter-in-law, leaving her no choice but to marry Qi Haoyang, the village's living King of Hell.
The old scoundrel's home was a den of wolves, and Qi Haoyang's was a tiger's lair. His stepfather pretended to be deaf and dumb, his mother was more vicious than a stepmother, and his younger siblings were each more wicked than the last.
Qi Haoyang was often away from home, unaware that the original owner was made to work as both a maid and a servant, had a basin of cold water dumped over her head, and was finally driven by her brother-in-law into the chicken coop, where she froze through the night and died.
But the Shen Lanxue who transmigrated here has no such good temper. She has no intention of letting any of these rotten-to-the-core people off the hook. Good women get a good reputation, bad women get everything. She will make everyone who bullied her understand that she isn't a pushover: she's a woman with every trick in the book.
As for her husband, who's only one in name and can't be relied on, Shen Lanxue already has a plan: if she can't solve the problem, she'll get rid of the man.
What she doesn't know is that Qi Haoyang also thinks she causes him trouble and holds him back. He's already planning to unload this burden and divorce her.
But plans can't keep up with change. The man Shen Lanxue thought was useless turns out to have some real skill, and he obeys her every word, cherishing her above all else...
I stayed up late to finish reading it. The heroine in the early part really surprised me. But in the second half, did the author change her?