After Being Widowed, I Found Myself Another Long-Term Meal Ticket

[Period setting + devoted couples + family life, traditional story with no transmigration or rebirth] Scheming widow vs. roguishly handsome, rugged man Good women earn a good reputation. Bad women get everything! Xu Lanxiang was born into a family that favored sons over daughters. Her father didn’t care for her, her mother didn’t love her, and every day was filled with endless chores. When she turned eighteen, her parents wanted to sell her to a nearly forty-year-old widower as his wife, all for three hundred yuan in bride price. Xu Lanxiang didn’t want to accept her fate, but what could a woman with no strength to fight back do? Marriage was the only way to change her destiny. But she would choose for herself whom to marry.