A Canny Gold Digger Raising a Child to Greatness in the 1970s

[1970s setting, raising children, clever and clear-eyed beauty × outwardly cold, inwardly warm research genius]

Everyone says Fang Zhiyi is a shameless gold digger, a beauty who knows how to seduce men and has no morals whatsoever.

Barely in her twenties, she gets pregnant before marriage and gives birth to twins, only to be thrown out by her family.

Everyone mocks her as a fallen woman saddled with two burdens, saying she deserves to starve to death.

But one day, she saves Gu Jingshao, a distant, celibate expert who has returned from overseas.

With red-rimmed eyes, she hands him a button. “Engineer Gu… you have to marry me! Help me raise my children!”

The crowd bursts into laughter. “Fang Zhiyi! Are you so desperate for a man you’ve lost your mind?”

“An esteemed, mature bachelor like Engineer Gu is way out of your league! You’re not even worthy of shining his shoes!”

But who could have guessed that this favored son of heaven would take her trembling hand in front of everyone? “The button is mine, and I’ll acknowledge the children!”

The whole factory erupts!

They call her shameless for trying to marry into a better family, then watch her win contracts through her own talent.

They laugh that she’s uneducated and can only be a pretty face, then watch her get into college.

They sneer that with two children in tow, she’ll be abandoned sooner or later, only to see the Gu family patriarch come in person to fetch his great-grandchildren. “They are the Gu family’s precious heirs. Who dares call them bastards again?!”

Later, her whole family dotes on her, and every one of her children makes something of themselves. The “gold digger” turns her life around and becomes a queen!