Marrying into a Scholarly Family: The Feisty 1970s Wife Takes Charge

[Period setting + taking down the worst of the worst + romantic tension + fiercely protective + toughening up a pushover + feel-good story + no self-sacrificing heroine]

When Su Jinxiu opened her eyes, she had become a miserable newlywed with the same name in the 1970s.

On her wedding night, the bed was icy cold. Beside her lay a handsome, chaste bookworm of a husband, his face practically saying, “Don’t touch me. I’m studying the sages.”

Her mother-in-law knelt by the stove with red-rimmed eyes, while her father-in-law sighed, “Let it go. Harmony is what matters.” Her sixteen-year-old sister-in-law trembled in a corner.

And outside, her eldest aunt by marriage stood with her hands on her hips, cursing as she carried off the last sack of rice in the house!

Her third aunt by marriage spread nasty rumors everywhere that she was bad luck for her husband!

Her own family even came to demand that she hand over her dowry!

Su Jinxiu rolled up her sleeves. “Come on, then! Who’s afraid of whom?”

She tore into her eldest aunt by marriage, made her third aunt cry, and kicked her own parasitic relatives to the curb. This scholarly family had never had anyone stand up for them, but now she was here!

Her seemingly refined, rotten-to-the-core husband went from “Don’t make a scene. Let’s talk this out” to pulling her into his arms and murmuring, “Wife, you take a rest. I’ll handle the rest.”

Su Jinxiu raised an eyebrow. “Oh? You’ve found your backbone?”

Shen Shuyan’s ears turned red. “...You taught me.”

At last, the whole family realized that this fiery daughter-in-law was the pillar they had been waiting decades for!