I Refuse to Be a Sucker Again [The 1990s]

[Self-Interest + Detached Observer + Making a Fortune + Family Drama + Independent, Clear-Headed Red Rose vs. Gentle, Reserved Moonlight]

Family ties are an inescapable net...

It trapped Lu Wenwen for her entire life, and she couldn't escape it even in death...

Lu Wenwen came from a large family. Her grandparents had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. All but the fourth aunt lived to marry and have children.

Lu Wenwen's parents were the eldest in the Lu family. They had six children, five girls and one boy. Lu Wenwen was the fifth, with three older sisters and an older brother above her, and a younger sister below.

Without exception, they were all country folk struggling to make ends meet.

When Lu Wenwen got into university and became a university lecturer, her family saw hope.

She became the rope they clung to as they tried to climb their way up.

They came to her for loans, jobs, help evading family-planning rules, tutoring for their children, and school placements for them.

They had all shown her kindness, affection, and kinship. She couldn't bring herself to refuse!

And so Lu Wenwen got dragged in...

Her husband's family was even worse.

Her husband, He Shuxian, had seven siblings: three older brothers, an older sister, a younger sister, and two younger brothers. The youngest was only eight.

Their mother had died early, so he had inevitably taken on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings.

In 2016, He Shuxian died in a sudden car accident.

At the funeral, the so-called "family" showed no affection at all, only greed for the inheritance. It finally opened Lu Wenwen's eyes.

So after she was reborn, she no longer had any expectations of family. She stopped caring about affection and love, and sought only profit and money. She watched the family drama unfold like a play, coldly looking on.