(A heartwarming, everyday story about a stepmother raising children, with court politics and household drama. Not a power fantasy.)
After divorcing her almost perfect husband in a marriage of convenience, Zhao Wenru marries her first love, the man she has always adored from afar.
The Xu family rose from humble beginnings, and her husband is stubborn by nature. The moment she enters the family, she will have to become a stepmother.
Zhao Wenru cannot help feeling apprehensive.
But she knows that the most important thing in life is to experience it.
She has already experienced marrying an aristocratic heir from a distinguished family. Now, she wants to experience marrying someone she loves.
She is willing to walk beside him, one step at a time, whether he rises to fame and enters the cabinet as a minister, or loses a political struggle and is banished to a remote border commandery. She will never regret it.
She is willing to manage all the complicated relationships, from those between her stepchildren and biological children to those with her husband's late wife's family and her own relatives. She does not find it troublesome.
She only hopes that this time, she will be satisfied with her choice.
Even after the heroine got married, they were no longer married. The hero already had two children, and the heroine was miserable 😄
The heroine's father loves the heroine so much that he can agree to the heroine's remarriage with Li. So what is the reason why the heroine could not be with senior brother Bai Yueguang back then? Does the family disagree? If the family had agreed back then and the heroine liked the senior brother, why not stay with the senior brother and choose to marry Tanhua.
The author's setting is very interesting. For example, when writing about a heroine's second marriage, in order to avoid trouble, she would usually set it to be a widowed remarriage. This would have less resistance and is a more flattering setting. However, the author chose to set up the heroine's second marriage to "beg" on her own initiative. And he does not hesitate to write about the shortcomings of the male protagonist, he is hesitant and a little petty, he refuses to discuss government affairs with the heroine, and even sets a scenario for the heroine's ex-husband to be prosperous in the future. The older boys do not fully accept this stepmother from the beginning. This book is so interesting
It makes people enjoy reading it, and it feels like a long stream of water.
It's not fake. The thin water with mud lumps in it is really beautiful.
Well written with depth