1970s Apartment Block: I Dote on My Obsessive Husband, More Children, More Blessings

After transmigrating into a book as a sickly, premature beauty in the 1970s, Wen Yao is faced with a family so destitute they can’t even lift the pot lid, while her younger siblings are on the verge of starving to death.

To survive, she grits her teeth and takes the initiative to marry Shang Chen, the city’s “medicine jar,” who, according to rumor, won’t live past twenty-two.

The neighbors in the Steel Mill’s apartment block wait with their rice bowls in hand to watch the show, placing bets on when Wen Yao will become a young widow.

But as they wait, Wen Yao not only avoids widowhood, she grows more and more graceful and even lands a respectable job envied by everyone in town.

What makes people even more jealous is that Shang Chen, the sickly man who used to gasp after taking three steps, gets stronger by the day and spoils Wen Yao rotten.

Within just a few years of marriage, Wen Yao’s belly is constantly growing with one baby after another.

Seeing Shang Chen holding two children in his arms and leading two more by the hand, he corners Wen Yao against the wall with reddened eyes and murmurs obsessively, “Yao Yao, please love me a little more…”

The neighbors in the apartment block are green with envy: What happened to him being short-lived? He’s clearly a mad, starving wolf in sheep’s clothing!