Pretty Wife Gets Rich and Raises a Child [The 1990s]

Blurb:

Jiang Wenyu is the prettiest wife in the village. She has given birth to two sons, yet still looks like a newlywed bride.

She took a fancy to the stranger carried back from the mountains. He had lost his memory, but he was handsome. After nursing him back to health with good food and drink, she was about to confess her feelings and marry him when a flash of lightning showed her the future. She would be killed by a truck, her eldest son would be arrested and jailed after fighting someone to protect his younger brother, and her second son would be cheated out of his demolition compensation and end up running a junkyard in his forties.

And the man she had nearly taken in as a live-in son-in-law was a powerful man who had returned to seek revenge, but had been knocked unconscious with a stick and temporarily lost his memory.

Frightened by what she had seen of the future, Jiang Wenyu changed her mind. “What live-in son-in-law? That's all a rumor. I think of you as my own brother. Once your memory comes back, don't forget how my family helped you.”

When Jiang Wenyu returned home, her sons asked, “Mom, weren't you going to bring us a new dad? Where is he?”

Jiang Wenyu said, “Don't be ridiculous. He's no dad. He's a living ancestor, and our family can't afford to keep him. Forget it.”

When Shen Mingyuan was eighteen, he was ambushed by his enemies and rescued by a young woman. She bore him twin sons. One day, he returned home to find his wife had run away and left the children behind.

He worked hard for over a decade and made a fortune of tens of millions as the times turned in his favor. Just as he found a lead on his wife, his enemies knocked him unconscious with a stick.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw the wife who had run away from him more than ten years ago, with a pair of twin sons. She looked at him with sparkling eyes and said exactly what she had said all those years ago: “I saved you, so you have to stay and be my family's live-in son-in-law.”

Then he realized the twins beside her were his sons. He was about to stay as her live-in son-in-law and find a chance to bring his two sons over, so their family of six could be reunited, when his wife suddenly looked at him as if she'd seen a ghost. She said that the talk of him being a live-in son-in-law was a joke, and that she had always thought of him as her own brother.

His wife was wonderful in every way, except she had forgotten that all four children were his. She even introduced him to people as the children's godfather.

Shen Mingyuan laughed in exasperation. “All four children are mine and my wife's. Whenever she gets angry, she likes to joke around. Please excuse her.”

After Jiang Wenyu saw the future, she reclaimed her house and patiently waited for the demolition compensation. Everything was going well, until Shen Mingyuan, the man she had saved, coaxed her two sons into calling him Dad.

Fuming, Jiang Wenyu could only explain, “He's the godfather of my two boys. He has a connection to the children, not to me.”

That night, Shen Mingyuan brought her an agreement and coaxed Jiang Wenyu into signing it. “If you agree to be the mother of my two sons, the demolition compensation will be in your account right away.”

Jiang Wenyu signed at once and got the compensation. Just as she was about to leave, the four children blocked the door and called out to her pitifully, “Mom!”

Jiang Wenyu rubbed her forehead. She hadn't even had time to enjoy the compensation yet. Maybe she could wait a little longer. So she and Shen Mingyuan joined forces and began a chaotic life raising their children.

Later, Jiang Wenyu learned that this was a world within a book whose story could be changed. Shen Mingyuan's enemies kept trying to change the plot through his repeated counterattacks, and that was how her family was finally reunited.

Theme: Rely on yourself, help when you can, and good deeds bring good results.