You Have to Spoil Your Child Bride

One day, soft and rosy Yunfu was sent to the Song family to be raised as their child bride.

From then on, the Song family was only one child bride away from going from poverty and hardship to fortune beyond measure.

Childhood friends, growing up together under one roof.

A good wife can be spoiled. Spoil her enough, and she'll love you with all her heart until the end of time!

Coming next: The Commander's Adorable Young Wife

Completed: Raising Kids as a Stepmother

He Yueniang was reborn at seventeen, only to find herself in even worse straits than in her previous life: she was a beggar.

She looked up at the sky and demanded, "Heavens, could you put a little more effort into giving people a second life?"

A crack of thunder rang out, and a man arrived at the ruined temple, offering her all his worldly possessions on one condition: "After I die, be a stepmother to my children."

With snow blocking the door and hunger gnawing at her after days without food, He Yueniang ground her teeth and said, "If you dare not to die, I'll kill you myself!"

Chen Danian was barely cold in his grave when his five stepsons started clamoring to split up the family.

Split up? Sounds great. But you'll leave with nothing. The married ones can take their wives and children and go, and the unmarried ones can get out with their tails between their legs. This house and everything in it were left to me by your late father!

Standing in the middle of the courtyard with her hands on her hips, He Yueniang showed Chen Danian's will to the whole brood of stepsons.

The family didn't split up.

He Yueniang carried on with her five stepsons and one stepdaughter.

When it came to good food and drink, He Yueniang got first dibs. Her reason? "A stepmother is still a mother, so you should treat me with respect."

You do the work, and you hand your wages over to me. Why?

Because you don't have a father anymore, and your stepmother is in charge!

Everyone said He Yueniang was too cruel, and that Chen Danian had doomed his whole brood by marrying her.

Later, He Yueniang found a wife for her foolish son, Chen Sanwa, and even cured him herself.

Later still, she sent the smartest of the Chen boys, Xiao Wu, to a private school. At just thirteen, Chen Wuwa passed the county-level examination and became famous across the county.

And later yet, life kept getting better. He Yueniang rolled up her sleeves and, with her five grown stepsons, replaced their thatched hut with a grand tiled house.

But the best part came one day, as He Yueniang lounged on the kang, eating pastries her eldest daughter-in-law had brought her. A young gentleman walked in and said, "He Yueniang, I'm your husband."

--------The Male Lead's Version--------

As Chen Danian lay dying, he saw his long-dead great-grandfather. The old man forced him to find a beggar to be the stepmother to his brood of children.

After Chen Danian died, his great-grandfather pulled some strings in the underworld and left one of his three souls and two of his seven spirits behind in the mortal world.

He floated home, where Lady He was furiously scolding Liu, who had egged on the second son to split up the family. Lady He punished Liu, and Chen Danian beat his two sons in a dream. "You little punks want to split up the family? I'll beat the hell out of you even as a ghost!"

The next day, the two black-and-blue sons apologized to Lady He.

Chen Danian didn't like Lady He.

She spent money like water, burning through the silver he'd spent half his life saving with barely a wave of her hand.

Just as he was questioning her soul, asking how she'd raise the children from now on, Lady He returned with a wild rabbit she'd caught in one hand and a basketful of medicinal herbs in the other. The rabbit stew left the whole brood licking their lips, and she sold the herbs for one and a half taels of silver. It looked like the family could manage their meals for the next two months.

Floating in the air, Chen Danian thought it over and decided Lady He was pretty great. She was a little thin, but she had curves where it counted.

He wanted to get closer and have a heart-to-heart with the young lady. Lady He kicked him away. "Get lost. I'm not interested in some unfinished business between the living and the dead!"

Chen Danian grew more and more indignant. "I'm a ghost, but ghosts have dignity too. Can't you treat your husband a little better?"

Lady He rolled her eyes. "I'd rather be nice to my kids than to you. Now get lost!"

Chen Danian never expected that, though he was supposed to be reincarnated, fate would take a strange turn and he would be reborn instead.

The person he'd been reborn as was the grandson of General Pei.

The Pei family started arranging a marriage for him, but he ran away from home.

Returning to the Chen family, he sat down on the kang and declared, "Lady He, bring me some tea. Your man is home!"

Lady He swung a rolling pin at him. "There isn't a man in this world who's been born who can take advantage of me!"

Chen Danian ran for his life, clutching his head. "I really am your husband!"

Lady He: "I'm your grandma!"

Chen Danian asked the heavens in exasperation, "How did I end up a generation younger after being reborn?!"

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