This First Wife Is No Pushover

The main story is complete. Please add my new novel, The Inheritance of My Late Husband, to your reading list. A cozy historical romance. Blurb: Before getting married, Ning Xichun was just an ordinary village girl. A wealthy family in the city, the Zhou family, took her in as a bride because a fortune-teller had predicted she was destined for wealth. The day after the wedding, terrible news arrived from beyond the frontier: her husband had died. Ning Xichun went from newlywed to widow, inheriting the Zhou family's countless silver coins, manors, and fields, and becoming the richest person in Spring City. Before she could even get used to her new status, the stewards of the estate and the household, along with the family matrons, came to her for instructions. She had to review the shop accounts and approve purchases... She had to decide which family's designs to use for the maids' and servants' winter clothes... And then there were the young masters, clinging to her legs and wailing as they begged to find their older brother... Xichun couldn't help crying along with them. Being the wife of a wealthy family is just too hard. [No amount of money can make her happy] * Zhou Bing had assumed that when he returned home, his wife would have remarried with a huge fortune, his trusted aides would be at a loss with his young brothers, and the family shops and fields would be in chaos without his orders... He was so certain of this that he held to the idea all the way home. But when he arrived, not one part of the scene he had imagined came to pass. The house was clean and orderly, the servants and maids were all doing their jobs, and his younger brothers had made great progress in their studies. The sharp business instincts and prestige that had once been his were now all credited to Madam Zhou. And that graceful, beautiful lady sat in the main hall, surrounded by the young masters. He felt... utterly superfluous. The indispensable head of the household? Not anymore. Novel blurb: Only after Mi Xian died did she discover that she was the original wife of a county magistrate, the one people summed up in three words: Lazy, greedy, and quarrelsome. And short-lived, too. She was just about to become a government official's wife when she accidentally fell off a mountain. The four sons she left behind inherited all of their mother's flaws perfectly. The eldest was lazy, the second greedy, the third quarrelsome, and the fourth was lazy, greedy, and quarrelsome all at once, just like Mi Xian when she was alive. The second wife's heroine, meanwhile, was blessed with incredible luck. She found money on the street, met benefactors, and had exceptionally clever children. She was born to win, making Mi Xian's children look utterly foolish by comparison. Mi Xian was so furious that she returned to the time when she gave birth. ` He Pingyan had been missing for three years. After making a name for himself, he was ready to bring his wife, children, and family home to enjoy a life of comfort. But when he returned, his young wife wasn't the haggard, helpless woman he had imagined without the man of the house. Her pretty face was just as lovely as ever, and there were still plenty of men eager to become stepfathers to his sons. There was a potbellied deputy county magistrate, a burly man from the village who knew her inside and out, and others... If anyone wanted to be a stepfather, they would have to see whether the county magistrate himself approved! This novel could also be called: How a Delicate, Frail, Beautiful, Lazy, and Fussy Young Wife Keeps the Household Afloat Or: Watch Her Raise Four Children on Her Own Or: How to Be Even Smarter About Slacking Off and Making Other People Do the Work When Your Husband Isn't Around Reader's note: This is a fictional setting. Please don't nitpick, attack anyone, or disrupt the community. Enjoy reading. My next novel, My Wife Is Heaven's Chosen Daughter, is open for follows. Please add it to your reading list. Theme: