Teaching Them a Lesson in a Son-Obsessed World [The Sixties]

This novel is also known as "Using Magic to Defeat Magic: Using Favoring Girls Over Boys to Defeat Favoring Boys Over Girls." Cultivator Zhou Man narrowly failed to overcome her inner demon while breaking through to the Golden Core stage. She closed her eyes, opened them again, and returned to the life in which her inner demon had taken root: the 1960s. When her in-laws mocked her as a hen that couldn't lay eggs, Zhou Man turned the tables and asked her mother-in-law: How about our family trying a "two systems under one roof" arrangement from now on? Zhou Man: You can keep favoring boys over girls and follow the old tradition that "women aren't allowed at the dinner table." Just eat a little dishwater by the stove. Zhou Man: I, on the other hand, favor girls over boys, so all the good food in this house goes to me and my daughter. In those days, people were expected to marry within their own class. Her family had a capitalist background, yet she married up by marrying the heroic Zeng Youliang, believing her life would finally become smooth sailing. But her in-laws favored boys over girls and resented her for not carrying on the Zeng family line, treating her cruelly at every turn; Her husband couldn't resolve the conflict between his wife and mother, and tacitly accepted the tradition that women should quietly give everything they had. He only tried to keep the peace and refused to split from his parents and set up a separate household; Her daughter blamed her for not giving birth to a boy and simply cut her hair to become a tomboy... Little by little, amid all the blame, she lost herself and became a mere shadow. Now, the cultivator Zhou Man suddenly understood why she had returned to the past. She had come back to this world that favored boys over girls to teach them how to behave... My upcoming novel: A Green Tea Socialite in the 1950s Blurb: The socialite Sun Xixi was at a charity gala one moment, telling the orphanage director: Ask for anything you want. The budget is unlimited! The next moment, she had transmigrated into a novel set in the 1950s, and a deep, resonant voice rang in her ears: A nation with a future cannot be without heroes! Ask for anything you want. We've got plenty of eggs! Plenty of eggs? That's a far cry from an unlimited budget! Luckily, she could still earn the title of a hero. She went over the relationships between the characters in the book and discovered she had: A husband serving in the Volunteer Army, the kind who left for the Korean battlefield on their wedding day, belonged to the 47th Army, and was destined to die a glorious death fighting the American forces for Strategic Hill 346; In-laws who were always afraid she'd get lonely and remarry, and doted on her like their own daughter; A father-in-law who thought his son wouldn't return and kept wanting her to conceive a child with another man, so the family line wouldn't die out; A younger brother-in-law who was lazy and greedy, and always fought her for the eggs. Her father-in-law smoked his pipe, crouching with his back to her. "Go find a man to father a child with. A woman needs a son to have something to look forward to. It doesn't matter whether your husband is around or not." Sun Xixi: "I hear your childhood nickname was Shidan, 'Dung Egg.' What a great name! It's so lively and cute. It sounds like the kind of egg that could roll all the way down from the top of a mountain! It really suits your innocence." Sun Xixi: "How many sons can I get by finding a man to father a child with? I'll open an orphanage for you and take in all the boys nobody else wants. Then you'll have a hundred sons and a thousand grandsons! How does that sound?" Father-in-law: "?!" After learning the circumstances she'd been given, Sun Xixi was utterly exasperated. It turned out the times didn't want her to become a hero. They wanted her to be the woman behind a hero... What kind of nonsense is this? Men can fight in Korea, but can't women grow rich at home? I'll boost production and the economy, and make bullets and bows for the soldiers. Let's all be heroes together! My completed novels set in the past: 1. The Chronicles of the Fated Blessed Girl; 2. Reborn as a Sweet Little Girl in the 1960s. Theme: The key to a woman's fate should be in her own hands.