The Happy Life of an Eighties Widow

[Complete] [Preorders: "The Birth Mother Awakens in a Stepmother Novel [The 1970s]" and "The Goofy Shadow Guard Goes Viral on a Dating Show". Please add them to your reading list in my author profile!] Song Weixin, an internationally renowned chef, dies suddenly from overwork and is reborn as a country woman in the 1980s. On the very first day after her rebirth, she learns that her husband died on a mission. Now she is a widow with two little burdens to care for... The young woman is pretty, but unfortunately, she is in poor health and timid by nature, so people often bully her. Even when the military sends over compensation money, her older brother and sister-in-law try to keep it for themselves. Reborn as Song Weixin, she certainly won't stand for that! She takes back the compensation that belongs to her family and sends the two children to school. Even if her family has nothing to its name, she still has the skills she learned in her past life! From a street stall to the country's largest restaurant chain, she proves that a woman can build a thriving life on her own! - Just as life is getting better and better, her mother-in-law advises her to remarry while she is still young. As it happens, Song Weixin has recently taken an interest in a man. She works up the courage to confess her feelings, but he kills her fledgling romance with a single sentence: "I'm sorry, miss. I'm already married..." Song Weixin decides to put love out of her mind and focus on her career. Men will only slow down her money-making! But before long, her husband, who was supposed to have died young, returns with a chest full of honors. Looking at the man she knows all too well, Song Weixin turns to leave, but he pulls her into his arms and drops to his knees at once: "Honey, I was wrong!" -One child is adopted and one is biological. The female lead isn't taking someone else's place; this will be explained later. -The male lead appears rather late. He has amnesia at first, so he doesn't recognize the female lead. The one-on-one pairing is set in stone. -A warm, soothing story about family life, good food, and making a better living. "The Birth Mother Awakens in a Stepmother Novel [The 1970s]" When Li Leran wakes up, she discovers that she has become the unlucky biological-mother supporting character in a period stepmother novel, while the male and female leads are her husband and her cousin. In the book, she is lazy and greedy, a spoiled brat with nothing going for her but her looks, and everyone around her despises her. Her cousin, on the other hand, is gentle and considerate, beloved by everyone. According to the plot, her husband will be transferred to a railway bureau for advanced training, but she will insist he return home for the few plots of private land in the countryside. The two will end up divorced. Not only that, she will choose to abandon her children, leaving her two young daughters with severe emotional scars. Then the female lead, her cousin, will take advantage of the situation and win over her ex-husband and the children with her gentleness. After they marry, the couple will live in blissful harmony. Her ex-husband will rise through the ranks, and her cousin will enjoy wealth and status alongside him. In the end, even her own children will affectionately call her cousin "Mom" and refuse to acknowledge her as their real mother. Li Leran: What a load of crap! This is nothing but fearmongering! She can do without a man, but how could she ever give up her precious children?! Once she comes to her senses, Li Leran rushes into the city. When she finds Lu Huaisheng, she sees her cousin holding and teasing her two children. Lu Huaisheng, still unaware of what's going on, is just about to hug his wife and have a sweet moment with her, when Li Leran shoves him away. "You want my children to call someone else Mom, is that it?" Lu Huaisheng: ??? What happened? Why is my darling wife treating me like this? - Li Qinghua is jealous of her cousin. She has nothing going for her but her looks, yet she still managed to marry such a wonderful man, her own cousin-in-law, and has two clever, adorable children. Then one day, she suddenly gets hold of a magical notebook. Anything she writes in it gradually comes true, so she writes down everything she wants for herself. She becomes beautiful, gains many suitors, and her family becomes better off. She even successfully moves to the city... Everything she writes down comes true, one thing after another. But she waits and waits, and instead of her cousin getting divorced, she hears that her cousin is being utterly spoiled and that the whole family is moving to the capital??? [My profile also has the completed period novel "Reborn as the Male Lead's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife" for you to enjoy!] Theme: Work hard to build a better life