Also known as: My Stepmother Story's Birth Mother Awakens
Blurb:
After seven years living apart, Chen Jiaqiao finally gets her wish: her husband returns, and the family is reunited. But she discovers that she is the villainess in a period novel, and her husband is the male lead.
In the novel, not long after she moves to the city with the children, she divorces her husband. Hoping to remarry, she abandons the children.
The ex-husband then finds a stepmother for them: the novel's heroine.
The stepmother treats the children tenderly, raises them patiently, and cares for her husband. Meanwhile, Chen Jiaqiao is unhappy in her second marriage. She constantly stirs up trouble, harasses her ex-husband and children's lives, and drives a wedge between the children and their stepmother.
The worse she behaves, the better the stepmother looks.
In the end, the children see her as an enemy, and her ex-husband looks at her with nothing but disgust.
Now, her two children lean against her, their little voices sweet as they say, "Mommy, we've been very good."
Chen Jiaqiao's heart melts. These are the children she loves most. How could she ever abandon them?
That night, after the children fall asleep, Chen Jiaqiao tells her husband, "We can get divorced, but the children have to stay with me."
Her husband: ??? What has he done wrong? On the very first night of their reunion, his wife brings up divorce.
Du Hong has transmigrated into a period novel. Not only does she have an omniscient view of the story, she's also the heroine.
She doesn't have to do a thing. She just waits for the male lead to divorce his first wife, then marries him and becomes his wife and the children's stepmother. She can coast through life and win at everything.
She waits and waits, only to find the male lead's family living in harmony, with nothing but affection in his eyes when he looks at his wife.
Du Hong: ??? Where's the plot where the marriage falls apart and the children's birth mother becomes their enemy???
Reading guide:
Married life, family matters, everyday moments.
No one is perfect, including the leads.
The events, place names, and occupations of the leads in this story are included solely for the purposes of the novel. Please don't scrutinize them too closely.
Theme: Nurture your family, marriage, and life with care.
