In the 1970s, the Heroine's Aunt Wasn't Easy to Be

As the youngest daughter born to her parents late in life, Qiao Jiaojiao is doted on by her mother and father, and adored by her older brothers and sisters. Even her nieces and nephews, who are several years older than her, have to listen to their little aunt.

Five-and-a-half-year-old Qiao Jiaojiao has a wonderful life, until her family changes the household registration and gives her eldest nephew a new name before he starts school.

That's when Qiao Jiaojiao discovers that her eldest nephew is the early-deceased ex-husband of the heroine of a novel set in a bygone era.

In other words, she will be the heroine's aunt-in-law in the future???

A slice-of-life family and farming story. Updated daily. The male lead is not the original male lead from the novel; childhood friends-to-lovers.

Please add my new story, My Stepmother from the Bygone Era Is Done With This, to your collection!

Zhao Yongmei had a dream. Her family introduced her to a man, but she refused and ran off to the provincial capital to care for her sick aunt.

Later, with no diploma or household registration, she married her cousin's husband, a divorced man with a six-year-old child, so she could make a home for herself in the provincial capital.

In her dream, she thought she had the life she'd always wanted. Though her husband had been married before, they loved each other and got along well. The boy wasn't her own, but he was obedient and devoted.

Then the child's birth mother returned from abroad. Her husband and stepson wavered between the two women, and she suddenly realized that the good life she'd thought she had was nothing but a castle in the air.

The pain in the dream jolted Zhao Yongmei awake!

Even more unsettling, the next day her family told her she was old enough to be introduced to a marriage prospect. It was Wu Gang, the man she'd refused to marry in her dream.

Then her aunt, who lived in the provincial capital, wrote to say she'd had heart surgery and needed someone to care for her. She'd pay five yuan a month. Would her niece be willing to come?

Zhao Yongmei chose neither option. She only wanted to study hard. Even if she couldn't get into university, she would attend a technical or junior college and find a steady job of her own, one that would let her support herself.

As for being that man's stepmother, whoever wants the job can have it. She certainly doesn't!

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.