After Hearing My Salted-Fish Stepmother's Thoughts

Please add my upcoming novel, After Accidentally Taking the Miaojiang Young Master's Aphrodisiac Gu, to your collection. Find it on my author page. Shen Zhi, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, lost her mother years ago. Her father later remarried, and her stepmother was a laid-back woman who never involved herself in household affairs. She spent her days tending flowers and plants, and Shen Wanwan got along quite well with her. On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, her half-sister asked for the jade hairpin her fiance had given her as a coming-of-age gift. As her half-sister gazed at her pitifully, Shen Zhi heard her stepmother's thoughts: "I hate those green-tea girls who steal their sister's boyfriend. Should I slap her? But I'm a lazybones, so forget it." Shen Zhi slapped her. "Ugh, what a fake." When her fiance came to formally offer betrothal gifts, she heard her stepmother's thoughts again: "My poor baby Zhizhi is just a stepping stone for them. Should I kill the scumbag? But I'm a lazybones, so forget it." Shen Zhi: "Let's call off the engagement." At the prime minister's birthday celebration, everyone presented him with gifts. Her stepmother's satisfied thoughts rang out: "I guess I married well. He's good in that department. This lazybones is satisfied." Shen Zhi: Is that really something she should be hearing? At the young general's birthday banquet, her stepmother's voice rang out wistfully: "I really want to get my baby girl together with my eldest boy. But I'm a lazybones, so forget it." Shen Zhi couldn't take it anymore. "Mother, I'll handle things myself. But before you married Father, you already had an eldest boy?" Stepmother: "..." Please add my upcoming novel, After Accidentally Taking the Miaojiang Young Master's Aphrodisiac Gu, to your collection. Find it on my author page. Shen Youran, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was sent to a country estate as a child and raised by a nanny because people believed she had caused her mother's death. She was only brought back to the prime minister's residence when she came of age. Timid and cowardly, she was disliked by her entire family. Her cousin, the Seventh Prince, was the only one who occasionally treated her kindly, so Shen Youran treasured him as her only family and did everything to please him. The Seventh Prince was sick of Shen Youran clinging to him. Just then, the Miaojiang State Preceptor came to the capital to pay his respects. At a palace banquet, he mentioned a love-matching gu: anyone who took it would wake from unconsciousness in love with the first person they saw. While the State Preceptor was drunk, the Seventh Prince stole the gu and fed it to Shen Youran, then arranged for a guard to be the first person she saw when she woke. He never imagined that after taking the gu, Shen Youran would wake up and first see herself in a mirror. From then on, Shen Youran fell in love with herself and seemed reborn. Later, when the Seventh Prince saw Shen Youran, now dazzling and strutting like a peacock, he regretted everything and was heartbroken that she no longer had eyes for him. He spent every day begging the State Preceptor to undo the gu. The State Preceptor tried hundreds of methods to undo the gu, but none worked. "You might not believe this, but the person she loves only wants to marry herself. What should I do?" Theme: Defy the odds. My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.