Sweet Life in the Compound in the 1970s

Completed: An Eighties Professor's Daily Life of Pampering His Wife

Completed: The Great Beauty of an Eighties Courtyard

Song You's wedding was a grand affair. She married Han Cheng, a deputy regiment commander. Only after the wedding did she learn how unreliable a marriage built on repaying a debt of gratitude could be. Han Cheng didn't love her. He was quiet, rigid, and dull, and their marriage, in which she raised the children alone, was miserable.

After she died young, the heroine raised her two children. Thanks to Han Cheng's promotions, the heroine and her husband prospered. On the surface, both sons seemed successful, but the elder spent his whole life serving the heroine's family, while the younger became the heroine's daughter's permanent backup option.

Years later, Han Cheng had risen to a high position but had never remarried. Song You watched him salute solemnly and add the words "the love of my life" to her gravestone, and finally understood how deeply he had loved her.

Song You was reborn. The first thing she did was send Han Cheng a telegram: she and the children were coming to join his post.

A slice-of-life story about ordinary family life.

Other completed stories in the same vein: Returning to the City in the Eighties to Be Doted on by My Husband; Raising Kids with Mom in the Sixties

Completed: The Great Beauty of an Eighties Courtyard

Chu Ying graduated from junior high, passed the entrance exam for the bus company, and became a bus driver after a year of training.

Fang Jian was a worker-peasant-soldier student. He passed the entrance exam for the procuratorate, served as a judicial police officer for a year, and then became a prosecutor.

They both had bright futures.

As a native of old Beijing, Chu Ying was most often asked: Your family must own several houses, and be very wealthy, right?

In fact, Chu Ying and her family spent most of their lives in a crowded courtyard in Yangshan Alley, near Prince Gong's Mansion. Later, when the alley was cleared, they were allocated an apartment south of the Fourth Ring Road. Her three brothers sold it and split the money for down payments on their own homes. They didn't end up with a two-bedroom apartment of their own until they were close to retirement, and by then they were saddled with enormous debts.

By that time, her once-glorious secure job had become ordinary physical labor, completely at odds with her husband Fang Jian's work as a prosecutor. They divorced without moving apart, living under the same roof with nothing to say to each other.

Chu Ying was reborn. Now she was still a young, enthusiastic bus driver who took pride in her job, while Fang Jian was a tall, handsome district prosecutor, full of righteousness.

Beneath the faint streetlights after four in the morning, Fang Jian considerately rode his bike to take her to work. The biting wind carried his voice: "Yingying, are you cold?"

"We can't sell the room we've freed up at home!" Chu Ying said, wrapping her arms around his waist.

Theme: Bloom even in adversity.