The Young Couple of the Seventies

Qi Yuzhen, the eldest daughter of the Fengdeng Production Team captain, was gentle and virtuous, with delicate, pretty features. She always spoke softly and had a wonderfully mild temper. Any man in the team who married a girl like her would be lucky to have her.

In the end, Qi Yuzhen married Song Xunzhou, a demure, scholarly educated youth who had been sent down to the countryside and was willing to work hard. After they married, Song Xunzhou cherished and cared for her. He not only took the initiative to do the housework, but also taught her to read and write in his spare time.

The couple were deeply in love. Qi Yuzhen thought they could live peacefully together for the rest of their lives, until news of the college entrance exams arrived...

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Song Lanxin, Song Xunzhou's younger sister, had always thought her big brother would never settle down before he turned thirty. Even when someone introduced him to a prospective bride, he scared her away. What girl could put up with the way her brother looked at people as if they were filthy, not to mention the fact that even family members were forbidden from entering his room?

Once, she borrowed a fountain pen from him and returned it after using it. Her brother wiped the pen several times, as if it had become dirty just because someone else had used it.

What woman could stand a man like that?

If her brother couldn't settle down before thirty, would he be able to after thirty?

The answer was no.

Once her brother turned thirty, he would be past his prime, and even fewer women would want him.

As his sister, her advice to him was simple: living your life well on your own is more important than anything else.

Stop ruining the lives of normal women!

She wouldn't dare say it out loud. Not a chance.

One day, the family received a letter from her brother. In it, he said he was getting married. The bride was the daughter of the production team captain where he lived. Song Lanxin couldn't believe it.

Neither could their parents, but the handwriting was unquestionably their eldest son's.

Song Lanxin refused to believe her brother had married the captain's daughter just to avoid twenty years of struggle.

There was only one possibility: the captain's domineering daughter had taken a fancy to him. He had resisted with all his might, but the captain had hung him up and beaten him several times, forcing him to give in.

She did think her brother deserved a beating or two, but not like that.

Regardless, the deed was done. Her brother was married, and there was no point in saying anything.

Two or three years later, her brother wrote home to say he was bringing his sister-in-law back.

Song Lanxin was terrified, afraid that her ferocious sister-in-law would tear the whole family apart. But when she met the woman...

Huh?

A jumble of thoughts flashed through Song Lanxin's mind. Then she glared at her brother. "Big Brother, I never thought you were that kind of person! I was wrong about you!"

Her brother must have gotten arrogant after receiving the chance to return to the city. He had dumped his ferocious wife and tricked a beautiful, gentle older sister into coming home with him.

A person shouldn't, at the very least, shouldn't... shouldn't be ungrateful!

Getting beaten up by his ferocious wife was no excuse to shirk his responsibility and betray her!

The bewildered Qi Yuzhen: Hm? What's going on?

2021.10.14

[Reader's Guide]

1. This is a fictional setting, entirely fictional. Do not compare it to real life. Prices and living conditions differ from place to place, so don't generalize.

2. No one is reborn or transmigrates. Everyone is a native of this world.

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[Completed novels set in the past]

The Fearless Wife of the 1980s

Daily Life in the 1980s

Memories of the 1980s

Childhood Sweethearts in the 1980s

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Theme: Looking farther ahead lets you see more and discover a wider world.