The Complicated Reconstituted Family of the Sixties

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

Later, without qualifications or a household registration, she married her cousin's ex-husband, who was divorced and had a six-year-old child, so she could make a home for herself in the provincial capital.

In the dream, she thought she had the life she wanted. Although her husband had been married before, they were loving and harmonious, and although her son wasn't her own, he was obedient and filial.

Then the child's mother returned from abroad, and her husband and son wavered between the two women. Only then did she realize that the happy life she'd enjoyed all those years was nothing but a castle in the air.

The pain of the dream jolted Zhao Yongmei awake!

What frightened her even more was that the next day, her family said she was getting on in years and wanted to introduce her to a marriage prospect: Wu Gang, the very man she had refused to marry in the dream.

Then a letter arrived from her aunt in the provincial capital. She had undergone heart surgery and needed someone to care for her. She could pay five yuan a month, and wanted to know if her niece on her mother's side would come.

Zhao Yongmei chose neither. She only wanted to study hard. Even if she couldn't get into university, she would attend a technical college or junior college, find a real job of her own, and support herself without depending on anyone.

As for being a stepmother, whoever wants the job can have it. She's done with it!

This novel's synopsis

Five-year-old Qiao Xiuxiu was pondering a complicated question: If a family formed through remarriage is a reconstituted family, what do you call a family formed through remarriage again? A re-reconstituted family?

Qiao Xiuxiu was three months old when her parents divorced.

At two, she went with her father when he remarried.

Now she's five, and her father and stepmother are getting divorced, so Qiao Xiuxiu has been handed over to her stepmother and gained another stepfather.

She has also gained several older brothers who adore her: the eldest, Zhou Chengfeng, who only cares about studying; the second, Zhou Baizhong, who climbs onto the roof to tear it apart; and the taciturn third, Zhou Jinhuan.

And there's Brother Yao Jun, who's handsome, good-natured, and wonderful in every way, and is temporarily staying with the Zhou family.

What she doesn't know is that nine-year-old Yao Jun is actually a supporting character in a romance novel, the long-unforgotten first love of the female lead.

And she's the lucky girl the heroine has always envied, whose every wish comes true.

A warm, everyday story about family life and raising kids.

Theme: Live life positively and honor your parents.