A Second-Marriage Housekeeper in the 1980s

Yuan Zhan Ying returned to 1985, the first year Yu Jintao cheated on her.

In her previous life, swallowing her anger had brought her a loveless marriage, a mistress moving into her home, an illegitimate child taking over the family assets, and a daughter who fell ill with depression.

This time, she couldn't put up with it anymore.

Divorce. She had two hands and two feet and wasn't afraid of hard work. She refused to believe she couldn't survive.

Lin Deming looked polished on the outside, but his household was a mess. After his mother worked herself into chronic back strain, she finally decided to hire a housekeeper.

Too pretty was no good; it meant her mind wasn't on the job. Too old was no good; who knew which of them would end up looking after the other? Too skinny was no good; she would be scrawny and weak...

After going through who knew how many candidates, he finally found Yuan Zhan Ying.

The new housekeeper had too many ideas of her own. She tied her apron tightly while cooking to show off her lovely curves. She knelt to mop the floor late at night, her thighs and ankles so pale they seemed to shine. When she brought lunch to his workplace, she deliberately greeted every colleague, as if staking her claim.

Since she was exceptionally good at her job, Lin Deming put up with it.

But after she dressed to the nines three days in a row, leaving him tossing and turning in the middle of the night, he couldn't stand it anymore.

He had to make his position clear. No matter how she tried to seduce him, it wouldn't work. He was a university professor, and he would never fall for a twice-married woman with a child.

After his repeated proposals were rejected, Lin Deming couldn't sit still and enlisted his mother to plead his case.

After being pressed for ages, Yuan Zhan Ying mumbled the truth:

"I can support myself, and my daughter is sweet and sensible. If I remarry, having children and taking care of the house will become my duty. How is a life where I have to ask for money better than what I have now?"

"Besides, Mr. Lin is handsome and accomplished. Why would he like me? Is he marrying me just to save on the housekeeper's wages?"

Lin Deming's mother nodded repeatedly. That was possible.

Lin Deming: "?"

Please note: The male lead is a virgin; the female lead isn't. The plot is brainless Mary Sue fluff, mainly focused on everyday family life.

The heroine is fat, fair, and beautiful, and will fail to lose weight eight million times. The hero is patriarchal, not particularly popular, but believes in himself; he's a hopeless romantic to an extreme degree.

In the early chapters, the entire romance is in the hero's imagination as he talks himself into loving her. From the heroine's perspective, it's a case of love after marriage.

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Qin Huifang realized she had been reborn.

In her previous life, she and her husband, Liao Mingcheng, had built a fortune of tens of millions from nothing. They treated each other with respect and grew old together, becoming the model couple in everyone's eyes.

But no one knew that after decades of ups and downs and endless domestic troubles, their relationship had long since become an empty shell.

She woke up and found herself back at twenty-six.

Looking down, she saw her round belly. At this point in time, she must be pregnant with the eldest daughter who would die young in the future.

Turning her head, she realized the man beside her wasn't the one she remembered.

She stared in shock at the handsome man beside her, who looked like a celebrity and was happily snoring away.

Hey, who are you?

She didn't know why she had a different husband, but Qin Huifang was reasonably used to dealing with her sharp-tongued, calculating mother-in-law, her five troublemaking sisters-in-law, and her lazy, good-for-nothing husband.

Men were all the same. Saplings needed pruning, and men needed discipline. She was well acquainted with being the gardener of a marriage.

Faced with a whole family of in-laws complaining, Qin's mother spoke with conviction: "So what if she hit people as a child? That doesn't mean she'll still hit people when she's grown up."

Watching her daughter holding a stick, Qin's father lied with a straight face: "I haven't seen her hit anyone in five or six years."

Qin's mother nodded. "Even if she did hit someone, you should ask yourself why she only hit you and not anyone else. Did you say something to provoke her? Maybe you deserved it."

Qin's father chimed in: "Besides, my daughter knows how to hold back. Look, she didn't kill you."

Watching her daughter-in-law approach, Old Madam Han chose her words carefully: "You can hit my son, but you won't hit me, right?"

Qin Huifang: "It'll only take a moment."

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Wang Lanlan transmigrated into a sweet romance period novel.

The novel told the love story of the male lead, Liao Mingcheng, and the female lead, Qin Huifang. They met through a matchmaker. After they married, the man worked hard to build a business while the woman managed the household frugally, and they lived happily ever after.

Once she learned the whole plot, Wang Lanlan volunteered herself on the day the matchmaker arrived, successfully stealing this wonderful match.

To prevent the leads from getting back together, she also arranged for Qin Huifang to marry Han Baoqi, the village's notorious spoiled rich kid.

Now she could finally rest easy, right?

But as she waited and waited, the neighbors had already made it big. Why hadn't Liao Mingcheng made a move yet?

Please note:

The heroine is reborn; the female supporting character transmigrates into a book. The canon pairing is Qin Huifang x Han Baoqi.

The heroine is good at fighting fire with fire and uses a nontraditional kind of manipulation. The hero is a mama's boy at first and a devoted husband later. He follows whoever is stronger, weak but obedient.

The premise is that children are carried by their mothers for ten hard months and stay with them. No matter whom the heroine marries, the children she gives birth to will be the same ones at heart; who their father is doesn't matter.

Counting her previous life, the male lead is a virgin and the female lead isn't. This time, it's one-on-one.

Theme: Only by loving yourself can you keep going.