A Stepfather in The 1970s

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This story features a female lead who is not a virgin and a male lead who is devoted to her in both body and soul.

Yan Shu transmigrated into the cannon-fodder female character in a story about a stepmother and her foil.

A widowed mother, she lived with her daughter at her parents' home, making a scene every day because she wanted to live off them and refused to find another husband.

It took only a few days for her to drive her eldest sister-in-law to divorce her brother and run away.

The woman her eldest brother married afterward was the heroine of the book.

Meanwhile, their cousin from the same clan also divorced and started a new family. His household became the heroine's foil.

Yan Shu and her cousin's wife became partners in crime, spending their days creating trouble for the heroine.

Eventually, the heroine dealt with them both. Yan Shu's daughter was left dependent on others, made a foil to the heroine's children, and led astray.

Thinking of the miserable fate awaiting her and her daughter, Yan Shu decided to stay away from the heroine, find her child a new father, get married, and move out.

The old Wang next door worked at the state-run supply cooperative, a stable job, though he was a stingy miser.

Old Zhao from the next village was a man of good character and an accountant for the village committee, but he had three little ones, which meant a lot of pressure.

The young Yang, newly demobilized and transferred to the commune, was good in every way, except that he had never married or had children, and his family would strongly oppose it.

There was also Old Deng from the grain and oil depot, her childhood friend Zhang San from her mother's family, and Tao, her daughter's teacher...

One by one, she could take her time.

But in the end, Yang Huaiyu, who had no romantic history and blushed whenever he spoke, was the best of them all.

Yan Shu had made up her mind: she would reel him in!

Yang Huaiyu had been reborn.

In his previous life, he had failed to protect the person he cared about most. This time, he would fight fire with fire and beat the villains at their own game.

First, help Yan Shu reclaim her ration fields. Second, lease wasteland. Third, help Yan Shu shake off her wicked cousin's wife. Fourth...

He had thought he'd have to wait at least four or five years before getting the chance to become Yan Shu's daughter's stepfather. He never expected it to happen several years ahead of schedule.

He'd made up his mind: seize the chance to defy fate, shower Yan Shu with the sweetest public displays of affection, and build the happiest family!

Later, his stepdaughter, Song Xiaomeng, became a renowned master carpenter, carrying on the craft she had learned from her maternal grandfather.

In an interview about passing down intangible cultural heritage, she said to the camera, "There are four people who matter most in my life. My parents gave me life, my grandfather passed down his craft, and my stepfather gave me a warm home that no one else could replace."

Zhou Lili spent her life loving someone who would never love her back. She killed Yang Huaiyu, then killed Yan Shu, and eventually transmigrated herself.

She entered the book she had written, but no longer remembered that she was its author.

It seemed Heaven was playing a cruel joke on her. She kept doing foolish, senseless things and always ended up as Yan Shu's foil.

In the end, even Yang Huaiyu, the man in her story who had pretended to marry her, escaped her control and lived happily ever after with Yan Shu.

Not even another man and a child between them could keep Yang Huaiyu's pure, sincere love from reaching Yan Shu.

Jealousy drove Zhou Lili mad, and at last she recovered her memories.

Only then did she realize she had been a joke from the very beginning.

The melodramatic novel she had written while consumed by hatred had gradually spiraled out of control, becoming a sweet story about Yan Shu and Yang Huaiyu showering each other with affection.

Where was the justice in that?

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Zheng Changrong came from a family of tailors. Though he was a big, burly man, he was skilled with needle and thread and knew how to take measurements and make clothes.

His greatest wish in life was to meet someone who truly loved him, dress her as the prettiest young wife on the island, and make everyone envy her.

Meng Tiantian was bound to a System for supporting characters to rise to prominence. It turned out she was a foil character in a period novel.

Her parents had never loved her, and her grandmother had taken her to the countryside, where she grew into a chubby little ball.

When she turned eighteen, her grandmother had to go to the capital to care for her grandson, so she sent Meng Tiantian to the island to marry her childhood fiancé.

But Captain Fan was at a matchmaking event at the military base, pretending not to know her. Worse, he fell for the beautiful heroine, kissed and danced with her right in front of Meng Tiantian, and exchanged tokens with her.

Next, Meng Tiantian was supposed to have an accident while leaving by boat, be rescued by an abusive man, and be forced to marry him, spending the rest of her life as the beautiful heroine's foil.

She hurriedly asked the System to match her with a man who could protect her. That was when she saw Zheng Changrong.

He was handsome, with a stern expression and a fearsome presence. He seemed especially dependable.

Crying, she clung to his sleeve and asked if he could arrange a place for her to stay. Somehow, she ended up becoming his bride.

When people heard that Regiment Commander Zheng was marrying a little crybaby, they disapproved. When they saw that the crybaby was also a little dumpling, they couldn't wait to watch the spectacle.

"What? This girl is so plain, provincial, dark, and chubby. The Regiment Commander will be sick of her in no time. Just wait. She'll have plenty to cry about."

But the spectators craned their necks and waited and waited, only to get showered with one display of affection after another. And that dark, chubby little dumpling had blossomed into a tall, handsome woman with fair skin and stunning looks, beautiful every season of the year and always wearing a dizzying array of clothes.

The island's young women couldn't keep up with how fast she got new outfits. They were all green with envy.

She and Regiment Commander Zheng also had several adorable children. Who wouldn't say she had the best life?

When her second cousin heard Meng Tiantian had been dumped by her childhood fiancé on the island, he rushed overnight from the capital to stand up for her. But then...

His chubby little cousin calmly directed a tall, burly man: "It's too tight here, alter it again. That part is too loose, tighten it. And the dress is too plain, add some embroidery. Two butterflies, a flower garden, and..."

Her second cousin stared in shock. Good heavens, was the man in front of him really Zheng Changrong, the living King of Hell? He must have knocked on the door the wrong way.

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