Teaching a Stick-in-the-Mud to Raise a Child (Both Reborn)

"Save the mother or the baby?"

"The baby!"

The man’s voice was hoarse with urgency.

The young wife was dying in childbirth when she heard her husband, Jiang Mo, make his resolute choice outside the window. The words etched themselves into her heart. But after giving birth to twins, a boy and a girl, she died and was reborn in the modern era as Xing Qingchan, where she lived a completely different life, smooth sailing all the way.

Reborn in the life before her previous one, Xing Qingchan finds herself on the verge of dying in childbirth again. Of course she’s furious. Her top priority is to stay alive and deliver the babies safely.

She can’t stand Jiang Mo, a man of his time through and through. He clearly loved his wife, yet abandoned her to go to the capital and enjoyed the company of a concubine. He knew his mother was domineering and foolish, yet let her arrange everything concerning his wife’s labor. He spent his whole life a widower, and he deserved it.

But disaster is upon her, and Xing Qingchan has no choice but to rely on him.

Making demands with her fingers crossed, Xing Qingchan asks Jiang Mo to stay with her in the birthing room. She never expects him to agree. This rigid scholar actually agrees to a request everyone else considers absurd?

Holding her newborn twins, Xing Qingchan says reluctantly, "I owe you one."

Once her life is no longer in danger, Xing Qingchan has to think about the future. Jiang Mo isn’t part of her plans, and she’s uncertain about the children, too. After hitting one dead end after another, she realizes there’s almost no way to make it on her own.

As a liberal arts graduate, she can’t change the times. Instead, she gradually earns a reputation as an excellent mother and finally settles into her role as an official’s wife, putting down roots in this era and making the most of her limited world.

But what should she do about Jiang Mo, who keeps becoming more and more to her taste, and has learned to be considerate and faithful to his wife? Should they maintain their distant relationship as the children’s parents? Wouldn’t that be fine? Why can’t she help falling for him?

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Jiang Mo became a model civil official. He reflected that he had nothing to be ashamed of before his ruler or his people, but he had let down his wife, who died young in childbirth, and their children. He had failed to raise them properly, and not one Jiang descendant came to see him in his final moments.

Suddenly reborn just before his wife went into labor, Jiang Mo resolves to start over and devote more care to his wife and children, building a model family with a virtuous husband, worthy wife, filial sons, and gentle daughters.

However, his young wife is very different from the woman he remembers, and has a mind of her own. Jiang Mo is surprised, then gradually falls for her. He indulges and pampers her, even defying his mother for her, until he truly sees and respects her, and understands her. "If you became an official, you’d far surpass me."

She is not only the children’s lawful mother and guide in life, but also his own guiding light. For the first time, Jiang Mo impulsively offers up his whole heart and soul, asking only to share a bed in life and a grave in death, and to spend their lives relying on and understanding one another...

Notes:

1. Important: This is not a pure romance with both leads sexually inexperienced.

2. Set in a fictional dynasty.

3. The heroine has no golden finger. This is a slow-paced story about family life.

Theme: As long as you put your heart into it, nothing in the world is impossible, not even raising children.