The 1970S: I'm Looking for a Live-in Son-in-Law

Next book: Raising a Child as a Laid-Off Woman in the 1990s. Please add it to your collection~ If a stone won't warm up, just throw it away. Blurb: When Lin Pandi was nineteen, her adoptive father died suddenly, leaving the Lin family without a male heir. She and her adoptive mother were cornered in their home by her adoptive father's brothers, who wanted her to marry the foolish son of her Second Uncle Lin. Even her biological father and younger sister, Zhao Shu, made a special trip to persuade her, speaking earnestly and at length. That night, she had a strange dream. She dreamed that she was actually a tragic supporting character in a period novel who disappeared after just three chapters, while the heroine was her own younger sister, Zhao Shu. The only reason everyone was urging her to marry into Second Uncle Lin's family was to get their hands on the betrothal money. In the book, she was moved by her parents' and sister's heartfelt words, eventually dropped out of school and married Second Uncle Lin's foolish son. Before long, she was pregnant when her husband beat her to death. With the betrothal money from Second Uncle Lin's family, Zhao Shu became a mine radio announcer and secured the mine's only recommendation for university. After graduating, Zhao Shu had benefactors helping her at every turn. She went through two marriages and eventually joined the male lead, Lu Zan, in leading the mining community to prosperity, becoming a celebrated businesswoman. In the chapter where Pandi disappeared, the author wrote in a tone full of pity: Faced with the arrangement of fate, she had no complaints. She let the wheels of history and destiny roll mercilessly over her life. Lin Pandi, who had transmigrated into a book, couldn't help flipping the table. To hell with the wheels of fate! I'm not getting married. I'll take in a live-in husband! These past few days, a rumor has been circulating around the mining commune: Lin Pandi deliberately fell into the water in front of Ye Jingkai, the university graduate sent to the mine to help with construction, hoping to seduce him. But she was rescued by Lu Zan, a laggard at the supply and marketing cooperative. To everyone's surprise, the two hit it off! Lu Zan, who usually had his nose in the air, actually agreed to join the Lin family as a live-in son-in-law! When Lin Pandi opened her eyes, she saw a pair of smiling, knowing eyes, with a red mole at the corner. She recognized him immediately: wasn't this Lu Zan, Zhao Shu's second husband, whom she'd gone to great lengths to pursue? She steeled herself, shut her eyes, and threw herself into his arms... Lu Zan had used connections to get into the much-coveted supply and marketing cooperative. His proud city-boy manner had made him a notorious laggard in the commune. He never imagined that after finally playing the hero and saving a girl from drowning, she'd wake up and throw herself into his arms. Just like that, she'd latched onto him, and somehow he'd become someone's live-in son-in-law... Next book: Raising a Child as a Laid-Off Woman in the 1990s. Please add it to your collection~ Zhong Hui had lived alone for decades before dying in an accident. Before she died, she looked back on her life. She was a classic case of someone dealt a winning hand who managed to play it disastrously. In her youth, she had been a celebrated cotton mill worker, one of the "Four Golden Flowers" at the state-run cotton mill. She had secretly fallen for Jiang Sheng, a handsome, tall electrician at the same factory. When he was heartbroken, she made the first move. Before long, Zhong Hui was pregnant, and the two quickly got married. After the wedding, Jiang Sheng went into business and became rich. Zhong Hui had quit her job before the state-run cotton mill closed, becoming a full-time homemaker and never experiencing the hardship of being laid off. Everyone said she was "lucky," but only Zhong Hui knew that her marriage to Jiang Sheng had been a joke from the very beginning. Jiang Sheng had loved his first love all along. He married her only to spite her. No matter how devotedly she cared for him or how tenderly she looked after him, all she got in return was his disgust and resentment. Jiang Sheng was like a stone that would never warm up, no matter how long she held it. Her biological parents were furious that she'd gotten pregnant before marriage, while her in-laws and sister-in-law looked down on her all the more because of it. Her only daughter, Hehe, dropped out of school after junior high and fell in with a group of delinquent girls. In the end, someone stabbed her by accident. She was only sixteen when she died. By the end of her life, Zhong Hui had no one left. Lying on the cold floor, a flood of memories flashed through Zhong Hui's mind. If she had another life, she certainly wouldn't live it this way. … When she opened her eyes, Zhong Hui was back at the age of twenty-eight. Her daughter was still in first grade, the baby in her belly was fine, and she hadn't had a miscarriage. Jiang Sheng brought her divorce papers. Zhong Hui signed her name without a word. In this life, she only wanted to be a good mother and raise her two children to prosperity. If a stone won't warm up, just throw it away. Theme: Women should be self-reliant in any era.