The year Jin Jingyu turned seventeen, she was bound to a System.
The System told her she was the adored heroine of a period romance.
She and the male lead would be a loving couple and have five sons and two daughters. To give him a worry-free home, she would cook for him, be dutiful to a mother-in-law who disliked her, and raise his nitpicky younger siblings. To help him build his business, she would hand over all the family wealth she inherited.
After the male lead achieved success and became the richest man in the country, he wouldn't abandon his aging wife, whose beauty and figure had faded. Even the women he found on the side would look just like her.
They would be her substitutes.
The System said the male lead loved her. He only cheated because she'd had too many children and lost her looks. The System had appeared to help her preserve her beauty, hold on to his heart, and become his one and only beloved wife.
Jin Jingyu had just beaten up the male lead for trying to flirt with her and planted a foot on him. “Huh?”
You call a maidservant the heroine and a bloodsucker the male lead?
Jin Jingyu didn't want seven children or to support a deadbeat. She only wanted to become the richest person herself.
The System said helplessly, “But I'm the Beloved Wife Beauty System.”
Jin Jingyu had a suggestion. “Give a sub-System to the most handsome man in the village and bind him to it. Then he can be my beloved husband.”
She only couldn't bear to see the System go to waste. It definitely wasn't because she coveted that man's looks.
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Chu Xiaoyu was born premature, and the hospital had said from the start that he wouldn't live past twenty. But he refused to accept it. He was so young and hadn't even seen much of the world. How could he be willing to die?
But after he turned seventeen, his health steadily deteriorated. Most of the time, all he could do was lie in bed and watch the jujube tree outside his window turn green, lose its leaves, grow bare, and turn green again.
On his nineteenth birthday, he was bound to a demon calling itself the Beloved Husband System. It promised that if he served his wife well, he would be granted a healthy body.
What did dignity matter when his life was at stake?
He married into Jin Jingyu's family and devoted himself to being her capable partner.
Clean the house once: reward, fifty cents; health +1.
Make his wife a piece of clothing: reward, a piece of meat; health +1.
Wash his wife's clothes: reward, a pastry; health +1.
Chu Xiaoyu handed the fifty cents to his wife, shared the meat and pastry with her, and used the cloth to make her a new outfit...
His health gradually improved. What a wonderful life, like living in paradise.
Thank you, demon.
System, the demon: “...”
Jin Jingyu was delighted, too.
A few coins, a little meat, and a few pastries were enough to keep her darling husband hard at work on his tasks.
As for the System's rewards, whitening pills, beauty pills, all-illness cures, beauty formulas, and the like, she naturally accepted them with a smile.
She only had to wait for the reform and opening up, then she would become the richest person in the country.
Theme: Even when life changes dramatically, stay positive
