The Fortunate Cannon Fodder of the Sixties

New novel: The Wicked Mother-in-Law in a Period Novel

Blurb:

Shen Peilin was a plant-based ability user who’d been having a miserable time in the apocalypse.

She opened and closed her eyes, and transmigrated. There was grain stored at home, everything outside was lush and green, and the whole world was her granary.

Shen Peilin gathered wild greens, hunted game, and picked wild fruit, living a life as carefree as a goddess.

“Mom, you have to stand up for Honglian!”

With a bang, the tragic heroine fell to her knees in front of her, then knocked her head against the ground three times, leaving blood everywhere.

Thinking the zombies were attacking, Shen Peilin kicked her hard and stopped her melodramatic act.

The good news: Shen Peilin had transmigrated to the 1970s. There were no zombies, and plenty of food.

The bad news: This was a tearjerker about devoted mothers and wives. Her three daughters-in-law were the main characters, and she was the unfortunate stepmother-in-law.

Her eldest son was a phoenix man. He rose to success, then abandoned his wife and child. His eldest daughter-in-law divorced him but stayed with the family to care for her parents-in-law and raise the child.

Her second son was a wife-beater, a coward outside the home who beat his wife inside it. His second daughter-in-law endured it all, a complete doormat.

Her third son was a simpleton who could only call for his mother every day. They’d raised a child bride they’d picked up along the way for him.

The three women and their children were tormented for most of their lives. Then the scumbag men returned to their families when they were old and worn out. The tragic heroines opened their arms to a new life, and somehow the ending was happy.

Shen Peilin: “This family is more disgusting than zombies.”

She found time to clean house: punching her selfish eldest son, kicking her useless second son, and setting her simpleton son straight.

With her eldest grandson in one hand and her little granddaughter in the other, she bought fields, farmland, and a reservoir, and became a great landowner.

She lived in a luxurious country estate, ate delicacies from land and sea, and before she knew it, her business had spread all over the world.

Zhao Yunqing transmigrated to the 1960s and was abandoned in the mountains, surrounded by wolves.

At death’s door, his family’s ancestral good luck kicked in, and a man appeared out of nowhere to save him.

Zhao Yunqing: “Dad!”

Zhao Jianguo: “Son?”

The man who saved him was the brigade leader, and he just happened to have no sons.

Everyone laughed at Zhao Jianguo for being a fool. He couldn’t even raise his own daughters, yet he treated a child he’d found like a treasure.

But ever since he started raising Zhao Yunqing, the brigade leader’s back stopped aching, his legs stopped hurting, and even the crops in his fields grew better.

Only when Zhao Yunqing grew up did he realize he had transmigrated into a book.

His imposing, capable, and intelligent father would die young.

His gentle, virtuous mother would become a bitter widow.

His eldest, second, and third sisters would each have it worse than the last.

Zhao Yunqing clenched his little fists. “This family is counting on me!”

Theme: Work hard and build a prosperous life.