Handsome Husband and Fierce Mother-in-Law [The 1970S]

Pre-release story: The True Heiress Forges Her Own Path with Her Ancestors. Blurb at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection! Three months after Chu Xiang's mother died, her father brought home another mother and daughter and told her they were her new mother and younger sister. He said this was all to keep his job, and that once she was grown up, her stepmother would return the job to her. Young Chu Xiang blinked, then went to fetch a factory leader as a witness. Want the job? Put it in writing! As the saying goes, where there's a stepmother, there's a stepfather. By the time Chu Xiang graduated from high school, the family had started scheming to make her give up her job. They even wanted her to marry a butcher who had beaten two wives to death. But Chu Xiang had always been a girl with a mind of her own. How could she let them push her around? She went straight to the matchmaker and asked her to find her a partner. Chu Xiang: “I only have two requirements for a partner: First, the man has to be handsome. Second, his future mother-in-law has to be fierce and notorious.” There were two particularly famous people in Sunshine Brigade. One was the unreasonable, notorious Granny Yang; the other was a lazy man who loved good food but was exceptionally handsome: Yang Changsong. And, as it happened, the two were mother and son! As far as Chu Xiang was concerned, her future partner just had to be good-looking. It didn't matter if he had a rural household registration, since she had an abandoned farm where she could send him to work the land. That way, he could at least support himself. What if he didn't want to farm? Then he could go hungry! Yang Changsong, who didn't want to farm and just wanted to enjoy life: ... Every night, he cried as he turned over the soil at the farm, chewing on a cornbread bun. His life was so miserable. Blurb for the pre-release story The True Heiress Forges Her Own Path with Her Ancestors: Lu Zhi had been raised by the King of Hell until she was eighteen, when someone suddenly came to tell her that she had a father and a mother? Return to her roots? What a joke. She'd be satisfied if she didn't summon the Lu ancestors from the underworld to beat them up. How had they raised their son so badly that he couldn't even recognize his own child? The Lu family became a laughingstock. The daughter they'd carefully raised for eighteen years turned out to be a fake heiress, while their biological daughter was a wild child who'd grown up in the mountains. Looking at their elegant, refined fake heiress, who had already been accepted into a prestigious university, and thinking of their illiterate biological daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lu made up their minds at the same time: They'd claim to have two daughters in public, but within the family, Lu Wu would be their only daughter! When Lu Zhi was brought back to the Lu household and saw the scraps left over from dinner, her hands started itching. Raised by ghosts from childhood, she had no idea what a real father or mother was supposed to be, and she wasn't the sort to be particularly reasonable. But a child who isn't taught properly is the parents' fault. She wouldn't stoop to arguing with fools. Instead, she stormed into the underworld, rolled up her sleeves, and started swinging! The first time, Mr. Lu was beaten black and blue by more than a dozen ancestors who were already black and blue. The second time, Mr. Lu was beaten too badly to get back up by more than a dozen ancestors who'd struggled to enter his dreams. The third time... When Mr. Lu fell asleep again, more than a dozen Lu ancestors kicked him out of the Lu family! They wanted no more of such an unfilial descendant! Lu Zhi was their only good granddaughter! And while the Lu household was in chaos, Lu Zhi and Lu Wu unexpectedly became friends... 2022.08.22 Theme: No matter what, learn to love yourself.