From Concubine to Interpreter: Period

She wakes up in 1949 with two choices before her: starve to death with her son, or abandon him to become a wealthy landlord’s concubine, only to die while fleeing to Hong Kong. Her sweet, melon-like son will be kidnapped and sold, then mutilated for the amusement of others. He Miao chooses to embrace her country and the fervor of liberation. There are ten granaries full of grain at the landlord’s estate. Handing them over could earn her a commendation. She’s also good at Russian and can help the Soviet experts who have come to assist with reconstruction. She can raise her son well and make a great contribution… When the troops arrive to liberate them, He Miao is disheveled and miserable… But her son says, “Mother, didn’t you say my dad died ages ago? Isn’t that the man leading the troops my father?” Coming soon: Infertility in the 1980s by Huan Ruo Jun Su Shaoyao is as lovely as her name, with fair skin and beautiful features, but she has a condition: she’s infertile. At her in-laws’ insistence, she first adopts a girl, then a boy, making a complete family of four. Everyone envies her. It isn’t until her husband’s first love returns from overseas that she realizes the children calling her “Mom” are not hers, and that all her hard work for half her life has merely helped someone else reap the rewards. Back on the day she adopted the boy, she faces her in-laws’ threats and her husband’s feigned affection… Su Shaoyao: This house is mine. All of you, get out! Gu Chengbang became infertile due to an injury and adopted the orphaned child of a comrade-in-arms. He feels he has let his wife down. He hands over his entire salary, never touches tobacco or alcohol, and does all the housework, but still can’t stop his wife from leaving. Outside the civil affairs bureau, her ex-husband offers her nothing and wants to seize her home, while Gu Chengbang stands there with handcuffs peeking out from his waistband, having been berated by his ex-wife for being incapable of having children, useless, and unable to make good money. Su Shaoyao gathers her courage. “I’ll help you raise your child, and you help me deal with my scumbag ex. Deal?” * Some time later, Su Shaoyao’s ex-husband is dumbfounded, and Gu Chengbang’s ex-wife regrets everything. Because two infertile people somehow end up having twins, a boy and a girl! Theme: Nurturing a healthy environment for young people to grow up in