After Eighteen Years as a Widower, Dad Is in Love

My widowed father has fallen in love for the first time in eighteen years. I don’t actually oppose him getting married again. In fact, I’ve been hoping he’d find a wife who cares for him and treats him well. After all, my mother died from postpartum complications right after I was born. For the past eighteen years, my father has stayed faithful to her. No matter how many women threw themselves at him, he paid them no attention. For a middle-aged man who’s extremely wealthy and takes good care of himself, that’s no easy feat. I’ve often been moved by his undying love for my mother. But now he’s in love, and the woman looks about my age. * Tao Xin is caught in a landslide while traveling with her boyfriend. She should have died on the spot, but instead she transmigrates eighteen years into the future. Eighteen years later, her once shy and bashful boyfriend has made it big. He’s become a domineering CEO and has a lively teenage son. This is a tough one. She’s only in her early twenties. How can she be anyone’s stepmother? * One day, Tao Xin is lying in bed watching a show when a WeChat message suddenly pops up on her iPad. She taps it and realizes that the iPad is logged into Zhou Tingzhi’s WeChat. Inevitably, she sees a photo of herself feeling up a male model’s abs at a bar. The person who reported her is Mr. Chen, a righteous bystander. He’s indignant and says, “Did you know your young girlfriend’s been going wild behind your back?” Tao Xin is mortified and wonders how to explain when Mr. Chen, who’d so bravely spoken up, gets a reply. Zhou Tingzhi: She’s young. Of course she’s going to want to have fun. She’ll settle down after we get married. A well-adjusted, forthright and sincere sweetheart x a gentle, brooding man who doesn’t realize he’s a mom Slow burn / everyday life / a touch of ensemble cast / sweet romance The son is the male lead’s nephew, not the biological child of the leads Upcoming novel: How Did I Fall for a Princess? Seventeen-year-old Ming Xi hates Xia Lingxiao more than anyone. Twenty-seven-year-old Ming Xi is married to Xia Lingxiao. One morning, seventeen-year-old Ming Xi wakes up as his twenty-seven-year-old self. He sees a face that’s both familiar and unfamiliar and thinks he’s having a nightmare. “Why are you in my bed?” Xia Lingxiao is still bleary-eyed, but she manages to look haughty. “Stop making noise.” Then she snuggles into his arms and orders him in her usual princess-like tone, “Hold me while I sleep.” Xia Lingxiao talks to everyone as if she’s giving orders, like a master speaking to a servant. During their three years of high school, Ming Xi practically became her personal slave. He wanted to kill her at least a hundred times. Now Xia Lingxiao says, “What’s going on? Have you lost your memory? Did you forget how you begged me to marry you?” Ming Xi: “Bullshit.” Xia Lingxiao takes out her phone and plays their wedding video. She’s wearing a pure white wedding dress and holding a bouquet, while he’s crying his eyes out and professing his love: “I love you.” Ming Xi is horrified. This has to be a dream. How could I fall for a princess? * After spending a while serving Xia Lingxiao as her husband, Ming Xi gradually accepts reality, his heart dead inside. There’s no helping it. He’s destined to be the princess’s slave for the rest of his life. But then he wakes up again, back at seventeen. There are six months left before the college entrance exams, and his wife is still his archenemy. Heaven has really taken pity on him. Ming Xi thinks that if he stays far away from Xia Lingxiao from now on, he won’t end up marrying her. But that raises a question. If Xia Lingxiao doesn’t marry him, who will she marry? If she isn’t his wife, whose wife will she be? If she isn’t his princess, whose princess will she be? Of course, he doesn’t care that much. He’s just a little curious, that’s all. Theme: A harmonious family brings success in everything.