Raising Kids on a 1970s Island

Wen Xiuxiu was charming and beautiful, with delicate features. One moment she was asleep, and the next she had become the villainess in a period novel.

She and the novel's heroine were foils from the same village.

The heroine lived next door. She was hardworking and capable, married the director of a chicken farm, treated her stepson as her own, and took care of the whole household's meals. She served double-yolked eggs three times a day, living a life everyone envied.

The original owner was greedy and selfish, constantly causing trouble, and the perfect foil to the heroine, highlighting her kindness and virtue.

The original owner schemed to marry a promising young officer from the town. After they wed, she complained about the bitter cold of the borderlands and refused to join him there.

Most of her husband's salary went into her hands, but she spent it on new clothes and food for herself. Their daughter, once fair-skinned and adorable at birth, had grown up thin and dark.

The original owner was also set up. Her daughter, barely two years old, was abducted by human traffickers.

In the end, her husband was so heartbroken that he was injured on a mission and discharged from the army. He set off alone on a long search for his daughter.

The journey was arduous and filled with hardship. He searched for eighteen years.

Wen Xiuxiu arrived just as the girl was about to turn two.

Her husband's stepmother had plotted against the original owner. She had intended to have her abducted too, but by sheer luck, she had escaped.

Wen Xiuxiu looked at her own face in the mirror, then out the window at her vicious mother-in-law, who glared at her with a furrow between her brows. She decided to join her husband at his post.

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Shen Yue was twenty-seven, with a bright future and a tall, well-built frame. He had been stationed on a certain island for over a year.

His mother died when he was young, and his father remarried. He lived in poverty and hardship as a boy, and things only improved after he enlisted in the army.

During a visit home, he unexpectedly ended up marrying a pampered young woman. They had been married for three years, but had spent only a handful of days together.

He was used to trudging alone through endless darkness. He never expected to find light at twenty-seven.

Theme: Planting flowers of happiness in the soil of hardship