The Wicked Young Stepmother in a Period Novel

Jiang Meishu dies suddenly from overwork. When she opens her eyes, she's in the 1970s. She doesn't want to work hard and would rather laze around, but in an era where everyone is striving forward, that's not easy.

Bad news: Her twin sister has been reborn and refuses to marry into a courtyard house. Instead, she insists on swapping marriage partners with Jiang Meishu and marrying into a crowded compound.

Good news: The courtyard-house groom is a workaholic who never comes home because of overtime, but the house is spacious and there's plenty of money!

Jiang Meishu: This kind of good fortune is actually possible?

They promptly swap identities and set off toward their respective easy, carefree lives. But after the marriage swap, a System appears.

Jiang Meishu asks eagerly: System, are you a seduction System or a redemption System?

System: I'm an evil System. My full name is the Evil Persona Simulation System.

Jiang Meishu: ...

Liang Qiurun is a high-ranking official who keeps his distance from women. After leaving the military and transferring to a civilian post, he takes in a comrade's orphan, but gets so busy with work that he neglects his personal life. To keep his academically struggling, rebellious son in line, he agrees to an arranged match with a virtuous woman recommended by the organization: Jiang Meilan.

At their first meeting, he lays down three rules: "I'm busy with work and won't come home, but I'll hand over the family passbook to you."

Jiang Meishu, eating a meat bun: "Whatever you say!"

Liang Qiurun: "We'll live separately after marriage, and we won't have children."

Jiang Meishu, eating roast duck: "Whatever you say."

Liang Qiurun: "My son's a bad student and rebellious. You'll have to discipline him."

Jiang Meishu: "Discipline the kid? That's the perfect chance to be evil."

After they marry, her husband is away at work and her stepson is away being rebellious.

Jiang Meishu sleeps until noon in a 800-square-meter courtyard house. When she gets up, she finds her stepson gnawing on a cold steamed bun. "You're up pretty early. Why don't you go back to sleep?" Being evil means raising him into a hopeless mess!

Her sixteen-year-old stepson: ...

Later, when her stepson gets into fights, she keeps watch. When he skips class, she takes time off work.

Evil points +1 +1 +overflow!

Jiang Meishu: ?

System: That's it, you've done it!

Liang Qiurun had thought married life would be one of mutual respect and courteous distance!

That is, until he came home late after working overtime and saw his rebellious son chasing his young wife around in a chaotic squabble. "You call me big sister! Why don't you call me big brother?"

His virtuous young wife grinned wickedly. "You silly boy, I tricked you!"

Liang Qiurun shut his eyes, then opened them again. They were still at it...

He thought it was a one-off, but it turned out to be the new normal.

At noon, he had to go to school to bail out his wife and son. In the evening, he had to go to the police station to bail out his wife and son. At night, he had to drag two people who'd stayed out all night back home.

Eventually, after discovering how satisfying married life could be, Liang Qiurun went from a workaholic to a model husband who came home every day.

Their relationship progressed by leaps and bounds. They were like tinder and flame, just as things were about to reach a fever pitch...

System: Simulate the persona of an evil wife and give him a hard slap!

Jiang Meishu rolls over and smacks him on the butt. "System, that's evil enough, right?"

System: ...

Liang Qiurun: My young wife sure is enthusiastic.

Later on.

Her stepson, once a poor student, gets into Tsinghua University: "Once my mother, always my mother. It's only right that I support you in your old age, isn't it?"

Her workaholic husband, now a hopeless romantic: "It's only natural to bring my work home and earn money for my wife to spend, right?"

Her sister, who swapped identities and accidentally landed a billionaire: "Meishu, want to switch back? You could try out the life of a top-tier rich woman!"

Liang Qiurun arrives to take his wife home and sees this scene. His gaze darkens. "Switch back to what?"

Later still.

Liang Qiurun's old flames are rekindled. He comes home every day, and every night they cling to each other in a passionate embrace. At the height of their passion, he gazes at his radiant, blushing young wife and murmurs hoarsely, "Be good and tell me, who are you really?"

Jiang Meishu rubs her aching waist, close to tears.

How is she supposed to tell him that she's his former sister-in-law,

and married him because she thought he was impotent?

But it turned out...

He was! Too! Good!

A beauty who only wants to laze around but completes her evil missions × a workaholic factory director who's a hopeless romantic

Theme: Don't give up when you face hardship.