After Swapping Souls with Grandma

When a sharp-tongued, son-preferring grandmother and her vain, rebellious, school-hating granddaughter switch souls...

Fan Xiuhua had a fight with her eldest son's wife, Zhao Yejuan. After the battle, she was so furious she went back to her room and lay there for a while. When she opened her eyes, she saw the eldest daughter-in-law she hated most sitting by the bed, looking at her with affection. "Sweetheart, you're awake. Do you want to get up and eat something?"

Fan Xiuhua: ...Did I drive my daughter-in-law crazy?

Wen Youyou was so angry that her parents wouldn't buy her the latest Fruit phone that she went on a hunger strike at home. She kept at it until she fell asleep. When she woke, she was met by her dad's deeply affectionate, adoring gaze. He said, "Mom, does your head still hurt?"

Wen Youyou: Oh no, did my hunger strike make me hallucinate?

A few minutes later, the Wen family's grandmother and granddaughter both let out a scream...

What happens next:

Illiterate Fan Xiuhua is forced by her "dad" and "mom" to read and study at home, staring at her textbooks as if they were written in the heavens.

Wen Youyou, who wanted a Fruit phone, squints as she tries to read the caller ID on an old person's phone. She doesn't want a Fruit phone anymore. She can't even chew fruit! Even her romance, which hadn't started yet, has been nipped in the bud. The only thing that goes her way is that she doesn't have to go to school.

A little scene:

At the dinner table, Fan Xiuhua, in her granddaughter's body, instinctively picks up her chopsticks and starts eating. Her filial son sees that his "mom" hasn't touched her food yet, but his "daughter" is already eating, and smacks her with his chopsticks. "How can you eat before your elders? Where are your manners?"

Then he gives his "mom" a sycophantic glance.

Fan Xiuhua, accustomed to eating first: ...

Wen Youyou, still in her younger generation's body but with the bearing of an old woman, sees what her dad has done and shouts angrily, "How dare you talk to your daughter like that? Apologize!"

Wen Dad: ??? Why does his mom's tone have a familiar, coquettish edge to it?

Zhao Yejuan kicks her husband hard under the table. That bastard dared to hit her daughter! Then she puts a huge chicken leg in her "daughter's" bowl. "Eat up. Ignore your dad."

"Old Daughter" Fan Xiuhua: ...This feeling of being loved is surprisingly nice.

Meanwhile, Wen Youyou gets jealous. She glares at Zhao Yejuan with drooping eyelids, shouting inwardly, Mom, I'm your daughter!!!

Zhao Yejuan thinks she's successfully angered her "mother-in-law." She gives a smug little snort, adds another serving of vegetables to her "daughter's" bowl, and whispers with a laugh, "Eat up. That old hag, your grandma, is about to die of anger!"

Young old hag: ...

Content warnings: Two female leads X a whole family of oddballs, hardly any of them decent.

Grandma Fan Xiuhua is sharp-tongued and favors boys over girls. Her sons and grandsons are treasures; her daughters and granddaughters are weeds.

Granddaughter Wen Youyou is vain and going through a rebellious phase. She hates school, has already confessed to her crush, and is now in the ambiguous stage of their relationship.

Wen Dad is indecisive, a mama's boy, and socially inept.

Wen Mom is pretty okay. She was an innocent young beauty before marriage, but became a shrew afterward. Her everyday routine is cursing the heavens, the earth, men, and her mother-in-law.

Wen Youyou's younger brother, Wen Pengcheng, is Grandma's precious boy and a little spoiled.

Wen Aunt is her birth family's go-between. Raised by her mother, she believes that daughters must spend their whole lives serving the men in their birth family.

Wen Uncle is a university professor who likes to put on airs and lecture people, and looks down on his older brother for staying in the countryside.

Wen Aunt-in-law is snobbish and dislikes her country mother-in-law.

Wen Cousin is the daughter of highly educated parents, but because she struggles at school, she's been made into a pitiful little girl who people-pleases and never stands up for herself.

(To be continued if I think of more.)

(The title is tentative and may change later.)

(Weibo screenshot 2024.1.27, minor revision 2024.2.3)

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