The Twin Villains’ Depressed Mom, Trying to Keep Things Fair: The 1990s

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During the wave of layoffs, Bo Ziyan divorced her husband, the factory director at the time, who wanted to seek his fortune elsewhere.

They split custody of their twin sons, one each.

She didn’t like a life of wandering.

As it turned out, her ex-husband established himself within six months, while her own life became a complete upheaval after she remarried a worker.

Bo Ziyan thought this was quite the melodrama.

But the truly melodramatic part was yet to come.

It turned out she was the early-dead biological mother who served as cannon fodder in a stepmother novel.

The elder son was mature, steady, and sensitive. Still pining for his birth mother, he was an ungrateful villain who ignored his stepmother’s overtures. The younger son was brash and willful. He joined the story halfway through and became a villain who did as he pleased while fighting his stepbrother for the inheritance.

Neither of them could stand their stepmother, but they disliked each other even more.

Elder son: “I still don’t understand why Mom took you with her back then.”

Younger son: “I still don’t understand why Mom missed you before she died.”

The two of them were so childish that they fought each other relentlessly and both ended up worse off, handing everything to someone else on a silver platter.

Bo Ziyan couldn’t understand those two children.

She also couldn’t understand why “she” had taken one child away while reminiscing about the other in front of him.

Didn’t she know you should cherish the child right in front of you?

So when faced with a potential match, Bo Ziyan hugged her younger son tightly and said, “No need. I just need to raise my own child properly.”

When her elder son came to spy on her in disguise, Bo Ziyan said flatly, “What mother wouldn’t recognize her own child?”

Coming soon: Back Before My Younger Stepbrother Was Kidnapped [The Nineties]

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Tang Shu had always treated Ling Xiao, who had a clubfoot, as dead weight and an ungrateful wretch, even though he was simply a child her mother had from her second marriage after being betrayed.

Yet he was always trying to return to his biological father.

That summer, he got into a car driven by a man he called his uncle, who said he was taking him home. After that, he vanished without a trace.

For ten years, her mother would still reminisce about how sensible and well-behaved he had been, helping out at the clothing shop and massaging her shoulders.

But even after the shop went bankrupt and her mother died, he never showed up.

Tang Shu thought that even a dog would have wagged its tail at her back then. What a waste of that pretty face.

Then came the year she wanted to go to college. Her biological father wouldn’t help, her maternal uncle wouldn’t lift a finger, and she still hadn’t repaid the money she’d borrowed from the folks in her hometown. Just when she was down and out,

she received a death notice and an inheritance of 33,583 yuan.

It was left to her by Ling Xiao.

It turned out Ling Xiao had been tricked and abducted back then, and had only been rescued by the police in recent years.

Reading guide: His clubfoot will get better.

Theme: Cherish the child right in front of you.