The Original Wife Has Skin Like Ice and Bones Like Jade, and Is Doted on After Joining the Army

Jiang Qiuyue transmigrated into a book, becoming the early-deceased ex-wife of the male lead in a period novel. The original owner worked herself to the bone for her husband's family, sacrificing everything with the belief that hardship now would bring sweetness later. In the end, she worked herself to death and someone else reaped the benefits. After dying from overwork at a major factory, Jiang Qiuyue declared that nobody was going to make her run herself ragged this time! Whoever wanted to do the housework could do it. Her husband's salary would go to her first, then to the children. She took good care of herself. When she couldn't find face cream, she wrote to her husband and told him to buy some. When she'd spent all her living expenses, she wrote to him and urged him to work harder. When she couldn't find seasonal fruit, she wrote to her husband again... Lin Zhengrong had been away from home for five years, and lately he kept receiving letters from his hometown. He and his wife had married through a matchmaker and had no foundation of affection. As the letters became more frequent, he decided to go home and see what was going on. The moment he walked in and saw a fair-skinned beauty reclining on a chaise longue, he thought he'd entered the wrong house... Within two days of his return, three men had come to flirt with his wife. Lin Zhengrong: She has to join me at the base! I have to make sure she joins me! ~ Lin Zhengrong's comrades, stationed far away, didn't react much when they heard Jiang Qiuyue would be joining him. Whenever Lin Zhengrong mentioned her, he only ever called her “plain.” But when Jiang Qiuyue arrived at the military residential compound, they were all stunned. One of the comrades who was closer to Lin Zhengrong asked enviously, “Bro, did you get married again?” Lin Zhengrong gritted his teeth. “She's my first wife!” His comrades: We want wives as “plain” as that, too! [New book now available: The Rongcheng Household [Period Piece]] At a state-run restaurant, her blind date started spitting as soon as he opened his mouth. Zeng Shuyi picked up her chopsticks, then set them back down. As the matchmaker talked animatedly, Zeng Shuyi's thoughts drifted elsewhere... Her eldest brother was preparing to take the college entrance exam for the third time, her second sister was returning from her youth village with her whole family, and her younger brother had been expelled for illegal buying and selling. The whole family was crammed into a three-room courtyard in Wutong Alley, with even the passageway filled with beds. Each of her siblings had their own little schemes, all hoping to improve their lives. Zeng Shuyi wasn't a pushover either. She knew that if she didn't fight for what she wanted, she'd get nothing. She watched their neighbor Xiao Wang sell out all his fish balls in the time it took to eat a meal. After thinking it over, Zeng Shuyi decided to get ahead of the times and start a private business, too! [Pre-release 2: Stealing Fragrance] When his father fell gravely ill, Pei Heng returned to the capital to visit him. At first glance, he saw a new concubine by the sickbed, dressed in plain clothes, with a slender waist and tears in her eyes. Their eyes met, and Jiaorui accidentally knocked over the medicine bowl. It shattered across the floor. Pei Heng: Isn't she the con artist who used to date him, then dumped him after cheating him out of his money and taking his virtue? A former lover becomes his stepmother, and an unfilial son tries to steal his father's woman. Theme: Love yourself