My Mom Is the Real Heiress in a Period Novel

Only after Shen Jingzhe died once did she learn the truth: the woman she had been told was abandoned as a child and adopted by kind strangers was actually the real daughter of a military family, abducted as a baby!

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Zhang Jianmei had always known she was abandoned by her birth parents. Her adoptive parents had carried her out of a snowdrift and raised her on every drop of blood and milk they could give.

Everyone told her she had to be grateful for the rest of her life.

She cared for her paralyzed older brother and raised her younger siblings, working like an old ox and giving every ounce of herself to her adoptive family.

At sixteen, she was married off in exchange for betrothal gifts for the family.

At twenty-three, she became a widow, and her husband's relatives tried to take everything from her and her daughter.

At twenty-five, her younger brother needed money to get married, and her adoptive mother begged her to marry again.

The man was twelve years older than her and had three children. They said he had beaten his previous wife to death, and drowned his youngest daughter too.

Zhang Jianmei worried about her own daughter and refused to marry him.

But her adoptive mother knelt stiffly before her and once again brought up the past...

Those debts of gratitude weighed on Zhang Jianmei like a chain of towering mountains, constantly reminding her that her worthless life was all thanks to her adoptive parents.

Her adoptive mother wept and said this was the last time she would ever ask her to help the family.

Zhang Jianmei sat in silence all day. In the end, she nodded and agreed to marry.

In the middle of the night, her eight-year-old daughter came down with a high fever, and Zhang Jianmei was frantic with worry.

But the first thing her daughter said when she woke up was, "Mom, don't marry him."

Then she said, "Mom, you weren't abandoned."

Later,

Zhang Jianmei finally learned that her adoptive parents had abducted her. She had never owed them a thing!

And her name wasn't Zhang Jianmei at all.

She was Cheng Ruyi.

Her parents had named her hoping her life would always go just as she wished.

Theme: Love is a two-way journey