Swapped Brides and Married a Newly Rich Man [The 1990s]

The day Qiao Pan'er caught her boyfriend Tan Jun cheating, she learned that she was the Xu family's biological daughter.

The very next day, her birth parents bundled her off to marry the rich upstart Zhou Qizhen, the former fiancé of their adopted daughter.

On their wedding night, Zhou Qizhen laid down three rules:

She wasn't allowed to work outside the home.

She had to take good care of him.

She had to dress up beautifully every day to please his eyes.

She was just about to curse him out

when he added, "I'll give you a hundred thousand a month for household expenses."

Qiao Pan'er's expression changed in an instant. Smiling sweetly, she said, "All right, darling!"

You've got to be kidding.

Where else would she find a client who paid her a hundred thousand a month, made only three demands, was handsome and muscular, and let her sleep with him for free?

Of course she wasn't going to work!

Working for someone else meant realizing someone else's dream.

Now that she had the backing of her rich husband, starting a business would be a piece of cake!

Take good care of him?

He gave her a hundred thousand a month for household expenses. She could spend just a tenth of that to hire ten housekeepers and give them both a high-quality life!

Dress beautifully? Did she even need to be told?

But as for who was pleasing whom, that was another matter...

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Xu Weiyi was reborn on the eve of her wedding.

This time, she absolutely refused to marry Zhou Qizhen, the domineering, impotent rich upstart she'd married in her previous life.

She would stay by the side of her promising brother Tan Jun, stand by him through thick and thin, and reach the pinnacle of success with him.

So Xu Weiyi took the initiative to expose herself as the fake heiress. Pointing at the real heiress, Qiao Pan'er, she told her adoptive parents, "She's your biological daughter. And she was born on the exact same day as me. Her birth chart will bring that rich upstart good fortune, too!"

The day Qiao Pan'er married Zhou Qizhen

was also the day Xu Weiyi married Tan Jun.

After the wedding, Xu Weiyi waited to see Qiao Pan'er make a fool of herself.

Hah! Qiao Pan'er thought she'd married a rich, handsome, domineering boss? She'd find out on their wedding night just how bad Zhou Qizhen's temper was and that he was impotent!

But when they returned to their parents' home three days later, Xu Weiyi saw love bites on Qiao Pan'er's neck.

She also noticed the way Zhou Qizhen looked at Qiao Pan'er: like a newly sated wolf cub eyeing a delicious lamb, his eyes gleaming with unsatisfied desire.

Meanwhile, Xu Weiyi, who'd married Tan Jun on the same day, couldn't get any. Tan Jun had to comfort his insecure widowed mother and stepsister, and had spent the past few days keeping them company and putting them to bed.

Xu Weiyi then waited to see Qiao Pan'er lose her confidence under Zhou Qizhen's daily put-downs and turn into a worn-out housewife.

But instead, Qiao Pan'er grew more radiant by the day?

It was Xu Weiyi who grew increasingly haggard, stuck caring for Tan Jun's widowed mother and stepsister and helping manage his struggling business, without earning a cent.

Xu Weiyi sat back and waited for Zhou Qizhen to go bankrupt, so she could laugh at Qiao Pan'er.

But Zhou Qizhen didn't go bankrupt. His business only grew bigger!

And Qiao Pan'er never became a vulgar wife of a rich upstart. She started her own business and even earned the respectful title of "President Qiao" in the industry!

Unable to take it anymore, Xu Weiyi went to Qiao Pan'er's company to demand an explanation.

But just as she said, "Why did you take everything from me?"

Zhou Qizhen burst through the door, beaming, with a cute pink lunchbox in his hand. "Honey, I learned a new dish today. Give it a try..."

Then Xu Weiyi watched as Zhou Qizhen lovingly pulled Qiao Pan'er into his arms, kissed her, and fed her a bite of food...

Xu Weiyi ran off in tears, stuffed full of their public displays of affection.

In this life,

it seemed she'd become a joke all over again.

Theme: Love means being there for each other and showing respect