Little Days in an Old Alley [The 1980s]

In her previous life, everyone said Chen Xiuzhu was lucky. Without that extraordinary era, how could the granddaughter of a nanny have married Song Mingzhe and become the young madam of a grand old house in Shanghai?

But who knew how hard it was to maintain appearances when a capitalist family had lost its capital? Her in-laws, her husband, her sister-in-law, and even the young lady from a family of old friends who lived there were all masters of that old house. She was the only one who wasn’t.

Worst of all, the adopted son she’d carefully raised turned out to be the child of her husband and that young lady.

She swallowed her resentment until the day she died.

When she opened her eyes again, Chen Xiuzhu had been reborn to the day she learned she was infertile, when Song Mingzhe brought home a treacherous adopted son.

The whole family threatened to divorce her if she didn’t adopt the child.

Chen Xiuzhu: “Fine, let’s divorce. Whoever backs out is a dog!”

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After the divorce, her ex-husband married the young lady he’d always longed for. Chen Xiuzhu, meanwhile, married Wang Dongsheng, who’d just returned from the countryside and lived in the alley next door. He was so poor he had nothing to his name, and his mother was a cripple.

Her ex-husband’s family laughed at her. “You can’t have children, and we hear Wang Dongsheng was injured while he was sent to the countryside. He can’t perform, so he won’t mind.”

Chen Xiuzhu hadn’t given any thought to whether Wang Dongsheng could perform.

She only remembered that in her previous life, even though his family was weak and bookish, Wang Dongsheng had always helped her with any hard labor. This time, she just wanted someone to keep her company.

Who could have guessed that night, he…

Just three months later, Chen Xiuzhu was pregnant.

Three years later, her ex-husband’s family had fallen so far that they had to sell their old house. Chen Xiuzhu brought her husband and child over to look at the house, and took the chance to remind her ex-husband…

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