Better to Be a Street Loafer Than an Evil Mother-in-Law

A girl is not a soft, sweet little cupcake. She is an unbreakable, hard-core walnut.

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When Feng Banruo woke up, she discovered that she had transmigrated twelve years into the future.

Not only that, she also discovered that the world she lived in was actually the setting of an ancient romance novel full of angst. The male lead was her stepson, and the female lead was her daughter-in-law.

In the original timeline, after her husband died, Feng Banruo transferred her affections to the male lead. After the leads married, she stubbornly made trouble, constantly laying down rules and making things difficult for them, with an endless array of methods and astonishingly vicious tricks. In the end, the female lead tore away her kindly facade in front of everyone. Feng Banruo met a humiliating end, left alone and helpless, her corpse exposed in the wilderness.

To keep Feng Banruo moving forward with her mission and help her reach her fated ending as soon as possible, the System kept assigning her a series of strange tasks.

[The female lead brought you soup. Do not accept it. Make her stand here as punishment, and burn all ten of her fingers.]

[The female lead came to pay her respects. Do not see her. Make her kneel outside the door while you go back to sleep.]

[The female lead is pregnant. It is time to take a concubine for the male lead! Your niece from your maiden family would be a fine choice.]

[The female lead has miscarried. Go on, taunt her, scorn her, and abuse her. See that basin of cold water on the floor? Now dump it on her.]

Fourteen-year-old Feng Banruo: Huh? Me?

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The greatest wish of the young Feng Banruo's life was to become a wandering knight.

She slept at the third watch and rose at the fifth, practicing archery and horsemanship, and diligently training with swords and knives. Filled with ambition, she was finally ready to set out into the martial world with her blade in hand when she was bound to the System and stopped in her tracks by the mission of saving the world.

From that day on, the girl in her bright clothes and astride her fine horse was confined within the walls of a grand mansion, and the whole world became a cage. In the end, someone lit a lamp for her and walked with her into another world of freedom.

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Little Theater:

"My mother-in-law has recently become obsessed with a young man.

This young man is six or seven years younger than my husband. I tried to persuade my mother-in-law to break up with him, telling her it was a pig-butchering scam.

But she wouldn't listen to me. She even wants to elope with him. The thing is, he really isn't a decent man. He's incredibly handsome, and a respectable married man would never be that handsome. He must be trying to scam us out of our money.

Can someone tell me what I should do now? Urgent, waiting online."

Baji Forum, Capital City

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A high-energy, max-strength, super-short-tempered young girl x a sickly, deep-thinking, super-scheming prince with a sweet exterior and a ruthless heart

Reading Guide:

1. Updated daily at 5:00 p.m. There are plenty of chapters in reserve, so you can trust the author to finish the story. I'll reply to every comment, and there will be little red-envelope gifts, too.

2. A carefree fictional setting. The dynasties, official posts, and clothing are all mixed together. There is no historical basis; it's just for fun.

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The female lead is mentally underage in the early chapters, and there is no romance (her dead husband doesn't count). The male lead appears later, and the romance only begins after the female lead grows up.

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Upcoming story: The Crown Princess's Dead Ex-Husband Has Returned

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In the tenth year of the Dehua era, General Tao Wenke of Weiyuan gave his life for his country.

He had been a brave and formidable man in life, possessing much of his grandfather's heroic spirit. Now, with a shining star of a general suddenly fallen, the whole nation mourned him.

By imperial command, the Crown Prince came to the Weiyuan General's residence to offer his condolences. Amid the flickering snowlight, he gazed at Tao Wenke's bereaved widow, watching her kneel there in boundless grief. He cupped his hands and bowed to her. "Please accept my condolences, Madam."

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The incense had gone cold in its golden burner, and the bedcovers lay in crimson waves.

He held her in his arms, his fingertips gently brushing a plain-colored flower still caught in her hair. Without a care, he plucked it out and casually flicked it to the floor. Then his fingers moved from her temple to her pale red earlobe.

"He's already dead. When will you marry me, Elder Sister?"

She chided him, "Why are you in such a hurry? I'm still in deep mourning. If I married you just like this, wouldn't people point at us and call us a pair of adulterers?"

"You always say such nonsense, Elder Sister." He sighed. "But I'm eager to marry you. If you insist on observing the full three years of mourning for him, I might just die waiting for you."

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The year after General Tao Wenke of Weiyuan died, a man who looked exactly like him inexplicably appeared in the capital.

The man claimed to be Tao Wenke himself, and came to knock on the gates of the Weiyuan General's residence with his beloved concubine and son. He explained that the money and provisions he had taken from the residence before had not been enough. Now that his beloved concubine had given birth, he demanded that his first wife, Yu Kezhen, take the mother and son into the residence and provide for them.

The person who opened the door was an old servant he did not recognize, with dim eyes and deaf ears, stooped and frail.

"Tell my wife, Yu Kezhen, to come out and see me."

"There is no Madam Yu anymore," the old servant said. "The person staying here now is the Crown Princess."

Why would the Crown Princess be staying at the Weiyuan General's residence? Tao Wenke could not make sense of it.

It was not until ten days later, when he happened to glimpse her in the procession accompanying the Crown Princess on an outing to the Springwood Garden, that he finally saw her face. One glance left him rooted to the spot. The Crown Princess, pregnant and radiant with success, was none other than his wife,

Yu Kezhen.

Core message: People should be sincere with one another.