The Sultry Little Nanny of the Eighties

After her birth mother died young, Xu Mingxiu was worked like a spinning top by her stepmother. Leftover scraps were hers, and so were all the dirty, exhausting chores.

Just as she finally reached adulthood, her stepmother offered a bride price of only three hundred yuan and tried to marry her off to a divorced older man with a child.

In her previous life, she thought she could get through it if she just endured. In the end, she was beaten to death by her husband.

Given another chance at life, she has only one thought: run.

She flees the wedding to the city and, with an introduction from a friend she made as a sent-down youth, starts working as a housekeeper.

Her employer is young, fit, and handsome, but he's notorious for his bad temper.

More than a dozen housekeepers have come and gone, and not one has stayed.

Xu Mingxiu thinks it over: Could he really be harder to deal with than her stepmother?

She'll take the job!

Lu Chenzhou was the strictest instructor at the military academy. After retiring due to an injury, he became gloomy and withdrawn.

His family went through more than a dozen housekeepers before finding one he could tolerate: Xu Mingxiu.

The little housekeeper cooks better than a restaurant, keeps the house spotless, and can even cure his stubborn insomnia. The only problem is that she's a little scheming and very good at tempting people.

Her waist looks distractingly slender when she ties on an apron. Her ankles are dazzlingly white when she mops the floor. Even when she goes to the school to bring him lunch and smiles at his colleagues, it annoys him.

He holds back for three whole months, until one of his colleagues asks the little housekeeper right in front of him if she'd like to start dating.

He can't hold back any longer. He grabs her and pulls her away.

"If you're going to marry him, you might as well marry me."

Xu Mingxiu looks up at him. "Do I get a salary if I marry you?"

Lu Chenzhou: ...

Theme: Work hard to earn money and keep striving every day!