A Beautiful Stepmother in an Eighties Blended Family

The neighboring novel, Rebuilding a Family in the 1980s: Raising the Kids the Other Way Around, is now underway. Please add it to your collection, thank you so much! The blurb is below. Blurb: Nie Qingqing is the prettiest daughter in the Nie family. After her divorce, she returned to her parents' home. Her older brother and sister-in-law treated her well and took good care of her, but Nie Qingqing knew better than to think she could stay there forever, no matter how wonderful they were. Her mother said, "Your aunt says their machinery factory has a new plant manager who was parachuted in. He graduated from university, studied abroad on a state scholarship, and was a technical backbone at the main factory. He was transferred to the branch factory as its manager. He earns a lot and is very capable. You're pretty, so she wants you to meet him." Nie Qingqing knew better than to get carried away. "With credentials that good, he could find any unmarried young woman. Why would he want to be set up with me?" Her mother said awkwardly, "Your aunt says he's just a little old and a little ugly. When she went to ask about him, she thought he might suit her, but not you. Still, he has a big house and a high salary." Nie Qingqing made up her mind. "A woman marries a man for clothes and food, so let's meet him." Song Zhao started school late. He only took the college entrance exam after his family was exonerated. After graduating, he joined the main factory and specialized in technology. Two years later, he was sent abroad to study. When he returned, he was promoted to chief technical engineer, then transferred to manage a branch factory. He was no good at socializing, and his personal affairs had been put off until he was thirty. He couldn't put them off any longer. The old uncle who looked after him said, "I asked the auntie in the factory cafeteria. She's got a niece who's just divorced. She's only twenty-six and stunning, and she can handle everything at home and at work. If you want to focus on technology and turn the branch factory's losses into profits, you need to get your home life settled. Go meet her." Song Zhao said, "With credentials that good, any single young man could find her. Why would she want to be set up with me?" His old uncle said, "She's just too fierce. No man can put up with her. I even asked her ex-husband, and he said she ties people up in the middle of the night and whips them..." Song Zhao cut him off. "We could sleep in separate rooms after we marry. That's fine. I'll go meet her." At the matchmaking meeting, Nie Qingqing saw a very handsome man, tall and mature. She just couldn't see the old, ugly man she was supposed to meet. At the matchmaking meeting, Song Zhao waited a long time and saw only a young, beautiful, gentle, kind woman. He couldn't see the fierce shrew he was supposed to meet. Blurb for Rebuilding a Family in the 1980s: Raising the Kids the Other Way Around: Lin Wanying was reborn, and only then learned the real reason her husband had divorced her: his first love's family had been exonerated, and the two scumbags had rushed to divorce their spouses so they could be together. Everyone mocked Lin Wanying, saying her husband, an educated youth, had divorced her because she wielded knives and guns with her father, who had died young, didn't have children properly, and even had to bring along her little brother. To change the fate she had suffered in her previous life, Lin Wanying decided to go to the capital and find Gu Liansheng, another victim of divorce, so they could remarry and raise children together under an agreement! Gu Liansheng received an urgent telegram. His wife of five years was making a scene, threatening to die unless he divorced her. On his way back, he stumbled upon a clash with bandits. A charming young woman suddenly sprang into action, knocking out one bandit with a single punch and preventing anyone from getting hurt. As Gu Liansheng chatted with the heroine, he asked admiringly, "Miss, are you going to the capital to stay with relatives?" Lin Wanying casually replied, "I'm divorced. My family introduced me to a good match for a second marriage. He's a police officer named Gu Liansheng. When I saw you catching thieves, I couldn't help wanting to lend a hand." Gu Liansheng: ...There are so many people in the world with the same name. It must just be a coincidence. Gu Liansheng had been married to his wife for five years, and they had treated each other with icy politeness. As soon as her family was exonerated, she rushed to divorce him, leaving him with her mischievous younger brother. Freshly divorced and overwhelmed with troubles, Gu Liansheng was praised by one of the wives in the residential compound. "Liansheng, you just got divorced and already found yourself a new wife. That's the way to get even! She's already at your doorstep. Hurry home and take a look. She's so gentle and pretty." Gu Liansheng: ...How come he didn't know he had a new wife? Lin Wanying found Gu Liansheng's home. By the time he came back, he would be divorced and single. They hadn't even formed a blended family yet, but her little brother and Gu Liansheng's younger brother, Gu Shuisheng, two boys close in age, were already fighting. Lin Wanying pinned one boy down with each hand and tied them both up neatly with a hemp rope. Lin Wanying thought that even both boys together weren't as mischievous as she had been as a child. As long as Gu Liansheng agreed, this life of raising kids together in a blended family seemed perfectly fine! Lin Wanying had already won over all the kids in the Gu family when the young police officer she'd run into on the road a few days earlier saluted her. "Hello, Comrade Wanying. I'm Gu Liansheng." Lin Wanying: ... The two of them made the best of it and began their chaotic life of raising kids who ran the household! Theme: Be self-reliant and independent, respect and love one another, and work together to build a future.