The 1970s: The Whole City Bets I’ll Get Beaten After Marrying a Roughneck

[Devoted couple + exclusive pampering + face-slapping + double standards + feel-good story]

In her previous life, she spent 25 years as a long-suffering stepmother, raising her husband’s three children, buying them houses and cars in the county town, and paying for their weddings and lavish dowries. Yet after her husband died, he was to be buried with his long-dead first love.

The three children she had raised from infancy drove her out of the house, leaving her homeless. She froze to death by the roadside.

Reborn into a new life, she decided that whoever wanted to be that “good” stepmother could do it. She wasn’t going to be a stepmother again or have anything to do with her ex-husband.

But the scumbag still wouldn’t leave her alone in this life. His whole family was already scheming to make her their unpaid servant.

Faced with their schemes, she turned around and married the rough military officer in the hospital room next door.

The man looked crude, but time and again he stood up for her, shielding her from every storm. His words were blunt and sharp, and he verbally lashed her scumbag ex until the man couldn’t hold his head up.

And when words weren’t enough, he could use his fists. Her sense of security went straight to MAX.

After she married this crude man, her ex mocked her, and nobody thought the two of them would work out. Everyone waited to see her get bullied and beg for mercy in tears.

But in the end, they never got the scene they were hoping for.

Instead, the man who had spent his whole life being a slob held a rag in one hand and a broom in the other, coaxing her in the gentlest voice...