Xiulan Refuses to Be a Widow

In the modern world, Li Xiulan was a staunchly patriotic, well-bred older single woman who had never married. She looked down on married women, unwilling to be tied down by trivial housework and the daily grind of food, clothing, and household necessities. So she posted online that married women must have something wrong with their heads to want to get married. Her post enraged women everywhere, who cursed her, saying she should transmigrate to ancient times and experience life with a vicious mother-in-law, a troublesome sister-in-law, and a husband who was a mama's boy. And then, to her dismay, Li Xiulan really did transmigrate.

She ended up as a widow, saddled with a bunch of stepchildren, and remarried to a eunuch. Well, a eunuch was a eunuch. At least she wouldn't have to give herself to him.

One night, she fumed, "I thought you were supposed to be a eunuch!"

He smiled faintly. "I never said I was."

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