Stepmom on the Run: Taking the Kids and Marrying the Neighbor, Old Wang

[Period setting + charming, rough-edged man + doting wife + power couple]

At the end of her life, Song Ning suddenly felt wronged. Her life hadn't been extraordinary, but she had been frugal, hardworking, and the mother who put two children through university.

She was a dutiful eldest daughter, a good big sister who dropped out of school to raise her younger siblings, and an all-around homemaker who looked after her in-laws and stepchildren, from meals to every little need. She had spent her whole life caring for everyone, young and old, and Song Ning dared say she had never let anyone down. She had given them all her wholehearted devotion.

But just before she died, she overheard what others thought of her. She never imagined that, in the eyes of her younger siblings, who had made something of themselves and built their own homes, and her stepchildren, she was nothing but an uneducated, uncouth brute: crude, short-tempered, petty over a few coins, stingy, and an unsophisticated country woman.

They didn't even invite her to their weddings.

When she opened her eyes again, she was twenty-four. The first thing Song Ning did was call her husband.

"Let's get divorced."