After the Children Swapped Marriages in the 1970S, the Ungrateful Family Regrets Everything

[1970s family-swap comparison + the whole family’s regret + face-slapping revenge fantasy] Jiang Lili’s parents divorced when she was five. Her father took her younger brother south to find work, while her mother took her younger sister and remarried a wealthy businessman. Only she, the eldest daughter, was passed back and forth like a ball, wanted by no one. Left with her paternal grandparents, she struggled to get by under the watchful eyes of her third uncle and aunt. Desperate for even a scrap of affection, she shuttled between the two households, humbling herself and trying to please everyone. At her father’s home, she tutored her good-for-nothing younger brother and helped him get into a prestigious university. At her mother’s home, she helped her stepfather with his business and saved his company from bankruptcy, so her mother and sister could keep living like the upper crust. Meanwhile, her own health deteriorated from years of overwork, and she developed kidney disease. When she urgently needed a kidney transplant, no one in the family was willing to be tested as a donor. Her younger siblings had been spoiled since childhood, and her parents couldn’t bear to see them suffer, yet they were willing to watch her be tortured by illness until she died. She had poured her heart and soul into the family, only to raise a pack of ungrateful wolves. When she opened her eyes again, she was reborn. She had returned to the moment in her previous life when her parents divorced and asked her to choose between them. Jiang Lili clenched her fists. This time, she would choose neither of them. Instead, she chose her illiterate, shiftless second uncle, the village bully. From then on, her second uncle worked hard, went to college, started a business, and married the woman he had loved but never won in his previous life, her second aunt. She, too, became the apple of her second uncle and aunt’s eyes.