Stop Pretending, My Mother-in-Law Is a Billionaire

Book Review: "Talking and Laughing" | A clichéd story of a son-in-law, hiding the secrets to a fast-paced, entertaining novel. The opening chapter immediately presents a familiar template for the male protagonist, Tian Haohao, who comes from a rural background and is forced to marry into the Su family to pay for his sister's medical treatment. He suffers constant cold treatment in the wealthy family, and his brother-in-law is the first to cause trouble, with the conflict erupting right at the beginning of the first chapter. The formula for this type of son-in-law novel has been written everywhere: the framework of marrying into the family, being humiliated, enduring hardship, and then a reversal and a slap in the face later on, without breaking out of the classic urban wish-fulfillment novel paradigm. The hook in the first chapter is very straightforward. The brother-in-law comes to the door in a rage early in the morning because of a trivial matter of diluting shampoo. The conflict comes quickly and is easy to understand. It doesn't require much brainpower to understand the conflict, which is very much in line with the reading habits of readers of short videos and small websites - the conflict is presented in the first three seconds, and the opening is full of frustration. The advantages are obvious: The pacing is tight, avoiding lengthy, irrelevant background exposition; the opening scene jumps straight into an argument and conflict. The characters...