The two children, rarely seeing their mother in a good mood, snuggled up to Xia Wenhua and begged her to play with them.

Xia Wenhua herself also loves children, but living in a fast-paced society, she doesn't have the time or energy to have children. After transmigrating, she becomes a mother without pain, and the children are all her own. She is quickly attracted to the children and plays with the two of them.

As for the explanation, let's wait until the big boss has resolved the family division issue!

Pei Songbai truly deserves to be the man favored by the great god of time travel. What would have taken other families days to resolve—the division of the family—was settled by him and the rest of the Pei family in just one afternoon.

When he returned to his room, he had not only discussed the division of the family with the others, but had even had the brigade leader sign the division document. From today onwards, the Pei family was officially divided.

When he entered, the two little ones were already asleep. Pei Songbai handed the family division document to Xia Wenhua: "If you are going to follow me to the army, you will definitely have to divide the family property. We don't want to deal with the other families. Mother said to divide it with us first, and we'll talk about it later. This is our family division document. Take a look."

Since it concerned her future life, Xia Wenhua did not hesitate at all and carefully read through the family division documents.

In the original owner's memories, Pei Songbai did not appear many times, but the impression he left was that he was blindly filial. Therefore, Xia Wenhua had previously suggested that if Pei's mother was willing, she could go with them. Now, looking at the family division document, she realized that it was not the case at all.

"You used to give your family twenty yuan, and now that the family has separated, it's still twenty. What about your mother's side... aren't you going to take care of her?"

Hearing Xia Wenhua naturally address Pei's mother as "Mother" and genuinely discussing matters concerning the Pei family, Pei Songbai's eyes gradually warmed.

To a country bumpkin like him, Xia Wenhua was a fairy from heaven. They had come together by accident, and he knew that both her age and family background were beneath her. He never forced her to be with him when she didn't want to.

When he caught Xia Wenhua cheating, he was utterly devastated. He thought his family was about to fall apart, but who would have thought that Xia Wenhua would change her personality like this?

Remembering this, he looked at the sleeping child, turned around and closed the door, then sat down seriously opposite Xia Wenhua: "What's wrong with you? Is there something you need my help with?"

Besides this reason, he could find no other reason that could make Xia Wenhua change so much.

Pei Songbai could accept Xia Wenhua's infidelity even if he was angry, but it was strange that Xia Wenhua suddenly wanted to live a good life with him when nothing had happened.

Even after he pointed out her abnormality, Xia Wenhua had already thought about how to face it. But upon hearing Pei Songbai's words, tears instantly streamed down her face.

"I...something happened at home."

Her beautiful face was instantly wet with tears, and Pei Songbai's heart tightened immediately.

In the past, Xia Wenhua usually had an aloof and detached demeanor, and she was cold and indifferent to everyone in the Pei family without any other expression. When had he ever seen Xia Wenhua cry?

How could a mere mortal like him resist the tears of a fairy?

Pei Songbai subconsciously stepped forward, picked up a handkerchief from the side to wipe Xia Wenhua's tears, but then remembered the scene of him being disliked before, paused for a moment, and handed the handkerchief to Xia Wenhua.

"Wipe your tears, don't rush, tell me slowly. Aren't your parents-in-law in Hebei Province? What happened? Is there anything I can do to help?"

From the moment Xia Wenhua started crying, the initiative in today's conversation was destined to be in her hands.

Pei Songbai is not yet the kind of big shot who awakens self-awareness and works hard to eventually dominate the world. Although he has achieved some success now, his rural background gives him a natural advantage in showing respect to cultured people like Xia Wenhua.

He didn't know that his marriage to Xia Wenhua was just a product of his world consciousness. Perhaps finding a cultured person as a wife was a stroke of good luck for his family. Pei Songbai was very satisfied with Xia Wenhua as his wife.

Even though he longed for a warm home with a wife and children, he could live the rest of his life as long as Xia Wenhua was unwilling, despite the cold and distant relationship they had maintained for the past four years.

Suddenly realizing that Xia Wenhua's attitude had softened, he wished he could immediately crawl into Xia Wenhua's mind to see what she was thinking and take their relationship to the next level.

Pei Songbai was very cooperative. Xia Wenhua had long wanted to remove all the landmines planted by the original owner, so she didn't hesitate and told the truth directly.

"The people in my file from Hebei Province are not my parents, but my family's former farmhands and their spouses."

The moment the words "long-term worker" were uttered, the temperature in the room inexplicably dropped a few degrees.

The situation started to turn sour starting in 1965, and now, even those who can afford to hire long-term laborers are not in a good position.

Pei Songbai raised his eyebrows: "The people in Hebei Province aren't your parents. Your information is fake?"

He was a soldier, and both he and his wife had undergone political vetting before getting married. However, Xia Wenhua and he didn't get along well when they got married, and she said she didn't want to take him home, but he didn't think much of it.

Who would have thought that during the background check, it would suddenly come out that her parents at the time were not her biological parents.

Pei Songbai, having held a high position for a long time, couldn't possibly control those greenhorns in the barracks without some skill. At this moment, he glared at Xia Wenhua, who felt a rare sense of guilt.

It's fair to say the author was too lazy to even touch on the character of the male protagonist's ex-wife; such an obviously illogical plot point just appeared.

She learned from the original owner's memories that Pei Songbai still didn't know her true situation, which made her very nervous.

Xia Wenhua was well aware of how important class background was in this era. If she wanted to live a good life, she couldn't avoid the issue of class background, so she might as well tell Pei Songbai the truth.

Her tears were real; the time-traveling author hadn't mentioned that she was destined to be the descendant of a capitalist. Even with the male lead by her side, could she really survive comfortably in the 1960s and 70s with this identity?

Faced with Pei Songbai's questioning, Xia Wenhua lowered her head: "Yes, those documents are not true. My family knew something was wrong, so they wanted to find me a place to hide. I'm here, a million miles away from home, so normally no one would ask. I don't contact Hebei Province either, so under normal circumstances no one would know about this."

Xia Wenhua sobbed as she spoke, and Pei Songbai's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed as he looked at her pitiful appearance.

He knew that what Xia Wenhua said was true. If he hadn't been tricked while catching spies, and hadn't mistakenly spent a night with Xia Wenhua before getting married and undergoing a political review, Xia Wenhua's identity would normally not have been investigated.

Both of them understand the logic, but what can they do now given the situation?