Arranged Marriage in the 1970s: A Couple’s Sweet Story

After Ning Jia and her best friend finished mocking a novel set in the 1970s, fate played a cruel trick — they both found themselves transported into the very story they had ridiculed. Worse still, they had become bitter rival sisters-in-law, forced to live under the same roof.

Her best friend was now the substitute for her husband’s unattainable first love, struggling through nights of endless indulgence and emotional exhaustion. Ning Jia, on the other hand, became the pitifully devoted wife, waiting alone in an empty room for a man who barely acknowledged her existence. Cold, hungry, and at the mercy of a tyrannical mother-in-law — life had become unbearable.

Best friend: “Shall we divorce?”

Ning Jia: “Yes! If you go, I’ll go too!”

Divorce sounded easy, but without money, escape was impossible. If they couldn’t leave, then they would rise — and fight.

Though they seemed at odds in public, clashing at every encounter, behind closed doors, they were a formidable alliance — united in purpose and unstoppable in action.

Mother-in-law troubles? Merely a minor inconvenience. Together, the two of them proved invincible, rendering their venomous elder powerless.

Poverty and hunger? Unthinkable. Gifted with ingenuity and drive, they quickly turned their fortunes around, with meat on every table and money flowing faster than they could count.

And as for that man—Tall, powerfully built, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, he was undeniably attractive. But hadn’t he always treated her with cold indifference? So then why, now, was he so wild and possessive, kissing her until she cried, clinging to her night after night in obsessive passion?

Ning Jia could no longer take it: “I want a divorce!”

But Li Yao held onto the hem of her clothes and said coldly, “Divorce? After two children, where exactly do you think you’re going?”