"You're talking nonsense. I don't even know Xiao Tingshen. How could I have stolen his girlfriend?" Wu Huihui was furious when Xu Qingning turned the tables on her. "You're the one who likes him, not me."
"You started talking nonsense. You don't even know him, how do you know I like him?" Xu Qingning was too lazy to argue with someone like Wu Hui, and said disdainfully, "You think you're something special, but who's going to use you as a dipping sauce?"
“Jingyu’s wife, your cousin was just chatting with you. Why did you take it so seriously?” Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, Yang Yuexiang sided with Wu Huihui without thinking. “She just heard it from someone else. When Jingyu isn’t home, you have to behave yourself so that others won’t gossip.”
“Besides you and your daughter gossiping about me, no one else has that much free time.” Xu Qingning cleared her throat and said bluntly, “I’ve seen weird relatives, but I’ve never seen anyone like you. Coming to someone else’s house to meddle in other people’s business, it’s true that the upper beam is crooked and the lower beam is crooked.”
They've chased them away once already.
They actually had the nerve to come; they're so shameless.
"Hmph, what right do you have to say we're like father, like son? You slept with my cousin before you were even married, do you think you're a good person?" Wu Huihui decided to use her trump card. "If it weren't for the child, do you think my cousin would have married you?"
When Yang Yuexiang heard Wu Huihui say that, she almost clapped her hands in approval.
Yes, that's how you say it.
Whether or not I slept with Zhao Jingyu before we got married is between the two of us and has nothing to do with you. Xu Qingning wasn't angry and spoke in a relaxed tone. "It's my ability to get him to marry me while I was pregnant. If you have that ability, try sleeping with a man and see if he'll marry you."
“I would never do what you did.” Wu Huihui said as if she had heard a joke. “I’m a decent person and I would never do something so outrageous.”
Yang Yuexiang also sneered.
That's right, they are respectable people.
"Don't you dare tarnish the word 'decent person'." Xu Qingning was thirsty after saying so much. She picked up the water glass on the windowsill, took a sip, and continued, "If you were a decent person, you wouldn't be constantly watching my relationship with Zhao Jingyu. Let me tell you, you can't steal my man away."
"When did I ever stare at your man?" Wu Huihui's face turned red with anger. "Xu Qingning, you need to provide evidence for your statement."
"So now you know to ask me for evidence?" Xu Qingning's face darkened as she retorted, "When you were talking about me and Xiao Tingshen, didn't you also lack evidence?"
Someone like Wu Huihui dares to challenge her.
From now on, she'll argue with him every time she sees him.
"..." Wu Huihui was speechless after being rebuked. She got off the kang (a heated brick bed) angrily and put on her shoes. "Mom, I'm going back to work."
With that, he turned and left without looking back.
"Take care on your way," Yang Yuexiang told her daughter, sitting by the window. She was about to turn around and scold Xu Qingning when Xu Qingning had already taken her water glass and gone back to her room.
As soon as Yang Yuelan returned to the courtyard, she saw Wu Huihui pushing her bicycle out and asked her, "Huihui, didn't you move in with your mother?"
"Auntie, your house is ruled by your daughter-in-law, I dare not live there." Wu Huihui pushed her bicycle and left.
Good intentions are misunderstood.
She never wanted to see Xu Qingning again.
At night, the system quietly spoke up: "Host, Wu Huihui didn't get the better of you and has already left. She couldn't win against Xu Qingning."
"Useless stuff." Tang Wenya felt that these supporting characters were like tools, and it was a pipe dream to think that they could help her regain the protagonist's luck.
She had to take charge herself.
System: "Host, Xu Qingning has calmed down and is no longer worried about Zhao Jingyu."
"What, you were able to find her?" Tang Wenya's eyes lit up.
System: "No, because your female lead's luck is weaker than yesterday, Wu Huihui's failed challenge will also be attributed to you."
If it gets any weaker, it's time to find a new host.
Their system only assists the female lead, driving the plot forward from her perspective. If the female lead is too weak, she won't be able to advance the plot.
If the plot develops too slowly, the results won't be very good.
If a student doesn't have a strong academic record, they can't choose their favorite book and will be randomly assigned one.
If you are randomly assigned to a story about eunuchs, it won't count towards your grade; it's just a waste of time.
"You need to help me think of a solution." Tang Wenya, oblivious to the system's ulterior motives, frowned and said, "I can't just go to her house and start a fight for no reason."
The main reason is that she can't win an argument with Xu Qingning.
Strange, what is the background of this unknown character, Xu Qingning, and how is she so powerful!
System: "Host, there is actually another way to improve your luck, which is to get along well with the people around you."
"Who am I supposed to be on good terms with?" Tang Wenya turned to look at Xiao Tingshen lying beside her and said helplessly, "You're not going to make me fawn over men again, are you?"
The concubine's system is utterly despicable.
There's no other way but to win over a man.
"It can't be called pandering!" The system knew that Tang Wenya would disdain doing such a thing, but it still reminded her, "Host, the people around Xu Qingning are liking her more and more, so her luck is not entirely taken from you, but also partly from her own growth."
"I understand." Tang Wenya paused for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "I'll listen to you for now, as long as it can improve my luck."
Only by improving one's luck can everything become smoother and smoother.
Life will become more and more comfortable.
Therefore, she values her luck very much.
System: "Okay, get up early tomorrow to cook, then do the laundry. Let everyone see how outstanding you are, and how lazy Xu Qingning is, since we're all daughters from the same family."
"Is there no other way?" Tang Wenya was completely distraught. At her parents' home, she was waited on hand and foot, but at her husband's home, she was expected to do the laundry and cooking.
System: "Why don't you go and argue with Xu Qingning?"
Tang Wenya: "..."
If she can win the argument.
Did we really need to resort to such a desperate measure?
The next morning, when Tang Wenya got up, Xiao Tingshen was still asleep. She didn't know how to cook, so she went out and bought fried dough sticks and soy milk.
They also cleaned the house inside and out.
After Xiao Yaodong and Liu Yuzhen got up, they saw Tang Wenya doing housework with her big belly. The couple looked at each other and Xiao Yaodong told her, "Be careful when you go out in the future. If you are tired, don't go out. Let Tingshen go."
“There are benefits to getting some exercise,” Liu Yuzhen said dismissively. “Back when I was with Tingshen, I was still at work the day before!”
"Mom and Dad, I've remembered everything." Tang Wenya smiled reluctantly. Her father-in-law was a good father-in-law, but her mother-in-law was a wicked mother-in-law.
After finishing their meal, with an hour left before work, Xiao Tingshen took his badminton racket to do his morning exercise, while Tang Wenya carried a basin of clothes to the public sink to wash them.
Xiao Yaodong and Liu Yuzhen saw this and were very pleased.
They weren't mistreating Tang Wenya, their daughter-in-law. She was pregnant and not sick, so it was normal for her to do some housework within her capabilities.
Their large courtyard only had one open-air communal water pool, with a rectangular cement platform in the middle and ten water taps on each side. It was spacious, but its location was a bit out of the way for their family.
However, this communal water pool is quite close to Zhao Jingyu's dormitory, about ten meters away.
While Tang Wenya was washing clothes by the pool, she could see Xu Qingning walking back and forth in front of the door, leisurely taking a morning stroll and exercising.
The more she thought about it, the more upset she became.
Why is it that she, the female lead, has to do the laundry so hard, while Xu Qingning, the supporting female character, lives such a comfortable life?
System: "Host, don't envy her. I found out that Zhao Jingyu's brother and sister-in-law will be returning to the city soon. Her good days are coming to an end."
"Who found them the jobs?" Tang Wenya asked curiously.
"It was Liu Dawei who helped me get the job at the meat processing plant." The system quickly searched. "But there's only one spot available. There are too many applicants for too few spots, so it'll be quite a battle."
"Haha, that's great." Tang Wenya suddenly felt that the clothes in her hands weren't so hard to wash anymore, and said gloatingly, "Then we'll see them fight like dogs."
She knew very well what kind of people the Zhao Jingwen and Zhao Jingwu families were.
No matter how capable Xu Qingning is, she can't handle all these tedious housework.
Whenever Xu Qingning is unlucky, her luck turns around.
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