I was married off to a disabled hero in lieu of marriage; my in-laws doted on me and I aspired to gr

Qiaoqiao and Wang Min had a complete falling out, and even when Wang Min tried to appease her, Qiaoqiao ignored her.

Wang Min panicked. Wu Dan had arranged a job for her husband, and she had agreed to persuade Qiaoqiao to drop the case.

Yang Qiao is usually a nice person. It's just a case being dropped, it won't affect her much, so why is she so stubborn?

In the evening, at 7 p.m., Wang Min's husband, Zhang Zhigao, came home from get off work with his lunchbox.

"Why so late?" Wang Min was a little unhappy; she was starving.

"Hehe, it's not easy to find a job, so I have to be proactive. I helped the chef clean the cafeteria before I went home."

Zhang Zhigao, who is almost forty years old, has spent his whole life working in the countryside.

Unexpectedly, at his age, he still has the opportunity to work in the city, and he must cherish this opportunity.

The cafeteria is great; I can stay with my wife there so she won't change her mind.

They can also eat juicy and flavorful meals, which is a world apart from the countryside.

I opened the lunchbox and found it full of braised pork, green vegetables, and eggs.

"It's late, but I saved all the good food for you. There are a lot of people in the kitchen, and everyone has to take a meal back with them. If I didn't curry favor with the chef, how could I have saved so much for you?" Zhang Zhigao said with a fawning smile.

"Well, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep this job for long," Wang Min sighed.

"Why?" Zhang Zhigao asked anxiously; he didn't want to go back to the countryside.

"When Wu Dan helped you arrange a job, I promised her I'd get Yang Qiao to drop the case. Yang Qiao refused and even scolded me. What are we going to do now?"

"Are all college students this dramatic? It's just a case being dropped; it won't affect Yang Qiao at all. Is she deliberately making things difficult for you?"

Zhang Zhigao didn't recognize Yang Qiao, but unknowingly, he already hated her.

"She also came from the countryside, but she married a legless soldier and suddenly became powerful, thinking she's something special. I hate these kinds of sycophantic people who get ahead of themselves. Zhigao, work hard in the kitchen and get along well with your colleagues. If you're fired, they'll put in a good word for you."

"But Wu Dan is powerful and influential, I'm afraid even if my colleagues say nice things, they won't be able to keep me. Why don't you go and beg Yang Qiao again?" Zhang Zhigao said worriedly.

"I tried to talk to her shamelessly, but she ignored me. I was so blind back then. If I had known Wu Dan would marry the admissions director, I would have just tried to curry favor with her!"

"Don't worry, take it slow, there'll always be a way."

Zhang Zhigao comforted Wang Min, but he was actually extremely anxious inside.

"Go take a shower. Wu Dan is pregnant and won't care about withdrawing the case for the time being. We'll figure out a solution later."

"Okay, then you can eat."

Qiaoqiao goes to school full of energy in the morning, but comes home dejected and depressed in the evening.

How can a person's mood change so much in just a dozen hours, between morning and evening?

Wu Xia is Qiaoqiao's enemy in Dashui Village, and she angered her grandmother to the point that she had a heart attack.

Cheng Zhaoying, Zhou Wenhui's ex-girlfriend, strutted proudly towards her, showing off.

Okay, all of that is in the past. But who knew that these two enemies would end up working together?

No, no, it can't be "perfect match," it should be "a den of snakes and rats."

The world is vast and full of wonders, and Qiaoqiao has truly witnessed it all.

At dinner, the family ate together in a lively atmosphere, but Qiaoqiao picked at the rice grains with her chopsticks, seemingly distracted.

"Qiaoqiao, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Zhou Wenhui asked in a low voice.

With just that one sentence, the whole family turned their attention to Qiaoqiao.

"Are you sick? Let's go to the hospital tomorrow, and Mom will take a look at you," Luo Meiyun said.

"School must be too tiring, right? Why don't you take a couple of days off to rest?"

It's only the first day of school, how could it be hard?

"Dad, Mom, it's nothing, I just don't have a good appetite."

Qiaoqiao hadn't expected that her bad mood would affect everyone, so she quickly picked up her rice bowl and started eating.

"Qiaoqiao, did you feel nauseous after eating the fish Mom made a couple of days ago?" Zhou Wenhui tried hard to find the problem.

"Wenhui, is it really that bad? It's been several days; if you were going to feel nauseous, it wouldn't have waited until today, would it?"

Zhou Zhonghai couldn't help but defend his wife; he had eaten the most and hadn't felt nauseous at all.

"No, Mom's fish is delicious, I like it. It's hot today... I... I might have a bit of heatstroke."

Finally, a plausible excuse was found.

"Yes, yes, it's the autumn heatwave, it's very hot. Xiaomei, go soak some mung beans, cook them tonight in well water, and have Qiaoqiao take some to school tomorrow morning."

Luo Meiyun immediately instructed Hu Xiaomei to skip her meal and quickly soak mung beans.

"It's especially hot today, so let's cook some more mung beans and have the whole family drink some," Zhou Zhonghai added.

"Thank you, Dad. Thank you, Mom."

Qiaoqiao felt a little guilty; her well-intentioned lie had made the whole family anxious.

However, I can't tell my father-in-law about the troubles I suffered at school. He's the vice governor now, and he's extremely busy with the industrial and commercial reforms in Huailin. I can't add to his burdens.

Qiaoqiao has been married into the Zhou family for three years, and she has learned some ways to deal with people. She will not act unless the enemy makes a move. Let's see what kind of trouble Wu Dan and Wang Min can cause.

Wu Dan and Cheng Zhaopeng, haha, how did these two even get together?

Wu Dan's successful rise to power was largely due to her successful pregnancy.

Cheng Zhaopeng and his wife had been married for three years but had no children. Wu Dan, on the other hand, became pregnant less than a year after she started dating Cheng Zhaopeng.

Cheng's parents were old-fashioned intellectuals, but their views were more stubborn than those of ordinary people.

If the daughter-in-law cannot get pregnant, it means the Cheng family line will end, which is absolutely intolerable.

When the Cheng family filed for divorce, Cheng Zhaopeng's wife, Yuan Li, agreed without saying a word.

She knew that Cheng Zhaopeng had a woman outside, and she also knew that the woman was pregnant.

The Cheng family appears to be a scholarly family, but in reality, they are rotten inside.

Yuan Li left without a second thought. Her hypocritical in-laws, her philandering son, and her daughter who was eager to marry up—they talked about being respectable but did nothing respectable.

Yuan Li felt oppressed by this hypocritical family environment, so she always paid attention to contraception, because she didn't want her child to grow up in such a family.

Yuan Li left, as if she had escaped a large cage.

Wu Dan arrived, heavily pregnant. She thought her wonderful life was about to begin, but little did she know that her chaotic days were just beginning.

When Cheng Zhaopeng and Yuan Li got married, they had a private house left by his grandfather, an ordinary small courtyard with three main rooms and two side rooms.

When they divorced, Yuan Li didn't make a fuss; she just took the house.

The Cheng family was unwilling to give it up. Yuan Li only said one sentence: "At this point, the child is a fact. If you don't give it to me, I will report you to Huailin University. Which is more important, the house or Cheng Zhaopeng's future? You can decide for yourselves."

For the sake of their future and their grandson, the Cheng family had no choice but to give the house to Yuan Li.

After Wu Dan and Cheng Zhaopeng got married, they no longer had their own house and lived with her parents-in-law in a two-story building allocated by their work unit.

Cheng's parents are retired university teachers, and his grandfather is a veteran. This small building was allocated by the state, and they only have the right to live there, not the right to own it.

Wu Dan was naturally unhappy living with her in-laws, but fortunately the house had two floors. She and Cheng Zhaopeng lived on the second floor, while her in-laws lived on the first floor. In addition, since she was pregnant, her in-laws treated her like royalty, so she was quite comfortable.