[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s":3,"chapter-back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-chapter-19":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Back to the 1980s: Transmigrated as the Bigshot's Pampered Wife",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},802125,1052,"Chapter 19: Fame in a Single Battle","back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-chapter-19",19,"\u003Cp>\"Miss Sheng, please don’t say that. I grew up in this compound. Does that mean I’m childhood sweethearts with everyone here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is that the same? Zijin is your fiancé.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss Sheng, are you confused? The one with the marriage agreement with the Song Family’s eldest son is you, the true daughter of the Sheng Family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister~ I... I never should have come back to the Sheng Family...\" Sheng Xinglian said, her eyes welling with tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough. Who’s your sister? Mr. Sheng already published a notice in the papers severing all ties with me. Stop trying to cozy up to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao had no desire to deal with this two-faced schemer, who was always trying to be the center of attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gu Jiaojiao, how can an ungrateful wretch like you speak to Miss Sheng that way?\" one of Song Zijin’s cronies interjected, coming to Sheng Xinglian’s defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao looked at the boy who had spoken. ’He always had a huge problem with her former self.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The only reason he didn’t disrespect her to her face was because she was Song Zijin’s fiancée.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He acted all high and mighty because of his good grades, always looking down on people out of the corner of his eye.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Especially when he looked at classmates who didn’t like to study, he’d look down his nose at them so hard his nostrils were practically pointing at the sky.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now that he knew Gu Jiaojiao was no longer his boss’s fiancée, of course he was going to lay into her.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Her former self had been exceptionally tolerant of the cronies surrounding Song Zijin.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gu Jiaojiao was not her former self. She shot back, \"Then how do you think I should speak?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Gu Jiaojiao was no longer as polite as before, the crony questioned her angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You enjoyed a life of comfort in the Sheng Family for eighteen years. Don’t you have any gratitude at all?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How should I be grateful? By getting on my knees and kowtowing in thanks every day? And what about Sheng Xinglian? Did she spend the last eighteen years surviving on nothing but air?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone has eyes. They can see that Sheng Xinglian is well-read and polite, as beautiful as a flower. Does she look like a child who grew up being abused?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t everyone a treasure to their own family, cherished by their parents as they grow up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she returned to the Sheng Family, she only told me my surname was Gu. She never said where the Gu Family was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She, the one who knew the truth, isn’t an ungrateful wretch? So why am I, the one who was kept in the dark, being called an ungrateful wretch?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao retorted with a beaming smile. Her smile was incredibly infectious, like a sunflower blooming in the sun, dazzling everyone who saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of silence, the crowd’s opinion began to shift in Gu Jiaojiao’s favor. Some even began to gossip in low voices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, Miss Sheng doesn’t seem like she’s from the countryside at all. She must have been completely doted on by the Gu Family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s already back with the Sheng Family, so how come no one from the Gu Family has come to take Gu Jiaojiao home?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be that she never told the Gu Family that Gu Jiaojiao was their daughter who was switched at birth?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s never a shortage of conspiracy theorists. Prompted by this remark, people’s minds started to run wild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Zijin didn’t know why, but whenever he saw Lian’er, he would feel an intense dislike for Gu Jiaojiao. Everything about her just rubbed him the wrong way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Sheng Xinglian rendered speechless by Gu Jiaojiao’s retorts, he burned with rage and blurted out an accusation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jiaojiao, you need to understand that I was nice to you before because of the friendship between the Song and Sheng families. Apologize to Lian’er at once.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who do you think you are? Why should I listen to you? What did I do wrong? What is there to apologize for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao looked up at the handsome man again, her expression impassive as she questioned him, without a trace of the adoration she once held in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... You’re... you’re being completely unreasonable,\" Song Zijin stammered, choked with anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I’m so unreasonable, then don’t talk to me. My husband and I were just walking along minding our own business. Did I ask you to come talk to us?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What’s so different about a handsome man’s brain?’ Gu Jiaojiao complained silently. ’The structure and components are all the same. The moment he opens his mouth, he’s just insufferably crass.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pushed the wheelchair and walked away without looking back, her posture ramrod straight and somewhat aloof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twilight stretched her shadow long, making it look somewhat endearing. Song Zijin stared blankly at Gu Jiaojiao’s departing figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Xinglian was so angry her eyes turned red, and the veins on her neck throbbed like worms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Gu Jiaojiao had gotten smarter since her marriage; she couldn’t get the upper hand with her anymore.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Xinglian glared fiercely at Gu Jiaojiao’s back, her eyes filled with a ferocious hatred that stunned Song Zijin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rubbed his eyes. When he looked at Sheng Xinglian again, she had reverted to her usual delicate and pitiful appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Song Zijin thought he must have been imagining things. ’Lian’er is so kind. How could she possibly have such a ferocious and terrifying look in her eyes?’’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lian’er, Gu Jiaojiao has gone crazy. Let’s just ignore her. Come on, let’s go home and eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t walk with you. You’re my sister’s fiancé. I... I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Xinglian finished speaking coyly, waiting for Song Zijin to coax her as he usually did. But to her surprise, Song Zijin just stood there, motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riding his beloved old roadster, Mr. Sheng heard Gu Jiaojiao’s voice, as clear and bright as an oriole’s song, from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words were clear, and she raised a point they had never considered before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That’s right. His wife complained at home every day about how she had given eighteen years of a mother’s love to Jiaojiao.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But they had never considered that the Gu Family had also given all their love to their Lian’er.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Although Lian’er’s life was hard, it was much better than that of an average person from the countryside. They even sent her to high school and spoiled her rotten.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gu Family hadn’t shown up for a long time, and Mr. Sheng had only recently investigated and found out that the Gu Family’s eldest son had returned home injured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second son got into a fight over the vicious rumors and was taken in by the local police for \"re-education,\" and the shock caused Mrs. Gu to fall ill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gu family’s patriarch had been in poor health for years and was now bedridden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And yet, when his Lian’er returned to the Sheng Family, the Gu Family was in dire straits, but Lian’er never said a word about it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now *that’s* a true ungrateful wretch,’ Mr. Sheng thought. He glanced at his daughter and called out, \"Let’s go home and eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Xinglian froze, stunned by her father’s indifferent glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her scalp tingled, and it felt as if a snake was crawling on her back. A prickling unease made her shudder despite the lack of cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had no choice but to steel herself and follow her father, looking back at Song Zijin every few steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Song Zijin’s gaze was fixed on Gu Jiaojiao’s back, his thoughts unreadable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The setting sun filtered through the dense leaves of the plane trees, casting a fragmented, grid-like pattern of light and shadow across his face, making his expression seem deep and mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Song Zijin was thinking that Gu Jiaojiao was still the same, stunningly beautiful Gu Jiaojiao.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He had once treated her with tenderness, and they shared many beautiful memories.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But whenever he saw Lian’er, he would be filled with pity for her and, in turn, feel a deep-seated hatred for Gu Jiaojiao.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Shuochi sensed someone staring at their backs. He turned and saw Song Zijin’s \"infatuated\" gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shot a cold, harsh glare back at him, his eyes filled with an imposing, inviolable pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Zijin was so startled he turned and fled. Su Shuochi was delighted. ’Stare all you want, it’s useless. My immortal wife belongs to me now.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jiaojiao, Song Zijin just told Sheng Xinglian that you were crazy and unreasonable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So you’re saying I should go back and beat him up?\" Gu Jiaojiao said teasingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh heh, better wait until I’m recovered. I’ll beat him up then. You’ve got such delicate skin, you might hurt yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao and Su Shuochi headed back, talking and laughing. Passersby couldn’t help but look on with envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what if he was disabled?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man had his stipend and salary; he could afford to support a wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao made a name for herself with that one confrontation. No one in the compound dared to look down on her anymore, and no one called her an ungrateful wretch.\u003C\u002Fp>",1527,"2026-06-03T03:31:20.613Z","2026-06-03T03:31:25.280Z",1,"novelbin.me","09af949a6fda50fb13e8824e6ba08f0541925a35c22fcc15733dfa1f15eaaa7c","back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-chapter-20","back-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-chapter-18",635,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fback-to-the-1980s-transmigrated-as-the-bigshot-s-cover.jpg"]