[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry":3,"chapter-the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-248":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Beautiful Stepmother from the Eighties: Marrying a Factory Director to Raise Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1663456,2130,"Chapter 248","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-248",248,"\u003Cp>The people around laughed, \"Who told you that you're the only one here who can cook?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha, exactly, I heard you're a professional when it comes to cooking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your family runs a restaurant, right, Old Yu? When are you taking us brothers for a meal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go on, get out of here.\" Yu Dong shot them a glare. \"You're lucky I even cook for you. Dream on about eating at my family's restaurant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then grumbled at Zhou Yueshen, \"Boss, why don't you have your wife come cook? Her cooking is so much better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen finished dealing with a pig. Hearing this, he didn't even look at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took off his blood-stained gloves and tossed them aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he headed towards his office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dong's heart sank. \"Boss, I was wrong, I'm not worthy, okay? Aren't you going to eat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen glanced at him and coldly tossed out two words: \"Tastes bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he left without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dong was almost fuming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it really that bad, just suggesting his wife cook?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, his cooking wasn't as good as hers, but it wasn't that bad, was it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used to eat Aunt Liu's terrible cooking just fine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This old man's been spoiled by his wife!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dong gritted his teeth so hard they almost cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, he couldn't take this grievance anymore. Not for another day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to go to the city to meet pretty girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he waste his time here cooking for this bunch of guys?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed finding someone else to cook couldn't be delayed any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen returned to his office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked the person standing by the door, \"Any calls?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was taken aback, shaking his head dumbly. \"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wondered why the boss's first question every day was about phone calls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was a call, wouldn't he have notified him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen said nothing, entered the room, and closed the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fell on the brand-new landline phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed his lips together and looked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat down at his desk. Things had just stabilized these past two days. There had been some issues with the piglets delivered earlier, so he had been keeping watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't gone home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two children were about to start school soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian must be very busy. That's why she hadn't had time to call him, even though he'd given her the number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Zhou Yueshen picked up his pen and started working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then his eyes drifted to the wedding photo placed beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was taken before they were married.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the photos came back, he had asked for an extra copy to be framed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl in the photo was stunningly beautiful, with a brilliant smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been somewhat uncomfortable back then, his face tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked rather stiff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen stared at it, lost in thought, not even noticing the ink blot forming from his pen on the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lost the will to work, walked to the bed, and lay down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who hadn't slept all night felt no drowsiness now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, Zhou Yueshen opened his eyes, walked to the desk, took the photo, and placed it by the bedside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before falling asleep, his fingertips brushed over the radiant image in the photo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting ways with Aunt Jiang and Jiang Jiu, Si Nian went to find a coach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the city, coaches went everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen had given her the address. Following the location, she boarded the bus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although spring had arrived, the weather was still quite chilly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet for some reason, her ears felt very hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rubbed her ears and asked the driver how long the journey would take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The driver said over an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian thought that was quite far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When this man was looking for a house, he must have planned ahead, choosing a place closer to where she and the children worked and went to school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was far from his farm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn't been to Zhou Yueshen's farm before and hadn't paid attention to this issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone next to her asked, \"Are you from the West Suburbs? That area is so remote, hardly anyone's there anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian paused and said, \"No, I'm going to visit someone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person smiled, \"That area's been taken over by factories now, full of migrant workers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian smiled back, saying nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was going to visit someone too—her man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good thing she brought the thermal lunchbox; otherwise, the food would have gone cold after over an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speaking of which, my family's old house over there was bought too. It wasn't worth much, but I'm surprised someone's setting up a factory there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly. Too bad my family didn't have any land there. If only we'd gotten more land in the Guan Mountain area in the West Suburbs back then, we might have made a fortune.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian was about to close her eyes and nap when she heard this and suddenly opened them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guan Mountain?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah,\" the person smiled. \"It used to be called Guan Mountain Town. After everyone moved away, it became the suburbs, now just called the West Suburbs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A light flashed in Si Nian's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the novel's future, after the city developed, various train lines, high-speed rail, and airports began operation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One ​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​‍area that developed into the city center within just a few short years was the Guan Mountain District.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The airport and high-speed rail station were both built in this area. The surroundings developed rapidly, undergoing tremendous changes in just a few years. Property prices soared, population surged, and financial advantages grew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who had owned property here all became overnight millionaires from demolition and relocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this be the place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew this because the later parts of the novel's plot were set in this developing city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, Guan Mountain District had long become the most bustling city center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skyscrapers, neon lights—who would have thought that decades earlier, it was just a deserted town?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Zhou Yueshen might have accidentally set up his farm in a place that could become worth a fortune in the future?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man... his ability and luck proved that even a casual investment could lead to a life of effortless success?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She remembered the novel didn't describe much about what Zhou Yueshen actually did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It only mentioned he ran a pig farm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the future, he became a tycoon worth hundreds of millions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew how he achieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian hadn't thought about it either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, she suddenly had a premonition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man was simply a winner in life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now she was this old man's wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doing the math... she, the future billionaire's wife?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian never had grand ambitions. In her mind, having enough money was sufficient. All that intense money-making and career-building—such exhausting endeavors—she really didn't want to do them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other time-travelers were busy building their empires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having lived a life already, she didn't believe that things she couldn't achieve in her past life, she could suddenly achieve in this new one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, she just wanted to teach, take the college entrance exam. In this era, she'd never go hungry in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the thought that she might not have to do anything and could still become a billionaire's wife in the future...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Zhou Yueshen changed after getting rich and they divorced, she'd get a substantial settlement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this possibility—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha!!!\" The people around her were startled by her sudden burst of laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's wrong?\" the person beside her asked Si Nian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caught up in her smug delight, Si Nian couldn't hold back her laughter. Only now did she react, hurriedly covering her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"N-nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen hadn't slept long when someone knocked on his office door. He frowned, his voice low and cold. \"Who is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, there's a woman at the gate asking for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen sat up abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian? Is she here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right, the factory had hired quite a few new people lately. It was normal they hadn't met Si Nian and wouldn't recognize her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly got up to go meet her. After taking a couple of steps, he suddenly noticed some bloodstains on his clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned back, rummaged for a clean shirt to change into, straightened his collar, and then strode purposefully out the door—\u003C\u002Fp>",1414,"2026-06-06T12:38:58.697Z",1,"novelbin.me","da5046f6a3f264329e3e12037915a8fa58adf116a9bd98b310f820f4697272d5","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-249","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-247",482,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-cover.jpg"]