[{"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-480":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},1663488,2130,"Chapter 480","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-480",480,"\u003Cp>Shitou has grown up quite a bit by now. His skin was very dark, but his eyes were strikingly bright. His small face had developed, and he sported a square crew cut. With thick, bushy eyebrows, he gave off an air of naughty rebelliousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was at that playful age. Even though he had handsome features, anyone could tell at a glance that he was a little rascal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shitou used to attend school in the village, but ever since his second brother and the others left, he had become much more bored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, after he was sent to the town, the local kids looked down on him for being a country bumpkin and bullied him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Second Child and the others, who had grown fearful from being bullied since childhood, Shitou was an only child doted on by his grandparents. He had a fierce temper. If someone bullied him, he wouldn't just take it; he would fight back, often ending up with his face covered in scratches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, the children from the village banded together to form a small group, and the town kids no longer dared to bully them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They even called them little hooligans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This ​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌‍is a letter from my second brother. You guys probably don't know him, but he's the son of the pig farm manager in our village. And he is in a big city now, the kind of big city you see on TV. You guys have never seen that, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having a second brother who had seen the world made Shitou feel incredibly proud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing everyone's envious gazes, he opened the letter, and the other kids immediately gathered around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the letter, everyone's expressions turned somewhat sour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are we bad guys for doing this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shitou immediately explained, \"My second brother just said that fighting is wrong. He didn't say we are bad kids for fighting. I think my second brother is right. I'm not going to fight anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others were speechless. One of them asked in confusion, \"But they were the ones who bullied us first, so we just fought back. What's wrong with that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shitou rolled his eyes and said, \"Anyway, I plan to listen to my second brother. When he comes back, I can be the second boss. I don't care what you do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you guys keep fighting, I won't play with you anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he was afraid of being bullied, since his second brother said so, it had to be right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, fighting would only make him a gang leader, but not fighting could make him a boss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the others immediately grew anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They quickly leaned in and said, \"Don't do that, Brother Shitou. We'll stop fighting, okay? Can you talk to your second brother and let us work at his pig farm in the future?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I'm really good at gathering pigweed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Child received Shitou's reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shitou said he wouldn't fight anymore and would work hard to build his strength so he could help him butcher pigs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also asked if he could bring all his underlings over to help out together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second Child's business empire was beginning to take shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian also wrote letters to her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, she received a letter from Fu Qianqian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the letter, Fu Qianqian mentioned that she had been invited to be a host for the Yun-Gui-Chuan Municipal TV Station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, she was someone who couldn't even secure a job as a broadcaster, but after Si Nian sold her the job, her life had been on an upward trajectory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It all started when Si Nian helped her with an elementary school English speech. Word had it that the parents spread her reputation so miraculously that the school invited her back every year to host or participate in various events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing this several times, she became famous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qianqian's English was originally just average, nowhere near as good as Si Nian's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid messing up those events, she started working hard and studying on her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, not only did she host successfully, but she also gained a little fame and made it into the newspaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, their city decided to establish a news television station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of her outstanding performances, Fu Qianqian was invited to be the news anchor for the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since a TV host needed to have a good aura, be fluent in both Chinese and English, and because she was already an experienced broadcaster, the higher-ups offered her a very high salary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Qianqian was naturally overjoyed. She had achieved success in both her career and her studies. She even mentioned that, barring any accidents, Si Nian would be seeing her on TV from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said she was very nervous, afraid she wouldn't do a good job, and was also a bit reluctant to give up her broadcasting job, hoping Si Nian could give her some guidance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, going to the TV station required them to have an elegant, simple, and capable aura. She had looked at the TV stations in Beijing and noticed that the hosts all had short hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't want short hair because she had previously been told she looked like a man with short hair, which was why she still couldn't find a boyfriend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Torn between her career and finding a partner, she didn't know what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, Si Nian told her to go for it boldly. A broadcaster had nowhere near the upward mobility of a TV host. Besides, as televisions became more widespread in the future, fewer and fewer people would use radios, and many companies would face layoffs or bankruptcy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But being a TV host was an enduring profession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the short hair, Si Nian suggested she could use a wig. After all, even Si Nian herself couldn't bear to cut her hair when she gave birth and did her postpartum confinement, so she naturally understood Fu Qianqian's feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she didn't quite understand why Yu Dong hadn't managed to woo her yet, to be honest, Si Nian didn't like playing matchmaker or setting people up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt that if two people truly liked each other, they would eventually get together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one party wasn't interested, forcing them together would only make things strained. If conflicts arose later, she would end up being the bad guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, she neither meddled nor pointed it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, she added a sentence at the end: I definitely won't be watching you; it would burn my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having gained the approval of her former rival, Fu Qianqian naturally felt a surge of confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Si Nian's last sentence about not watching and saying it would burn her eyes, she got exasperated, which only strengthened her resolve to become a host. She thought to herself: It's your loss if you don't watch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the day Fu Qianqian took her post, Yu Dong hurried home early in the morning and dragged his parents over to watch the news broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His family didn't know what was going on. When their son tuned in to the station, they said in surprise, \"I didn't expect our city to have its own news broadcast now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's developing so fast!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to say, this girl looks really heroic and spirited.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dong jutted out his chin and nodded repeatedly, \"Right? Right? Right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the person he had his eyes on be bad?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was happy on his end, Si Nian was dealing with a headache on hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her son was only in the sixth grade, yet someone had already slipped him a love letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eldest Child originally wanted to throw it away, but he felt it would be impolite. After thinking it over, he brought it to Si Nian to ask what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never encountered a situation like this before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Si Nian laid eyes on a love letter that she hadn't even received back in her own youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was from a sixth-grade girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The handwriting was delicate and elegant, clearly belonging to an excellent student.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The letter was written as a poem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was even Xu Zhimo's \"I Wait For You.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I look at the dusk outside the window as if looking into the future; my heart has deafened my hearing. Why haven't you come yet? I hope for a blossom to bloom in every second. I wait for your footsteps, your laughter, your face, your soft hair, waiting for everything about you; hoping to wither away in every second—where are you? I want you, I want...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian: \"?\" She couldn't read any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading about Xu Zhimo's life, she remembered cursing the whole time she had to memorize his texts back in the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, reading this letter, it just felt full of scumbag vibes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the other party obviously didn't know that Xu Zhimo was a passionate playboy, and seemed to have deeply projected themselves into the role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only in the sixth grade and already so skilled at this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would happen when she grew up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian's mouth twitched, feeling both amused and helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She finally understood how adults used to feel when they watched them date in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably both an eyesore and hilarious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaodong, do you know this girl? Are you close?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian asked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eldest Child frowned and shook his head, \"I don't know her, I don't even know what she looks like.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian thought: What a classic case of unrequited love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sighed, \"Since you don't even know her, just pretend you never received it. You are still young, and dating right now is not appropriate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Zedong asked blankly, \"Then what should I do, Mom?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian replied, \"You're right to ask Mom about this. Back in the day, when Mom was your age, the boys chasing me could form a line around the school, but I didn't fancy a single one of them and rejected them all directly. If you don't know her, just ignore her. When the other party sees you're not paying attention, she'll know to back off. If she doesn't back off and still looks for you, just reject her directly, understand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Zedong nodded and said, \"I understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then Mom, I'm going out to study.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian knew he was preparing for his middle school entrance exams, so his study pressure had increased. A good middle school was very important. Although she didn't have overly high demands on the children herself, the Eldest Child's pride wouldn't allow him to do poorly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian didn't say much else, only telling him not to work too hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after sending her son out, she saw Zhou Yueshen walk in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past few years, the man had become more mature than before. He had grown accustomed to wearing suits, and although he no longer had a buzz cut, his current hairstyle was also very clean and sharp, adding a bit of a mature and steady masculine aura to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Zhou Yueshen stopped butchering pigs, the fierce aura around him wasn't as heavy anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had become much more reserved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His beard was shaved very clean. Because Si Nian was refined and often kept an eye on him, let alone growing a beard, even his face had to be kept spotless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skincare products she couldn't finish using were rubbed onto the man's face, to the point that Zhou Yueshen's skin was actually better than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meeting the man's gaze at this moment, Si Nian's eyes inexplicably showed a bit of a guilty conscience, though she couldn't say why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She immediately stood up with an expression that screamed she was hiding something: \"I suddenly remembered I have an appointment with Sister Miao. I'm heading out first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could walk out, she was pulled into the man's embrace. His voice was deep and pleasant: \"The boys chasing you could form a line around the school?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian laughed awkwardly: \"Hahaha, I wasn't lying, that was the truth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen chuckled softly, but his voice carried a hint of jealousy, \"Our Niannian is so pretty, it's no wonder you've been so well-loved since you were little.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, just look at who I am.\" Si Nian was still quite smug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her triumphant look, Zhou Yueshen felt that the Second Child's increasingly confident demeanor nowadays was definitely learned from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were simply cut from the same cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt both love and exasperation watching her, which ultimately turned into a sigh of regret: \"I wasn't a part of your past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he met Si Nian, he was already quite old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only knew her in her full bloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he never knew what she looked like as a budding flower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen suddenly felt a bit jealous of Fu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a wonderful girl had been right in front of his eyes, yet he hadn't cherished her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt heartache for Si Nian but also felt fortunate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if Fu Yang hadn't personally pushed her away, how would it have ever been his turn to hold her in his arms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen held Si Nian in his arms, his eyes full of doting warmth and love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Si Nian heard the regret in his words. She turned around, hooked her arms around the man's neck, stood on her tiptoes, and pecked his thin lips, \"It's okay, having you in my future is enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of which, she was a bit curious about Zhou Yueshen's past and asked him, \"Tell me about when you were little. What were you like as a child?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen thought carefully, frowned, and said in a low voice, \"It's better if you don't know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why? Is there something shameful? Or were there many girls chasing you, and you're afraid I'll be jealous?\" Si Nian asked suspiciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen was so handsome; he must have been as brilliant and eye-catching as the Eldest Child when he was young.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Eldest Child was already like this in the sixth grade, let alone Zhou Yueshen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, there was that military beauty who remained unmarried for years because of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It showed his extraordinary charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen chuckled softly, \"You think too highly of me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed: \"If you had seen me back then, you probably wouldn't have even given me a second glance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Si Nian became even more curious: \"Why? Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yueshen saw her intense curiosity but found it hard to bring up. Back then, his family was pitifully poor. He always wore ill-fitting clothes with patches on the butt, and he was laughed at wherever he went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, due to the poor conditions at home, he was always like a little mud monkey. At night, he could fall asleep even if he slept in the cow shed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he let the neat freak Si Nian know about such a version of himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her still looking at him with eyes full of curiosity, Zhou Yueshen simply lowered his head and blocked her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world was finally quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>",2525,"2026-06-06T12:38:58.698Z",1,"novelbin.me","84d2ab1f37f474d8216e50d89b985ad13f39e676ddfc832a7b1f0160ff12db74","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-481","the-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-chapter-479",482,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-beautiful-stepmother-from-the-eighties-marry-cover.jpg"]