Tunnel Rat - Chapter 37: Lurking

To care for her ailing sweetheart, college student Lu Chenchen gave up her white-collar office job and chose the higher-paying caretaker profession instead. Going around in circles, she ended up at the Mao family’s home.

The Mao family background was complicated. Old Madam Mao was not her son Yanning’s birth mom, but his young aunt. His wife was Old Madam Mao’s first love’s daughter, spoiled and pampered. Despite over ten years of marriage, husband and wife were distant.

To repay Old Madam Mao’s kindness in raising him, and for the sake of his three children, Mao Yanning endured again and again – not just a loveless but outright destructive marriage.

Lu Chenchen walked on eggshells among these people – carefully serving young and old, currying favor with the lady of the house without offending the man of the house, while also worrying about his sweetheart’s illness and missing “his” elders and children back home. Her heart was like a cookie flattened between the pages of life, living a difficult and cautious existence.

However, as the saying goes, “You reap what you sow.” A life that has been polished will eventually shine with a brilliance that ordinary years cannot compare.

When you wake up, you suddenly find yourself naked, locked in an iron cage, and next to you a pair of eyes are closely staring at you, where will you cover up first? Up top or down below? Luo Qingyu didn’t cover up, she smiled charmingly, and knocked him out. Crossing? It doesn’t matter, she is a top agent, in a different era she can still mix in the wind and water. Unspoiled daughter? Oh, she’ll let the old man regret until his intestines are black…….

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Lin Ziyin, modern day mechanical professor especially hired by the school, had the potential for great achievement in her field. However, due to family reasons, she could only treat her mechanical research and teaching as a secondary job, pouring all her energy into the farm and the food business before. Despite her low-key approach, she was unable to suppress her sister's rage, and a furious car crash sent her straight to ancient times.Indeed, she had excellent character, so why did the heavens send her to the sparsely populated Northern Land. Known as the death zone, those who were banished to this borderland would spend their lives and perish there. However, Lin Ziyin was quite satisfied with her own identity. Even if she had lost the protection of her parents, she still had the protection of her siblings and grandfather. Of course, she also had her younger brother and nephew at home who needed her protection. This abundance of familial love was enough to compensate for the hardships caused by poverty at home.Poverty, she wasn't afraid of, as she had experience in farming. With large swathes of uncultivated land, the Northern Land was practically custom-made for her. The heavy workload didn't matter either, she was proficient in designing all kinds of small tools. Whether it was the emperor's absurdity, not providing aid to the border king, or the shameless Tatars that would rob them frequently, none of these posed a problem for her. She could think of solutions for everything. It wasn't uncommon for the border king to tell everyone how lucky he was to have married such a wonderful queen!

In the apocalyptic world, the big boss Jiang Xin traverses to the 1980s.In the previous second, she was still slaying zombies.In the next second, she becomes a female cannon fodder in a period novel.The original owner was framed by a distant cousin and forced to marry her nominal cousin-in-law.Her reputation was ruined, and she was scolded by the villagers as a seductress of her brother-in-law.Jiang Xin opens her eyes to chaos.A mother-in-law, unaware of the truth, speaks harshly to her.The indifferent husband ignores her and even doesn’t return home.The green tea cousin acts pitiful to sow discord, turning the household into chaos.Distant relatives ransack the money and tickets sent by the original owner’s parents, leaving nothing behind.To this, Jiang Xin expresses that she can no longer tolerate it and begins to fight back.She exposes the true face of the cousin and seeks justice for the original owner, reversing her image in the village.In response to the malicious plundering by extreme relatives, Jiang Xin retaliates swiftly, warning them they don’t know the danger they’re courting.After learning the truth, the mother-in-law, who hangs her head in shame, receives Jiang Xin’s wave of indifference.After all, her career is her priority!She flips resources from her space superstore, earning massive wealth.Spotting a business opportunity, she invests in a factory on the verge of bankruptcy, which unexpectedly gets listed, with its stock price multiplying by thousands!When Jiang Xin, counting her money, is about to kick her cheap husband to the curb, planning to return to the provincial city to reunite with her parents, retire, and enjoy life,The man, who had been following her around pitifully, suddenly approaches:“Baby, are you leaving me?”Jiang Xin touches her head, looking embarrassed, as she suddenly remembers she still has this one to deal with?