Back to the 1980s: Transmigrated as the Bigshot's Pampered Wife-Chapter 53: Fifty-Fifty Split

Mrs. Sheng was utterly exhausted from the drama her son and daughter were putting her through. "Xiao Wen, are you trying to drive your mother to her death?"

Sheng Shiwen’s heart clenched as he looked at his mother’s haggard face. ’When did our elegant mother become like this? And none of us even noticed!’

"Yueyue, I’m sorry. I’m begging you, please stop crying. I went to see Gu Jiaojiao today."

She said we have nothing to do with each other and are strangers from now on. If there’s anything else you’re unhappy about, just tell me. But from now on, don’t bring up Gu Jiaojiao again.

We’ve already cut ties, so let’s not give everyone in the compound a reason to call us immature.

"She’s already married to a cripple now, what are you still worried about?"

’If you want to die, go die outside. Don’t make a scene at home.’ Sheng Shiwen didn’t dare say this out loud.

If he really drove his own sister to her death, his family would never know a day of peace again!

"Yueyue, once your father finishes his meal, he’ll give your second brother and Old Three a beating to make you feel better. Don’t cry now, be good and eat first."

Mrs. Sheng finished speaking, her voice weary. She watched her daughter with an intense yet cautious gaze.

That afternoon, she had also heard Gu Jiaojiao tell her second son in no uncertain terms: "Let’s part ways peacefully. We owe each other nothing, and from this day forward, we’ll be strangers who never cross paths again."

At the time, her heart had clenched upon hearing those words, and she’d felt a daze come over her. But... it was their Sheng Family who had first published the newspaper announcement severing the relationship.

In her past life, Sheng Yueyue (Sheng Xinglian was now named Sheng Yueyue) had lived to the age of thirty-eight, all the way to the new millennium.

She had seen the prosperity of the future and the heights Song Zijin of the Song Family eventually reached. In this life, all of that would be hers.

’If I really die, Zijin will probably marry an even prettier vixen.’

’Even if there’s no Gu Jiaojiao, there’ll be a Li Jiaojiao or a Wang Jiaojiao.’ And so, she decided to take the way out she’d been given.

"Mom~ I heard some gossip on the street, and I felt so wronged I wanted to cry... but don’t let Dad hit my brothers. I’ll stop crying now."

After saying this, she lowered her head and started eating. In truth, she wasn’t all that sad. After all, she wasn’t really eighteen years old.

This trick of hers—crying, screaming, and threatening suicide—was something she had learned from her sister-in-law from her previous life, Dong Yuanyuan.

Old Sir Gu had taught her that she had to rely on herself for everything and that crying would never solve any problems.

That was why in her past life, she hadn’t liked to cry or complain. Even with the Sheng Family’s backing, she had still cowered timidly at her in-laws’ home.

She had watched her eldest sister-in-law, Dong Yuanyuan, raise hell in front of the entire He Family, and He Aiguo would always be the one to grovel and coax her.

But she never dared to make a scene in public. On the rare occasions she threw a tantrum in the privacy of their room, her husband from her past life, He Aijun, would reward her with a slap across the face.

He would even mock her, saying she wasn’t as capable or as pretty as his sister-in-law, so what right did she have to throw tantrums like her.

It made her so angry she could spit blood. It felt like everyone was lining up just to infuriate her, which was why she had died young, practically from anger alone.

After her rebirth, she started bullying Gu Jiaojiao the same way Dong Yuanyuan had bullied her in her past life. And what do you know, it was surprisingly effective.

The more she thought about it, the happier Sheng Yueyue became. Her appetite surged, and everything tasted delicious. Before she knew it, she had eaten two bowls of rice.

Sheng Shiwen watched his sister, who had been inconsolable just a second ago, now wolfing down her food with great gusto.

’How did I never realize my own sister was so heartless?’ He glanced over and saw his dad was also eating heartily.

Meanwhile, his mom was busy putting more food on his sister’s plate. The food in his own mouth tasted like mud...

*

The Su family was halfway through their dinner when they heard Sheng Shiwu shouting from outside the door, "Jiaojiao, are you guys still selling cold-skin noodles?"

"We sold out long ago! Haven’t you had dinner yet?" Second Brother Gu asked curiously as he ran to open the door.

Sheng Shiwu looked listlessly at the Su family’s large spread of food. "I don’t have an appetite."

Su’s mother enthusiastically ladled a bowl of rice and handed it to Sheng Shiwu. "If you’d come a bit earlier, you could have had some chicken soup."

"Jiaojiao likes sour and spicy chicken giblets. Since you don’t have an appetite, this should be perfect for you. The sour and spicy flavor really helps you eat more rice."

Sheng Shiwu didn’t take the bowl, looking instead at Gu Jiaojiao. He had money on him; he was wondering if he could pay to eat at the Su family’s home.

In her previous life, Gu Jiaojiao had lived to be twenty-eight. She had even spent two years abroad as a military doctor with a peacekeeping force and had met all sorts of people.

Besides, Sheng Shiwu wore all his worries plainly on his face. And so, Gu Jiaojiao spoke up.

"Why don’t you eat first? We can talk about whatever’s on your mind while we eat. Actually, I have something I need to talk to you about too."

Hearing that Gu Jiaojiao had something to say to him, Sheng Shiwu cheerfully took the bowl and chopsticks from Su’s mother.

Standing next to Second Brother Gu, he took a bite of the sour and spicy chicken giblets. Delicious! Then a bite of braised pork belly. So good!

Then a bite of scrambled eggs with green peppers. It was all incredibly tasty. Sheng Shiwu took one bite after another, completely unable to stop.

He ate like a starving ghost reincarnated, finishing two consecutive bowls of rice and a large amount of the other dishes.

Su Qinchun’s eyes widened in disbelief. "And you call this having no appetite? What do you look like when you *do* have one?"

"Hehe, your family’s cooking is just too delicious. It’s not that I really had no appetite, I was just upset because of Yueyue."

"What did Yueyue do to you?" Gu Jiaojiao asked, surprised.

"Ugh! Not the moon in the sky, it’s..."

Now that Sheng Shiwu was full, he launched into a long-winded story, recounting everything that had happened at his house.

He felt that the Gu Family weren’t outsiders, and the Su Family were even less so. In his mind, this wasn’t airing their dirty laundry in public.

Mr. Su and Su’s mother were simple, honest people. They didn’t have a strong reaction, just listening to it as if it were a story.

Su Qinchun rolled her eyes so hard they nearly disappeared into her head, but she didn’t dare say anything, continuing to roll her eyes as she diligently cleared the table.

Mr. Gu and Eldest Brother Gu were so enraged by Sheng Yueyue’s actions that they reeled back, and Eldest Brother Gu almost fainted.

Gu Jiaojiao quickly administered a few acupuncture needles. She had just managed to pull him back from the brink; he couldn’t very well die of anger now.

Second Brother Gu helped his older brother lie down on the recliner. In that moment, he thought that Third Sheng wasn’t so bad after all.

"You guys just changed her name like that? Did she agree to it?"

"She agreed. She said she’d rather be the moon, admired by all the stars, than be a tiny star herself. And she definitely didn’t want to be a ’white lotus’."

Gu Jiaojiao couldn’t help but smile. ’Sheng Xinglian—no, Sheng Yueyue—she came from the future, after all.’

’She knows that ’white lotus’ isn’t a compliment but an insult.’ To thank Sheng Shiwu for the intelligence, Gu Jiaojiao made an offer. "Sheng Shiwu, starting tomorrow, why don’t you help us sell spicy strips at the school? We’ll split the profits fifty-fifty."

She vividly remembered that the Sheng Family had only started living comfortably in recent years, and that was because Eldest Brother Sheng and the second brother had started earning salaries. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

In the years before that, the Sheng Family barely had enough to get by. Eating meat every day was impossible; they only had it once a month, and even then, it wasn’t enough for everyone to eat their fill.

Mrs. Sheng would set aside a small bowl just for Gu Jiaojiao, but Sheng Shiwu, who was only a year older than her, never received the same treatment.

Sheng Shiwu was sensible enough not to fight with Gu Jiaojiao over it, and Eldest Brother Sheng would even give her some of his share.

The original owner of her body had been thoroughly doted on and pampered by the Sheng Family, never suffering the slightest grievance.

When the Sheng Family’s biological daughter returned home, Mrs. Sheng redirected the full force of her motherly love to compensate her own flesh and blood.

She would give double helpings of all the best food to her biological daughter as compensation.