Lin Hongxia is the youngest daughter of the director of the county’s barrel factory.

She grew up in an affluent family and was the only girl, the youngest, in her family.

She was spoiled from a young age, which led to her developing a fearless and reckless personality.

If she wanted to do something, she had to make it happen.

In small matters, this was no problem, but in important matters, it was a bit more challenging.

At that time, the prevailing belief was that daughters could be pampered, but sons had to inherit the family business.

Otherwise, people would talk behind your back, calling you an idiot.

So, ever since she learned that her brother was to take over the barrel factory in the future, Lin Hongxia was very unhappy.

At first, she kept quiet, mulling over in her mind how to replace her brother in running the factory.

They say women can hold up half the sky these days.

Why is it that men can do it, but she can’t?

Just because she’s not a man?

Lin Hongxia wasn’t convinced.

She pondered for days, completely at a loss.

Because to take over the barrel factory, one had to be a man.

Yet she was a woman, creating a fundamental paradox.

In her obsessiveness, Lin Hongxia even considered cutting off her brother’s thing and attaching it to herself.

But then she reconsidered; to attach it, she’d have to sew it on with a needle and thread.

Ouch~

That would be so painful.

She was a pampered girl and couldn’t tolerate that kind of pain, so she had to reluctantly give up.

(In any case, she never considered her brother’s life in the least. It was solely her selfish feelings.)

(Her brother, having narrowly avoided a calamity without knowing it, slept more soundly at night.)

Unable to come up with a plan, Lin Hongxia decided not to bother with any roundabout methods.

They were useless anyway.

She went straight to her father and laid her cards on the table.

She frankly stated her desire to manage the barrel factory.

Mr. Lin: "???"

Was she daydreaming in broad daylight?

Mr. Lin didn’t take Lin Hongxia’s words seriously, brushing them off as childish jokes.

He casually replied that it’s not impossible to take over the family business, but she must be married with a child.

Moreover, the child must have the Lin surname.

As everyone knew, once you got married during that time, the child would have the father’s surname.

Lin Hongxia faced only two paths.

One was to marry someone with the surname Lin.

Whether it followed the father’s surname or the mother’s, it was still Lin.

Fooling her father might be a bit difficult.

But it didn’t matter; Lin Hongxia, with great self-assurance, thought, since she was shameless, she’d just cling stubbornly until it worked.

Once she had a child with the Lin surname, and brought it to her father, if he didn’t honor his original promise,

she’d knock his teeth out!!!

However, she later abandoned this idea.

Because she searched all around for anyone with the Lin surname.

They were either relatives or unattractive.

Too fat, too short—none of them appealed to her.

Even if she pinched her nose and closed her eyes to ignore it, the truth about the child they’d have wouldn’t lie.

She couldn’t accept giving birth to an ugly child.

Of course, too old was also not acceptable.

If they were brought out, they’d look as old as her father, leaving everyone confused about whether it was her father-in-law or brother in arms.

In the end, after much sifting, she found the most suitable candidate.

Looks, physique, and family were all unrelated to the Lin family.

However, the most ridiculous part was that this perfect match was a woman.

That night, Lin Hongxia couldn’t sleep, biting her handkerchief and silently crying, because two women couldn’t have a child together.

Thus, the option to find someone with the Lin surname was off the table.

She would have to execute plan two.

Which was to find a man who was well-educated, decent-looking, smart, and invite him into the family.

When the child was born, it would naturally carry her Lin surname.

Lin Hongxia felt that all the intelligence from hundreds of years of the Lin family must have been concentrated in her, otherwise, how could she be born so clever?

Wen Ran, hearing this: "???????"

The Xiao Family members: "???????"

Well... what can I say, maybe fools do have their fortunes.

As long as you’re happy.

Wen Ran helplessly interrupted Lin Hongxia’s self-praise, "So you set your sights on Xiao Chenye, planning to take him back as a live-in son-in-law and have a child."

"Exactly."

Wen Ran, resting her chin on her hand, "But there’s no connection between the transport team and the barrel factory, how did you two even meet?"

"Ah," Lin Hongxia was already at this point, and didn’t mind explaining more.

She immediately and truthfully laid it all out.

"Actually, I didn’t even know there was such a person as Xiao Chenye in the transport team.

It was the wife at the boiler house who told me. She knew about my troubles and volunteered to help alleviate them."

Mentioning this, Lin Hongxia laughed like a fool from a wealthy family, "Don’t say, she’s actually quite nice."

Wen Ran: "..."

She reminded, "Haven’t you considered that if she hadn’t told you to come, you wouldn’t have been kicked by me, lost 1000 yuan, nor had your face stomped on."

Lin Hongxia: "..."

She was about to turn dark!

Immediately, Lin Hongxia’s expression changed, cursing the wife at the boiler house with a stream of three hundred words of profanity.

Wen Ran felt it was enough, and called it off, "Alright, that’s enough!"

Lin Hongxia instantly fell silent.

Wen Ran suddenly burst out laughing.

Hey, who’d have thought, raising such an odd creature at home was actually pretty fun.

No wonder Lin Hongxia was so eccentric, and yet Mr. Lin still doted on his daughter.

During stressful times, coming home to see such an eccentric daughter was indeed a unique form of relaxation.

"Alright, stop cursing, and tell me carefully, what exactly did the wife at the boiler house tell you, and what’s her name."

Helplessly, Wen Ran thought, in her year in the countryside,

she really hadn’t been low-profile, encountering troublemakers she mostly just fought back, ending up in fights every now and then.

Of course, even after dealing with them, she’d sometimes have to knock them out.

Over time, there were just too many people she had beaten up.

She couldn’t remember who was who to save her life.

That wife at the boiler house was probably a relative of someone she’d fought before, just waiting for an opportunity to take a jab at her.

Lin Hongxia obediently repeated that person’s words, "She said that Xiao Chenye from the transport team is quite good, and comes from humble origins.

Just a rural person easy to control, and if I wanted, I could spend a few dozen yuan to buy him."

Wen Ran: "And then? Do you know what this person’s name is?"

Lin Hongxia tilted her head, thinking for a long time, and finally realized.

"Oh, I remember now!"