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Crossing Ancient Times with My Daughter: In-Laws Eat Chaff, I Feast on Meat

share time: 2026-01-16 12:35:09

Modern single mom Su Xiao was working overtime on a project when she and her 3-year-old daughter Duoduo traveled back to an ancient broken temple—she’d become a “husband-killing” widow driven out by her in-laws. Her husband Gu Yan had been garrisoning the border for three years with no news, and his family, blaming her for “killing” their son, left the mother and daughter in the temple with only chaff to eat. Using her modern braised meat recipe, Su Xiao set up a stall at the town entrance; her crispy braised duck sold out instantly, making her rich. Every day, she and Duoduo ate sauce-stewed pork elbows outside her in-laws’ yard, infuriating her mother-in-law. But just as she saved enough to go to the county town, Gu Yan, missing for three years, suddenly returned—wounded and with a “fiancée”? He’d been captured and faked a marriage to survive, now wanting to take them away. Su Xiao stepped back holding Duoduo: “We don’t need your interference.” Gu Yan grabbed her wrist, eyes red: “I didn’t marry her. I’ve been looking for you all this time…”

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