Chinese Novel Review 1

Strict Wife of the Seventies Manages the Household

Rate 4/5
COO 186 translation 4 read 129

Summary:
Lin Lan woke up and transmigrated into a shrewish wife who drank pesticides. The original owner ruined her husband’s promising future, and all five of her children became villains in the end.

Her in-laws are biased. The uncles and aunts are insatiable. She has five bear children and a cold-faced husband to take care of. . .

Lin Lan: Trying to take my money? We’ve already separated. I’ll take it back!

My husband dares to run wild? I’ll teach him to be a new man!

It’s difficult to discipline wild children? That is due to the lack of love! Shower them with love!

What’s the matter with that cold-faced man

Review:
It is a family love oriented story, the flow is slow or can be said no major conflict as the story goes. There are a lot of supporting characters keep coming out and fade away, I couldn't remember any of them. It is nice to read like assassin farmer, but I got bored on later chapters because the story revolve around the daily activity of MC family. I may continue to read it later just for the sake to finish it.
MC transmigrated as a shrew wife, he has a soldier husband who never stay home and got 5 children. She realize she was in a novel, her children will become villains with miserable endings. She dislike children because they are naughty, but she tried to get close to her children. ML ask a job transfer because OMC threatened him to suicide if he didn't come back. OMC was bullied by ML family even though ML salary subsidized the big family. ML went home and asked for separation. He realized he never cared MC and didn't know his family bullied his wife and children. They got close and MC children get better. The family become a perfect family with OP skill. First child can fight, second child is a twin with the daughter, both are smart, the third can swim and the last one is a music and painter genius despite 4 yo....
MC is getting better, she start working in propaganda team, not sure what is that. Seems like promoting and educating the people. OFL live in MC family village (next to her current village), she has gentle personality. She has a childhood friend who is close to her and inseparable. It seems the childhood friend is a transmigrated but still not sure, they are seldom to show up. When OFL father died and OFL father's family tried to chase her away, MC help her. In the novel, OML is an educated youth who will live with OFL after her mother remarry. But now OFL mother hasn't remarry, OML live with OFL childhood friend. MC is afraid her daughter will love OML and have bad ending but overtime MC daughter didn't have any special meaning to OML and MC got close to OML.
OFL childhood friend is somewhat didn't have any meaning. At first she seems attracted to ML (please note she is a 14-17 yo while ML already have 5 children, approximately around 30ish), then when OML show up the childhood friend change target to OML. OFL began alienate with her because she felt the friend is too close and sometime has inappropriate contact with her (lesbian?). Until chapter 129, it's still not clear because the story focused on MC family daily life. And a chapter is really long. I felt like reading 3-4 chapters in 1. That's why I decided to stop reading this novel. But it is a good novel if you like mundane daily life or maybe slice of life.