1970s: My childhood sweetheart ran away, and I turned around and married the wildest chief.

If my uncle doesn't support this, my grandmother has no choice but to accept it. Otherwise, the two of them will argue, and my uncle might even try to persuade her to consider my grandfather's job, which would make her feel even worse.

She doesn't have the ability to solve these problems right now, so she can only keep quiet and quietly help with the housework.

Looking at her granddaughter's obedient face and watching her wash the dishes with her head down, Grandma Qiao's eyes reddened. She knew that her granddaughter understood her situation.

After a long silence, Grandma Qiao brought up the old topic again, "Wanwan, do you regret marrying Lu Mingzhou?"

Qiao Wanqing looked up at her.

Grandma Qiao's eyes were red. "I can see it all. The younger generation ostracizes you and looks down on you. Your grandfather and your uncle only have some familial feelings for you, but they don't really care about you because they don't have much faith in Lu Mingzhou's future."

"They usually treat you well, so you might not notice, but when it comes to important occasions, and you compare them, don't you feel it? Your second cousin's husband is only a deputy regimental commander, and he's about the same age as Lu Mingzhou, but just because his family is well-off, they value your second cousin so much. Her family dotes on her, and the younger generation does too. Actually..."

"Grandma, I don't regret it!" Qiao Wanqing interrupted her.

"Really? If the Bai family incident hadn't happened, would you still have married Lu Mingzhou?"

Qiao Wanqing's answer was the same as last time: "Yes, I have never regretted marrying him."

Grandma Qiao was stunned. "Really? Not a single regret? Seeing how much your brothers and sisters flatter Qiao Wanlin now, don't you feel any regret at all? Your eldest and second eldest cousins ​​married better than you. Among all the girls, you were actually the most talented and beautiful. You were the one with the most potential to marry into a high-class family. That would have meant a lifetime of wealth and honor, and you would have been envied and flattered wherever you went. If it weren't for that incident with the Bai family..."

"I wouldn't have married into such a prestigious family even without the Bai family," Qiao Wanqing said firmly.

Grandma Qiao didn't understand. "Why? Isn't a prestigious family better?"

Qiao Wanqing explained with a smile, "It's not that high-class families are bad, it's just that they're not suitable for me."

Grandma Qiao didn't quite understand her granddaughter's idea. In her opinion, this granddaughter was the most suitable to marry into a wealthy family. She was first-rate in terms of appearance and talent. Most importantly, she was very calm, composed, and knew how to be patient.

Actually, when this girl was little, she could tell that she was not willing to accept the kind of education the Xu family had. She had a wild side, but the Xu family only taught her to be a proper young lady. Qiao Wanqing was always very well-behaved. Among the granddaughters of the Xu family, even though she was surnamed Qiao, the two elders of the Xu family still liked her and doted on her as their granddaughter.

So Grandma Qiao had long believed that her granddaughter was someone who could achieve great things and was very goal-oriented. She thought that if such a person married into a wealthy family, she would definitely be able to handle all kinds of relationships and become the one who would benefit from the wealthy family.

"Wanwan, you're so smart and know how to be patient. Among the younger generation, you're the most composed. Sometimes I wonder how you can be so steady at such a young age. The others aren't as calm as you. If you were to marry into a wealthy family..."

"Grandma, I don't want to be wronged."

Grandma Qiao paused, opened her mouth, but then seemed unable to speak.

Qiao Wanqing explained, "My eldest and second sisters did marry well, especially my second sister, who married into a prestigious family. But my second sister's husband wasn't the eldest son or grandson, was he? Nor was he the heir the family was grooming. Among the younger generation, he was only second-tier, or even third-tier. He was only slightly better than those marginal playboys. In that family, he was unremarkable and never an important figure."

"My second sister hasn't worked all these years. She stays at home taking care of the children, serving her husband, and trying to please her in-laws, right? After all, there are only so many resources in the family. If you want to get them, you have to ask your in-laws and compete for their favor. My second sister has no say in her husband's family. Of course, on the surface, she is indeed much more glamorous than me. Her family background is what it is."

"You might think that my second sister's sacrifices were all worthwhile. She entered a prestigious family and is respected wherever she goes. Ordinary people don't dare to make things difficult for her. Her children also grew up in a prestigious family and have a strong family background to support them. These are all true. But for me, a prestigious family is not suitable for me. I don't want to suffer any injustice. I really don't want to."

She'd had enough!

In her past life, she was just an insignificant person who suffered too many grievances as she climbed up from the bottom.

Having transmigrated to this world, I was indeed born into a wealthy and noble family. Unfortunately, being a young lady of high birth is not so easy. Only young ladies favored by their elders are true young ladies. Those disliked by their elders, even if born into the Xu family, do not live the luxurious life one might imagine, let alone enjoy freedom.

Their lives, careers, and marriages are all arranged by their elders and are all for the purpose of serving the family's development. It's one thing for them to have been used to being parasites since childhood and have already accepted this set of survival rules, but she is not one of them!

She's someone who got to where she is through sheer hard work and perseverance!

How could anyone accept a life controlled by others?

That kind of life wasn't what she wanted, so in order to fight for that little bit of freedom, she studied very well from a young age. For someone who didn't have many learning resources in her previous life, and for someone who had no one to support her education from childhood, studying was actually a very simple and desirable thing.

So when the Xu family made her learn those things, she didn't feel tormented at all; on the contrary, she cherished it.

One was willing to teach, and the other was willing to learn. She was more well-behaved and intelligent than all the other children, and became the dream girl of Xu's maternal grandparents. This is why she was valued in the Xu family.

Another crucial point is that she is the granddaughter of the Qiao family. Her father comes from a good family, and the Qiao family has real power and a higher status than the Xu family, so her maternal grandfather would naturally pay more attention to her.

But what if she marries into a wealthy family?

These advantages would then no longer exist.

She's a capitalist's daughter. Which wealthy family would let her marry their heir? Her eldest and second eldest cousins ​​are her uncle's biological daughters, and they both got married before her. Neither of them managed to marry a wealthy heir. How could she, a mere niece, possibly do so?

If she actually marries into the family, the best outcome would probably be marrying into a second-tier family, trying to please her in-laws, striving to have a son, being subservient and a qualified daughter-in-law, and trying to gain some family resources.

If her husband becomes unkind, hits her, schemes against her, cheats on her, etc., she may not even have the right to divorce him.

Her uncle does want to marry her into a wealthy family, but can you really trust what he says?

He'd be more likely to sell her into a wealthy family. If Bai Zhengxiong had offered his uncle a huge profit back then, his uncle would definitely have married her off to Bai Zhengxiong without hesitation.

She couldn't live like that; she couldn't bear it.