To please others? It's better to please yourself.

Gu Panpan understood that Shen Yue's conversation today was the first and last.

If anything else goes wrong, the two of them will probably be really stuck in a stalemate. She didn't plan to get a divorce, so she suppressed her displeasure and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll tell you all my thoughts and plans from now on, and I won't make decisions on my own!" Gu Panpan promised.

Shen Yue didn't say anything after hearing that. After all, he didn't know if things could really change in the future. But if there were problems in the marriage, then this was the process that had to be followed. If he couldn't even do some ideological work with his wife and have basic communication between them, then if something happened, he would definitely be the first to be blamed.

"Okay, now that we've talked it out, let's live our lives together properly. As you can see, with you in postpartum confinement and four children to care for, Mom can't manage it all by herself."

"I've asked Nurse Tang, who just retired, to take care of you. You saw her when you were hospitalized last time for threatened miscarriage. There's also Sister Lan, who's quick and clean, but she went back to her hometown and won't arrive for a few days."

"When the time comes, Sister Lan will do the housework and help Mom take care of the twins. If anyone in the compound asks, just say they're relatives Dad found from his hometown to lend a hand. Don't let it slip!"

Gu Panpan: "No, don't worry. I know what's important!" She's not stupid; she wouldn't create trouble for herself unnecessarily.

Hearing this, Shen Yue felt relieved; it was just a casual remark. After all, they weren't divorced, and their fates were intertwined.

"I've been busy these past few days, and I need to go back to the military base now. I'll come pick you up from the hospital tomorrow."

As he left, Shen Yue took a paper package out of his pocket and handed it to Gu Panpan.

"Let's put those things behind us and not bring them up again! You get some rest, and if you need anything, just ask Sister Tang!"

……

After Shen Yue left, Gu Panpan picked up the paper package and, unsurprisingly, found two condoms inside.

She casually tossed it into the trash can in the hospital room. Without even looking, she knew there were needle marks on it. She hadn't expected Shen Yue to find it!

"The food is ready, eat it while it's hot." Tang Huiqi waited until Shen Yue had left for a while before coming in.

The ward was quiet that night. Gu Panpan couldn't sleep, though; she needed to think carefully about what to do next.

It seems that people become more stubborn as they get older. She was 76 when she died, and her constant scheming and calculation with her husband's mistress and illegitimate child was ingrained in her very being!

In her past life, she wanted to escape the countryside, and Shen Yue was the only way out she could grasp.

In this lifetime, she will still choose to hold onto Shen Yue, primarily for the sake of him as a person. As long as he's there, she can have anything she wants!

If it were just about escaping the countryside, she, Gu Panpan, could achieve it through hard work and perseverance in a few years when policies improved. She wanted a better life, and she was never afraid of hardship!

When Gu Panpan met Shen Yue, she was already 19 years old. Even though her family doted on her, in their hearts and in the whole village, everyone felt that she should get married and had to get married!

Whom can I marry?

Marrying a sent-down youth? After enduring hardship and toil for the first few years, when it's time for them to take the college entrance exams and return home, how many of the sent-down youths would take their wives from the countryside with them?

Marrying a rural man? Ask around in the surrounding villages, how many of them don't beat their wives? They're always busy in the fields and at home, and they'll have a bunch of kids.

You'll spend your whole life serving your mother-in-law, always having to watch her face. Unless you separate the family, you won't have a single penny. And then you'll be fighting with your sister-in-law every day over an egg?

Some people might say that the two of them can work hard together! Work hard for what? In her past life, she was the one who suffered and endured hardship with a man, but now that life is better, is it always her who has to spend the money?

To put it simply, where does the saying "The first sword strike after landing is to kill the one you love" come from?

Young and beautiful women come every year, and they use every trick in the book to seduce her. The expensive clothes, imported cosmetics, and limited-edition bags that Gu Panpan herself wouldn't buy for herself, men give away to other women in large quantities.

There are also women who come to your door with their pregnant bellies and babies in their arms; in rural areas, if one of the brothers or sisters becomes wealthy, they have to help their relatives.

From her own family to her husband's family, they swarmed over like a swarm of bloodsucking leeches, each hoping to gain an advantage from her.

Wasn't she just as pathetic and resentful in her past life?

Her husband actually scolded her, "Can't you be less petty and more magnanimous?"

She wanted to too! But how could she be content without considering the consequences and scheming?

She spent her whole life working hard and enduring hardship for her children, but they looked down on her instead!

Shen Yue is responsible, capable, comes from a well-off family, and has few family members. More importantly, as long as he is ambitious and doesn't want to leave his military uniform, she isn't afraid he'll find another woman behind her back.

Gu Panpan thought about it and realized that everything she had done since her rebirth was wrong. Never before had she felt so deeply that this was her new life.

……

When Shen's father arrived, Shen Yue had already left on a mission.

He immediately noticed that Shen's mother's hair was much whiter than when he left. It was obvious that his wife had been working hard here and looked older than she had two years ago.

Suppressing his heartache, Mr. Shen grabbed a basket and went out to help with grocery shopping, cooking, washing diapers and clothes for his newborn grandchildren, cleaning, and looking after the twins...

With someone lending a hand, Shen's mother finally felt she could catch her breath and slept soundly in bed for a whole day.

Shen's father had limited leave. Before leaving, he met another military wife arranged by Shen Yue.

Five days later, Mr. Shen returned home by train, his heart filled with worry.

……

Shen He has recently noticed that Director Qiao is treating him differently.

Every day when they meet, he asks, "Shen He, have you eaten?"

During the meeting, he would occasionally ask, "Shen He, what do you think?"

Discussion question: "Shen He, what do you think of this?"

"Shen He,..."

Shen He was already numb.

In the past, being so highly regarded by the bureau chief would always attract a few sarcastic remarks. But ever since his wife made an appearance at the bureau, that situation has completely disappeared.

To be precise, no one said anything sarcastic only when he was appreciated and valued by the bureau chief.

The entire Criminal Investigation Brigade and the Criminal Investigation Division used to occasionally clash over cases. But it seems like one day they suddenly reached some kind of consensus, and you rarely see them arguing so heatedly anymore.

Even couples arguing and physically abusing each other have become rarer throughout the city!

At first, Shen He didn't react. It wasn't until his team cracked an antique trafficking case on the black market that he heard the other party shout, "Who do you think you are? Iron Hand Tang?"

Shen He then learned that the legend of "Iron Hand Tang" already existed in the city. His wife actually had a "place" in the underworld?

Only then did he realize that he wasn't being valued by the bureau chief at all; it was clearly a case of "a wife's honor bringing honor to her husband"!