Following the Army While Pregnant, the Drama Queen is Pampered by the Abstinent Boss

Novel Info

Author:
呆川傻流
Status:Ongoing

Summary

Lu Zhenzhen woke up to find she had become a woman with a “max-level love brain” who had acted as a substitute bride for the sweetheart of the man she loved. After the wedding, the original host remained obsessed with her crush, using all her money and ration coupons to support the scumbag’s family. Lu Zhenzhen fiercely rebuked the scumbag and reclaimed the wealth she had spent on him, only to return home and discover that her husband was dead set on a divorce.

However, by the time her belly grew large, she still hadn’t received a divorce notice, leaving her no choice but to head to Shanghai with the baby in her womb to find the father. She wasn’t looking to live a traditional life with the man; she simply wanted to find a partner to help raise the child. With her Xinpian Kongjian, ample supplies, and a smart robot at her disposal, it didn’t matter to her whether they divorced or not…

The formidable and abstinent boss, Gu Ye, had been pressured by his family to return home and fulfill a marriage contract. Instead, he was set up by his fiancée and a sent-down youth in the village for a substitute marriage. Since the deed was already done, he initially intended to make a life with his wife, only to find the foolish woman shamelessly trying to please her former fiancé.

It was utterly humiliating. He detested stupidity more than anything, so he immediately canceled his leave and departed. He began preparing for a divorce, but an emergency mission delayed him for three months, only for him to receive news that his wife was pregnant.

The aunts in the military compound all claimed the foolish woman’s belly was too large and the timing was off, insisting she had been pregnant before the wedding and was making him a scapegoat.

He roared in anger, “Why don’t you just say she got pregnant after I left? I’d certainly believe that!”

Later, when Lu Zhenzhen gave birth to triplets, the entire military compound fell silent…

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Li Xuemei was the beauty of the village. In her previous life, she married the short-lived ghost Gu Ye out of gratitude for saving her life, only to live a miserable existence. Fortunately, she was reborn three months before the wedding. She used every trick in her arsenal to snatch away the sent-down youth who was destined to become the richest man in Shanghai, only to find that it was all a joke.

Novel Items

Marriage certificates

Documents

Found during Han Yue's carpet search of the house, along with various tickets and passbooks.

Gu Ye's marriage report

Documents

A military marriage report submitted by Gu Ye three months ago upon his return. Lu Zhenzhen points out that since military marriages require review and approval, the fact that they got their certificate the next day means her name was already on the report long ago, proving premeditation.

Cattle medicine

Materials

Medicine meant for breeding cattle that Xu Yanqing bought and falsely told the original host was a sedative. He used it to drug her before the wedding night swap, enabling the conspiracy.

Bupiao, Tangpiao, and Gongyepiao

Materials

Various coupons (housing coupon, food coupon, and industrial coupon) spent by the original host on the wedding expenses. Lu Zhenzhen says she needs to check her records at home for these amounts.

1,863 yuan

Materials

The total amount of money the Xu family spent from Lu Zhenzhen over three years, not counting wedding expenses. Lu Zhenzhen demands this amount be repaid as she has kept detailed accounts of every expense.

100,000 yuan online loans

Materials

The debt Lu Zhenzhen owes from her past life, described as buy-now-pay-later or advance consumption rather than traditional loans. She had not even gotten to enjoy the items she purchased.

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KatanexypQf Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ November 11,2025

I keep coming back to the money motif in this text. It's not just a plot device—it's the central symbol of everything. Lu Zhenzhen's transformation isn't marked by a grand speech or a dramatic confrontation, it's marked by her learning to value herself in the only currency this world respects. The 663 yuan she receives, the 10 yuan she gives Mother Gu, the precise change she distributes to each auntie—every transaction is a statement. She's not just getting reimbursed; she's buying her way out of a life where her kindness was exploited. And the IOU for 1,200 yuan? That's not just debt collection, that's a contract for her freedom. "To be repaid within two years"—she's literally purchasing a timeline for her escape. The Kongjian itself is symbolic too. It represents everything she prepared for in her previous life (stocking supplies, being practical) versus what the original host had (nothing but devotion to a man who didn't deserve it). There's also the recurring theme of food—starvation, wild vegetable porridge, Mother Gu not knowing how to cook for her daughter-in-law. Hunger as metaphor for everything unmet, everything unspoken, every need that went ignored for three years. The text is really about what it costs a woman to be seen in a world that only values her for what she can give.

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MAYAVEDA Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ June 16,2025

Okay so this whole scene where Lu Zhenzhen demands her money back from the Xu family is genuinely one of the most satisfying moments I've read in a while. Like, she's literally starving, collapsed against a wall, and STILL manages to turn the tables on everyone who wronged her. The stakes here are so perfectly calibrated—on the surface it's about 1,200 yuan, but really it's about dignity, about proving that she's not the doormat everyone thought she was. And the way Xu Yanqing's internal monologue shifts from smug entitlement to "I'll get it all back from that foolish woman"? Chilling. He's already planning revenge while she's just trying to survive. That tension between them is electric. The village women throwing their weight around for a yuan or two is darkly comedic but also reveals the whole social ecosystem—everyone's transactional, everyone's calculating, and Lu Zhenzhen just weaponizes that against them. She hands out change like she's distributing blessings. "Auntie, these two yuan are for you. This one is for her..." The precision of it. She's not just getting money back, she's rewriting the power dynamic in real time. And then the IOU scene at the end—"Xu Yanqing and Li Xuemei owe Lu Zhenzhen twelve hundred yuan in full, to be repaid within two years"—this is a plot device that's going to come back to bite someone. I can already feel it. The suspense is locked in now. What happens when that debt comes due? What happens when Gu Ye finds out?

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NalumR5h Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ June 24,2025

"Money might not be able to buy someone's genuine affection, but it could heal all insecurities and embarrassments, propping up dignity and the power of choice." This line is EVERYTHING. It's Lu Zhenzhen's thesis statement and it comes across so naturally, like she's just thinking out loud while counting her money. The author's dialogue voice is distinct for each character and I love that. Xu Yanqing speaks with entitlement and suppressed rage—"Don't even dream about it. I won't write any IOU"—while Li Xuemei's dialogue is all performative sweetness masking calculation. The aunties have their own register too, full of "Zhiqing Lu" and "Comrade" and that distinctive rural Chinese formality that shifts depending on who's being flattering and who's being honest. What I appreciate most is how the dialogue reveals power dynamics in real time. When Lu Zhenzhen says "Shut up. Don't even think about trying to weasel out of paying by pretending we're close," it's not just a line—it's a complete reversal of three years of subservience. And the way she distributes the money afterward, with precise amounts for each person based on their level of involvement, is dialogue-adjacent action that says more than any speech could. The narrative voice itself is wry and observant, never preachy, always letting the characters reveal themselves through what they say and what they refuse to say.

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heh Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ January 10,2026

The setting in this novel is what really sells it for me. We're in some kind of rural Chinese village—earthen walls, gray tile roofs, wild vegetable porridge for dinner—and the author doesn't just describe it, they make you FEEL the poverty and the social pressure of this place. The Kongjian (storage space) detail is interesting because it shows Lu Zhenzhen's modern mindset colliding with this traditional setting. She's got rice, flour, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and clothes for all four seasons stored in this magical space, but she still only has 600 yuan to her name. The contrast between her preparedness and her actual poverty is haunting. And the Gu family house—"traditional three-room house... earthen walls... gray tiles... slanted-roof kitchen"—it's painted in just a few strokes but you can see everything. The kitchen is where the aunts gossip, the main hall is where Mother Gu flusters nervously, and Lu Zhenzhen's bedroom is "simple, tidy and clean" despite never having been properly lived in. There's a scene where the aunties are walking Lu Zhenzhen home and the dialogue reveals so much about the village's social structure without ever stopping the narrative. People gossip, people calculate, people apologize when it costs them nothing. The world feels alive because every character is moving through it with their own agenda.

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NefariousDragon Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ January 30,2025

I wasn't ready for how much Mother Gu's scene affected me. Here's this woman, forty-six but looking old, gray hair on both sides, rubbing her hands nervously because her daughter-in-law just handed her ten yuan and asked her to cook. "You're back. Have you eaten?" The simplest question in the world, delivered with such genuine worry and confusion. And then Lu Zhenzhen, who spent three years being treated like garbage in this house, responds with kindness instead of the rage the original host would've unleashed. The emotional pivot is so subtle but so devastating. Mother Gu has been watching her son's marriage fail from the outside, helpless, unable to intervene because "your daughter-in-law isn't as bad as you think" isn't something you can just say to hostile in-laws. She's trapped between her daughter's scheming and her son's absence and this daughter-in-law she's never been able to reach. And then Lu Zhenzhen walks in with money and asks for food, and for the first time maybe, Mother Gu gets to be a mother instead of a bystander. I also need to mention the Gu Xiaofang dynamic—her innocent-seeming dialogue masking pure calculation, wanting to "coax some money out of" her aunt. The emotional landscape here is layered with people performing kindness while hiding their true intentions, which makes the rare genuine moments hit so much harder. Mother Gu's worry, her "deeply lined face filled with worry"—that's the real thing, and it aches.

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Daoist99taoistVzd Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 11,2025

I need to talk about Li Xuemei because this character is not what you expect. On the surface she's the classic reborn villainess—jealous, scheming, trying to steal someone else's life. But the text gives us this incredible glimpse into her psychology: "In her previous life, two months later, Xu Yanqing's family and Lu Zhenzhen returned to Hushi, where they soared to success and became the city's wealthiest family." She's not just petty, she's traumatized by her own future. She knows how this ends and she's desperately trying to rewrite it. That makes her genuinely scary because her motivation isn't random malice—it's survival. And the most disturbing part? She actually feels sorry for Lu Zhenzhen when she hands over the money. "I hope you won't come to our house again from now on~~" That tilde at the end is so performative, so fake-sweet, and yet there's a flicker of something real underneath it. She's trapped in this cycle too. Meanwhile Lu Zhenzhen's relationship with the Gu family is just... complicated. Mother Gu is soft, hesitant, rubbing her hands like she doesn't know how to interact with this daughter-in-law who's never properly eaten a meal in their home. And Third Aunt? Straight-up hostile. "Our Gu family must have had the worst luck for eight lifetimes to end up with such a shameless slut." The family dynamics here are a minefield and I'm obsessed with watching how Lu Zhenzhen navigates all of it.

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