After the replacement of the military officer, the soft stepmother won

In this family, Lin Xuanxuan felt like she was a free babysitter, but there was nothing she could do. If the Ji family hadn't adopted her, she wouldn't have been able to eat enough and wear warm clothes, let alone go to school and take the college entrance examination.

Therefore, Lin Xuanxuan did all the housework at home, and he was always willing to work hard and never complain.

Just as Lin Xuanxuan stood up to leave, a slender and powerful hand suddenly grabbed her slender wrist the next second.

"Don't leave."

The man spoke in a hoarse and somewhat unclear voice.

The next second, the man grabbed his wrist and exerted force violently, and Lin Xuanxuan was caught off guard and pulled over by him and fell into his arms.

"Ji Qingping, you..." Lin Xuanxuan looked at him in panic.

At this time, the two people were very close, almost with their noses touching, and the slightest movement would touch each other's lips.

Feeling the man's hot breath filled with alcohol, Lin Xuanxuan stiffened all over and dared not move.

The man's rough big hands held her soft little face, and his deep eyes stared at her for a long while, then kissed her deeply.

Lin Xuanxuan's eyes widened in disbelief. She struggled hard, but the difference in physical strength between a girl and an adult man was too great, and she couldn't succeed.

Gradually, she indulged in the man's gentle and deep kiss.

At the moment when her consciousness was about to blur, she heard two words that struck her like lightning.

"Xuezhi..."

The man shouted in ecstasy.

Lin Xuanxuan's face turned pale and tears rolled down her cheeks.

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"The next morning, after Ji Qingping woke up, he was silent for a long time," Lin Xuanxuan said, "until Li Xiumei came and saw this scene, and then she chased me and beat me."

"This time, Ji Qingping defended me and told Li Xiumei that he wanted to marry me."

"He married me despite Li Xiumei's objection."

Lin Xuanxuan said, laughing at herself, "I knew that the person he liked was Su Xuezhi, but when he said he wanted to marry me, I was moved."

"So, I married him." Xuanxuan choked up and said, "But he treated me very coldly after we got married. He only touched me on our wedding night. Since then, Li Xiumei has treated me like a thorn in her side and scolded and beat me at every turn... Sometimes I wonder, when will this life end?"

Shen Li looked at her sympathetically, "In fact, you don't have to work like a slave in the Ji family. You always think that they took you in, and you should work like a slave to repay them, but this is what they owe you! If your father hadn't saved Ji Qingping's father, you wouldn't have lost your father and become an orphan!"

"Xuanxuan, you are still too weak, that's why you are being held in such a position." Shen Li said.

Lin Xuanxuan looked at her in confusion, her crying little face full of tear marks.

Shen Li wiped her hair and said, "You are always so self-deprecating. You even look down on yourself. How can you expect others to respect you?"

"I do have low self-esteem because I have no father or mother, I have nothing, I am so ordinary, and I don't come from a good background..." Lin Xuanxuan lowered her head and began to list her own shortcomings.

"Xuanxuan, I find that your biggest problem is that you always find fault with yourself and talk about your own shortcomings," said Shen Li.

Lin Xuanxuan stood there in a daze, but what she said was all true.

"You always exaggerate your own shortcomings infinitely," Shen Li's voice was very soft and gentle, giving people a very reassuring feeling, "Look, you don't even recognize yourself. Don't you realize that you have been mentally abusing yourself?"

"Mentally abusing yourself?" Lin Xuanxuan was a little confused. No one had ever said these words to her before.

"Yes, although you were born in the countryside, many sisters-in-law on the island were born in the countryside. I was also born in the countryside. So what? It shows that we have a good family background," said Shen Li.

"But I'm different from you. You're smart and pretty..."

"How is it different? You are beautiful, you are smart, and you are kind and honest. You don't cheat or play tricks. You are sincere and you study hard. You learn things quickly. For example, when you dance, you are the first one to learn the moves. Other sisters-in-law have to learn them two or three times, but you remember them after just one time and can dance them fluently. This shows that you are smart and have a strong learning ability." Shen Li looked into Lin Xuanxuan's eyes sincerely and said word by word.

Lin Xuanxuan stood there in a daze.

"I'm smart?" She couldn't believe it.

After all, she had been suppressed and insulted by Li Xiumei for so many years, and Li Xiumei compared her with Su Xuezhi. After being suppressed and insulted for a long time, Lin Xuanxuan felt that she was not good at anything and she knew nothing. She looked down on herself.

It was the first time someone praised her for her intelligence.

"Of course you are smart. If you are not smart, how can you be a college student?" Shen Li said with a smile, "Look at how many college students there are on our island?"

Thinking about it this way, Lin Xuanxuan felt that it was true.

It seems that she is not as useless as Li Xiumei said.

She has strengths.

"In fact, with your conditions, you could find a decent job after graduating from college and live a refined and happy life, instead of being like now, marrying Ji Qingping before graduating from college and being completely dependent on him. Don't you realize that you revolve around Ji Qingping and Li Xiumei all day long, your life revolves around them, and you have lost yourself?" Shen Li said.

"You're right..." Lin Xuanxuan suddenly felt as if she had been enlightened. "After I came to the island to join the army, I stayed in the house all day cleaning and doing housework, serving my mother-in-law and my husband. I only had a little time to work part-time in the cannery... I had no self at all. I was like a wooden man, like a nanny for their whole family."

"You are also the most diligent in the cannery. Although you are an hourly worker, you are nimble and quick. The work you do in one hour is equivalent to the work of other sisters-in-law in one and a half hours." Shen Li said.

"If your current life is not what you want, then you should change it." Shen Li continued, "For example, you can try to spend some time on yourself every day. When you get your salary every month, you can reward yourself with some beautiful new clothes, beautiful hair ornaments, and reward yourself with some delicious food. You can also go out more often, socialize more and make new friends. You can go fishing with your sisters-in-law, watch the sunrise and sunset together, and feel the sea breeze. In this way, won't you feel much better? Don't stay at home all day." In her previous life, Shen Li had seen many news reports about housewives who were stuck at home and finally committed suicide due to depression or jumped off buildings.

She didn't want this to happen to Xuanxuan.

After all, she is still so young and so lively.

"Lili, you're right." Lin Xuanxuan clenched her fists and bit her lips. "I want to live for myself. From now on, I will no longer hand over the money I earn to my mother-in-law. I will spend it on myself."