I Became a Vicious Supporting Role in the '70s

In the evening, Xie Jinghao lay on Shen Meng’s bed with Xiao Gang, while Shen Meng, with Xiao Kai and Ming Fang, engaged in a standoff with Mingyang and Ming Liang who were standing on the floor. Eventually, Shen Meng compromised—after all, the bed was quite spacious and all the children were thin, so it wouldn’t be too crowded even when they slept together.

After crying his heart out, Mingyang softened quite a bit, but he still refused to make eye contact, his gaze darting about. He felt deeply embarrassed to have wept in front of his younger siblings—it was all too mortifying.

In the dead of night, once everyone had fallen into deep slumber, Mingyang and Ming Liang would occasionally lift their heads to look at Shen Meng. They couldn’t recall a memory of ever lying in the same bed with their mother. They had no recollection of their birth mother, and their stepmother had never shown them any affection before.

Now they were all lying together on the same bed—it was a novel experience indeed.

The next day.

When Shen Meng woke up, she found a little foot resting on her chin. As she sat up and looked, what a sight greeted her—none of the four children had slept properly, with one’s leg draped over another’s waist and another’s foot on someone else’s head. The foot beneath her face belonged to Lu Mingkai, the little rascal. Leaning in, she saw a white mark by the child’s mouth and a glistening droplet of drool at the corner of his lips.

So adorable that Shen Meng couldn’t resist giving him a "smooch".

Exhausted from the chaotic events of the day before, she simply stir-fried some bok choy with lard in the morning, took out some spicy soup and a few buns filled with two types of dough from her space, and prepared two separate bowls of braised eggs for Xiao Gang and Xiao Kai.

The smell of the savory, bountiful dishes filled the air, and the people sleeping in the east room awoke and rushed toward the courtyard. Ming Liang hopped to the kitchen doorway on his bare feet.

"Mom, what delicious food have you made?"