Prologue: The Widow and Her Three Daughters

(Character Introductions)

Zhang Guihua: 43 years old, 160 cm tall, widowed.

Li Lanhua: Guihua's eldest daughter, 22 years old, 158 cm tall, married, with a daughter.

Li Hehua: Guihua's second daughter, 21 years old, 160 cm tall, sent to be raised by foster parents when she was little, divorced, with a son.

Li Meihua: Guihua's youngest daughter, 19 years old, 162 cm tall, single.

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Anyone who has read the long novel I Slept with My Girlfriend's Friend and Her Friend's Friend knows that after I messed around with my girlfriend's friend and got caught, I got exactly what I deserved. My longtime first girlfriend walked out on me, and after that she vanished without a trace. As the saying goes, if you play with fire, you get burned. I learned that lesson the hard way. After she left, I kept to myself for a long time, and my love life stayed completely blank. To keep myself occupied, I signed up for a few training classes and threw myself into work, using that to fill the emptiness inside me.

As the saying goes, hard work brings rewards, or maybe it was a case of heartbreak in love and success at work. Because of my effort, the boss took notice of me and promoted me to head of my department. With the rise in position came a raise in pay, and little by little I began to come out of the shadow of losing my girlfriend. To keep from being reminded of my ex, I moved out of the place I had been renting. At the time, public housing was hard to find, so I had no choice but to rent a three-story farmhouse villa. The whole place cost eight thousand a month. I took the master bedroom on the first floor for myself and rented out all the other rooms. When it was all added up, I not only did not have to pay rent each month, I even had money left over. I had become, in effect, a sublessor.

That was how I ended up in a ridiculous affair with a widow and her three daughters.