The Awful Neighbor Upstairs Is My Daughter’s Future Mother-in-Law

About the story

Lin Chunmei, a forty-eight-year-old hardware shop owner, has been widowed for many years and raised her daughter Zhou Xiaoyu alone. Their new upstairs neighbor, Gao Xiuqin, is overbearing and unreasonable: she blocks the corridor, ruins wedding quilts and damages water pipes with a drill, then turns the tables and demands compensation. As Lin Chunmei fights back, she is shocked to discover that this awful neighbor is her daughter’s future mother-in-law. For the sake of Zhou Xiaoyu’s marriage, mother and daughter temporarily put up with her, but Gao Xiuqin only goes further. She takes the 236,000 yuan Zhou Xiaoyu set aside for renovations, seizes wedding gift money, controls her wages, forges a resignation application and uses her pregnancy to force her into obedience.