A satisfying rebirth story set in the 80s, featuring family conflicts and daily life with multiple character perspectives. Old Lady Zhao worked hard her entire life raising four sons and three daughters. She paid for her sons’ education, arranged their marriages, and raised her grandchildren. The income from their shop was often taken by the eldest son’s family. She sent the second son to high school and arranged his apprenticeship at a county town restaurant. She constantly cleaned up the messes left by the twin third and fourth sons, and arranged three marriages for the third son with the Daughter of the Li Family. She spent considerable money on the second daughter’s art education and sent the third daughter to university in Shanghai for development.
After all her children became successful, they eventually looked down on their aging parents. When her husband needed 20,000 for surgery, none of the children could gather the money or were willing to pay for treatment, causing him to miss the surgical window and die at home. She was driven by her eldest son from their town house to a mountain shack in the countryside to fend for herself! Within two months, she died on a rainy night, with none of her children willing to collect her body or even return for her funeral.
When she opened her eyes again, Old Lady Zhao had returned to age fifty, on the wedding day of the daughter who had cut ties with the family. At this time, she and her husband were still running their peanut oil pressing shop, and their children still depended on them. Knowing how cold-hearted her children would become, she fiercely protected the only daughter who would eventually arrange her funeral and demanded the other children contribute to household expenses!
The reborn Old Lady Zhao had no maternal love left – she couldn’t even count on her children to collect her body in her previous life. In this life, she would lord over her children and see the world from their backs. What about when she grew old? Having lived happily for her later years, it would be normal to die a bit earlier in old age.
Who would have thought that in her previous life, despite working hard her entire life, her children showed no gratitude? Yet in this life, being selfish, accumulating wealth unethically, and disregarding her children’s wellbeing, she actually lived more comfortably, and her children became more filial.
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