The Evil Mother-in-Law Won't Be Redeemed, She Only Torments Her Scum Children

At the age of forty, she was already a grandmother, embodying the roles of both a wicked stepmother and a wicked mother-in-law. Naturally, the children raised by such "rotten bamboo" were nothing more than "bad shoots." The only thing that brought her slight comfort was that, as a widow, she didn't have to serve an old man. As for the "golden fingers" found in transmigration novels—such as systems or noble lineages—she had none of that. She didn't even have the chance to turn her life around through marriage. As a widow, who could she marry? Not to mention she was dragging along a whole bunch of "baggage." She could only rely on herself and the nest of "rotten bamboo" in her home. She had to revitalize the family character and straighten out the conduct of her children. She would treat her stepson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter with kindness; thwart her youngest son's scheme to sell his daughter to a wealthy family to fund his studies, forcing him to rely on his own hard work to progress; use a stick to beat her second son into changing from a lazy glutton into the pillar of the family; and drive out the laziness, greed, and "love brain" of her youngest daughter. She would reclaim wasteland for farming, using modern scientific knowledge to grow crops and turn saline-alkali land into fertile fields, leading the entire family toward prosperity. She would start her business empire from street stalls—selling steamed buns, pastries, and braised dishes, raising pigs and bees... expanding her family's commercial empire bit by bit.