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

At forty years of age, she was already a grandmother, embodying the traits of both a vicious stepmother and a vicious mother-in-law. Naturally, the children raised by such a "wicked bamboo" were "bad shoots." The only thing that brought her a slight sense of relief was that, as a widow, she didn't have to serve an old man. She had none of the "golden fingers" found in transmigration novels, such as systems or noble origins. She didn't even have the chance to change her fortunes through marriage; as a widow, who could she marry? Especially while dragging along a bunch of burdens. She could only rely on herself and the nest of "wicked bamboo" in her home. She set out to revitalize the family style and straighten out the character of her children. She treated her stepson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter with kindness; she thwarted her youngest son's plan to sell the granddaughter to a wealthy family to fund his studies, forcing him to rely on his own efforts to excel in school; she used a club to wake up her second son, transforming him from a lazy glutton into the pillar of the household; and she purged her youngest daughter of her laziness, greed, and "love-brain." She reclaimed wasteland for farming, utilizing modern scientific knowledge to grow crops and turning saline-alkali land into fertile fields, leading the whole family toward a moderately prosperous life. Her business ventures began with street stalls—selling steamed buns, pastries, braised dishes, raising pigs, keeping bees... gradually expanding her own commercial empire bit by bit.