I'm Done Being the Matriarch! I Leave My Husband and Children Behind to Shine on My Own!

The renowned Lady God of Wealth married down to Zhou Yexun, a struggling merchant. She gave up half her fortune to buy him shops and farmland, then shut herself away in the inner quarters to manage the household. In time, the Zhou family achieved its ambition of replacing the Meng family as the richest in Ying County. But for the sake of becoming an imperial merchant, Zhou Yexun took a noblewoman as his bride and forced his wife to petition for divorce, demoting her from wife to concubine! “You can't serve your mother-in-law or raise your own child properly. How can you be fit to be the mistress of the Zhou family?” he said. Their child prodigy son blamed her merchant background and wanted to be registered under the name of his future legitimate mother. “You made me a laughingstock over a lowly servant. You're only fit to be this servant's mother!” he said. Meng Jin looked at the father and son, whose hearts were as cruel as wolves and dogs, then quietly asked the servant they called lowly, “Would you be willing to let me be your mother?” Later, Meng Jin set fire to every shop deed and manager's contract belonging to the Zhou family! She left the estate with her frail adopted son, the servant they had scorned, and divorced her husband. Who could have guessed that people would then compete to hand her the title of imperial merchant? After the divorce, Meng Jin established her own household, became the richest person in the land, and raised her adopted son, who passed the imperial examinations and earned her an official honorific. Years later, her former husband and son came begging her to change her mind and return. Meng Jin sounded bewildered. “My husband is of imperial blood. Who are you? My son is a well-mannered, modest top scholar. What has he got to do with you?”