Six Taels of Silver in a Famine Year: I Sold My Fiancé’s Family Right Back

The Zhou family suddenly fell from grace, and Lin Jiu, who had worked as a kitchen maid for three years, lost her job.

Madam Zhou was a scheming woman. Seeing that she was about to end up on the streets, she hurriedly latched onto Lin Jiu and pleaded earnestly, “Jiu'er, our family has only fallen on hard times temporarily. Don't worry. Once we rise again, I'll let you become my son's concubine!”

Then famine struck.

There was nothing left to harvest in her hometown, and nine mouths needed feeding, but they had only a bowl of thin porridge to get by.

Zhou Zi'an was still preoccupied with buying a courtesan's freedom. He even forced Lin Jiu to sell her father's ancestral home.

The fine silk Madam Zhou always wore had actually been bought with the dowry her maid secretly pawned from Lin Jiu's eldest sister-in-law!

Her newborn nephew cried from hunger, but the Zhou family watched him starve to death while fighting over a single egg.

With Lin Jiu's support, Zhou Zi'an passed the imperial examinations and married a noblewoman from the capital, while Lin Jiu herself worked to death in the back courtyard.

When she opened her eyes again, chaos reigned.

The haughty mother-in-law said, “I bestowed the same surname as my scholar son upon you. You should be grateful.”

The black-hearted old woman said, “A merchant's daughter has no manners.”

The smug scholar said, “Vulgar. You disgrace the written word.”

Lin Jiu: “...Have I been too nice to you people?”