Reborn in the 1970s: This Tough Old Mom Won't Serve Her Ungrateful Brats

Rebirth and comeback / feel-good period drama / mother-daughter fallout / grassroots entrepreneurship / face-slapping and comeuppance

"On an autumn harvest night in 1975, Chen Guifang was devoured to the bone by her three ungrateful children. Her eldest son wanted her to marry an old bachelor in the mountains, her daughter stole her last tin of malted milk powder, and her third son schemed to trade her work points for a bride price. On the first day after being reborn, she slapped the ‘Care Responsibility Division Agreement’ down in the ancestral hall and gripped her abacus with her left hand, its palm marked by a broken line. ‘If you want filial devotion, forget it. But if you want to settle accounts, I’m game!’

From smashing the plaque for ‘Model Family’ to monopolizing the county’s entire straw-plaiting trade, this reviled ‘Blind Chen’ used her sickle to hack open the gates of a new era. She became a nursing-home director and a billionaire, but those children who had drained her dry weren’t even fit to step near the grass on her grave…"