Killed on New Year’s Eve, Widow Cai Is Reborn in the 1980s

(An elderly woman is reborn + feel-good revenge + taking down scoundrels + family squabbles + a widow’s comeback + putting every kind of troublemaker in their place + rebirth in a period setting)

Cai, a widowed old woman, lost her husband when she was in her thirties. She spent her life raising four sons and a daughter, saving money to buy homes and arrange marriages for her sons, and putting together a dowry for her daughter. While she still had money, every son and daughter-in-law competed to take her in. Even her daughter and son-in-law fought to have her live with them. Cai had never been one to scheme or pinch pennies. Whenever her children needed help, she gave them money generously without considering the consequences, even dipping into her burial savings. But once her money ran out, her children’s faces changed. No one wanted her, and every household found fault with her. They rented her a cheap room and brought her meals each day. Then Cai had an accident and was left bedridden. After caring for her for a week or two, her children grew tired of it and abandoned her in the room. They couldn’t even be bothered to bring her meals regularly. On New Year’s Eve, Cai died alone in the rented room, freezing and starving. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in her thirties, the day after her husband’s death. Her children were still young, but remembering how unfilial they would become, she found she could no longer love them.

If a pack of ungrateful wretches won’t stand by her or take her side, then she simply won’t raise them. Want money? Not a chance! Keeping her money in her own hands is the key to a happy old age. Only with money will her children show her filial respect. In her previous life, her husband died young, and her in-laws cursed her every day, saying she had brought about his death. She never dared say a word. This time, she won’t let anyone who bullies her get away with it. Whoever tries to bully her will get what’s coming to them. Her children were unfilial in her past life. This time, she’ll deal with them one by one…