Abandoned While Fleeing Famine? The Reborn Forty-Year-Old Woman Feasts on Meat and Soup

[No romance + fleeing famine + golden finger + won't support ungrateful relatives + woman in her forties + fictional setting!]

Gu Daniu has been reborn, or so it seems.

Before she was reborn, her daughter-in-law was the heroine of the story. After she was reborn, another one of her daughters-in-law was the heroine.

This time, though, she wants nothing to do with her ungrateful children.

As they flee famine, she watches the brothers and sisters-in-law who once cared for her go their separate ways. They make it through to the bitter winter...

But they can't hold on any longer. With no other choice, she reveals herself and helps them survive the winter. After that, she never comes back...

From then on, the world is wide and her road long. The old auntie of the Gu family is no longer hemmed in by what others expect.

But why is her golden finger, the weasel spirit, making promises it can't keep?

The weasel says, "Just keep fleeing the famine. Once the new dynasty is established, I'll send you to a world where men and women are equal, everyone can study, and women don't have to give birth..."

(An old woman's journey fleeing famine. Later, she will leave the village and flee alone. The old woman is a genuine person from ancient times.)