Back to the 1980s: Grandma Liu Beats Her Ungrateful Children

[Feel-Good Story + A Lifetime of Toil Ending in Tragedy + Reborn in a Bygone Era + Portrait of Ordinary People + Family Life]

Old Madam Liu lived frugally her entire life, raising three sons and one brainless power-fantasy heroine. She bought homes and jobs for her sons when they married, emptied her savings to support her married daughter, and was still looking after her eldest son’s child at the age of eighty.

After a lifetime of hard work, she wanted a banana for the New Year, but her eldest daughter-in-law scolded and berated her. Even the sons she had raised with so much love blamed her, and her daughter, who had come home for a visit, thought she didn’t deserve to eat one.

Only when she was on her deathbed did she discover that her children had all mistaken a villain for their mother, happily throwing a wedding for her husband and his country cousin.

The words written above it read: “Separated for sixty years, like swallows in flight; no letter can capture the song of longing.”

Looking at the children she had raised and her husband, who doted on everyone but them, she finally understood how terribly wrong she had been all her life.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the age of forty-two. Her husband was pressuring her to give her job to his cousin from the countryside.

Liu Meiling was furious. She kicked the freeloading cousin who had her eye on the old man out of the house, then slapped her ungrateful children across the face and exposed her irresponsible husband to the public!

She kept every bit of her wages for herself and never gave her ungrateful children another cent!

After a lifetime of hardship, Old Madam Liu had no motherly love left. She decided to spend the rest of her life loving herself, never realizing that her children had their own reasons!

She divorced, went into business, seized every opportunity, caught spies, and saved her family!

Years later, during a television interview, the host asked, “How did you build your business into something so big? Do you have a secret?”

Liu Meiling looked innocent. “I have no idea. I just do good deeds, my business took off, and the country even gave me a green