Shen Yishu wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the role of the villainess’s mother.
In her previous life, the villainous Zhao Mingzhu and her younger sister were left to depend on their great-grandmother, Liu Qiaoyun, after their mother died. When Mingzhu was ten, she witnessed her sister being raped and killed by a lecherous old widower from the village who pretended to be crazy. From then on, she became withdrawn and grew to hate men.
Four years later, she personally killed the man who had murdered her sister. After her great-grandmother died, she spiraled into darkness. She dressed provocatively to lure lecherous men into her trap, then found ways to kill them.
Eventually, her crimes were exposed, and Zhao Mingzhu was executed by firing squad.
Her husband, Zhao Chuanzhi, never showed his face, even when the original owner and her children died.
Looking at the dilapidated earthen house and the two little girls in filthy clothes, each holding out a sweet potato no bigger than a finger, she decided to fill her own belly first, then work hard to earn money and raise the children. A man was optional, not a necessity.
She would find the right time to divorce Zhao Chuanzhi...
Just as Shen Yishu focused on earning money and raising the children, the original owner’s husband, Zhao Chuanzhi, suddenly returned home after four years away.
He looked at the wife who had once been timid and meek, and now snapped at everyone and everything.
Changing his old habit of ignoring her, he began to show Shen Yishu every consideration.
The truth was, he had had his reasons for staying away for four years. He didn’t know why the letters he had written to Shen Yishu never reached her.
Nor did he know why he had never received the telegram from his grandmother telling him that Shen Yishu had given birth.
These questions had hung over him like a mystery, waiting to be solved one by one.
He had already lost four years with her. He didn’t want to lose another moment for the rest of his life.
He pleaded with her: “Honey, I was wrong. Please forgive me...”
