Lin Xiuwan transmigrates into the notorious, spiteful mother-in-law known across the surrounding villages for playing favorites, and she's at a complete loss!
The original owner spoiled her gambling-addict youngest son rotten, stealing the family's food to bail him out. She even wanted to sell her own granddaughter to pay his gambling debts, while tormenting her eldest and second sons' families until they were too afraid to cry!
When a career woman transmigrates into her body, she makes an example of her gambling-addict son with a slap, then grips her jujube-wood cane and tears into the thugs demanding repayment. Before long, she's in charge of the whole family!
Even better, her rental house has become a pocket dimension!
Then war breaks out, and the whole village flees south in the middle of the night. Lin Xiuwan acts decisively: she takes her dutiful sons and daughters-in-law, along with her well-behaved grandsons and granddaughters, and relies on the supplies in her pocket dimension to survive the turmoil!
While others fleeing famine are so hungry they chew tree bark, her family has white rice porridge and meat at every meal.
While others are terrified of pursuing soldiers, she uses her wits to hide in the mountains and evade danger.
While others are ruined by their treacherous relatives, she puts her ungrateful son to work and focuses on running the household and making a living!
Playing favorites?
Not a chance! Protecting her kids comes first!
And so the wicked mother-in-law becomes the backbone of the family, leading them to turn their fortunes around as they flee famine. Together, they rise from a destitute farming household to a prosperous little clan amid the chaos of war!
