[Everyday family life + family drama + a slow, steady pace + not mindless wish fulfillment + rural life and its frictions + fictional setting in the southwestern countryside]
[Stories from rural southwestern China, including but not limited to arranged marriages between families, cult infiltration, conflicts between mothers- and daughters-in-law and between sisters-in-law, human trafficking, borrowing money, natural disasters, and more.]
Granny Ren thought “raise sons to provide for you in old age” meant having her sons by her side to care for her when she grew old. Little did she know she had raised them to guard against their own mother.
She wasn’t even allowed to die in her second son’s home, let alone have her funeral rites held there.
Reborn one day, she saw the truth clearly:
She saw the vile faces of her eldest son, his wife, her second son, her fourth son, and the rest.
She stopped hoping anyone would care for her.
She understood that the best thing was to keep a tight grip on her own money.
“Stay together when there’s money, go your separate ways when there isn’t.”
That’s true everywhere.
And so!
Ren Huanian didn’t remember all the important turning points from her past life, but surely she could at least keep her own family out of trouble!
So Ren Huanian successfully changed the first thing about her family.
Just as she thought she could keep changing things step by step,
she didn’t realize that a butterfly’s wings could change the world with a single thought.
When Ren Huanian realized that things were happening in this life that never happened in her previous one, and that things from her previous life weren’t happening now,
all she could say was: “Screw this!!!”
