Reborn in 1968: The Old Lady Tears Down the Scum and Takes the Village by Storm

Sixty-year-old Zhang Guilan crawled out of her coffin, consumed by resentment toward the children and grandchildren who had drained every last bit of value from her in her previous life. This time, she went completely “crazy”! When her son and daughter-in-law swarmed her to snatch her coffin money, she tore off the polite facade in front of everyone and had the village Party secretary draw up a document severing their family ties. From then on, she cut herself off from those ungrateful wolves.

Reborn in the resource-scarce 1970s, Zhang Guilan used her foresight and nimble hands to secretly make paper cuttings and embroidered purses, earning her first bit of capital. She reclaimed wasteland to grow rare vegetables, then sold them in the city for a profit. When reform and opening up began, she seized the opportunity to open the village's first general store... From a lonely old woman whom everyone looked down on, she became a household name across the surrounding villages as a “ten-thousand-yuan household.”

Her former daughter-in-law came to make a scene and mooch off her, so Zhang Guilan chased her off with a shoulder pole. Her third son begged her to pay for a school-district home for his grandson, but she simply shut the door in his face. Even the villagers who had once laughed at her now came flocking to curry favor. With her awful relatives under her heel, Zhang Guilan made a fortune and lived more freely than anyone. “In this life, I'm only going to spoil myself!”