Zhang Lan was a preschool teacher just starting her internship. After a student’s parent at the kindergarten stressed her into a fatal heart attack, she opened her eyes and, hey, she was alive again.
The good news: She had been reborn as the wicked mother-in-law in a period novel, the one who tormented her daughter-in-law to death.
The bad news: Her daughter-in-law, now reborn and gone dark, was sharpening her knives!
An old woman’s life matters too. She had to hang on until the happy ending! No problem, she was a preschool teacher, and she knew how to soothe children. She would definitely win the heroine over. Then she heard a few “devoted sons” discussing buying her a coffin. Remembering how Liu Xiuxiu suffered a stroke in the novel, became paralyzed in bed with a lopsided mouth, and was left to lie in her own filth until she rotted there, Zhang Lan jolted upright from her deathbed.
“Buy a hammer! Go get the money and buy meat for my eldest daughter-in-law!”
Yin Lihua eyed the wicked old woman smiling at her with obsequious eagerness, instantly on high alert. What was that old hag up to now?
Yin Lihua had been the only daughter of a scholarly family in Shanghai, but after someone reported her parents, they were sent to work on a rural farm, while they arranged for her to join the group being sent down to the countryside. In her previous life, an accident left her drowning, and she married a tall, handsome man. To avoid making things difficult for him, she gave in at every turn, only to be tormented to death. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back in the past. This time, everyone who had bullied her would pay!
When a reborn daughter-in-law bent on revenge meets a goofy fake mother-in-law desperate to survive, an uproarious yet heartwarming tale of self-rescue and redemption begins in an era when sweet potatoes fill your belly and twice-cooked pork is just a dream.
