Reborn as a Widow Who Brings Misfortune to Her Husband, I Take My Children Into the Mountains During Famine

[Farming + Famine + Raising Children + Making a Fortune in the Mountains]

When Cheng Miao opened her eyes, she found herself in a rickety shack, inhabiting a skin-and-bones body with a heavily swollen belly that stood out starkly.

The original owner was dead, but the baby in her womb was still alive.

To survive, she had no choice but to deliver the baby herself. They say fortune favors the bold, and after enduring unimaginable hardship, Cheng Miao gave birth to two girls and a boy.

Just then, a voice rang out in her mind: “Congratulations, Host, on successfully giving birth to three children blessed with extraordinary fortune. You have been awarded a luxury gift pack containing postpartum care, infant feeding supplies, and more. Please claim it promptly.”

Cheng Miao wept with joy as she accepted the generous gift.

But the very next moment, her in-laws arrived with a mob to snatch the babies. Her vicious mother-in-law said, “You unlucky wretch, you’re not fit to raise the Zhou family’s children. Bring me the chamber pot and drown them all.”

Her sister-in-law sneered, “A litter of worthless brats, not even good enough to carry my son’s shoes.”

The rest of the Zhou family did nothing to stop them. In fact, they helped the villains.

Cheng Miao saw red. She beat her mother-in-law and thrashed her brother- and sister-in-law, swinging her wooden club with a fierce whoosh.

From now on, she would be the one running the old Zhou household.

When they withheld food, she beat her father-in-law. When they refused her money, she hit her mother-in-law. Cheng Miao went after those two whenever she got the chance.

Once she had recovered from her emaciated state and fattened up the scrawny children, chaos engulfed the land.

Floods and plague ravaged the south, bandits roamed the north, and refugees gathered in the east. Only the west remained sparsely populated.

Faced with such dire circumstances, Cheng Miao calmly made her plans. She wrote a declaration severing ties with her in-laws, then headed southwest into the mountains to reclaim land, grow crops, raise chickens and ducks, build an estate, and construct a fortified town.

When the voice in her mind rang out again, “Congratulations, Host, on successfully raising your children. The Pavilion Master of the Divine Healers’ Pavilion, the Lord of the Dark Star Tower, and the Emperor of Great Yin are all here to protect you,” her in-laws went completely mad.