Grandma Lin Reborn: She Cuts Off Her Family’s Food Supply, Then Builds a Fortune

[Period setting + old woman reborn + tormenting scumbags + widow’s comeback + 1985 + family squabbles + feel-good fiction + putting unfilial children in their place + making a fortune + past and present lives + ensemble elements + reborn in the 1980s]

In her previous life, Lin Wanqiu, an old widow, spent more than thirty years raising five children through sheer backbreaking labor. At 88, they laughed as they took her off oxygen and divided up her property.

When she opens her eyes again, it’s 1985. Reborn at the age of fifty, she decides to become a ruthless, hard-hearted mother and stop spoiling that pack of ungrateful, unfilial children.

Watching her eldest son kneeling on the floor and begging her to sell her blood for money, Lin Wanqiu is exasperated by his weakness.

She knows her eldest daughter-in-law is behind this. This time, she won’t let them get away with it.

Lin Wanqiu strikes him with a resounding slap. “If you can’t have a child, I’ll castrate you too! Starting today, you won’t get a single cent from this family!”

Now that she has a chance to live again, Lin Wanqiu is determined to settle every account with her sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law. They’ll pay for their food, their belongings, and their housing. She won’t support freeloaders, let alone ungrateful children.

She’ll make sure her unfilial children and daughters-in-law understand that she, Lin Wanqiu, is no widow they can push around, no free servant, and no old workhorse they can order about whenever they please.

In her previous life, Lin Wanqiu witnessed the changes of the times. She knows that returning to 1985 means she can rewrite her fate. She’ll seize the opportunities of economic reform and make a fortune trading goods.

As Lin Wanqiu works hard to build a whole new life for herself, she never expects the powerful Director Zhou to take a liking to her and pursue her relentlessly, doing everything she asks and showing off like a peacock...