Rebirth + farming + changing one’s fate
The heroine isn’t unhinged, confrontational, or bent on tearing people apart. She is meticulous, patient, and cunning, best at quietly cutting away at her enemies. She doesn’t fight over a moment’s anger. Instead, she wears them down slowly: first driving a wedge between father and son, then turning the scoundrel and his parents against one another, and finally sowing discord between husband and wife until his new wife goes her own way, leaving him without his greatest support...
“Dashan, I won’t agree to a divorce. For the sake of our daughters and your future, I can only ask for an amicable separation!”
Zhang Dashan thought of the talents his daughters had shown and of his own future. “Fine. Then we’ll separate!”
“Dashan, if we could set aside some dowries for the girls, they’d have more standing when they marry. But I’m just a woman. Other than raising chickens and pigs, I don’t know how to do anything...”
Zhang Dashan pulled out several banknotes and placed them in Yang Chuncao’s hands. “This is the dowry I’ve set aside for the children...”
“Dashan, I’ve never wanted to marry anyone else. In life, I’m a member of the Zhang family; in death, I’ll be a ghost of the Zhang family. Even if I can’t be buried in the Zhang family cemetery, I hope to be laid to rest beside it, where I can watch you from afar. So could you help me register as a woman living independently? That way, no one else can decide whom I marry!”
“Fine. That’s easy enough!”
“Hahahahahaha! Zhang Dashan, this is what you get! It’s what you deserve for abandoning your wife and children!”
