I Take Mom and Cut Ties with the Family, While the Ungrateful Ones Cry as They Watch Me Eat Meat Every Meal

Farming + From Nothing to Something + System Shop + Family Life

When ten-year-old Su Xiaoman opens her eyes, her father has just died. Her paternal grandmother and eldest uncle want to leave the third branch of the family with nothing: they sell off her mother, then sell Su Xiaoman as a child bride. Su Xiaoman saves her mother, who had tried to drown herself in a well, and cuts ties with her grandmother's family, taking along her five-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. But her brother resents her poverty and fears they'll go hungry if he follows her. Su Xiaoman gives up on him and sets off on her own with her mother and sister, determined never to put up with her grandmother's family's mistreatment again. They gather wild vegetables and medicinal herbs in the mountains and eat meat at every meal. Her paternal grandmother and eldest uncle come knocking. "Grandma was only teasing you! What grandmother doesn't love her granddaughter?"

Before long, her father, who was supposedly killed in battle, returns...