In her previous life, the widowed Xiao Hongying worked herself to the bone to raise her three children, only to be driven into the garage to live out her old age. She died on a broken bed. Then she was reborn, back in her coastal home at the turn of the millennium.
It was two days before her eldest son, Li Demao, was due to marry. When her children discovered the ten thousand yuan she had secretly saved, they surrounded her and fought over it.
It was time to settle accounts with these freeloading, selfish children over all their petty family dramas.
A flying shoe to the face! Cut ties! Push a food cart and sell braised beef brisket rice! Team up with handsome Old Zhang, a retiree with a generous pension, and turn her life around!
Her eldest son Demao and his wife Lin Cui caused trouble every day. She confiscated Lin Cui's gold necklace to pay off her debts, chased them out with a broom, and published a notice in the newspaper disowning them!
When her eldest daughter-in-law Lin Cui came to demand an explanation, Xiao Hongying shoved an apple in her mouth to shut her up. Get out!
Her second son, Deshan, schemed to claim the marital home and swindle more than thirty thousand yuan from Old Zhang's family, who had helped him. He wanted to get a wife on credit and settle everything in one go! A flying shoe to the face showed him he didn't stand a chance!
Her youngest daughter, De Mei, was all ambition and no substance. She cared only about dressing up and eating, dreaming all day of marrying into a wealthy family and becoming a rich man's wife!
IOUs were written one by one, and every debtor pressed a red thumbprint. No one was getting away. Box after box of braised beef brisket rice flew off the shelves, until investors begged to put money in. Xiao Hongying opened one chain restaurant after another, tapping her calculator with a cold laugh. "In this life, no one gets to take a single cent from me for free."
