Reborn in the 1980s: She Cuts Ties with Her Family and Wins Big While Raising Three Kids

Pei Shiyi opened her eyes to find her mother-in-law, Sun Cuilan, dragging her eldest daughter by the arm toward the door. A bullock cart was waiting in the courtyard, with a forty-year-old bachelor from the neighboring village sitting on it. In her previous life, her seven-year-old daughter Sui'an had been sold to him for fifty yuan just like this, then beaten to death in that household.

This time, Pei Shiyi slapped her mother-in-law's hand away and tore up the Zheng family's household register in front of the whole village. She would leave with all three of her daughters. Being kicked out with nothing? Just what she wanted. After freezing to death on a snowy night in her previous life, Heaven had compensated her with a magical chef's space: spiritual spring water to nourish ingredients, spiritual fields to grow seasonal produce, and more than a thousand lost recipes, enough to feed them for three lifetimes. And with the memories of having lived this life once before, she knew it all: which year the household responsibility system would be introduced, which roads would lead to business opportunities, and whose business she could partner with.

She set up a pot at the commune market, and one bowl of noodles in spiritual-spring braising broth had half the street drooling. In three months, she saved enough to open a restaurant. In six, she secured a long-term contract with the county food factory. When her former mother-in-law came asking for a share of the profits, one remark shut her up. When her ex-husband knelt and begged to get back together, Pei Shiyi didn't even look back. As the cast-off wife became the county's first ten-thousand-yuan household, everyone who had once mocked her for having daughters was left dumbfounded.

As for the deputy director of the supply and marketing cooperative, who always quietly stood in front of her at crucial moments... Pei Shiyi insisted that making money came first. But her three daughters had already started secretly calling him Dad.