I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law in Ancient Times

Li Xiuqin is thirty years old. After eight years working for a foreign-owned company in a major city, she has no home, no car, and no man. The one thing that comforts her is the money she's saved. In just three more months, she'll have enough for a down payment on a home and will finally become a homeowner. As it turned out, she celebrated too soon. On a weekend business trip, she fell asleep on a speeding high-speed train. When she woke, she had transmigrated into the body of a shrewish mother-in-law in a poor family in ancient times. Old Madam Li is forty, lazy and greedy, stingy and miserly, and has no conscience or loyalty. She is practically the embodiment of every vulgar vice, and doesn't even realize it. What drives Li Xiuqin to despair is that she isn't a lonely old woman. She has five sons and a child bride by her side. The sons really do take after their mother: every one of them is a complete oddball, and everyone in Lijia Village is terrified of them. Their stench carries thirty li downwind. The only person who makes Li Xiuqin feel there might be a decent soul in this family is Qiaocui, the child bride. Well, since she's here, she might as well make the best of it. If she can't change her circumstances, she'll change herself. Li Xiuqin takes a deep breath and shouts, "All of you, get over here! Your mother has something to say..." Coming soon: Reborn in the 1960s: Gossip and Raising Kids. Please add it to your reading list In her previous life, after both their parents died in a car accident, Shao Yunxia and her four younger siblings were taken in by various relatives, who divided up all their assets among themselves. The four younger siblings were left dependent on others, and life was unbearably hard. Her younger siblings accused Shao Yunxia of failing in her duty as the eldest sister, saying that if they hadn't been separated back then, the Shao family wouldn't have fallen apart. Shao Yunxia wanted to die early so she could apologize to her parents. But she lived into her nineties, becoming the longest-lived member of the entire Shao family. For thirty whole days, she tried every way she could think of to die, but not one worked. On the thirty-first, she suddenly changed her mind. If she couldn't die, then so be it. Better to live a wretched life than die. Thirsty, she went to the kitchen for a glass of water, slipped on a wet patch on the floor, and fell, hitting the back of her head first... As darkness swept over her, she smiled. So everything was destined after all. She couldn't die when she wanted to, but died when she didn't. Who could she even complain to? Sigh. If there was another life, she'd be a good big sister and lead her younger siblings to a better life! - Unexpectedly, Heaven took pity on her. After dying, she was reborn in the year 1960. She took care of her parents' affairs, and just as her relatives busied themselves dividing up her family's possessions and her younger siblings, she opened her eyes... Coming soon: Second Wife Wen After transmigrating into the body of the legitimate daughter of the Yang family, Yang Yueyue was doted on because of her frail health and knew little of the world. Ignoring her parents' objections, she married Gu Linfeng. A month later, news spread from the most luxurious rouge shop in the capital: a wealthy patron had bought the freedom of the famous courtesan Wen Mingyuan with a priceless pearl-and-jade crown. The pearl-and-jade crown had been part of Yang Yueyue's dowry. From then on, Yang Yueyue was trapped in the Gu household, where she eventually died from the abuse and torment inflicted by Gu Linfeng and Wen Mingyuan. -- Cruel fate played a trick on her. After dying, Yang Yueyue was reborn as Wen Mingyuan and married Gu Beicheng, the younger uncle of the Gu family, as his second wife. Theme: Striving to build a good life