I Became the Stepmother of Five Villains

Yu Liuzhi woke up to find herself transmigrated into a novel as an evil stepmother. Her three stepsons and two stepdaughters were all notorious villains in the story. The eldest son was a prodigy at his studies. Before he was even twenty, he had already placed first in the imperial examinations, and would one day become a treacherous chancellor who stirred up the realm. The second son was skilled in martial arts. After joining the army, he won one achievement after another, and within a few years became a fearsome general who terrified the enemy. The third son was a gifted businessman. Starting out as an apprentice in a tiny shop, he would eventually become one of the wealthiest merchants in the Great Zhou Dynasty. One daughter would become a bewitching consort who brought ruin to the imperial court, while the other would become a White Lotus sect saintess who ensnared people's hearts. The five siblings supported one another and took control of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty. Yu Liuzhi, meanwhile, appeared only a few times in the novel: she was the evil stepmother who left all five siblings with deep childhood trauma. After the siblings rose to power, the first thing they did was track down the evil stepmother who had sold the family's farmland years earlier and run off with the money and her lover. First, they pulled the nails from her fingers and toes, then flayed her alive and made several exquisite little drums from her skin, which they often played with. And now... Yu Liuzhi looked at the five little villains before her. They hadn't been abused yet, and they were already rotten to the core. She gave them a warm, sunny smile. It was time these brats, who had been bad since birth, learned what it meant to get a thorough thrashing from society! Content warnings: 1. The five little villains are born bad, and they were the same in their previous lives. 2. The stepmother wasn't a bad person in her previous life. She left because the little villains had broken her heart. 3. The heroine won't raise the little villains to be successful. The early push and pull is forced by circumstances, and she will eventually part ways with them. 4. The male lead is a background character. Theme: Creating your own value and building wealth are the most reliable paths forward.