This Old Lady Picks the Pockets of Transmigrators [1960s]

Gu Jinzhi has been reborn, back to the year she drove her eldest son's wife out of the house and her younger daughter was kidnapped.

In her previous life, she worked herself to the bone for her second son's family. Only on her deathbed did she learn that all the misery she'd suffered was caused by this family of beasts. Worse, her granddaughter stole her lucky koi fortune and climbed to success on her back.

Gu Jinzhi sneers: You little brat, do you even know how to use that lucky koi fortune? Give it back to me!

This golden finger really is extraordinary. From then on, the back mountain becomes Gu Jinzhi's base. Pheasants fly straight into her arms as she walks along the road, huge fish leap onto her from the pond's edge, and even when she casually chops firewood, lingzhi mushrooms fall into her bamboo basket?

Gu Jinzhi wastes no time saving her daughter, bringing her daughter-in-law back, and leading her family to a thriving, happy life.

But... her granddaughter, the lucky koi from her previous life, is getting stranger and stranger. She keeps muttering things like how she's the darling of the world and the heroine of a lucky-koi novel. On top of that, more and more bizarre people are showing up in the village.

There's the domineering CEO-novel hero who keeps saying, "Woman, you're playing with fire." There's the stepmother-novel heroine who's fixated on becoming someone's stepmother. There's the period-drama pretty boy who keeps saying, "Miss, wait a moment." Even the apocalyptic-novel heroine, with her incredible strength, has appeared!

They start brawling over a single look, sending pheasants, rabbits, and wild boars flying everywhere, while Gu Jinzhi busily picks up whatever they leave behind.

While they're busy arguing, Gu Jinzhi is eating braised pork, grease running down her chin.

While they're busy fighting, Gu Jinzhi is happily devouring fried chicken legs.

While they fight over who's the darling of the world, Gu Jinzhi's family gathers around a hot pot, their chopsticks flying.

When they finally realize something's wrong and turn their suspicious gazes toward Gu Jinzhi,

Gu Jinzhi leisurely pulls out a handful of sunflower seeds, turns, and heads home. "Oh, what should I eat today?"

[Blurb written on May 29, screenshot saved]

Reader's guide:

1. The protagonist is middle-aged, a no-nonsense auntie who'll fight anyone who crosses her. There's not much romance; most of the story is everyday family life.

2. Three thousand words a day before signing, six thousand after.

Next novel in the same genre: The Perfect Mother-in-Law Sees the Comments [1960s]

Zhou Hehua is the tyrant of the whole family. She favors her eldest son's household, and she's lazy and greedy, too. She can sit at the village entrance and gossip for half a lifetime.

But she doesn't care. She's always kept the whole family firmly under her thumb, and their lives have been thriving.

Until one day, Zhou Hehua sees a line of text appear over her fiery younger daughter-in-law's head.

[That old woman does nothing but slack off every day and dumps the work on her children. Does she know that her younger daughter-in-law may look tough, but she's already two months pregnant? She's going to miscarry while working in the fields today!]

[Exactly! After this miscarriage, she'll never get pregnant again. She'll say she doesn't blame anyone, but she'll be heartbroken. Two years later, she'll hang herself.]

Zhou Hehua: !!!! I only wanted to slack off a little. I never meant to drive my daughter-in-law to her death!

"Daughter-in-law, listen to me. Get on the kang right now. I'll go make you some white noodles and add two eggs!"

The younger daughter-in-law, who's never known the warmth of a mother-in-law: ????

A few days later, Zhou Hehua sees another line of text over her beloved eldest daughter-in-law's head.

[That old woman has lived her whole life in vain. She can't tell a good person from a bad one! She heard a few sweet words and really thinks her eldest daughter-in-law is a good person? She's both stupid and evil!]

[She'll probably never realize before she dies that it was her younger daughter-in-law who stole her gold bangle, and that the woman not only stole from her, but also badmouths her behind her back. Hahaha, serves you right, you old hag, for bullying your younger daughter-in-law!]

Zhou Hehua fixes her eldest daughter-in-law with a death glare. "Stop badmouthing your sister-in-law, damn it. Get out and work in the fields!"

The eldest daughter-in-law: !!!

After comforting her younger daughter-in-law and disciplining the eldest, Zhou Hehua finally lies back down on the kang, fully satisfied. Then another line of text appears over her little grandson's head.

[This child is so thin, it breaks my heart. If only they could bring back that badly injured wild boar from the back mountain. It'd help put some meat on the kid's bones.]

Zhou Hehua swallows.

"Slurp."

Theme: Never give up in adversity.