Novels like Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Turns the Family Business Around
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- 51 The 90-Year-Old Matriarch Runs the Family: Putting Her Useless Children and Grandchildren in Their Place 九零老太掌家：专治极品儿孙 Transmigration + a lightly ensemble cast + no golden finger + no CP + the 1990s + everyday family life + lighthearted comedy Zhang Hongying transmigrates to the 1990s, only to find herself in the body of an infamous old country woman. But that's fine. She's convinced that under her leadership, the whole family will go out and earn money while she sits back and happily collects it. Anyone who won't listen can get lost. But how did the family end up getting paid for a demolition relocation while t 12.5kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 52 The Old Woman Is Reborn: Not One of Her Ungrateful Sons or Daughters Will Be Allowed to Go Astray 老太重生逆子孽女一个都别想长歪 [Period setting] [Reborn] [No golden finger] [The 1980s] [Light ensemble cast] [Family life] [Slow and steady] [Getting rich] Widow Wu spent her whole life working herself to the bone for her children, only to die miserably on New Year’s Eve. Heaven finally took pity on her, and she was reborn on the day her children pressured her to remarry. Hmph! Now that I’m reborn, do you think I’m going to keep indulging you ungrateful wretches? From this moment on, I’ll live for myself. As for you ungratef 7.6kReads9.3Score65814d adds
- 53 Transmigrated as a Short-Lived Old Woman, I Lie Flat to Avoid Being Mistreated 穿成短命老妇咸鱼躺平才不受气 No romance. The heroine is past menopause and enjoying her retirement; her greatest pleasure is teasing her grandsons and saving up dowries for her granddaughters. The original owner was a farmer's widow. Her eldest son in the capital sends her a pension, while her younger son and his family live nearby, obedient and devoted. At just 48, she's already living the retirement life office workers can only dream of. She even has three lively, adorable grandsons. This life is so wonderful it feels lik 419Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 54 Reborn as a 70-Year-Old Woman, Forced to Get Her Life Together 穿成70老太，被迫摆正心态 [1970s + golden finger + no romance + family and daily life + light ensemble cast + never putting up with mistreatment] She transmigrated, she really transmigrated. Even Lu Xiang gets to experience something this trendy. But when she takes a closer look at the broken-down house, the family fighting like chickens and dogs, and her own dark, wrinkled face… It feels like the sky is falling. She’d be better off reincarnating all over again. Recently, Hu Yu has noticed something strange happening at 1.5kReads7.5Score12014d adds
- 55 Outliving My Wicked Mother-in-Law and Stepmother, I Survive a Century of Chaos 熬死恶婆后娘，乱世活百年 [Complete] [Just Rated] [No Cheap Tricks] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel] [No Cheats] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] A thousand thanks for all your support and comments. Oh my gosh, my story finally got a rating... even if it only just came out!! Chen Xiulan was my maternal grandmother. She passed away at the age of 103. Only now does a promise I made years ago, left unfulfilled, pierce my heart: I once promised to write her a thick memoir. When I was little, I was always 765Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 56 After Becoming a Wicked Mother-in-Law, My Daughters-in-Law Fight to Support Me in My Old Age 穿成恶婆婆后，儿媳抢着给我养老 Completed. The short drama adaptation is now streaming, so come watch! (No romance! Farming + a pocket dimension + everyday family life with a touch of ensemble cast + building wealth + feel-good power fantasy + medical skills) Note: New novels naturally have low ratings when they have few words. The score will gradually rise, so don't worry~ After dying suddenly, medical PhD Wu Yulan transmigrates into the body of a sharp-tongued, vicious old woman. Old Madam Wu is notorious for her cruelty. Sh 16kReads8.4Score2k14d adds
- 57 Reborn After Her Top-Scholar Son Burned Her Alive 被状元儿子烧死后，老太太重生了 Reborn / feel-good power fantasy / farming / building wealth / doting on his granddaughter In her previous life, Old Madam Huang had let greed cloud her judgment. She forced her eldest son to risk his life working in an illegal coal mine, then sold his daughter for silver. Her eldest daughter-in-law fell to her knees and beat her head bloody, but it still wasn’t enough to get the child back. That very night, she hanged herself, taking both her own life and the baby’s. Her eldest son dragged hims 1.5kReads8.1Score18714d adds
- 58 An Old Lady Reborn in the 1980s: Kneel, You Good-for-Nothing Children 老太太重生八零：极品儿女靠边跪 [No golden finger + reborn in a bygone era + ruthless old woman + making money and punishing scoundrels + an ensemble cast striving to succeed] Given another chance at life, the old woman shows no mercy. Anyone who tries to split up the family or drag her down gets thrown out! Her awful children can get on their knees and stay out of her way! Zhang Siqin spent half her life as a widow, pouring her heart into raising three sons and two daughters. She bought a house in the city for her eldest so 544Reads—Score10714d adds
- 59 Granny Liang Is Reborn in the 1980s and Quits Her Job 梁老太重生八零，她撂挑子不干了 (Reborn in the 1980s + silver-haired heroine fiction + satisfying revenge against villains + no golden finger + family and neighborhood life + fighting, scolding, and going wild + rising in status + ensemble cast) (Also known as: Reborn to Become the Most Evil, Wicked, and Notorious Old Lady) The spineless Liang Airong was so timid and useless that her five children all suffered. Her obedient, filial eldest, Ye Huazhen, and her third child, Ye Huashan, both died young. Of her three surviving chi 16.6kReads8.8Score2k14d adds
- 60 The 1980s: Transmigrated as Granny Shen, I Choose to Give Up 八零：穿成沈老太，我选择摆烂 [Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + No Romance] Shen Huihui, an unmarried woman past her prime, had a bright future ahead of her. Then one dream transmigrated her into the body of an old woman. When this old woman was young, she devoted herself entirely to her children and never gave herself a thought. But in her old age, her children kicked her around like a ball. None of them was willing to support her for even one more day. Shen Huihui was furious. Now that she has become Old Madam Shen, she 205Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 61 Reborn in the 1970s, the Exiled Old Lady Empties Her Enemies' Supplies 重生七零，下放老太搬空敌人物资 [Reborn senior woman + jade pendant dimension + clearing out supplies + tormenting scum and face-slapping + family protection + living well and eating one’s fill] Shen Junru is reborn three days before being sent down to the countryside. Her husband hasn't yet died a tragic death; her eldest son's family is still all together; her daughter hasn't fallen ill; and her youngest son hasn't yet lost his wife and ended his life in despair. She sees through her past life's enemy's scheme to get her jad 13.5kReads8.6Score1.5k14d adds
- 62 Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Abandons Her Husband, Sons, and Daughters 重生八零：老太太弃夫弃子弃女 [Reborn in the 1980s + no golden finger + everyday life + family squabbles + ensemble cast] (Also titled: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Abandons Her Husband, Sons, and Daughters) Old Lady Li was reborn at the age of 43, when her entire extended family depended on her for their livelihood. In her previous life, she worked like an ox and a horse, serving the whole family and giving them everything she had. In her old age, bedridden and ill, her husband and his old flame hoped she would die, wh 8.6kReads8.1Score91814d adds
- 63 The Helpless Old Woman Got Rich After Leaving Her Husband and Children 窝囊老太抛夫弃子后暴富了 (The short drama Reborn Grandma: Divorcing First is now streaming) [Rebirth + Fast-Paced Wish Fulfillment + No Romance + Family Life] Chen Baomei, a timid old woman who had spent her whole life putting up with everything, died. All her life, she had worked herself to the bone for her children, sacrificing everything to give them a better life. Then the family’s home was demolished, making them rich overnight. Before she could even enjoy the money, her sons and daughters-in-law had coaxed and che 48.6kReads8.8Score1.7k14d adds
- 64 An Old Woman Reborn in the 1980s: She Abandoned Her Husband, Her Son, and Her Daughter 老太重生八零：她抛夫弃子又弃女 [Rebirth, Feel-Good Fiction, Family Life, Face-Slapping, Taking Down Scumbags] In her previous life, Old Madam Zhou devoted herself wholeheartedly to her children. She raised five sons and daughters, helped them make something of themselves, bought them houses and cars, and then raised fifteen grandchildren. She spent her entire life working herself to the bone for her family, only to break her leg, become paralyzed, and be starved to death. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to th 6.7kReads8.2Score71714d adds
- 65 I Became a Weak Mother-in-Law and Led My Terrible Family to Turn Their Lives Around 穿成软弱婆婆，带领极品家人逆袭 [A cozy farming story, no awful family members, doted on by everyone, no romance] A thirty-three-year-old unmarried village official transmigrates into the body of a same-aged ancient village woman whose husband has died. Overnight, she gains three sons and inherits a thatched courtyard. The eldest is dull-witted and naive? In truth, he has a plan for everything. The second is hated by people and dogs alike? In truth, he is incredibly shrewd. The third has studied himself into a bookish fool? In 973Reads9.0Score10314d adds
- 66 In a Famine Year, Grandma Sun Stockpiles Grain to Survive 荒年，孙老太囤粮度饥荒 [Family life + farming + slow and steady progress + not a power fantasy + drought + no romance] “Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, give me one month. If you still want to split up the family then, the eldest won’t have to support me in my old age either!” Qiao Yu has become the biased old woman in a book. She looks down on girls as money-losing burdens while treating her own daughter like a treasure. To keep her son-in-law from divorcing her daughter, she even considers selling her 313Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 67 The Wicked Island Matriarch of the 1970s 七零年代海岛恶婆婆 Other people transmigrate at eighteen, in the prime of their youth, with love and career both within reach. Xu Chunjiao, who came from the apocalypse, transmigrates and opens her eyes to find herself the matriarch of the Niu family. Sitting too long gives her a slipped disc, standing too long gives her osteoporosis, and her son and daughter-in-law are already fighting over splitting up the family! No wonder everyone turned against the original owner. She sold off her daughter, played favorites, 719Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 68 The Sent-Down Granny Is Reborn: White Rice With Braised Pork 下放老太太重生：白米饭配红烧肉 Granny Qiao was reborn seven days before her whole family was sent away to the countryside. Looking at her family, all still together, she saw that her son and daughter-in-law were alive, her two little grandchildren hadn't died, and her children were still in school. Everyone she needed to cherish and protect was right there before her. There was still time to put things right, and she wasn't alone, living like a walking corpse. So she took out her family's heirloom, only to discover that it co 27.5kReads8.8Score4k14d adds
- 69 After Her Own Son Starves Her to Death, the Old Woman Is Reborn in the 1970s 老太太被亲儿子饿死后重生七零 [Satisfying revenge on scumbags + family squabbles + reborn in the 1970s + everyday rural ensemble] In her previous life, after being widowed, Huang Wanqing devoted herself entirely to her children and worked herself to the bone for fifty years! She helped her four sons start families and careers, raised eight grandchildren as an unpaid nanny, and even collected scrap to help with household expenses in her old age. But after a fall left her unable to work, they abandoned her in the old house, wh 8.1kReads8.8Score53714d adds
- 70 I Suffered Enough in My Past Life! This Time, I Married the Villain and Couldn't Be Happier 上辈子苦够！这辈子嫁反派甜死了 The short drama Reborn in the 80s: My Assigned Husband Is So Protective is here! The male lead is always shirtless, kissing her, holding her as he runs around shirtless. He's got an ordinary face but a Ferrari body. Watching him gets me so excited. I love this drama! I mean it, go watch it. You'll all love it. [One-on-one, both leads are chaste + reborn male lead is a rough country guy + sweet romance + face-slapping + absolutely no charity + hilarious] In his previous life, Jiang Yunting was ma 1.2kReads8.5Score12514d adds
- 71 Is the Marquis's Household Really That Pathetic? The Crazy Old Madam Sends the Whole Family into a Frenzy 侯府窝囊？疯批老夫人带全家发癫 The short drama adaptation, The Splendor of the Marquis's Household: The Mighty Old Madam, is now streaming. The heroine has no parents, no love interest, and is utterly heartless and past menopause. On the third day after checking herself into a psychiatric hospital, Xiao Jinse finally saw the light: anyone who doesn't like her can't be any good, and anyone she doesn't like can't be any good either. She's the Greek goddess of morality in the story of her own life! One day, she transmigrates and 12.7kReads8.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 72 The Officer Would Rather Die Than Marry a Fat Woman! Then He Can't Get Enough of Her! 军少宁死不娶肥婆！转头她真香！ [Super-sweet indulgence + face-slapping + two powerful leads + never chasing after a man + 1970s] Su Hehuan, a rare female, transmigrates into the body of a chubby, dark-skinned girl in the 1970s. She jumps into a river to force a marriage with the cold-faced, handsomest young officer in the entire army. At first, her husband despises her: “I’d rather jump off a cliff and kill myself than take a woman like you!” But before long, he can’t help being drawn to her fascinating soul! The cold-faced y 2.4kReads8.6Score28214d adds
- 73 Granny Lin Is Reborn, Takes Control of Her Whole Family, and Goes on a Rampage 林老太重生，拿捏全家杀疯了 [The rating is low because the book just came out, but it’ll rise later. Dear readers, please don’t worry.] [Reborn] [The 1980s] [Ensemble cast] [Feel-good revenge] [Everyday life] [Ordinary people] [Family squabbles] The hardworking Lin Fengying raised seven children and helped bring up her grandchildren. She devoted her whole life to her family, but in her twilight years, she and her elderly husband had no one to look after them. While her husband’s body was barely cold, her cold-hearted ch 4.1kReads8.0Score22014d adds
- 74 The Village Chief's Wife Is Wild and Unhinged, and I'm the Strongest in the Village 村长夫人癫又狂，制霸全村我最强 [Period Setting + The 1970s + Family Life + Elderly Couple Reborn Together + Food and Farming] After her children drove her out of the house and she froze to death, 63-year-old Zhao Ailan was reborn. She returned to the year her son stole money to support a widow and her daughter planned to elope with a freeloader. Fine, fine, fine. All four of them are ungrateful brats, are they? Zhao Ailan went straight to the hospital and made sure her unborn youngest son was sent back to be reborn first. The 1.7kReads8.7Score13714d adds
- 75 The 1970s: Grandma Lu Joins the Army with Her Daughter 七零，陆老太跟女儿随军去了 In her previous life, Old Madam Lu never married because of her health. She had no idea how she died. She was nearly eighty, but exercised regularly, had no high blood pressure or other illnesses, and still had a healthy appetite and all her teeth. Then, after just one night, she woke up in the 1970s, decades younger! Old Madam Lu racked her brain, unable to figure out what had happened. But since she was here, she would make the best of it. Besides, she had a biological daughter here, which cou 14.1kReads8.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 76 Granny Yu's Daily Routine of Gossip and Retirement 郁老太的吃瓜养老日常 [Farming + food + everyday family life + no romance + building wealth + heartwarming] The troublemakers are dealt with quickly. This is pure farming, with no court intrigue or powerful nobles. Modern young woman Yu Zhiqiu gets into a car accident and transmigrates into the body of an ancient peasant woman with the same name. Her husband is dead, they are short on money and food, and she has several troublesome children to care for. So what if they’re poor? Hard work brings prosperity. Everyone i 2.2kReads8.5Score23514d adds
- 77 Seven Useless Sons: The Feisty Old Lady Beats the Whole Family 7个儿子太渣，极品老太揍全家 After being shot in the head in the apocalypse, Jiang Man wakes up transmigrated into the body of a fifty-year-old woman. The old woman has seven sons, all of them scoundrels. They are fighting to split up the family, and all twenty-eight members of the household have their own agendas, leaving the place in chaos. Jiang Man: You want to split up the family? Fine, I’ll grant your wish! But unexpectedly, the original owner’s soul is still around. She begs Jiang Man not to split up the family and g 2.7kReads7.5Score24814d adds
- 78 After the Matriarch Gives Up, Her Ungrateful Descendants Are Beside Themselves with Regret 主母摆烂后，不孝子孙悔断肠 [Revenge after rebirth + Household intrigue + No forgiveness + No redemption] Xie Changning spent more than thirty years a widow, pouring her heart and soul into raising her children to be successful. Then an imperial decree ordered the extermination of the entire Xie family. Fearing their trouble would drag the marquis's household down with them, her children not only forced her to sign a document severing their family ties. They also joined forces to hang their own mother with a white silk cor 6.2kReads8.2Score60014d adds
- 79 Stabbed to Death by My Own Grandson at 99: Reborn to Spoil My Granddaughter 99岁被亲孙捅死：重生狂宠孙女 Grandmother protagonist + family and neighborhood life + 1970s A runaway ox charges into the courtyard with a crowd of people in tow, catching an adulterous couple in the act. Yang Yuzhen, reborn at forty, pats her ample chest and vows to change her fate. She kicks out her scumbag husband, abandons her ungrateful children and grandchildren, and takes her granddaughter to join her eldest son in the military. In her previous life, her eldest son died tragically on a mission. This time, she’ll save 4.6kReads8.8Score59814d adds
- 80 Back at Fifty, My Ungrateful Children Kneel Before Me 重回五十岁，逆子逆女都跪下 The short drama is now streaming. (A silver-haired woman’s story set in a bygone era, focused on everyday family life. If it’s not your thing, please don’t complain.) At ninety, Li Qingxiang was paralyzed on one side. Her eldest son and daughter-in-law abused her, forcing her to live in a pigsty, where she froze to death on a snowy night. When she opened her eyes, she was fifty again. Li Qingxiang decided to change how she raised her children, ditching her image as a doting mother and becoming a 5.5kReads8.7Score45114d adds
- 81 Transmigrated with a Pocket Dimension into the Body of a Fierce Old Farmwife 带空间穿成超凶的农家老太婆 Feel-good power fantasy + no romance + lighthearted + strong fighter + modern firearms (An alternate-world story. An alternate-world story. Don’t compare it to any real dynasty. No romance, no romance, no romance. There are modern firearms, firearms... If that’s not your thing, don’t read!) The story continues after the main arc, with extra chapters. Zhu Hanyue, queen of the apocalypse, died in battle when her energy ran out, only to transmigrate into the body of Zhu Guixiang, a village woman in 4.7kReads9.1Score42214d adds
- 82 Reborn in the 1980s: My Daily Life as a Matchmaker in the Countryside 重生八零：我在乡下当媒婆的日常 [Matchmaking + System + space + food + family life + building wealth + righting past wrongs] Lin Sue'e had lived an unremarkable life, grown distant from her children, and died full of regret. She never expected to return to a time forty-four years earlier… That year, it had been only two years since her eldest son was robbed of his university placement. He hadn't yet been left permanently disabled by working in a coal mine. Her eldest daughter hadn't been beaten to death by her husband, and the 2.1kReads8.9Score15114d adds
- 83 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Reborn: From the Neighborhood Office to the Provincial Committee Compound 恶婆婆重生：从街道办到省委大院 [The short drama is now streaming] [Career-driven female lead | 1970s political career progression | A female version of Game of Thrones] Striving to awaken women's consciousness + alternate historical setting + career-focused plot + blended family + male lead who understands her 💥 Modern media mogul Yin Chunjiao opens her eyes to find herself the notorious wicked mother-in-law of the 1970s. • Drove her daughter-in-law to her death? No way. I'll send her to university. • Throwing tantrums and ac 27.2kReads9.0Score2.4k14d adds
- 84 After the Biased Old Madam Is Reborn, the Marquis’s Household Is Turned Upside Down 偏心老夫人重生后，侯府变天了 [Published in print under the title: Weaving Splendid Misfortune] Original title: After the Biased Old Madam Was Reborn, the Marquis's Household Changed Wei Zhaorong, the old madam of the Mingde Marquis household, contracted smallpox and died miserably in the household's servants' courtyard. As she lay dying, her favorite eldest son, Xie Chuan, had been indulging his concubine, neglecting his wife, and carousing for days without coming home. Her second son, Xie Sheng, whom she had been so proud 6.7kReads8.5Score84514d adds
- 85 After I Died Peacefully of Old Age, I Was Forced Back to Work to Repay My Debts 老太我寿终正寝后，被迫营业还债 I was about to be reincarnated, but the King of Hell said I still had debts to repay? The cycle of cause and effect sent He Yun, who should have been reincarnated, back to life in the body of the matriarch of a declining earl's household so she could repay a debt of fate. When she opened her eyes again, she had acquired several children who weren't her own. In this era, where more children meant more blessings, other families had a dozen or twenty children. But look at the Earl's household: In t 2.3kReads8.9Score17014d adds
- 86 My Ungrateful Son Abandoned Me in a Famine Year, So I Bring Modern Grain to Fill My Barns 逆子荒年抛弃我，我通现代粮满仓 [Pocket dimension + passage to the modern world + farming + selling wild vegetables + family life + no romance] Synopsis: While fleeing famine, Lu Minggui is pushed over by her own son and falls to her death. When she wakes again, she's back before the famine. She discovers that a bloodstained wooden hairpin can take her to a mysterious world! From then on, she digs up wild vegetables, sells them, and earns silver. When famine strikes, she not only survives, but also leads her son and daughter 11.6kReads8.7Score1.6k14d adds
- 87 Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路 [Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Granny Quit Her Job to Become a Nanny, Then Took the Whole Household by Storm 老太太裸辞做保姆家里家外杀疯了 The short drama adaptation, My Retirement as a Housekeeper Became Legendary, can be found by searching on Fanqie. [No CP] [Family Life] [No Golden Finger] [Gets Rich by Working as a Housekeeper for Powerful People] [Leaves Her Husband and Abandons Her Son and Daughter] [Dotes on Her Daughter-in-Law and Granddaughter] [Silver-Haired Protagonist] [Quits Her Job to Become a Housekeeper] [Fat, Plain, and Relaxed Female Lead] [Absolutely Refuses to Lose Weight] In her previous life, Ma Chunmei was st 26.8kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 89 Granny Returns to the ’80s: Dumping Her Scumbag Husband and Making a Fortune Selling Pickles 老太重回八零：踹翻渣男咸菜发家 (No romance + divorce + street vending + making money + no golden finger) She’s reborn, and her younger daughter is about to be thrown into a living hell! Qin Sui’an was a timid old woman who had lived a miserable life. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in the 1980s, right at the scene where her younger daughter is being tricked into a marriage! This old woman has had enough! After exposing the scoundrel who arranged the fraudulent marriage and kicking her useless husband to the curb, Qin Sui’ 6.1kReads9.2Score1k14d adds
- 90 Retired Auntie Transmigrates, and Her Daughter Strikes It Rich! 退休大姨穿越，闺女暴富了！ After hearing the shocking news that her husband had died, Old Madam Su of the declining Earl’s household keeled over and died. When she woke up, the usually timid Old Madam Su had suddenly found her backbone. The concubine who had spent half her life causing trouble: “Waaah, husband, come back quickly! Madam is bullying me!” The illegitimate son waiting to take over his dowry: “Aaaah, Mother, please stop giving away our wealth! I’ll never defy you again!” The chief maid who betrayed her househo 3.9kReads9.3Score52314d adds
- 91 Granny Zhang Reborn: Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, She's Gone Berserk! 张老太重生：杀杀杀杀，杀疯了！ Granny Zhang thought she was a good mother and mother-in-law. When she was young, she had no one to help her. Determined to keep her children from going through the same hardships, she did everything she could for them, giving money when it was needed and pitching in whenever they needed help. She never held back. She helped all six of her children build families and careers, then raised several grandchildren. When she was in a car accident near the end of her life and received three million in 259.6kReads9.0Score19k14d adds
- 92 Four Sons and a Daughter, Yet No One to Bury Me. This Old Woman Has Disowned Them All 四儿一女无人送终，老娘六亲不认 Song Chunxue had four sons and a daughter, yet not one of her children was by her side when she died. After death, she became the poorest, loneliest ghost around. The eldest son she once loved most treated her like a stranger. Her second son became a live-in son-in-law. Her third son, who was supposed to care for her in her old age, made his living away from home. When he came back, he had no spare money to buy her funeral paper offerings. Her fourth son arrived late, blamed her for dying at 34.4kReads8.9Score76814d adds
- 93 In the 1970s, I Become the Wicked Mother-in-Law from a Period Novel 七零我穿成年代文的炮灰恶婆婆 When Jiang Zhenying woke up, she found herself in the body of a doomed character in a period novel, with one, two, three... six grandsons and granddaughters to boot. She had transmigrated to the resource-starved 1970s and now had to raise so many children. Jiang Zhenying gave a bitter smile. “Heavens, are you messing with me?” Luckily, she could retrieve things she had wasted in her previous life through her dreams. She didn’t know whether to blame her past wastefulness for making the heavens se 2.3kReads8.7Score17514d adds
- 94 Reborn in the Eighties: Old Lady Li Leaves Her Husband and Son 重生八零，李老太她抛夫弃子 Li Shuping had worked hard all her life, raised three children, and helped raise her grandchildren, yet she had never enjoyed a single day of comfort. Her family had never acknowledged all she had done for them. After her second daughter-in-law pushed her down and broke her leg, her children treated her like a burden and dumped her in a nursing home. With no children visiting and fees often unpaid, going hungry and getting beaten by the caregivers became part of daily life. Bedsores filled with 32.6kReads8.8Score3.8k14d adds
- 95 The Famine-Fleeing Grandmother: From Exile to Empress 逃荒祖母，从流放到女帝 Synopsis: [No romance + golden finger + carving out territory in a chaotic age] Mu Wanqing, who was useless and only knew how to eat, transmigrates into the body of an elderly woman in exile. Not only does a golden finger bind itself to her like a bandit, it also ties itself to her lifespan, making it hard even to die. She takes on disciples and earns points, but inflation in the points shop is downright outrageous. All she wants is to keep her head down until she dies of old age, but the wicked 1.1kReads9.3Score10614d adds
- 96 Four Ungrateful Children from the Start? I'll Become a Landowner Myself 开局四个不孝子？老娘自己当地主 [Transmigration + Satisfying Read + Building Wealth + Pocket Dimension + Herb Gathering + Family Life] Chen Ru and her husband transmigrate to an alternate dynasty and find themselves saddled with four unfilial sons and a whole bunch of unfilial grandchildren. The original owner devoted herself to her children. She found wives for all four sons and raised their children, even bringing up a son who passed the scholar examinations. But in the end, they all believed that an old person who refused t 30.2kReads8.1Score2.6k14d adds
- 97 The Whole Family Are Good-for-Nothings, Beaten into the Textbooks by a Centenarian Granny 全家废物，被百岁老太揍上教科书 Fu Ying devoted her life to her country, earning countless honors and leaving behind legends in every field, along with more big-shot disciples than anyone could count. At a hundred years old, she was forced into retirement. She asked someone to help her find her long-lost blood relatives, hoping to spend her remaining years surrounded by family. But when she returned to a remote mountain village, she discovered things weren't as wonderful as she'd imagined. Her nephew had died, and his dreadful 2kReads9.3Score29214d adds
- 98 Her Legs Were Broken and She Was Imprisoned in Her Past Life. Reborn, She Goes on a Killing Spree 前世被断腿囚禁，她重生后杀疯了 In her past life, Su Yiran relied on her ruthless streak to thrive in both the underworld and respectable society, living a life of carefree luxury! But she loved the wrong man! Her husband became someone else’s husband, and her wealth became someone else’s wealth! Her son was killed in the street, and she herself was strangled with a piece of straw rope! She couldn’t accept it! Then, unexpectedly, she encountered the legendary experience of being reborn. Why was she reborn, you ask? Who care 5.2kReads9.3Score68114d adds
- 99 Reborn in the 1960s, Granny Beats Her Unfilial Son 重生六零，气得老太太拳打不孝子 Zhang Lan was reborn after her own son and his new wife sent her back to the countryside to fend for herself. In her final days, only her former daughter-in-law stayed by her side, caring for her with the help of her grandchildren. Zhang Lan asked herself: she might not have been the best mother to her son, but she had given him nearly everything she could. When he wanted a divorce, claiming their arranged marriage was a feudal relic, she played the villain and helped them split up. As a result, 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Reborn in the 1960s: The Old Woman's Rise 重生六零：老太太的崛起 [Reborn in the late 1960s, an imperfect heroine who grows over time, then a fiery old lady; explosive gossip; family squabbles early on, then the heroine builds a career; ensemble cast] In her previous life, Grandma Xia gave everything she had to her family. She raised her three sons to adulthood and helped them start families and careers. She should have been able to enjoy her golden years, but her sons kicked her out, and she died on a rainy winter night. When she opened her eyes, Grandma Xia 7.3kReads9.0Score73514d adds
