After Becoming the Worst Mother-in-Law, She Made a Fortune

(Farming + raising children + getting rich + no saintly heroine) Lin Chuyu transmigrates into the body of a wicked, notoriously awful mother-in-law. From the start, she is saddled with five children and a granddaughter. Her family is so poor they can barely scrape by, so she has no choice but to pull herself together. Starting with selling potato blossoms, she gradually makes a name for herself in the ancient world, opening a snack street, a beauty shop, a farm stay, and more... Jealous of her success, a bunch of people pool a thousand taels of silver to steal her secret recipes, only to discover that the place where they buy their ingredients belongs to her too! After paying for ingredients, making the food, and selling it, they’ve worked for a whole month without earning a single cent! A total loss! Lin Chuyu spreads her hands with an innocent look. “Huh? You want to buy my recipes? You should’ve said so earlier. One tael of silver will do. Still want them?” The unscrupulous merchants nearly spit blood as a group. “We’ve lost everything!” Her awful relatives guilt-trip her into lending them money, then refuse to pay it back? Lin Chuyu smiles sweetly. “Sure, I’ll lend it to you. Just be careful walking home alone tonight.” Bandits try to kidnap her family and extort a thousand taels of gold? Lin Chuyu offers them two thousand. “Sure. I’ll pay double, and buy your life while I’m at it.” The villains cry, while Lin Chuyu grins. From then on, she takes the villains’ path and leaves them nowhere to go.