I Was a Widow for Thirty Years, While You Had a Houseful of Children and Grandchildren Elsewhere?

Lu Zhaoruo had spent thirty years as a widow, managing the family business and caring for her parents-in-law. Just as she was nearing the end of her strength, her husband returned with his mistress and their descendants to enjoy the fruits of her labor. Even the adopted daughter she had cherished was their biological child. Reborn, she planned her every move and secretly made off with all the family’s wealth. She served her parents-in-law watery rice soaked in dishwater, while her sister-in-law, buried in gambling debts, was left to have her hands chopped off. When her faithless husband returned with his mistress, all he found was an empty house. One bowl of sterilizing soup left him without heirs! As for his radiant mistress, she had gone completely mad. Lu Zhaoruo left the Shen family behind, cast aside her empty reputation, and turned business into a battlefield, sending her trade caravans across the north and south. Then the general who had once struck fear across the Seven Seas knelt and crawled before her. “I, Xiao, am willing to trade my military achievements for this ledger. I beg you, Boss Lu, to take me in.” She smiled softly, her fingertip brushing over the latest tribute list. “General, does your title allow a woman like me to inherit it?”