The Reborn Matriarch Stops Caring, and Her Self-Righteous Family Panics

Song Yao thought she owed her husband’s family because she couldn’t have children. She emptied her dowry and exhausted herself, fighting tooth and nail for the whole family. Through sheer effort, she turned their fallen marquis’s household into a respected clan. And what did she get in return? The whole family called her wicked! The three adopted children were all ungrateful, each more self-righteous than the last. Her eldest son had no interest in the imperial examinations or wealth and status, and loved nothing but flowers and plants! Her second son disdained a promising future and wanted nothing to do with worldly affairs, preferring to roam the martial world! Her youngest daughter refused to marry into a noble family and wanted only a farmer from some remote village, willing to endure sleeping outdoors and eating chaff if that was what the future held. Her mother-in-law’s title of Lady of the Commandery had been won for her by her daughter-in-law, yet she claimed that Song Yao’s pursuit of fame and fortune was ultimately meaningless. As the mistress of a marquis’s household, she was always so competitive and grasping, behaving in a way unbecoming of her position. Her husband ate well and dressed well, yet claimed he had never liked extravagance and would be content with simple food and drink at every meal. This comfortable life wasn’t what he wanted. Then Chunlan Xiu, her sister-in-law, revealed a secret to Song Yao: “You can’t have children because Mother-in-law gave you a drug that made you barren. You weren’t born unable to conceive!” Song Yao learned the truth, flew into a rage, and died of anger. When she opened her eyes again, she was reborn five years earlier, on the day a matchmaker came to propose a marriage for the marquis’s daughter. Her adopted daughter didn’t want to marry into a noble family? Fine, she’d call off the engagement and give her what she wanted! In this life, Song Yao decided to stop trying to help and let the ungrateful lot live with their choices. They wanted to shun fame and fortune? Disdain wealth and status? Treat money like dirt? Fine, she’d give them exactly what they wanted! But once Song Yao stopped fighting and scrambling on their behalf, and granted the whole family their wishes, they all started panicking…