I'm Done Being the Matriarch! I Leave My Husband and Children Behind to Shine on My Own!

The renowned Lady God of Wealth married Zhou Yexun, a down-on-his-luck merchant. She gave up half her fortune to buy him shops and farmland, then shut herself away in the inner quarters to manage the household. In time, the Zhou family replaced the Meng family as the richest in Ying County, just as they had hoped. But to secure the position of imperial merchant, Zhou Yexun married a noblewoman and forced her to request a divorce, demoting her from wife to concubine! “You can't serve your mother-in-law or raise your own child properly. How could you possibly be mistress of the Zhou household?!” Their child prodigy son looked down on her merchant origins and wanted to be registered under the name of his future principal wife. “You made me a laughingstock over a lowly servant. You're only fit to be that servant's mother!” Meng Jin looked at the father and son, ungrateful to the core, and quietly asked the servant, “Would you like me to be your mother?” Later, Meng Jin burned every contract for the Zhou family's shops and managers! She left the household with her frail adopted son, the lowly servant, and divorced Zhou Yexun. Who could have guessed that the position of imperial merchant would be eagerly handed to her instead? After the divorce, Meng Jin established her own household registration, became the richest person in the land, and raised her adopted son to pass the imperial examinations and earn her an honorific title. Years later, her former husband and son came begging her to take them back. Meng Jin sounded bemused. “My husband is of imperial blood. Who are you? My son is obedient and humble, and he's a top scholar. What does that have to do with you?”