The 1980s Wicked Mother-in-Law: Ungrateful Children, All of You, Get Lost

Zhou Xiulan and her husband raised seven children through years of hardship. Their kind and filial sixth and seventh children were murdered, while the other five all turned out to be ungrateful. She spent her whole life working herself to the bone for them, only to be abandoned in a remote manor in her old age, ignored by everyone. Not one of her children was by her side when she died.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the 1983 wedding snatching scene. "I want this engagement called off! Give me back every last cent of the bride price!" She tore up the marriage contract and publicly refused to let Huang Meiling marry into the Liu family. Then she grabbed a kitchen knife and charged straight to the west side of town, rescuing her disheveled seventh child from a gang of thugs and scaring them witless by setting fire to a pile of straw!

She returned and exposed the Huang family's dirty secrets, taking on the whole wicked family and the gossiping neighbors, while also laying into her selfish sons and daughters.

With the engagement broken off, she was going to live for herself and her husband, both inside and outside the home. She began to teach her five unfilial children a lesson. The eldest dared to keep in touch with the Huangs? I'll beat you to death! The second daughter's husband wouldn't learn a trade? Get out and live somewhere else! The third child's family looked down on the Liu family? They'd pay their own living expenses! The fourth was biting the hand that fed him? He'd pay for it! The fifth couldn't be bothered with anything? She'd cut ties with him!

The five ingrates trembled in fear and learned how to fend for themselves.

Five years later, the whole county knew how fearsome this wicked mother-in-law was. The eldest begged her to accept the grain station's virtuous daughter-in-law, and the sixth had opened the county's first agricultural supply supermarket... Meanwhile, the coal boss she'd had thrown in jail was now begging her to spare his son by keeping his scandalous secrets under wraps. Zhou Xiulan munched on sunflower seeds and crossed her legs. "What's the hurry? I'm not done settling accounts with you lot for what you did to me in my last life!"