I Reincarnated as the Wicked Stepmother of Four Ungrateful Children

After a car accident, food researcher Su Wan transmigrated into the body of Liu Sanniang, a country widow whose husband had just died.

Three broken ribs, half a sack of coarse grain stolen, and four stepchildren who hated her. Her eldest stepson pointed at her and said, "You killed my father."

Her in-laws were cruel, her sisters-in-law schemed against her, and they even dumped a bowl of thin porridge on the stove for her to eat.

She didn't cry or make a scene.

She crouched by the wall and recognized a patch of shepherd's purse. She boiled plant ash to make salt and traded a jar of pickled vegetables for her first bushel of grain. She kept accounts, did the math, and taught the children to read, stripping away her reputation as a "husband-killing widow" bit by bit.

When Shitou was cold, she stood in front of him and took three strokes of the cane. When Mutou fell ill, she went up the mountain in the dead of night to gather herbs. When Xiaohua was frightened by her first period, she sewed her three cloth pads. When Xiaocao was hungry, she gave up half her own bun.

Later, all four children knelt before her and called her Mother.

Later still, she left her in-laws' home with the children and nothing else. She built kilns, opened workshops, and founded a trading company, until the name Liu's Shop was known across three provinces.

No one could have guessed that the "son" whom her parents-in-law had treated as cheap labor and worked to death had a jade pendant carved with a five-clawed chi dragon hidden at his waist.

The last thing she had to do was take her four children and stand in the Golden Hall.

"In this life, I relied on no one, yet I ended up with everything."