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

Zhou Xiulan and her husband worked themselves to the bone raising seven children. Their kind and filial sixth and seventh children were cruelly killed, while the five who remained all turned out to be ungrateful. She spent her life working herself ragged for them, only to be abandoned in a remote country home in her old age. Not one of her children was by her side when she died.

When she opens her eyes again, she is back at the 1983 wedding-snatching scene. “Call off the engagement! Give me back every last cent of the bride price!” She tears up the marriage contract and publicly refuses to let Huang Meiling marry into the Liu family. Then she grabs a cleaver and rushes to the west side of town, rescuing her seventh child, half-dressed, from a gang of thugs. She sets fire to a pile of straw and scares the thugs out of their wits!

She turns around and exposes every scandal in the Huang family, tearing into the whole wicked family and the nosy neighbors, while laying into her selfish sons and daughters.

With the engagement called off, she lives for herself and her husband, both at home and beyond, and starts teaching her five unfilial children a lesson. The eldest dares to keep in touch with the Huangs? “I’ll beat you to death!” The second daughter’s husband refuses to learn a trade? “Get out and find somewhere else to live!” The third child’s family looks down on the Lius? “Pay up for your living expenses!” The fourth is a traitor? “You’re paying for it!” The fifth refuses to lift a finger? “You’re no longer my child!”

Her ungrateful children tremble in fear and learn how to survive on their own.

Five years later, the whole county knows how formidable this wicked mother-in-law is. The eldest begs her to accept his virtuous wife from the grain depot, the sixth opens the county’s first agricultural supply supermarket... And the coal boss she sent to jail is now crying and begging her to spare the dirt on his son. Zhou Xiulan cracks sunflower seeds and crosses her legs. “What’s the rush? I haven’t settled the score with you for what you did in my last life!”