The Matriarch Returns from Decades in the Future, and the Whole Household Goes Mad

[Revenge after being reborn] [Household intrigue] [No forgiveness] [An intense battle of wits between two old foxes]

In her previous life, the matriarch Song Jinyao died a pathetic death. When she was forty, her husband faked his death and started a little family with the woman he had always loved.

Told that a widowed mother couldn't manage a household alone, she listened to her sons' urging and divided the family assets. She spent her whole life for her sons. At sixty, she learned the truth about her husband's fake death and that her sons had been accomplices. In a fit of rage, she fell ill and became mentally impaired. Once every last bit of her value had been squeezed out, those ungrateful wretches drove her from the residence, and she froze to death in the snow.

When she was reborn, she was right in the mourning hall, at the moment her husband had faked his death and her sons were urging her to divide the family estate.

Song Jinyao sneered. Her beloved sons, Mother is back!

This time, everything would be different!

Her faithless husband faked his death? Fine, then he could stop breathing for good.

Her second son resented her for refusing to let his lover from the brothel into the family? Fine, she'd help her second daughter-in-law find a new husband! He'd said how wonderful it would be if his father's mistress were his real mother. Fine, she'd grant his wish and kick him out of the residence to sleep on the street.

Her third son was the mastermind behind everything. Fine, just watch how his own schemes backfire on him.

Her fourth son was a fence-sitter? No problem. This time, Mother didn't want him. He could fall whichever way he pleased!

She swept her ungrateful sons out of the house.

No matter how desperately they begged, she would never forgive them.

Then she took her daughter, stepson, and mentally impaired youngest son and made a triumphant return to the capital.

She'd become an imperial merchant, earn a noble title, and reopen the Song family's wrongful conviction case.

She believed that even without her husband and her ungrateful sons, she could still win glory for herself.

The capital was a maelstrom of intrigue, and dynasties rose and fell. Just as Song Jinyao was in the thick of her ruthless campaign,

she hadn't expected an old fox with such deep schemes to appear, and it seemed she couldn't shake him off.