You Brat, Open Up! Your Mother Is Back to Set This Family Straight

[Raising kids + sweet romance + wish fulfillment + loyal dog-like male lead + strong heroine]

In her previous life, Meng Nanzhi drowned. Through the sky screen, she learned that her three children would grow up to meet tragic ends.

Every one of them had been turned into an early-death villain by her faithless scumbag of a husband and her sweet-faced, treacherous friend.

She went to great lengths to travel back, only to discover that ten years had already passed since her death.

At least there was still time to set things right. She had to divorce the scumbag and cut ties with him, then properly guide her children, who had gone astray.

Sure enough, after Meng Nanzhi returned, all those rebellious children began to shine like upright protagonists:

Her eldest son, Shen Yanxiu, had originally been ready to disregard propriety and fall in love with his stepsister, even turning evil and rebelling to win her. Now he said, "Mother's back. What does that stepsister matter?"

Her second son, Shen Yanheng, used to spend every day chasing chickens and dogs, doing no good, and hanging around gambling dens and brothels. Now he said, "What gambling dens and brothels? I must become a fine young gentleman from a noble family in Mother's eyes."

Her daughter, Shen Zhaozhao, used to be spoiled and willful, resorting to any means to steal a man from her stepsister. Now she said, "What's so great about men? Nothing matters more than my beautiful, gentle mother!"

And then there was her father, who loved her more than life itself. The Grand Tutor Meng was willing to return to court: "Anyone who bullies my daughter will not live to see another day."

The scumbag was backed into a corner, and the sweet-faced villain showed her true colors. Her ex-husband knelt and begged her to forgive him and remarry him, while the powerful young General Tu Rong came to defend her: "Zhi Zhi is mine. Who do you think you are to deserve her?!"