CompletedA gritty everyday story set in the 1980s about family relationships and rebirth. Old Mrs. Zhao worked hard her whole life, raising four sons and three daughters. She supported her sons' education and marriages, helping them raise their own children. The income from her shop was often used by her eldest son's family, and she spent money to send her second son to study at a county restaurant as an apprentice. She cleaned up the messes of her twin third and fourth sons, and paid for her third son to marry the Li family's daughter. She spent a lot of money for her second daughter to study art and helped her third daughter go to college and develop in Shanghai. Once they were all doing well, they scorned their aging parents. When her husband needed a surgery costing twenty thousand, none of her children could gather the funds, unwilling to pay for his treatment, causing him to miss the surgical window and die at home. Her eldest son kicked her out of their town house and forced her to live in a thatched cottage in the mountains, telling her to fend for herself! Within two months, she died on a rainy night, and not a single one of them was willing to collect her body or even return for the funeral. She opened her eyes again and found herself back at fifty years old, on the day her eldest daughter, with whom she had cut ties, was getting married. At this time, she and her husband were still operating their peanut oil pressing shop, and their children were still dependent on them for support. Upon learning of her children's callousness, she angrily decided to cherish only her eldest daughter, who was the only one to arrange her funeral, and demanded household expenses from the other children! Reborn, Old Mrs. Zhao had no maternal love; in her previous life, she couldn't even count on her children to collect her body. In this life, she would live like a tyrant, riding on her children's heads to see the world. What would happen when she got old? If she enjoyed the latter half of her life, it would be normal for her to die when she was old and without her children’s support. Who would have thought that in her previous life, she worked herself to the bone, but her children didn't remember her kindness, while in this life, she was selfish, greedy, and heartless, disregarding her children's lives, and yet she lived more comfortably and her children became filial.
CompletedShe was the illegitimate daughter of the prefect. Her father, appreciating a certain general, betrothed his daughter to him and introduced him to Prince Xian. Living up to expectations, he became a general!
On their wedding day, he followed the prince to battle, completely neglecting her for five years!
For five years, the Old Madam forced her nephew upon her as the legitimate eldest son. She diligently upheld her duties as the General's Mansion's mistress, only to earn their disgust!
When her husband returned victorious, his honor elevated, she joyfully went to greet him, but instead met the woman who would change her fate!
Her husband publicly humiliated her, ordering her to prepare for his concubine's grand entry. To hold a lavish ceremony for another woman, organized by her, would completely disgrace the General's Mansion.
Though unwilling, she endured her entire life for this family, only to be hated by everyone in the end and die of sorrow!
Reborn, it was still a concubine's entry, but this time she was neither happy nor sad, simply preparing a magnificent ceremony for him!
She still had to raise the nephew, but she no longer curbed his mischievous nature. Instead of raising an ungrateful wretch, she decided to respect his fate!
She still had to face the favored concubine who made trouble in the general's mansion, but as the mistress, she quit. Let the concubine have that fortune!
Since her husband wanted to spoil his concubine, she let him spoil her to his heart's content. She was too lazy to stop the concubine's endless array of disgraceful antics, simply treating it as a spectacle.
After the divorce, the general's mansion's mess was no longer her concern!
The general, after much painful introspection, chased his wife for a thousand miles, only to arrive at an abandoned scene.
Meanwhile, Prince Xian remarked, "Fortunately, you let go. Otherwise, I wouldn't have found such a wonderful wife."