The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children.

Tong Huaqiong traveled to ancient times and found herself in the body of the cruel widow Tong Dajiao. She witnessed the execution scene where the vicious widow and her children were executed all at once and returned to the year Tong Dajiao had just become a widow. At the age of forty, she had already become a grandmother, embodying the traits of a wicked stepmother and a cruel mother-in-law. Naturally, her offspring were also unruly. The only thing that gave her a slight sense of consolation was that, as a widow, she didn’t have to serve an old man. In this time-travel story, she didn’t possess any golden fingers like a system or noble background. She didn’t even have the chance to turn her life around through marriage; as a widow, who could she marry? She was burdened with a heap of dependents. She could only rely on herself and the bunch of unruly children at home. Her goal was to restore the family honor and correct her children’s behavior. She aimed to treat her stepson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter kindly while thwarting her youngest son’s plan to sell his daughter to a wealthy family for schooling money. She pushed her youngest son to work hard and study, using a stick to wake up her second son from laziness to become the backbone of the family, and drove away her youngest daughter’s laziness and romantic distractions. She reclaimed wasteland for farming, used modern scientific knowledge to grow crops, transformed saline-alkali land into fertile fields, and led her family toward a moderately prosperous life. She started her business by setting up a stall, selling steamed buns, cakes, and marinated dishes, raising pigs and bees, gradually expanding her family’s business territory.