Ch 1: The Unfilial Children Trembles in Fear (QT)

Thingyan: I translated this not knowing another translator already picked it up (I double checked before I picked it up but it didn’t show up. Don’t know what happened). I apologize for that. Once I release all the translated chapters from the first two worlds, I will drop this novel 😔

World 1: The Despised Mother of the 1970s

“Mom, hurry up and get the money. I’m heading into the city right now to secure that job. If I’m late, the opportunity will be gone.”

The moment Yun Xi regained consciousness, she saw a young man speaking across from her and immediately knew she had arrived in a new world.

She had originally been a demonic cultivator in the cultivation world. Her tribulation had gone badly, and her physical body had been destroyed by heavenly lightning. Fortunately, her natal treasure, the Qiankun Mirror, could carry her through the Three Thousand Worlds, allowing her soul to survive.

Of course, she could not simply take over someone else’s body whenever she pleased. She had to make a deal with the fated individual.

The other party’s resentment was too heavy for reincarnation, yet they lacked the ability to take revenge themselves, so they offered their body to her. In return, she would eliminate their resentment and allow them to reincarnate successfully.

Resolving resentment was actually a form of merit. The more she did it, the more it helped repair her damaged soul. As her soul grew stronger, so would her abilities. Sooner or later, she would be able to reconstruct her body and return to the peak of her strength.

That was why she had readily entered this first small world.

Her current identity was the despised villainous mother of the 1970s.

She had worked herself to exhaustion and sacrificed her entire life, yet among her three sons and one daughter, not a single one was filial. They ate from her bowl, then cursed their mother after putting it down. Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. In the end, they let her freeze to death in the pigsty on New Year’s Eve and even complained that her death was bad luck.

The original owner, Li Yunxi, had died in agony. Her resentment reached the heavens. She wished she had never had these children at all. All she wanted was for them to spit back out everything they had eaten from her and return everything they had taken from her.

This sort of thing happened to be Yun Xi’s specialty.

The man speaking in front of her was her eldest son, Dong Zhihong.

He was the best at putting on a show. Outwardly, he seemed reasonable. Inwardly, he was selfish and self-serving.

After his father died, he came to believe that a widow should obey her son. Since he was the eldest, his mother should listen to him. He also liked to put on the airs of a father figure toward his younger siblings, constantly lecturing them.

And now he was demanding money from the family as if it were perfectly natural.

Eight hundred yuan to buy a city job.

His tone made it clear he was not asking.

He never considered whether the family could afford it, nor how everyone would survive afterward.

The youngest son, Dong Zhiyong, and the youngest daughter, Dong Zhizhi, immediately protested.

“That’s way too much money. It’s not worth it.”

“Exactly. Where would the family get that kind of money for you to spend?”

Dong Zhihong waved a dismissive hand.

“What do you two know? Stay out of it.”

When he saw that Yun Xi had not immediately produced the money, he grew impatient.

“A city job! Plenty of people spend their whole lives wishing for an opportunity like this and never get one. What are you still thinking about, Mom? If you miss this chance, there won’t be another one!”

His wife, Wang Huijuan, immediately chimed in.

“That’s right, Mom. This is an opportunity for our family. It doesn’t matter if we tighten our belts and go a little hungry. For a chance this rare, we have to come up with the money. Eight hundred yuan is a lot, but we’ll be extra filial to you in the future. You’ll have everything you want. Don’t be so reluctant.”

She really had mastered the art of passive-aggressive remarks.

Wasn’t she basically accusing Yun Xi of hoarding money and mistreating them?

Dong Zhihong frowned at her.

“Mom, you’re uneducated, so you don’t understand. This isn’t the time to be stingy. Hurry up and give me the money. They’re waiting for me.”

Yun Xi slapped him across the face.

“Uneducated? Even if I’m uneducated, I’m still your mother. Is this how you talk to me?”

Wang Huijuan let out a shrill scream.

“Mom! How can you hit someone?”

Yun Xi immediately slapped her as well.

“If I didn’t hit you, you’d never know your place. Go ask around the village. Who isn’t hungry? Back then, people had to chew tree bark to survive! You’ve eaten a few decent meals and now you’ve set your sights on the family’s money. Who exactly are you insulting with those veiled remarks?”

“Mom! Have you gone crazy?!” Dong Zhihong’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Even though she had always been hot-tempered, that side of her was reserved for outsiders. At home, she was merely frugal and nagging.

How could she suddenly start hitting people?

And the person she hit was him, her eldest son!

Their eight-year-old son, Dong Xin, had been squatting by the wall playing with mud. Seeing his parents get slapped, he charged at Yun Xi.

“How dare you hit my mom and dad! I’ll kill you, you old hag!”

Yun Xi sneered.

With one kick, she sent him tumbling aside. Then she turned around and slapped Dong Zhihong again.

“If a child isn’t taught properly, the father is to blame. The reason your son dares treat me this way is because you’re a worthless bastard.”

Dong Zhiyong and Dong Zhizhi were completely stunned.

They stood there with mouths hanging open, unsure whether they should intervene.

Yun Xi swept a glance over them, rolled up her sleeves, and barked,

“From now on, I’m done indulging your bad habits. Every one of you acts like some exalted ancestor in front of me, with your noses stuck in the air. Asking for money to get things done? Did you even ask me first? What am I, some servant you can order around?”

Everyone was startled.

Their expressions changed instantly.

Wang Huijuan hurriedly said,

“Mom, you can’t say things like that. If someone overhears, we’ll be finished.”

Yun Xi picked up the bowl of water on the table, intending to take a drink. When she saw dust floating inside, she slammed it back down.

“You can’t even keep a bowl of water clean, yet you talk about being filial to me? I can’t stand this kind of filial piety.”

She stared at Dong Zhihong.

“There are four children in this family. I already paid to build houses for you and your second brother, helped you get married, and helped raise your children. Where exactly would I get the money to buy you a job? I don’t have it. Don’t you always say your father-in-law and mother-in-law are educated people? Go ask them. Stop coming to your uneducated mother.”

With that, Yun Xi returned to her room and shut the door behind her, leaving the stunned group outside.

The Qiankun Mirror congratulated her from within her sea of consciousness.

【Master, you’re amazing! That was a perfect imitation!】

Yun Xi curled her lips into a smile.

Throwing a tantrum?

What was so difficult about that?

She actually found it quite fun. It was something she had never experienced before.

When she made the deal with the original owner, she had already received all of her memories. She understood what kind of world this was and what sort of person the original owner had been.

The original owner’s husband had died eighteen years ago.

At the time, she had nearly lost her life giving birth to Dong Zhizhi after a difficult labor brought on by emotional distress. Before she had even completed her confinement month, her husband’s family threw her out. Her own family refused to take her and the children in as well.

She had no choice but to work herself half to death raising four children on her own.

At the time, her eldest son had only been nine years old.

For a woman in that era to raise children alone in the countryside was naturally difficult.

That was how the original owner developed her fierce personality.

She argued with people. She fought people.

But if nobody bullied her, she would never start trouble herself.

Everything she did was simply to protect her children.

Yun Xi’s performance just now had been copied straight from the original owner’s memories.

The original owner probably pitied her children for losing their father at such a young age and having to endure gossip from others. Original translation at HololoNovels dot com. Because of that, she doted on them more than she should have. She never hit them. She only nagged endlessly, hoping they would grow up successful.

The original owner worked tirelessly to earn work points, washed clothes, cooked meals, and spun like a top every day.

She never dressed up.

She always looked dusty and worn.

At some point, the children had begun to despise her.

They never said it aloud.

And she never noticed.

They disliked that she was uneducated and barely recognized a few characters.

They disliked her loud voice when she argued with people because it embarrassed them.

They disliked how stingy she was, unwilling to let them eat better food or wear nicer clothes.

They disliked that she wasn’t clean enough, that she was dark-skinned, that her clothes were ugly, and that she wasn’t as good as other people’s mothers.

How much of that came from the muttering of her rarely-seen in-laws, and how much came from things they heard outside, Yun Xi did not know.

What she did know was that these children were truly heartless.

Not one of them ever cared about how much their mother had suffered for them.

Yun Xi had lived a very long time in the cultivation world.

She had seen all kinds of people.

Some children simply could not be taught into becoming good people.

They were born cold-hearted and selfish.

So she had no intention whatsoever of teaching this family to become better.

She was not here to raise children for the original owner.

She was here to deal with them.

These ungrateful ingrates relied on their mother’s love while repeatedly stabbing her in the back.

People like that deserved no happy ending.

Since she had encountered them, it was their bad luck.

Outside, Dong Zhihong, whose face was still stinging from the slaps, continued cursing loudly.

From the sound of it, he intended to storm into her room and argue things out. Fortunately, Dong Zhiyong managed to stop him. The commotion continued for quite some time before finally dying down.

Yun Xi ignored them.

Following the original owner’s memories, she quickly located all the family’s money, ration coupons, household registration documents, and other important belongings, tossing everything directly into the Qiankun Mirror’s storage space.

The space was enormous.

However, carrying her through worlds had consumed everything originally stored there.

Now it was completely empty.

Naturally, she needed to restock it.

A newly purchased piece of cloth originally meant for Dong Zhizhi’s new outfit?

Into the space.

That little ungrateful daughter didn’t deserve it.

She would find someone to make clothes for herself instead.

There was also a bag of milk powder, a package of Changbai cakes, and a handful of milk candies in the cabinet.

The original owner had saved them for her eldest son’s eight-year-old boy and her second son’s five-year-old daughter.

Into the space they went.

The little ingrates had learned from their parents.

Behind her back, they all called her an old hag.

She was only forty-five years old and still in her prime.

Yet they had practically aged her with their insults.

From now on, they could forget about getting even a bite of her good food.

The family’s flour, rice, sugar, and eggs all went into the space as well.

Food and clothing were scarce in this era.

Wherever she was, they were more useful in her own hands.

One advantage of being the mother was that she naturally outranked everyone else by a generation.

She could put these things wherever she pleased.

She didn’t need to explain herself to anyone.

If nobody could find them, they would probably praise her for hiding them well.

After gathering everything, the room contained nothing but worthless junk.

Only then did Yun Xi come out.

Casually, she ordered Dong Zhizhi,

“Go wash the pots and dishes. Scrub them spotless. I don’t want to see a single black speck.”

Dong Zhizhi froze for a moment, muttered something under her breath, and reluctantly headed into the kitchen.

At that moment, the second daughter-in-law, who worked as the village scorekeeper, returned carrying her child.

The second son, who taught at the village school, came back carrying books as well.

They normally ate lunch together at the school, claiming they still had work in the afternoon and didn’t want to waste time going back and forth.

In reality, they were secretly cooking extra meals for themselves.

The fact that they had returned so early today clearly meant they had heard rumors about the eldest brother buying a job and rushed home to stop it.

According to the original owner’s memories, this day had been quite lively.

The family had a total of one thousand yuan.

Buying the job would cost eight hundred.

The original owner had been extremely hesitant and refused to hand over the money for a long time.

The four children and two daughters-in-law argued endlessly over the matter.

The three brothers nearly came to blows.

The eldest son felt his authority as the firstborn was being challenged.

Rather than blame himself for failing to control his younger brothers, he blamed the original owner for dragging her feet over the money.

He ended up resenting her because of it.

For years afterward, he still brought up the matter from time to time.

In the end, for the sake of her eldest son and for the family as a whole, the original owner handed over the eight hundred yuan.

She allowed him to become a city worker and made him promise to help his younger siblings in the future.

To her, it had been a gamble.

If she won, the whole family’s life would improve.

If she lost, they would only lose money.

They could always earn more later.

Wasn’t having a chance better than having none?

Other families supported their promising children in exactly the same way.

The result?

The other three children resented her.

They believed she favored the eldest son and had given most of the family’s money to him.

She had no authority whatsoever in the household.

No matter what she did, she ended up being blamed by everyone.

Naturally, Yun Xi had no intention of indulging them.

When she saw the leisurely second son and his wife, she immediately ordered,

“Go chop the firewood and carry the water. I need hot water tonight.”

Then she turned to the second daughter-in-law.

“Leave the child with your eldest sister-in-law and get cooking.”

The two people who had just entered the courtyard stared at her in shock.

Yun Xi glanced at them.

“What? In this family, does your mother have to beg you to do some work?”

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