After Transmigrating to a Famine Year, I Became the Ultimate Villainous Mother-in-Law

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Cheng Wanwan woke up to find herself transformed into a 33-year-old peasant woman in the ancient Dahe Village.

Four sons knelt before her, calling her “Mother,” and her daughter-in-law was carrying a grandchild in her belly.

Having been single for 33 years in her past life, she was suddenly promoted to the rank of grandmother and mother-in-law.

Raising four sons was already challenging enough, but then came a series of disasters—locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms…

The only silver lining? She had access to a trading marketplace system.

Ding! Wild vegetables – 10 copper coins!

Ding! Fat wild fish – 200 copper coins!

Cheng Wanwan set two goals for herself:

First, to lead her family through the years of famine safely.

Second, to live an extraordinary life in ancient times!

Associated Names
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穿到荒年后,我成了极品恶婆婆
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03/26/26 Shanghai Fantasy c771
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Review
4 Reviews


New Slick Vick
May 25, 2026
Status: c861
The story pacing is excellent and it does a good job of explaining customs and why certain people were forbidden from doing certain things and the superstition s attached to it. It expertly led the plot along, explaining events and how they led to each other. There were no confusing sentences that are common from translating a series. I especially like the explanation for the education system and the requirements to meet each one. The system the MC uses is not ab*sed and help to get over the first initial... more>> hurdle of being poor with modern knowledge (therefore nothing practical). Great story. 5/5 stars. <<less
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ByleeM
ByleeM
Dec 21, 2025
Status: --
Its gotten to a point when I see a system/cheat/space/golden finger etc in a historical isekai novel my brain automatically takes one point off and the novel actually has to prove it worth....

It's very very hard to write a GOOD historical poor to rich novel if you include a system or an extreme golden finger. It becomes a crutch for the author to avoid research or to actually work hard to think of a good story. The system just becomes a plot hole filler and a magic wand that erases... more>> the need for the MC to work hard or think smart...

The reason we all read these "poor to rich" stories is for the process not the conclusion.... we read to watch them advance from poor humble people and through their hard work and wit become wealthy not for them to magically become rich.

This story falls into that trap...I get the feeling that once the MC dies and her kids whom she directly influenced... their family will decline quickly.... All I got from this was that the system was awesome, not the MC per say. <<less
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seutelar
seutelar
Sep 02, 2025
Status: c167
So far it's quite good. Very slice of life and I love her interaction with her kids. It's just....i feel incomplete bcs there's no romance 😭 this is so weird bcs usually this type of stories has the most bland ML ever and I grow tired of it, but now seeing that this story have none I kinda miss it lol. If you're asking if there's any face slapping, the answer is no. At best our main chara is just arguing with busybody and left. She doesn't waste her time... more>> on troublemaker, she just focus on making money and improving her life conditions. Pacing is slow though, it's turning me off a bit. I'm gonna put this down and come back later. <<less
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Shaw Johnson
Shaw Johnson
Nov 21, 2025
Status: c100
Shallow characters, Thick plot armor that gives way to dog blood drama, too, such dog blood drama. All in all, gross. Oh and MC has cheats that she sloppily uses whenever the plot says so.

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MC easily earns dozens of money from selling wild greens and such, even just a few wild weeds is enough to exchange for rice and such which is extremely helpful during a looming famine on top of MC being so wasteful with her extravagant attitude like constantly buying meat and eating precious water during a drought for some baths.

MC tends to be sloppy, taking half measures on practically everything: From trying to expand business whilst forgetting added labor. To leaving the pregnant housewife at home alone. To begin bent to send the kids to school despite not having enough hands at home, among other things. Also attracting too much attention then failing to secure herself and her family, relying on a few flimsy items like a knife and a one time use shock ring from her cheat market, and two young puppies to defend themselves.

Same with the MC, the villagers are insufferably s*upid, just prone to dog blood drama like troublemakers easily accusing others for this and that, or nosy neighbors standing by to watch drama, only stepping in when they see benefits or so. Also, never learns a lesson like the MC... The villagers had a thief that stole a households entire food supply and yet they are now slacking off on the patrols just cause they are getting busy in the fields and also lazy to patrol.

Then there's also issues with r*pe and harassment being fine but mu*der banned. Which brings us to the Mc's house being invaded by a village troublemaker and making the pregnant housewife almost have a miscarriage cause MC is so amazing and caring, same with the other villagers, that they don't take such things seriously enough. Gross.

Oh and MC spoiling her new sons, casually putting big fish to rice fields cause the youngest wanted to catch some to spare the bird they bought, so so. Really gross pretending to be a smart and caring woman when she is anything but given her actions thus far, so sloppy even whilst relying on cheats. Did I mention MC was supposed to be an isekaid businesswoman in her 30s? Yeah, but she behaves like someone in a playground.

She then also eventually blames superstition like the og owner's spirit for sloppily using her cheats.

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One positive star only for when the family was harmonious which was a good read but the rest is sloppy seconds. <<less
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