The protagonist, an eighty-year-old woman who died neglected and miserable, only to be reborn back to her twenty-three-year-old body. She was married to Yan Heng at seventeen and endured sixty years of his infidelity and emotional abuse. In her past life, she was known as a harsh matriarch who beat her son Yan Erlang with bamboo canes, leading to his hatred and her eventual abandonment in a dilapidated manor where she died alone. Now reborn with a second chance, she resolves to stop caring for her unfilial son and confront her cheating husband with a cold, calculated demeanor. She comes from the influential Zhou family, whose members placed among the top three scholars in the imperial examinations.
