Chapter 454

Yuanchun had transmigrated into the body of an old woman. The original owner was named Wang Yuanchun, forty-eight years old this year. Her husband’s surname was Ma, and the villagers called her Aunt Ma or Mother Wang. The original owner had three sons and two daughters: her eldest son Ma Xiangdong, her second son Ma Xiangnan, her third son Ma Xiangxi, her eldest daughter Ma Xiangmei, and her youngest daughter Ma Xiangling. Except for the youngest, Ma Xiangling, all of her children were married. The original owner was a biased mother who doted on her youngest son and youngest daughter, while harboring a deep dislike—one might even say hatred—for her eldest son. When she was thirty-two and newly pregnant with her youngest daughter, her husband had been swept away by a flood while trying to save their eldest son from drowning. By the time they recovered his body, it was already bloated. Because of this, the original owner blamed the eldest son for her husband’s death, resenting him for leaving her a young widow to raise five children on her own. Consequently, after her husband died, she constantly exploited Ma Xiangdong’s labor, forcing him to shoulder the burden of the entire family at a very young age.