The Tree Spirit Aunt Raises Kids, and She's Killing It

No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Goofy Daily Life + Maxed-Out Lessons in Villainy!

Village → County Seat → Prefectural Capital → Imperial Capital. An episodic adventure that keeps leveling up, delivering both laughs and satisfying payoffs.

After a thousand years of arduous cultivation, Jin Shanyao finally ascends to immortality-only to be stopped outside the Southern Heavenly Gate. Why? She still owes a debt of gratitude, and until she repays it, she cannot receive a divine position. What's the difference between an immortal without a divine position and a wandering ghost?

For the sake of her divine position, she secretly descends to the mortal realm to repay her benefactor. Unfortunately, she arrives too late. Her benefactor is already dead.

The debt of gratitude is automatically transferred... Now she has to raise two little brats to adulthood.

The trouble is, she's just an old ginkgo tree from deep in the mountains. She can barely speak like a human, so how is she supposed to raise children?

For the sake of her divine position, she'll just have to tough it out.

The Supreme Elder Lord once said that everything can be found in books. So she raises the kids by the book, argues by the book, and battles outrageous relatives by the book. This wooden-headed tree spirit is practically forced to become a little scholar of child-rearing.

She has to stop people from seizing the family's property for lack of an adult male heir, stop others from stealing the children, and stop the little ones from trying to hang themselves in despair.

Repaying this debt is even harder than surviving a heavenly tribulation.

At long last, she raises the children to adulthood: the older sister becomes a master of poison and medicine, while the younger brother becomes the top imperial examination graduate and a powerful court official.

Her good deeds complete, she is just about to return to Heaven when someone suddenly tells her that the two children she raised are infamous archvillains, notorious throughout the court and beyond?!

Jin Shanyao freezes in disbelief.

Both of them???

What exactly are your criteria for calling someone an archvillain? Are they not allowed to fight back when someone hits them, or talk back when someone insults them?

Ah... Can somebody please tell me what a villain even is???