Being a Stepmom in the Eighties Is No Easy Job: I Married a Rough-Hewn Man and Became a Tycoon

Period setting + building a fortune + face-slapping + comeback

Tian Tian, an all-around talent, transmigrated into a period novel. The original owner had a terrible temper, was lazy and greedy, and, egged on by her scheming best-friend heroine, divorced the male lead, who would one day become the richest man in the country.

She cheated with Chen Shuai, the only electrician in town, mistreated the male lead’s two children, and earned every accusation imaginable: wicked stepmother and unfaithful wife.

What she never realized was that it had all been her best friend’s scheme. As soon as she divorced the male lead, the scheming friend married him and rose to the top of the world.

Meanwhile, Chen Shuai abandoned her. Rumors and slander drove her to depression and, ultimately, suicide.

Looking at the original owner’s tragic fate, Tian Tian figured it was no big deal.

She could handle scheming rivals, bullies, and business, no problem.

She might not need the male lead, but she had to protect her reputation and make a fortune in the late 1980s, when money was there for the taking.

But just as she devoted herself to her career and slimmed down into a beauty, a reporter asked at the launch announcing the listing of Gu He Zhou’s company, “Mr. Gu, congratulations on becoming the most eligible bachelor in the country, the man every woman wants to marry.”

“I have someone I love. We’re very happy together, and we have a son and a daughter.”

Reporter: “...”