Better to Raise Mom Than Raise a Kid

[Transmigration] + [Heartwarming] + [Everyday Life] + [Urban Farming] + [Entrepreneurship] + [College Entrance Exams]

Have your parents spent half your life pushing you to excel, only for you to remain ordinary? Have you ever imagined what things would be like if you could start over and push your parents instead?

Xing Zhigang, an unemployed and impoverished young man from the modern era, gets knocked unconscious during an escape-room mishap. When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated back to 1978. There’s no cutthroat workplace competition or pressure to get married here. Instead, his mother, Sun Siqi, is still in primary school, timid and starved of affection, while his grandfather, Sun Dongjun, has grown irritable and despondent under life’s relentless grind.

Remembering the stifling experience of being pushed to excel himself, and seeing his family trapped in the hardships of the times, Xing Zhigang makes a firm decision: This time, he won’t push himself. He’ll push his mother instead!

Under the guise of “a teacher transferred from the provincial capital,” he establishes himself in a school in the 1970s and protects his young mother from bullies. He also patiently teaches her to read and do arithmetic, helps her overcome her reading difficulties, and supports her as she works toward her dream of taking the college entrance exams. Along the way, he encourages his disheartened grandfather to take up engineering again and helps his grandmother start a small business, earning their first pot of gold amid the tide of reform and opening up…