After Losing My Job, I Became the Hapless Stepmom of a Troublemaker

In 1994, during the massive wave of layoffs, He Xinyi lost her secure job at a state-owned factory. Then her mother pressured her to marry Pei Weiguo, a divorced man.

Neither of them wanted their elders deciding their lives, so they hit it off and agreed to marry.

After the wedding, they laid down three rules, getting all the unpleasant things out of the way first.

Between a picky mother-in-law, wary children, and the daily chaos of family life, He Xinyi refuses to wallow in self-doubt or compromise.

She builds a life while seizing the opportunities of the times, starting a street stall and carving out a future of her own amid the layoffs.

The cool and taciturn Pei Weiguo watches this woman, always clear-minded and full of fire, and gradually finds his heart stirred.