My Mom Is the Heroine of a Period Novel

(The premise has changed, but it's still a period piece, and still goes from the countryside to the big city.) Mo Qing returned to the 1990s and was overjoyed. Had she caught the tide of the times? From then on, she would sell clothes and food and make her way to becoming a tycoon! But wait, why was she babbling and unable to walk? Mo Qing was stunned. Oh no, she'd become a child! Her mother was still the novel's long-suffering scapegoat: a broken-hearted mother, a gambling father, and a younger brother. For a bride price of eighty thousand, she was sent off to a strange man's home to slave away, beginning her days of coldly washing his underwear. Mo Qing thought that if she wanted to live a better life, she first had to transform her mother in every way. But she hadn't expected her mother to toss aside the washbasin, snatch the cash, throw a huge fit, get divorced on the spot, and run off with her babbling, speechless daughter in her arms. Mo Qing: Wait, what kind of plot development is this?! Then the mother and daughter went from a small village to the county seat, then to the big city, where they bought a home and settled down. Mo Qing dreamed of becoming a self-made rich woman, but it turned out her mom only pushed herself, not her child. Mo Qing cheerfully became a rich second-generation heiress instead. (October 29, 2024) Theme: Water flows downhill, people strive for higher ground.