The Stepmom Only Wants to Get Rich [The Nineties]

When Xia Youyou wakes up, she's back in the 1990s, transmigrated into the role of a young stepmother in a second marriage.

Her new husband is divorced, has a child, and is away from home all year.

Xia Youyou: A twice-married old man? Not even a dog would marry him! Divorce. We have to get divorced.

The old man has nothing but money: Twenty thousand a month, plus living expenses.

Xia Youyou blinks. "Woof!"

He offered way too much.

Gu Nanheng is a real estate tycoon who caught the wave of the times. He owns a fortune and is so busy that no one ever knows where he'll turn up next.

But while he's thriving in business, his son Gu Yunting keeps failing at school.

To set Gu Yunting straight, he signs an agreement with Xia Youyou, a top student at a teachers' college.

She's his stepmother in name, and his tutor and psychological counselor in practice.

Gu Yunting knows his father married a stepmother just to make him study.

He comes up with 180 ways to defy her.

But Xia Youyou doesn't play by the rules.

She doesn't care when he fails Chinese. "As long as you can read, you'll find your way home."

She doesn't care when he gets thirty points in math. "As long as you can add and subtract numbers up to a hundred, you'll be able to give the right change when you sell vegetables."

When he fights with a classmate in gym class, she claps in approval. "Great stamina! You can make money hauling sacks someday."

Gu Yunting thinks she's mocking him, but Xia Youyou means every word.

The stepmother who's supposed to be at odds with him is busy working, opening a shop, and trading stocks.

Other people's stepmothers compete for attention, set traps, and fight over the family fortune.

Gu Yunting's stepmother just makes money, makes money, and makes money.

Xia Youyou: What's so great about men? They only slow down your money-making. The only cure for worry is getting rich.

Bonus scene:

One day, Gu Nanheng gets a call from his wife in name only, and remembers he hasn't been home in three months.

He assumes Xia Youyou is calling to ask him to come home again,

but instead her voice is full of hesitation.

"Mr. Gu, if you're coming home, you have to tell us in advance and give us the exact time."

"Don't come home early or suddenly. We don't want surprises. Please, no surprises!"

Gu Nanheng: ...

Why does it feel like I'm being cuckolded?

He'd planned to keep working, but Gu Nanheng sneaks home and finds his new wife taking their son to collect trash.

His rebellious son, who should be doing homework and extra lessons, has a trash bag in one hand and a grabber in the other, deftly picking up a water bottle.

And his virtuous wife, who should be tutoring him, claps and cheers. "Ten cents for one bottle. That's money in the bank!"

The richest man, Gu Nanheng, falls into deep self-doubt. Has he really not made enough money? Why does his wife and child have to collect trash for cash?

P.S. The son is not biologically his.

Theme: The model stepmother of the 1990s