The Wicked Stepmother of a Miserable Period Drama

Su Yunsheng transmigrates into a tearjerker period drama with a Wicked Stepmother System.

In the drama, the heroine's father goes off to do business overseas with a fellow villager.

Her stepmother marries into the family for the bride price, is lazy and greedy, mean and spiteful, and beats and berates the children.

The three children can only depend on one another.

The eldest daughter has been raised by her maternal uncle and aunt since childhood. To save up a bride price for her cousin, she is forced to drop out of middle school and marry the village chief's disabled son.

The second daughter gets into high school, but falls for a local hoodlum. She gives up her studies and elopes with him to Haicheng to find work.

In the end, he abandons her, and she returns home in tears, heavily pregnant.

The third daughter drops out to run a street stall and support her younger brother's education.

She has to buy her brother a car and a house and pay his bride price, while also looking after her father after his business fails, her uncle who shows up to borrow money, and a whole family of awful relatives who treat her like an ATM...

A missing father, an evil stepmother, and a fourth son named Yaozu...

Too many tropes.

Su Yunsheng transmigrates into the story.

The three poor little girls have gone three days without food and are on the verge of death.

The Wicked Stepmother System says, full of swagger: Your mission is to be a cruel stepmother. Torment them! Trample on them! Abuse them!

Su Yunsheng: ...Can you act like a human being?

System: ?

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Under pressure from the System,

Su Yunsheng has no choice but to maintain her wicked stepmother persona.

When her uncle and aunt try to make the eldest daughter drop out and marry for a bride price,

Su Yunsheng throws herself on the ground and makes a scene.

"No dropping out! A college degree gets a higher bride price. Don't ruin my chance to make money!"

When the second daughter cries and begs to elope with the hoodlum,

Su Yunsheng rolls up her sleeves and slaps her.

"Go to school or don't, I don't care! You're clearly not busy enough. Have you washed the dishes? Mopped the floor? The factory's hiring, so go get a job!"

When her biological father and younger brother shamelessly hold out their hands to ask the third daughter for money,

Su Yunsheng crunches sunflower seeds and spits at them with a spiteful look.

"I've raised you all this time. Have you ever bought me a car? A house? My kindness in raising you is greater than the heavens. Your paycheck goes in my account, and I'll give it back when you're grown!"

Whenever she sees something she doesn't like, Su Yunsheng plants her hands on her hips and berates them all: "I say east, you don't go west!"

The three sisters cling to one another, trembling with fear and loneliness.

Su Yunsheng tries her hardest to keep up her mean and vicious persona.

She gets so into the role

that whenever the neighbors and relatives mention Su Yunsheng, they shake their heads.

"That stepmother is so cruel.

She treats those poor motherless kids terribly..."

Su Yunsheng's reputation

is utterly ruined across the whole region.

Su Yunsheng's response: "This is great! Being a shrew is so much fun!"

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But by the time the eldest daughter becomes a teacher, the second daughter decides not to marry or have children and devotes herself to her career, and the third daughter becomes a business tycoon,

the three sisters treat Su Yunsheng like their own mother and take good care of her in her old age.

Then the gossip around the region changes to:

That lucky girl has it so good!

Reading guide:

1. A satisfying power fantasy. The heroine makes a scene and steamrolls everyone.

2. Content note: The eldest and second daughters will have happy endings, but won't achieve much. They're just not that smart.

Theme: Life is finite, but learning is infinite