A Seventy-Year-Old Rewrites a Short Drama's Plot 1

About the story

Wang Cuihua, a woman in her sixties in the modern world, is so enraged by a melodramatic short drama that she faints. When she wakes, she has become Xu Shuisheng's harsh mother in the show. Her son keeps supporting Chen Jing and her child, the surviving family of a colleague who died, while neglecting his timid wife Guihua and his own daughter Baoya, who goes hungry and suffers mistreatment. Wang Cuihua takes her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to the machinery factory's family compound, regains control of the money, drives Chen Jing away, urges her son to fulfill his duties, helps Guihua learn to read and seek work, and teaches Baoya to be brave and ambitious. She mediates household disputes in the compound and earns goodwill by growing and sharing vegetables and running literacy classes. Amid revelations about the Ye family's origins, her courage and competence in handling problems catch the leadership's attention, and she becomes an officer in the factory's Women's Federation.