Xu Qinghe, a modern e-commerce operations specialist, dies suddenly after staying up all night working and transmigrates into an 1980s-era novel, becoming the despised, vicious, overweight stepmother of the village. Upon entering the book, she immediately faces the original character's deadly predicament: stealing the family's life-saving joint-guarantee loan and eloping. Bound to a fortune-making system set in the 1980s, her goal is to lead the entire family to become a household with ten thousand yuan in savings and unlock the ability to travel through time. Despite the family's suspicion, she starts a street-stall business and earns their first fortune. She saves her critically ill stepdaughter, travels back and forth to the modern era to treat her husband's back injury, and foils a series of conspiracies by the original novel's destined heroine and the village women. Ultimately, she turns the story around and leads her entire family to rise above poverty and achieve prosperity.