Transmigration: Becoming the Short-Lived Mother of the Villainous Darkened Boss [1970s]

Qi Ziyue is a twenty-three-year-old teacher from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who suffers from a weak constitution and recurring nightmares. In these dreams, she is consumed by flames while a child she does not recognize calls her "Mom," living a miserable life in a gray, famine-stricken world. Qi Ziyue possesses a mysterious peach blossom jade pendant that can transform into a brush, allowing her to draw objects and spaces into reality. After years of hiding this ability, the intensity of her dreams compels her to use the pendant to prepare for a potential transmigration. She consumes a magical peach from the pendant's dimension, which enhances her mental strength and grants her a cultivation method, before using the brush to expand her storage space, freeze time within it, and draw winning lottery tickets.

After waking from a two-day coma, Qi Ziyue claims her lottery winnings, amassing tens of millions of yuan. She systematically stockpiles vast quantities of non-perishable food, clothing, medical supplies, and fire safety equipment, filling her time-frozen spatial storage. She also researches survival strategies and historical contexts, eventually realizing her dreams correspond to a novel she had read previously. The story involves a tragic villain character who suffers under a oppressive family structure. As she finalizes her preparations and drafts her will, the nightmare transitions into reality, and she transmigrates into the body of the novel's character, waking up amidst a raging fire in 1971 China.

Qi Ziyue finds herself in the body of Qi Ziyue, an unmarried woman who gave birth out of wedlock and was subsequently deemed insane. The child in her dreams, Qi Ning'an, is her five-year-old son, whom the family treats as a cursed burden. During the fire, the boy attempts to save her despite his abusive upbringing, revealing a complex emotional bond. Qi Ziyue uses her modern knowledge and fire extinguishers to save the family, confronting her father, Qi Helder, a rigid educator, by logically dismantling his blame of the child. She demands better living conditions and the right to care for her son, leveraging the family's fear of scandal and political repercussions during the Cultural Revolution.

As she recovers her health and sanity, Qi Ziyue works to integrate with her new family while protecting Qi Ning'an from abuse by his cousins and relatives. She discovers the boy is precociously intelligent, having taught himself to read numbers through observation. Recognizing the political dangers facing their scholarly family, she devises a plan to register the child under her name and secure their placement as educated youth sent to the countryside. This move is intended to provide safety and a future away from the volatile urban political movements. She navigates complex family dynamics, outmaneuvering her second sister-in-law's schemes to marry her off or discard the child, while preparing for the long wait until the era's reforms allow her to rebuild her life with her son.