The Butcher Turned CEO's Stepmother

Rosie Qiao is a bold, sharp-tongued pork stall owner who has slaughtered and sold meat at a Northeast China wet market for ten years. Right after escaping the humiliation and harassment from her ex-husband Keith Gao, she unexpectedly receives a 30 million bride price, enters a flash marriage into a wealthy family, and becomes the wife of Ethan Locke, CEO of Locke Group, as well as the stepmother to Ethan's seven-year-old stepson An Locke. Facing a cold distant husband, a difficult brother-in-law, and a stepson who has long been withdrawn, anorexic and afraid of strangers, Rosie refuses to follow stuffy upper-class rules. Drawing on the straightforwardness and wisdom of people from Northeast China, she uses hearty home-cooked meat dishes and patient companionship to gradually open the child's heart, turning the chaotic Locke family into a warm loving home. However, her ex-husband Keith Gao repeatedly humiliates and provokes her, and maliciously suppresses her pork stall business, attempting to cut off her supply sources and destroy her career. Refusing to rely on the wealthy family or be controlled by others, Rosie resolutely uses her bride price as startup capital to invest in an ecological farming base, builds a compliant supply chain, revives her pork stall with her own real skills, and eventually exposes Keith Gao's illegal business practices. At the same time, An Locke goes from being closed off and withdrawn to bravely expressing himself and voluntarily recognizing Rosie as his mother, and