Instant Wives / (Step-)Mothers
Instant Wives / (Step-)Mothers
Did you ever wake up and suddenly had a kid and/or a husband? Got rich overnight but your husband is cold to you and maybe even hates you? Or maybe you woke up and are now dirt poor while having to care for a neglected child? If yes - then you are in the same situation as these ladies. Go ahead and check out if they handled the situation like you did.
Mostly transmigration, from ancient to modern
Ranking is no indication about how good the novels are.
I usually try to put as much as possible "completed"-novels into the lists so you can have a smooth reading journey, but there are some books I really liked who are not completely translated here on NU.
Mostly transmigration, from ancient to modern
Ranking is no indication about how good the novels are.
I usually try to put as much as possible "completed"-novels into the lists so you can have a smooth reading journey, but there are some books I really liked who are not completely translated here on NU.
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Created: Feb 26th, 2024, Updated: May 22nd, 2025
Created Feb 26th, 2024
Updated May 22nd, 2025
934 Chapters Every 8.7 Day(s) 3533 Readers 52 Reviews 04-12-2025
In this Story the FL transmigrates as a background character of a novel. She's the mother of a cannon fodder jealous girl who tries to break up the ogML/FL. FL tries to better the life of herself and her five (!) kids (getting them into school, better nutrition, the right morals etc.). She didn't have kids nor did she want them so both the kids and her are getting to know and love each other slowly. The ML is the husband who seems to be quite rigid - but he gets better I swear.... more>>
477 Chapters Every 77.9 Day(s) 10049 Readers 124 Reviews 06-02-2022
The FL transmigrates into a story as the soon-to-be-death ex-wife. She decides to take "her" two kids, squeeze her husband as much as she can... more>>
225 Chapters Every 39.3 Day(s) 2138 Readers 23 Reviews 12-23-2023
The FL transmigrates into a college-romance as the stepmother. It's a semi-arranged marriage. The FL decides just to take her role as wife/mother as a job she gets paid for & decides to life her best life. ... more>>
23 Chapters Every 68.3 Day(s) 973 Readers 14 Reviews 07-09-2025
The FL is reborn shortly before the moment she becomes engaged to her husband from her last life. Since she was not happy in her marriage, she decides to change her life and marry her real fiancé (who was "snatched" from her by her cousin in her last life). Her cousin is also reborn and snatches her fiancé (re: husband from last life) away from her. ... more>>
54 Chapters Every 69.4 Day(s) 1920 Readers 37 Reviews 03-20-2023
The novel is relatively stress free and both of the leads are mature and have high EQ. ... more>>
132 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 1427 Readers 14 Reviews 07-28-2025
Yin Mingyu is reborn to ancient China. She becomes the second wife of her di sister's husband. Although she actually had another engagement, her family persuades her to do it because her nephew might suffer under a foreign stepmother. Her husband (ML) is rather cool and disciplined - both see marriage more as an agreement of rights and obligations than emotional. Her main goal is to lead as relaxed a life as possible. Therefore she doesn’t really care too much about anything, including her new son and husband.... more>>
0 Chapters Every 79.4 Day(s) 1273 Readers 8 Reviews N/A
What can I say - the FL is one of my absolute favorites. It's a rather unconventional "stepmother" arrangement - the FL marries her husband (who already divorced several times) due to her poor circumstances (she has to care for her family). On her wedding night her husband tells her, that he loves his "daughter" whom he adopted bc his family is against their connection. It only takes a short while and the FL doesn't care about her husband and his white lotus daughter anymore and decides to just live her best life.... more>>
215 Chapters Every 5.4 Day(s) 2388 Readers 23 Reviews 07-24-2025
Instant wife and sister-in-law to much younger brother-in-law's.... more>>
99 Chapters Every 3.7 Day(s) 7670 Readers 126 Reviews 06-19-2023
The FL transmigrates from ancient times to modern times, which is a nice change of the trope. The FL has an ancient mindset which makes... more>>
109 Chapters Every 111.5 Day(s) 7664 Readers 195 Reviews 01-06-2021
Transmigration with a system. The novel is quite funny in the beginning. ... more>>
510 Chapters Every 140.7 Day(s) 7754 Readers 276 Reviews 11-01-2019
Mixed emotion on this one. The ML is a man of his time or, in other words a red flag.
110 Chapters Every 3.6 Day(s) 7856 Readers 85 Reviews 06-05-2025
Our FL Su Yaya transmigrates and finds herself to be the "substitute wife" of a CEO ML who will divorce her as soon as his beloved white moonlight returns from oversee.... more>>
280 Chapters Every 89.3 Day(s) 8026 Readers 92 Reviews 12-29-2021
More on the "realistic" side. The FL is relatable and hardworking - she's just trying her best to live a good life and raise her son. The ML and the FL don't instantly fall in love with each other.... more>>
101 Chapters Every 2.5 Day(s) 2021 Readers 22 Reviews 11-08-2024
Instant fiancé. The FL is not transmigrated but has a dream and realized she's a cannon-fodder supporting character. She also realizes that her fiancé will soon be able to read other people's thoughts. Because of her dream she knows that his mind-reading- abilities have a radius of three meters. What she doesn't know is that her fiancé (the ML) can hear her thoughts on a longer distance. ... more>>
123 Chapters Every 233.7 Day(s) 15693 Readers 370 Reviews 01-05-2016
FL transmigrates at the main consort of a wangye. The ogSoul was neither favored at home nor with her husband. The FL takes over and sees her marriage as her job and proceeds to win the favor of her husband (the ML) and other people around her. She's very clear-headed and never emotional.... more>>
140 Chapters Every 41.3 Day(s) 6289 Readers 69 Reviews 11-29-2023
82 Chapters Every 83.4 Day(s) 2451 Readers 14 Reviews 12-14-2023
FL transmigrates as the comparison character. The og did neglect her son and didn't have a good relationship with her husband bc she always competed with the ogFL (who in turn always outshone her. ... more>>
319 Chapters Every 32.1 Day(s) 8224 Readers 103 Reviews 05-22-2024
Our lovely FL transmigrates into a novel at the probably worst point in life of the original owner - drugged at a hotel. She manages to escape the situation but sleeps with another man. Afterwards she flees to the countryside and starts to raise her baby boy. Her son is reborn and hates her bc he thinks that his mother/parents didn't want him. He had to suffer a lot in his last life and became a villain. FL decides to raise him in a loving and nurturing way. The ML is the father - he didn't know about his son and is ready to step up.... more>>
344 Chapters Every 95.4 Day(s) 8415 Readers 169 Reviews 09-29-2021
Spoiled FL transmigrates into a novel as the vicious stepmother of the ML. She decides to get away from the ML father / her future husband (classic black-bellied CEO) bc she knows neither her nor her son will have a good ending. ... more>>
386 Chapters Every 53.5 Day(s) 9377 Readers 130 Reviews 03-16-2024
In this story the FL transmigrates as a typical Cannon fodder long after the ending but earlier than the extra chapters where her son becomes a villain too. She decides to better her life and tries to care for her instant son as good as possible. The ML is the father of her son who finds out about him on his own (at this point of time he was already interested in the FL) - he doesn't really have that much emotions for anyone but the FL.... more>>
72 Chapters Every 80.9 Day(s) 2961 Readers 51 Reviews 01-25-2023
Conflict free and slow novel. ... more>>
151 Chapters Every 3.6 Day(s) 1120 Readers 13 Reviews 07-24-2025
The FL transmigrates into a book as the widow of the soon to be richest man in the country. Her husband (the ML) lost his memory and therefore didn't come back to his family. The FL knows that her husband, his siblings and her son are future big bosses and decides to help and support them to... more>>
221 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 1776 Readers 19 Reviews 07-06-2025
Instant Wife + sister-in-law.... more>>
116 Chapters Every 82.9 Day(s) 3690 Readers 63 Reviews 03-14-2022
At the very beginning of the story our FL transmigrates when the ogSoul is just divorced because she couldn't bear a child (son) for her husband. Because it's a great shame at the time, she's urged to remarry. The ML has two children & because he was never around (military) his educated-youth-wife divorced him and returned to the city. The ML sees the FL and thinks that she would be a good partner/mother to his two children.... more>>
Comments (1)
by 墨墨不知道
(Completed on Asia novels)
Fu Yining transmigrated into a novel, landing in a story about a wealthy CEO chasing his wife in a dramatic showdown. But she wasn’t the wife being chased—she was the CEO’s mother.
When she opened her eyes, she happened to witness the CEO’s white moonlight (beloved) sobbing and throwing herself into her son’s arms, while on the ground lay the falsely accused female lead.
The furious male lead, CEO: “Mom, do you think a vicious woman like her still deserves to be the wife of our Yu family?”
The triumphant white moonlight, female supporting character: “No, Mingze, I believe Qingyu didn’t push me on purpose!”
The weak and helpless female lead: “Mom, Mingze, I didn’t push her!”
Fu Yining: “……”
Realizing that as the mother-in-law, she was destined to torment the core character of the novel—the heroine, the child of destiny—and obstruct the romance between the main leads, leading to a disastrous end in a madhouse, Fu Yining stepped forward and slapped her son, the CEO.
“If you even hit your own wife, are you still a man?”
The CEO: “?”
“We have surveillance cameras installed in this house. Should we check the footage to see the truth?”
The white moonlight, female supporting character: “!”
“My dear daughter-in-law, are you hurt? The floor is cold. Let me help you up.”
The pitiful female lead: “?!”
In their shocked gazes, Fu Yining kicked her son and his true love out of the house and turned to comfort the female lead.
Fu Yining sighed: My main character is ruined; I’ll just level up a new one.
The CEO’s father: Honey, look at me!
Fu Yining: Get lost! I’m talking about our grandchild!
The female lead, Song Qingyu, gently smiled, her hand resting on her slightly凸 bump.
By not stirring up trouble, the wealthy mother-in-law, Fu Yining, achieved a perfect happy ending.
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Pretty standard novel but a nice take on how the environment reacts to a new person being in someone's body and what kind of consequences it can have.
Spoiler:
The FL is actually the original soul of the body. She just forgot about her original memories when she awoke/came back. Her husband and family immediately recognized that there was another person in her body and this was also the reason why her husband stopped to interact with his wife. He stayed loyal to her and always hoped that she would come back.