Springtime Stepmother's Heart pulled FTV financially out of the red and into the black, and is considered an extremely remarkable event in Taiwan television history. Executive chairman Chen Kang-hsin proudly calls the new format developed by FTV "contemporary drama."
《春天後母心》的賣座讓民視轉虧為盈，被認為是台灣電視史上的異數，執行常董陳剛信就驕傲地為民視所發展出來的新型鄉土劇取了「時代劇」的新名字。