After Binding to the Wicked Stepmom System, I Become a Hit on the Parenting Show

[Kids’ variety show + transmigrate into a book + goofy comedy + contrast-group setup + feel-good power fantasy]

Build a beautiful country; the single life takes you all the way from a bachelor’s to a PhD.

Yan Mianmian, a single-minded agricultural scientist, had just earned her postdoctoral degree

when she transmigrated into a kids’ variety-show novel as the wicked stepmother in a contrast-group storyline.

After seeing her future: her psychopathic stepson would skin her alive, break her bones, and throw her into the sea as shark bait,

she decided to be a good mom.

But before she could even start earning favor with the future big villain,

she was bound to the Wicked Stepmother System.

Complete child-abuse tasks to earn points for a lottery draw; fail to complete them, and you’ll be erased.

Yan Mianmian: Fine, fine, so that’s how you want to play it?

Complete the task and get thrown into the sea as shark bait; fail, and the System erases me?

Faced with the choice between being a good person and doing her tasks, Yan Mianmian chose to court death.

Stepmother System task:

Don’t give your stepson, Zhu Shiyi, dinner. Let him go hungry.

Yan Mianmian took him to a street-food stall instead, where they grilled skewers, had a late-night snack, and drank beer.

That night, the child-sized villain took out his diary:

I don’t like my stepmom! Unless she takes me to eat crawfish again!

System: ?

Yan Mianmian: Just tell me, did he eat dinner or not?

System task: Physically punish your stepson. Slap him.

Yan Mianmian patted Zhu Shiyi’s back until it was bright red.

Yan Mianmian: “That’s an advanced massage technique. Just enjoy it, you’ll be enjoying it so much you won’t be able to say a word!”

Zhu Shiyi: If I ever fall for her again, I’m a dog! How could I let this wicked stepmom brainwash me?

Later on,

Zhu Shiyi stood in front of Yan Mianmian and went, “Woof, woof, woof!”

One day,

Zhu Shiyi, practicing his dog barks, secretly messaged a certain CEO:

Dad! If you don’t come soon, I’m going to get my stepmom to find me another stepdad.

Zhu Zhouye: ???

His own son was going to run off with his wife?!