The Wicked Stepmother in a Tearjerker

Cui Suyi transmigrated into a melodramatic, angsty romance game, becoming...

The villainous stepmother of the female lead.

She was one person in public and another in private, raising the female lead to be deeply insecure and starved of love from childhood. As an adult, the girl hopelessly fell for the male leads who gave her the slightest scraps of affection, and after enduring a series of physically and emotionally abusive ordeals, she got her happy ending.

As for Cui Suyi, her fate was to be hacked to pieces by her pursuers until not even a whole body remained. Fortunately, the System told her she could switch to child-rearing mode.

Cui Suyi: Great! Mommy loves you, sweetie. Just wait for me.

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Cui Suyi takes hits for the girl and showers her with warmth, cautiously helping the young female lead escape plot points so she won't fall into the clutches of villains.

When the girl feels lost, she takes her to look at the stars and the moon, caring for her tenderly.

Even in the bitter cold of winter, when the girl is pushed into an icy lake, Cui Suyi ignores the plot's warning and jumps in to save her on the spot.

Under Cui Suyi's care, the young female lead grows confident and radiant, gradually becoming the most dazzling young lady in the capital.

Meanwhile, the twisted, obsessive male leads from the original story appear. Cui Suyi grits her teeth and takes them on one by one, or two at a time, using every trick she can to help the girl avoid her collection of lunatic suitors.

Looking at the birthday present the girl made for her with her own hands, Cui Suyi sighs with contentment and wipes away a tear.

What a good kid. Raising her wasn't for nothing.

One day, the girl points at the man in the other room, washing his hands to prepare a meal. Her eyes sparkle with anticipation as she asks, “Mother, when are you and Father going to have a little brother or sister for me to play with?”

Cui Suyi: ??

Who's been putting ideas in my kid's head! How did she turn naughty!

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Yan Wenyu was a poor scholar who passed the imperial examinations. He kept his troops in strict order and was renowned as a scholar-general. To show his consideration, the emperor personally arranged his marriage to the eldest daughter of the Minister of Works.

He thought that as long as this highborn young lady treated Yan Dai kindly, he would certainly treat her well in return.

Until a secret letter arrived from home, accusing Cui Suyi of all manner of misdeeds. Her cold treatment of Yan Dai was said to be the most outrageous of all.

But things seemed... a little different?

The Cui Suyi he saw when he returned home wasn't ignoring Yan Dai as the letter claimed. On the contrary, she cherished her as if she were priceless, afraid she might melt away.

But with him, she was bossy and utterly unapologetic, nothing like the gentle, considerate way she treated Yan Dai.

Yan Wenyu fell silent.

Actually... wasn't she the one treating him coldly?

[Reader's Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending

2. Set in a fictional world, with countless headcanons. The kid isn't the male lead's.

Theme: Live life with positivity