Scheming, possessive peacock stepdaughter x wooden stepmother with a very active inner monologue
Ruan Zhuo transmigrated into an ABO novel. The moment she opened her eyes, a beautiful woman in disheveled clothes climbed out of her bed and greeted her lazily, resting her chin in one hand.
"Morning, Step-Mom."
Ruan Zhuo's world came crashing down.
So that high-paying job that supposedly involved business trips meant sending her to another world?!
Not only had she transmigrated, she'd become the stepmother of the most tragic supporting character in the book. The System displayed a mission in just five words:
Save Jiang Huatong.
Jiang Huatong, her goddaughter, was a pitiful supporting character whose father didn't love her and whose mother had died. After hopelessly falling in love with the protagonist, she was tricked out of all her money and ended up thrown into the sea as fish food.
See? Falling for someone makes you miserable!
To get close to her, Ruan Zhuo tried everything she could think of, only to find Jiang Huatong looking at her in an increasingly strange way.
The woman grabbed her wrist and pinned her against a wall. The scent of pheromones filled the room, desire roiling in her eyes as she called Ruan Zhuo's name in a husky voice.
"You said you'd do anything for me... This would be all right too, wouldn't it?"
The closer she got, the more Ruan Zhuo uncovered the truth hidden beneath the woman's smiling face.
She wrapped herself in flippant remarks and pretended to be carefree, but inside, she had long since been broken to pieces.
"Didn't you come to save me?"
Ruan Zhuo nodded, gently helping her up from the floor and tenderly patting her head.
A nearly obsessive gaze fell on her. The woman looked up at her and smiled again.
"Then let's die together."
Ruan Zhuo refused. "No. The boss said I'd be made permanent after I finish this month."
Jiang Huatong: ...Forget your permanent position.
The alpha rumored to be a heartbreaker who never showed mercy was completely different around Ruan Zhuo, acting clingy and sweet.
She clung to Ruan Zhuo, refusing to let go, and held up her hand with a tiny cut, looking pitiful as she said it hurt.
"Blow on it, and it won't hurt anymore."
Ruan Zhuo didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a ploy to gain sympathy.
Only much later, when the pale woman collapsed in front of her, blood trickling from her wrist and staining Ruan Zhuo's face, did she finally realize that every one of those words had meant:
Look at me.
If you don't look at me, I'm going to die.
Jiang Huatong had a scar on the inside of her wrist that wouldn't fade. Later, she covered it with a tattoo.
On the spot where Ruan Zhuo had first kissed her.
She had two greatest wishes in life. First, for her neurotic father to die as soon as possible.
Second, to marry Ruan Zhuo.
After all, this family would belong to her sooner or later, and so would Ruan Zhuo.
Note:
1. Both leads are each other's only partners. The female alpha has no attachments.
2. She is only a stepmother in name; they were never legally married.
Theme: Love can overcome everything
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