Meeting Beneath the Cherry Blossoms

Chi Ying transmigrates into an old-school CEO romance novel as the female supporting character who runs away while pregnant.

According to the plot, she and her child will both become obstacles to the romance between the leads, and soon her family will be destroyed.

So Chi Ying decides to cherish her life and stay far away from the male lead.

Later, the male lead pins her against a wall, his gaze burning and his knuckles pale.

His voice is low and cold: "Don't run away again."

Chi Ying furrows her brow. The storyline in the book... doesn't seem to go like this?

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Everyone in the country knows that Ou Shi CEO Lu Jingyan is cool, dignified, and impeccably chaste. He never says more than a word to any woman.

Yet he is devastatingly handsome, tall and long-legged, and represents limitless wealth and status.

His adoring fans affectionately call him the nation's CEO.

But one day...

Lu Jingyan suddenly appears on the hit outdoor family reality show Where Are Dad and Mom Going?

A mini Lu Jingyan toddles along right behind him.

The entire country: ?????

Reader's guide:

1. The male lead is aloof and obsessive, but deeply devoted, and loves only the female lead.

2. An entertainment-industry novel. The female lead is beautiful, and everyone loves her.

3. The entire novel has been heavily revised. Pirated site text files and chapter bundles are incorrect. Please support the official version.

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Xu Ying wakes up inside a novel and becomes the stepmother of the male lead, a school hunk in a wealthy-family romance.

Unfortunately, hers is a marriage of convenience, and the male lead's father has no romantic feelings for her.

Being a stepmother is hard. In the original story, her predecessor covets the male lead's father's wealth and schemes tirelessly, dutifully playing the role of stepmother, but never truly becomes part of the family.

Not only does she fail to earn the male lead's father's regard, the male lead sees through her motives. As soon as he achieves success, he helps his father divorce her.

After the divorce, she leaves with nothing. No longer young or beautiful, she becomes a laughingstock among the wealthy wives. Then, two years later, she develops a terminal illness. With no money for treatment and no one to care for her, she dies in a dilapidated rental room with bare walls.

Xu Ying flips through the plot. As a boy, Lu Ci was a tough, fearless school hunk, famous far and wide for standing up to bullies. As an adult, he's cool and refined, just like his domineering CEO father.

He's the male lead, after all. How could he possibly grow up badly?

Now that she's married into a wealthy family, she could either keep clashing with the rebellious, headstrong teenage boy and his taciturn, tight-lipped father, or enjoy the life of luxury.

When the marriage-of-convenience agreement expires, she'll grab the divorce papers and make her escape.

She'll take it easy for as long as she can. And if she happens to die, she hears she can bring a huge transmigration bonus back to her original world.

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One day after transmigrating into the book, Lu Ci gets into a fight at school, and Xu Ying is summoned.

Lu Ci and his best friend expect their stepmother to grovel before the school administrators, then go back and embellish the story when telling his father.

Xu Ying, who has read countless novels: He's the male lead! How could he be in the wrong? There must be more to this. Unless you want the male lead's head rolling around as a ball, give it a rest and stop wasting my time. I have a trendy restaurant to check out.

Lu Ci, prepared to endure humiliation and take the blame for doing the right thing: ????? This woman trusts him that much?

At least he gets to keep his head.

The dean: Hey, don't rush off! Lu Ci hasn't done his math homework. Take a look...

Lu Ci's classmates expect his stepmother to lecture him, only for their school bully to fire back and put them in their place.

Xu Ying just wants to leave school as soon as possible: Stop worrying about things that don't concern you. He'll be a dark horse and get into Tsinghua or Peking University someday.

Lu Ci looks at his failing grades in every subject: ????? Wait, how does she know that?

Lu Ci discovers that his stepmother is becoming more and more laid-back. She treats him and his father like they're invisible, and spends most of her time playing chess, fishing, and enjoying good food.

She eats takeout and junk food while sipping goji berry tea from her thermos, applies outrageously expensive face masks, and calmly puts on long underwear while the other wealthy wives shiver in the cold. Her motto is to do whatever she wants and let herself go.

Honestly... she's not that different from him?

Yet she also gets along wonderfully with the neighborhood's old men and women. She gets along so well that one of the old men even wants to set her up with his grandson...

Wait. Lu Ci gradually realizes that he doesn't want his father to get cheated on.

Maybe being friends with this woman, or even family, wouldn't be so bad?

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As the days go by, the wealthy wives who envy Xu Ying for marrying into the Lu family wait for the father and son to kick her out. They've got their little stools ready, eager to watch the drama and laugh at her misfortune.

Then Lu Ci tops the national college entrance exams and tells every reporter: "The person I'm most grateful to is my stepmother."

Lu Ci's classmates, who in the original story despised evil and wanted to tear his predecessor to pieces, tell every reporter: "The person I respect most is Brother Ci's stepmother."

The aloof, abstinent CEO of the Lu family, whose name appears on the rich list year after year, tells every reporter: "The person I love most is my wife."

The top-tier star and actor, once pursued by her predecessor and nicknamed the walking trending topic, tells every reporter: "The person I admire most is Ms. Xu."

Xu Ying, happily enjoying her wealthy life and watching the flowers bloom and fade as the clouds drift by: ...?

Only when the male lead's father, the very embodiment of refined abstinence, pins her against a wall with a profound look in his eyes does she realize: how come she can't seem to get a divorce?

Lu Ci also gradually realizes that his father seems to be jealous every single day.

Aloof CEO X laid-back beauty

[Upcoming novel: Green Tea Dumpling [Quick Transmigration], available in my author profile. Please add it to your collection~]

On her deathbed, the queen of green tea makes a wish to preserve her childlike innocence. She ends up in the childhood bodies of female supporting characters in different worlds, keeping her innocence... at least on the outside.

From then on, with her innocent, doll-like appearance, she turns the tables, face-slaps her enemies, and takes them down.

[Upcoming novel: Days Surrounded by Yandere Big Shots [Book Transmigration], available in my author profile. Please add it to your collection~]

After transmigrating into a book, she finds that all the big shots in this world are yanderes:

1. Domineering CEO 2. Domineering school hunk 3. Domineering actor 4. Domineering...

Every day she's being pinned against walls, floors, beds, and everywhere else.

She only has two legs. You're making them go weak! What do you expect her to do?

Theme: Cherish your life