A Guide to Raising a White Lotus

Shen Yu only found out after she died that her cousin Shen Jiajia was the heroine, while she herself was a thoroughly fake, self-righteous “white lotus.” When she shared her allowance with poor Shen Jiajia, it was charity. When she stood up for Shen Jiajia after she was bullied, it was hypocrisy. When she demanded that the person who crippled Shen Jiajia's leg be punished, it was her true nature showing, her being obsessive. In the end, her fiance fell in love with poor but resilient and kind Shen Jiajia, the minor villain who crippled her leg was reformed by Shen Jiajia, and she, the white lotus, finally died in prison. Everyone got their happy ending. Reborn, Shen Yu looks at the main cast and smiles gently and thoughtfully. If all it takes is being a white lotus, she can do that. She can do it. And so Shen Yu works hard every day to be a blossoming little white lotus. One day, she suddenly gets the idea to find an ally. With a backpack full of money, she dashes off to meet Gu Yuan, the pitiful young master of the Gu family she has heard rumors about. Except... The room is dimly lit, with a row of bodyguards standing by. The supposedly “pitiful” Gu Yuan is dressed all in black, wearing a silk shirt, his long legs crossed. He props his head up with one hand, the corner of his mouth curling up as he raises his eyes. “Come here.” Shen Yu, determined to be a black-hearted little white lotus, takes in the scene and his noble air, then notices the tea beside him, the kind even her dad can't bear to drink. Her legs go weak. A few bodyguards push her, and with a thump, just as she's about to hit her knees, she falls into his arms. Gu Yuan: ??? Shen Yu silently starts waiting to die. ** Everyone says that the Gu family's young master, Gu Yuan, is a man of refined grace, gentle as jade, a modern-day gentleman. It's just a shame that the Gu family doesn't value him, making him a truly pitiful soul. The Gu family hears these comments and twitches at the corners of their mouths. Is Gu Yuan really like that? He's not! He's a lunatic who's one thing on the outside and another on the inside! And a lunatic who holds their lives in his hands!!!! The Gu family is trembling in fear every day when, all of a sudden, they are horrified to see Gu Yuan tying the shoelaces of the Shen family's little girl??? Is the lunatic trying to kidnap the Shen family's daughter? Coming soon: Another Day of Squeezing the CEO for Every Penny Yao Tingting has a dream in which she discovers she's living in a contract-marriage novel. She's the runaway female side character who doesn't care if her family lives or dies, while the stepmother's daughter, a burden brought into the family, is the heroine. The heroine sacrifices her first love for the sake of the family business and marries into a wealthy family in Yao Tingting's place. After enduring all kinds of hardships, she finally lives happily ever after with the male lead. Following the principle of hurting her enemy eight hundred times at the cost of injuring herself a thousand times, Yao Tingting gets herself ready and marries into the family. On their wedding night, the man stands by the window in an expensive suit, lifting his indifferent eyes. Yao Tingting chickens out instantly. The next day, she obediently goes back to picking on her stepsister and milking Lu Jing for all he's worth, preparing for a divorce. After all, the more she milks him, the more that burden will lose in the future! Lu Jing has always known Yao Tingting isn't a good person. He treats her like just another mouth to feed. But one day, a System appears and tells him he's the male lead, that Yao Tingting has usurped the heroine's place, and that he, as the male lead, needs to set things right and find his destined heroine. Lu Jing's gaze turns cold. He suspects the System is trying to tell him what to do, and ignores it completely. Until one day, Yao Tingting competes with the heroine for a necklace at an auction. The System speaks up anxiously again, describing how Yao Tingting bullies the heroine and how she's now staring at the necklace in her room, the corners of her mouth curling up as she thinks... “Today, I got to milk Lu Jing for all he's worth~” Lu Jing's expression finally changes. Seeing this, the System is moved to tears and keeps up the good work, relaying Yao Tingting's thoughts every day. For example: Yao Tingting: “Another day of milking him for all he's worth!” Yao Tingting: “A new day, a new source of wool! Go, Lu the Sheep!” Lu Jing: “...” Lu Jing gradually starts to feel that Yao Tingting looks at him as if he's a walking fleece. The System chokes back a sob. It's finally close to succeeding! So the System keeps up its efforts, turning into a little gossip expert and chattering in Lu Jing's ear every day about everything Yao Tingting does. For example, how she bought a whole box of ice cream for his fridge, how she ruined his garden, and how she bet that they would get divorced within a year... Finally, one day, Yao Tingting returns after stashing away her wool. The man leans back on the sofa, his long legs crossed, his gaze deep and cold as he says to her: “Don't you know a sheep is worth more than its wool?” “Crack!” The System's heart shatters. Thinking her own heart has just given out from fright, Yao Tingting hurries to calm the man's anger: “I didn't know.” Lu Jing: “...” System: “...” In the end, the heartbroken System leaves for a distant land. 2022.06.29 Theme: No mountain can hold it back. In the end, it flows east all the same.