Going on a Variety Show with My Stepson After Becoming a Rich Family's Stepmom

[Complete] Yu Lan transmigrates into a book about a wealthy older man, as a cannon-fodder female character. The original character is young and beautiful, but foolishly falls in love with an older man and goes to great lengths to trick him into marrying her. After the wedding, her husband is cold and rarely comes home. He also has a thirteen-year-old son, supposedly born to him and his first love. As the saying goes, if you don't explode in silence, you'll become twisted. The original character doesn't dare take her anger out on her husband, so she redirects all her resentment toward her stepson, tormenting him at every opportunity. In the end, her husband finds out, and she brings about her own death. The story ends with his first love returning from abroad, and the family of three living happily together. Yu Lan: I'm rich and have plenty of free time. Why should I care about men? So she promptly starts enjoying a life where her husband is never home, but she can spend his money as much as she likes. She treats the stepson in the villa like he's invisible, takes advantage of her wealthy family connections, and lands a variety show gig to earn some spending money. * Gu Sui'an was tormented by his stepmother as a child and locked in a pitch-black cupboard, leaving him with claustrophobia. Even after Gu Yi sent the woman to prison, his psychological trauma could not be healed. At seventeen, he chose to take his own life. To his surprise, when he opened his eyes, he was back at thirteen. That was the year Yu Lan had just married into his family, and he had accidentally broken her perfume bottle. Gu Sui'an looked at the wound on his hand and gave a bitter smile. Next, she'd use a shard of glass to slash his face... Instead, Yu Lan glanced at him and said happily, "You broke it, so you owe me three hundred yuan!" Gu Sui'an, who got thirty thousand yuan in pocket money every day: ? That wasn't all. When she cut back on the household snack budget, she crossed off only the potato chips he liked. She said she wanted to lose weight, but he was the one who had to walk the dog every day. Because he had to complete the show's challenge, he had to make iced drinks by hand and sell them under the blazing sun. When he looked back, the woman was sitting under a tree, cheering him on sweetly... Some time later, Gu Sui'an, whose routine had become regular, stared in silence at his chubbier face in the mirror. * A variety show called The Unknown Lives of the Wealthy approaches Yu Lan, offering her a fee of eighty million yuan to film her daily life. Before the show begins, netizens gather to watch the drama: [Interesting title. Count me in.] [The world of the wealthy is dangerous. Does the production crew dare to film it?] [I heard one of them is a stepmother. I hope the young heir tears her apart.] After the show airs, the stepmother and stepson, who netizens had expected to clash, get along astonishingly well. People joke that they're more dependable than a biological family! Netizens: [Hmph, so what? She still married a potbellied old man!] The very next day, the older man returns from work. Everyone takes one look at him. Hmm? Who is this tall, handsome man with such a great presence?! Yu Lan has no idea, either. She happily walks over to flirt with him. "Hey, handsome. My husband's not home. Can I get your number?" Gu Yi looks at the wife he married in a contract marriage and suddenly feels like there's a bit of green above his head. * The stepson is not the male lead's biological son. * No first love. * Both leads have been in relationships before. The wealthy older male lead is thirty-two, the female lead is twenty-three, a nine-year age gap. * 4.5 reserved. [Statement: If you have no solid evidence, leave quietly. If you have a comparison chart, report it right away. Don't send readers from all over to come abuse me, and don't make snide remarks to readers claiming I borrowed your idea and can't be reported. What on earth do these two stories have in common besides the female lead going to bed early? What trope have you monopolized? I took a look. Oh, you mean the female lead transmigrates into a book, the stepson is reborn, and then the female lead ignores the plot and lazes around? So no one else can write that anymore? Countless stories on Jinjiang have male leads who were mistreated in their past lives, are reborn and hate the female lead, only to be healed by a female lead who transmigrated into a book. But because my male lead doesn't appear early on, I gave the son, who has a lot of scenes with the female lead, the rebirth instead, and that's not allowed either? Because your younger brother is reborn, no other author can write a character other than the male lead being reborn? The first three chapters can't have the female lead transmigrate, run into a conflict, and resolve it cleverly either, because you've claimed that, too. Or is it that because your female lead goes to bed at eight, no other female lead can go to bed at nine? Even though your female lead goes to bed at eight because she's spoiled and difficult, while mine does it to save money by cutting the electricity bill, your fans spent the whole day hounding me in the comments, asking why I didn't drink tuiheisu... Then you went straight to Weibo and declared that I was copying your idea. Because I didn't go to Weibo to explain myself, that made you an outspoken person (I'm dying of laughter) and me a two-faced one. You've really opened my eyes. As for why I removed the line about going to bed at nine, it's because you've claimed nine o'clock for yourself. Your fans spent the entire day of my featured-list placement accusing me of plagiarism, which affected my income. I'm sick of it. Can you please stop dragging your fans along? Please hurry up and make a comparison chart and submit it to Jinjiang. Don't make one and then avoid the proper channels, sending your fans to harass me online. You hold court on Weibo every day, judging people for plagiarism, accusing others of copying the first chapter or blurb. Isn't it because you know deep down that your case is weak and you don't dare take it to Bisshui? Hahaha. So you've already decided I'm guilty, but you're still telling me to explain myself on Weibo. Who do you think you are? (Open your eyes and look at the stories. These are common tropes on Jinjiang, not some niche invention of yours.) The writing environment is already difficult. I can't believe a prominent author would deliberately target another writer. I'm done. I don't care if I lose this account. I'll be waiting to see when you finally get exposed. Every day, you make baseless accusations, you old hag.] [Seeing the plagiarism accuser suffer no consequences, while her fans worship her like a goddess, makes me sick. The person accused of plagiarism is the one who has to keep remembering it and feeling disgusted, unable to stop hating myself for accidentally crossing paths with her. I asked so many friends which parts seemed similar, and every time I remembered it, I had to go compare them again. Her fans said it was the perfume bottle, which made me laugh so hard. I initially wrote that a vase got broken, but a friend had the same idea, so I changed it immediately. When I thought of an item a woman might use, perfume was the only thing that came to mind. Of course, I couldn't have her break a cheap bottle of perfume, so I made up a random brand. First of all, even when my friend, who barely has any readers, and I had the same idea, I changed mine right away, and she didn't even know at the time. It makes no sense that I would refuse to change it after finding out I'd crossed paths with a big-name author. (And her perfume scene doesn't involve breaking the bottle.) Second, the part about buying clothes for the stepson: I can even remember why I wrote that scene. It was to set up the plot with the female lead's best friend. The story had already established that the female lead would cheat her friend out of money, so she stood her up. At that point, if I'd just had the female lead go shopping alone, it would have been filler. Since I was already at Chapter Four, it made perfect sense to bring in another character for her to interact with and move the plot along. The broken vase in Chapter Three naturally set up a chain of events where he had to compensate her and help run errands. Fourth, I really can't see what is similar. A rich family where someone cooks well, or a female lead who transmigrates into a book and lazes around, were popular tropes at the time. A marriage between a rich male lead and female lead that starts out poorly is also a common setup. If she insists she invented them, there's nothing I can do. I hope good and evil are ultimately repaid in kind.] Theme: Moving forward together through love.