Playing a Renovation Game with the Domineering CEO

[Coming soon: Playing Brain Games with an A-List Actor. Please add it to your collection!]

[Blurb for this story]

1.

Ning Sese was reborn in the year she first arrived at the Yu family home.

The daughter of a housekeeper who had come to stay with them, she had been painstakingly careful to please everyone in the Yu family, living like Miss Yu's maid. Yet everyone, including her own mother, hated her, and she eventually died for Miss Yu without even receiving a kind word.

This time, Ning Sese stopped humbling herself to win their favor. Every day, after finishing her chores, she tucked herself away in the little attic to study, determined to get good grades and build an independent life.

One day, a strange decorating game appeared on her phone. It matched her with other players so they could redecorate each other's rooms.

Making the best of a bad situation, Ning Sese uploaded a picture of her cramped, shabby attic, curious to see what the other player would do with it.

The player on the other end was serious and meticulous, turning the attic into a perfect little room.

Ning Sese thought it was just a bit of fun. But when she turned around, she saw that her surroundings had become exactly like the room in the game.

Ning Sese: ??

2.

Bo Chenshu tried out a new game developed by one of his companies.

When he saw the awful room he was matched with, he frowned and set about renovating it with more seriousness than he gave to reviewing company documents.

The girl on the other end seemed pleased, adding a bouquet of flowers one day and changing his curtains the next.

Watching his once-bare room gradually fill with all sorts of colorful knickknacks, Bo Chenshu pressed his lips together, displeased.

"Your room is way too plain! You don't have anything but a bed. Tomorrow, I can swap in a little round table and a rug..."

"The day after that, I can make the window wider, so you'll get more sunlight..."

"I don't have any pocket money, so I can't spend money to renovate your room. I can only save up by doing tasks. Sorry!"

She kept chattering on, then finally asked, rather timidly, "Do you like it?"

Bo Chenshu was silent for a long time, then scowled as he typed two words on his phone.

"...I like it."

Thank you for making flowers bloom in the barren wasteland of my heart.

Bonus scene:

The Yu couple were terribly embarrassed. The daughter they'd doted on for over a decade turned out to be someone else's child, while the housekeeper's daughter they'd bullied and bossed around was their real daughter.

Embarrassed, they went to bring her home, only to find an unexpected person at her side.

"...Mr. Bo, this is our daughter. We were wondering..."

"Oh."

Bo Chenshu glanced at them coolly. "She was always bullied in your home, and nobody stood up for her. So I'll protect her."

Gentle on the outside, strong on the inside, sweet real heiress x cold, nitpicky, obsessive-compulsive CEO

(1v1, both virgins. The female lead becomes an adult soon after she appears, and there is no romance between them at first.)

[Blurb for another upcoming story, Playing Brain Games with an A-List Actor. Please add it to your collection!]

Yu Jiantao was reborn in the year she went missing.

She had been the cherished daughter of the Yu family of Songcheng, but she was accidentally lost as a young child and ended up in a remote mountain village.

After enduring countless hardships, she finally made it home, only to discover that her parents had already adopted a girl her age and treated her as their own daughter for over a decade.

Even though Yu Jiantao had returned home, she seemed to have lost everything. Her adoptive sister had taken her parents, the property that belonged to her, and even her best friends.

She watched as that girl used her family's connections to become a top-tier star, standing above the rest and basking in the attention of millions. Meanwhile, Yu Jiantao was killed in an attack by the girl's extremist fans.

...Until the moment she died, Yu Jiantao couldn't understand how she'd ended up like this.

She was unwilling to accept it. Given another chance, she'd take back everything that belonged to her!

Her first step was to escape the ramshackle mountain hut and make her way home.

*

Shen Nanji had recently become obsessed with a brain game.

Though the graphics were crude and the gameplay simple, it was strangely addictive. It was called "Help a Girl in Trouble Return to the Rich Family."

"Level One: Help the cold girl get warm."

On the screen, a little girl shivered, her teeth frozen with cold. Wind howled through a huge hole in the window of the dilapidated hut.

Shen Nanji glanced at the three icons below: curtains, wooden boards, and a fire.

"Choose the wooden boards."

The thick boards were hammered onto the window with a series of thuds. The wind stopped for an instant, then the flimsy hut couldn't bear the weight of the boards and collapsed in the blink of an eye.

"Your decision was wrong. The little girl is even colder!"

Shen Nanji: ?

"Watch an ad for another chance to choose."

Shen Nanji: "...I'll watch."

The aloof, celebrated actor spent every day after filming engrossed in ads and a trashy game, leaving the crew utterly baffled.

"Brother Shen, is this game really that fun? Doesn't it make your blood pressure skyrocket?"

Shen Nanji quietly nodded. "It's fun. My blood pressure's fine."

Watch, watch, watch. Once he got tired of watching ads, he would make sure the poor little girl got the perfect ending!

After helping her return to the rich family, Shen Nanji reached the final level.

"Final Level: Help the girl uncover the whole truth."

Relying on his own intelligence (not really), he finally exposed the adoptive daughter's true nature. She was a descendant of a family that practiced witchcraft and knew the art of switching destinies?

What a ridiculous plot!

Shen Nanji was displeased, but he kept watching ads.

That fate had to be switched back.

Bonus scene:

After being deceived by a villain for over a decade, the Yu parents finally came to their senses and were filled with regret.

Desperate to make it up to their real daughter, they were willing to shower her with resources, only to find that the inexplicable actor had already paved her way to success.

The Yu parents: "Who are you?"

Shen Nanji (solemnly): "She's the girl I raised. I'll take care of her."

The Yu parents: "?? Someone's stealing our daughter!"

Yu Jiantao: "So you're the one who's been sabotaging me with awful ideas every day?"

Shen Nanji: "..." (Guiltily looks away)

Theme: Be independent and strong, and love yourself