The Tycoon Couple Take Their Otherworldly Kid on a Parenting Reality Show

Blurb for this novel:

Everyone knows that Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili are famous enemies.

After a fire, they transmigrate into a book together.

In the original novel, the original Yan Qiao was the real heiress who had been brought back to her family. She died of depression, while Zhou Zhili was the villainous second male lead, who did every sort of evil deed and died in prison.

To make matters worse, the two were already in a business-arranged marriage at the time. They had been married for three years without any affection between them.

The System tells them that if they want to change their ending, they have to work together.

Just as Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili are about to come to blows, a little boy dressed in ancient clothing and bearing a strong resemblance to Zhou Zhili suddenly appears.

Yan Qiao watches the drama unfold. "Zhou Zhili, is this your illegitimate son?"

Before she can finish enjoying the gossip, the little boy skips over to her, bows politely, and calls her Mother.

Yan Qiao asks, and learns that the little boy is named Zhou Muyan. He is the child she and Zhou Zhili had in their previous life. For reasons unknown, he transmigrated to the present, and when Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili transmigrated into the book, he came along too.

The gossip has hit a little too close to home, and Yan Qiao feels like the sky is falling.

She and the enemy she's been fighting for over twenty years were married in their previous life, and they even had a son?

*

Yan Qiao is secretly photographed with the kid, and the picture shoots to the top of the trending searches.

[Who are you talking about? That married couple who don't even speak when they see each other?]

[Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili would be lucky if they didn't get divorced. How could this kid possibly be theirs?]

As the story blows up online, Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili both trend on Weibo. While everyone is still gossiping, Yan Qiao posts:

Yan Qiao: The child is mine.

Those five short words cause another uproar. Just as onlookers are speculating about whether Zhou Zhili is the child's father, Zhou Zhili posts:

Zhou Zhili: The child is ours.

Netizen: Hey, are you two fighting in bed or something?

*

After Zhou Muyan begs and pleads, Yan Qiao agrees to appear on a family reality show. She and Zhou Zhili form a temporary family and move into the show's family house.

Before filming begins, viewers in the comments are guessing how many minutes it will take Yan Qiao and Zhou Zhili to start fighting.

But once the show begins...

When Yan Qiao has no appetite and doesn't want to eat, Zhou Zhili, usually so refined and aloof, personally cooks all eight major Chinese cuisines and serves them to her, with little Muyan helping him.

When Yan Qiao doesn't want to take part in a mud game, Zhou Zhili, who is normally a neat freak, takes her place and completes the challenge in the mud, while little Muyan cheers him on.

When Yan Qiao falls ill, Zhou Zhili, who usually goes to bed at ten, stays by her side for several nights, refusing to leave for even a moment. Little Muyan stays with her, too.

Netizen 1: If this isn't love, I don't believe in love!

Netizen 2: What a lovely family of three!

*

In the real world, Zhou Zhili had memories of his previous life from the age of eighteen.

And by then, he had already been in love with Yan Qiao for a long time.

Upcoming: "Glaze Gone Wild"

Cheng Jinhe is hailed as a once-in-a-century rising star in the world of Chinese painting. The landscapes she paints have an overwhelming grandeur, yet she has a sweet, innocent appearance, with downturned eyes like a harmless fawn and dimples in her cheeks.

Everyone thinks she's an obedient good girl.

That is, until the day Cheng's father throws a welcome-home banquet for his stepson. Cheng Jinhe walks in dressed in black, carrying white chrysanthemums.

Everyone present knows that after Cheng's father divorced and remarried, he ignored his own daughter but doted on his stepson.

Ignoring her father's ashen face, Cheng Jinhe places the flowers in his arms and smiles faintly. "Did you forget? Today is my mother's death anniversary."

That night, Cheng Jinhe's friend drags her to a bar to drink away her sorrows. When she wakes, she's in a hotel.

Her body is covered in bite marks, and the bed still bears signs of last night's lovemaking.

She can't remember what the man looked like, only that she was the one who unbuttoned his shirt first.

While the shower is still running, she leaves a bank card with a hasty note:

"You were good. This is a small token of my appreciation."

*

Looking for inspiration for her new painting, Cheng Jinhe heads to an ancient town in Jiangnan to sketch.

By a twist of fate, she lands a job as an assistant to an antiques restorer at an old mansion.

The terms are absurdly demanding, but she still signs the contract.

Because the pay is just too good.

*

Cheng Jinhe keeps thinking there's something strange about her boss.

He never stays up late, yet one night he helps dry the oil painting she just finished.

A crooked Pixiu she casually molded ends up in the cabinet where he keeps his prized kiln-fired porcelain.

He hates having anyone enter his room, yet lets her play around in there.

Then one night, after she'd had too much to drink, he lowers his head and buries his face in the hollow of her neck. His straight nose rubs against her until her collarbone burns.

Cheng Jinhe traces the beauty mark at the corner of his eye with her fingertip, and suddenly feels that she knows him.

"You slept with me and ran..."

Gu Qingcen bites the edge of her collar, his voice hoarse. "Cheng Jinhe, you really are heartless."

She suddenly comes to her senses.

So the man she'd slept with that night was her future boss.

*

Gu Qingcen thinks their night of passion after the truth comes out means their relationship is official. But when he wakes the next day, he discovers Cheng Jinhe has run off.

When he finds Cheng Jinhe at an art gallery in Kyoto, she's chatting happily with the gallery owner.

Their eyes meet, and Cheng Jinhe instinctively turns to hide.

Gu Qingcen steps forward, his knuckles brushing the conspicuous scarf around her neck.

"It seems Miss Cheng really does have a poor memory."

"Or was last night not enough to make a lasting impression?"

"I don't mind taking a little more time to help you remember it properly."

Theme: Grow toward the sun.