Becoming the Great Villain's Stepmother

Jian Rongrong stays up all night reading a novel. She opens and closes her eyes, and when she opens them again, she has entered the book as the stepmother of the story's great villain. As a child, the great villain is abused by his stepmother. Once he grows up and succeeds, he takes revenge on her with a vengeance, leaving her bedridden and wishing she were dead for twenty years before she finally closes her eyes and finds release. Thinking of the great villain's ruthless methods, then remembering the slap she gave him as soon as she arrived, Jian Rongrong is so terrified she nearly faints. Should she try to cozy up to the great villain, or strike first and eliminate him at the root? The male lead of this story is neither the great villain nor the original owner's deceased husband. He will appear a little later. Coming soon: Childhood Friends: Xu Linlang, daughter of a princess royal, hits her head and comes to believe that she is living inside a romance story. In it, she is the male lead's childhood sweetheart, destined to lose out to the girl who appears later and end up being married off to a faraway land in disgrace. A few days later, Xu Linlang's childhood friend returns to the capital, and sure enough, there is a clever young woman by his side. The woman has phoenix eyes, cherry-red lips, and a dashing look. Standing beside Xu Linlang's childhood friend, she chats and laughs with him. When they see Xu Linlang, they don't move apart. Instead, they draw even closer. The woman looks at Xu Linlang for a few moments, then smiles and leans close to her childhood friend's ear. No one knows what she says, but it makes him blush. Xu Linlang turns and walks away in anger, tossing the gift she had specially prepared into her maid's arms. A few days later, Xu Linlang is sick with worry. The woman arrives with a basket of jujube-paste hawthorn cakes and says, "Jiashu knows you're unwell and can't visit your bedroom, so he asked me to bring these to you." Beneath the covers, Xu Linlang clenches her fists. So Cheng Jiashu has already forgotten that her favorite is jujube-paste yam cake, not jujube-paste hawthorn cake. If you're heartless, then I'll let you go. Three-legged toads may be hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere. I'll find myself another suitable husband. There are plenty of handsome young men in the capital: the second son of Minister Zhao, graceful as a jade tree; the tall and mighty heir of the Marquis of Wu'an; the noble and distinguished Prince of Changping... Cheng Jiashu has a childhood sweetheart. They grew up together and are deeply attached to each other. Their families have tacitly agreed to their marriage, and the Cheng family plans to propose once she turns sixteen. What he doesn't expect is that after he returns to the capital, his childhood sweetheart starts avoiding him at every turn. The gifts he sends are returned untouched. The food he sends comes back along with its container. He goes to visit her, only to be turned away every time. Worse, she's started meeting other men. Cheng Jiashu can take no more. He corners his childhood sweetheart beneath a silk tree and asks her word by word, "Why are you avoiding me?" Theme: Roads are made by walking, and children are raised through teaching