The little mermaid Yun Luoluo transmigrates into a book, becoming the high-maintenance supporting female character in a story about a woman who runs away while pregnant.
System: "Your mission is to fulfill the supporting female character's tragic fate and set off the heroine's happy life."
In the story, both the heroine and the supporting female character leave show business after running away while pregnant. Four years later, hoping to make a comeback, they join the same parenting reality show.
The heroine is gentle and capable, and her daughter is sweet and well-behaved. Their everyday life as a gorgeous mother-daughter duo is so cute and heartwarming that they take the internet by storm.
By contrast, the supporting female character and her disabled twin boys are awkward throughout the show. As a mother, she has no common sense and is difficult to deal with, putting both children through one ordeal after another.
After the show airs, viewers criticize them: "Those kids are painful to look at," "The princess-syndrome mom can't take care of kids," and "The mother-son relationship is so awkward and forced."
The supporting female character's comeback goes nowhere. Then people dig up that she has a mental illness and has abused her children for years. In the end, she is sent to a hospital, and the boys are taken to an orphanage...
Before Yun Luoluo joins the parenting show, the System reminds her to act high-maintenance like the supporting female character and never break character.
Yun Luoluo gives a disdainful smile. Does she really need to act?
As the most pampered little princess under the sea, Yun Luoluo must wear one-of-a-kind clothes, and the gemstones on her necklace must change color with her mood. Even when she eats, a hundred people kneel around her and pray...
When she joins the parenting show, viewers meet "the most useless mother in the world" and her "two strongest champions."
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After the show begins, this is what life looks like in other families:
The capable moms get up early to cook, prepare loving breakfasts, then wake their little darlings.
At Yun Luoluo's home, the three-and-a-half-year-old twins get out of bed and dress themselves, climb onto little stools to wash up in the bathroom, and pack their tiny backpacks. When their nanny has finished making breakfast, they even have to wake their mom, who stayed up late reading a novel.
At the end-of-day recap, the moms from the other three families say:
"My child didn't get out of bed late today. My child wasn't picky about food today. My child did a great job."
The Yun twins say: "Mom got up after we called her three times today. Mom didn't pick the greens out of her food today. Mom did great!"
"And also, when we go to the amusement park tomorrow, we have to hold Mom's hand tight, or she'll get lost in the crowd!"
The show sets up a sensory parent-child game: moms and kids work together to create art on a huge sheet of paper using mud.
The other moms forget about looking like glamorous actresses and use all sorts of things as brushes, getting covered in mud as they compete to win.
Yun Luoluo steps back half a pace in disgust and wrinkles her pretty nose. "That's so dirty. I won't do it."
She doesn't like filthy mud, and that makes her lose interest in coming in first, too.
Her two doting sons aren't afraid of getting dirty or tired. They throw themselves into the competition to win a prize for their mom.
Viewers: Wait, which one of them is the parent?
What countless people envy most is that other moms are worn out from taking care of their kids, while Yun Luoluo faces absolutely no pressure raising hers. She looks radiant and enjoys a leisurely life every day.
When she gets sick, one boy reminds her to drink plenty of warm water and get some rest, thoughtful and attentive. The other eats all the greens she doesn't like from her sickbed meal, earning the title "Green-Vegetable Hero."
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Among children around the same age, the Yun twins can eat and dress by themselves, and their parents don't even have to worry about them going to bed or getting up. They're the easiest kids on the internet to look after.
The show stages a "getting lost scenario test." While the other children burst into tears, the Yun twins not only comfort their peers, but also hold hands, walk to a nearby shop, borrow a phone to call the police, then wait obediently for the officers to come get them.
Viewers suddenly realize: "So Yun Luoluo isn't a good-for-nothing after all. She has a special talent for raising kids!"
"The lazy mom's reverse parenting" goes viral online, and everyone envies Yun Luoluo for having a pair of incredibly clever and well-behaved twins.
Even the daughter of the hero and heroine is captivated by the two gentle and considerate little boys after spending time with them.
The little girl starts worrying about which younger brother she'll marry one day, and why she can only choose one husband.
The male lead of the original story, constantly worried that his daughter might get abducted: ...
The System, keeping a close eye on Yun Luoluo to make sure she sticks to her high-maintenance persona, only to watch her become a sensation: ...
How did she get even more popular than the heroine? Are high-maintenance characters really this popular now?
[Content Warnings]
1. This is a light, easygoing story mainly about raising kids and everyday reverse parenting.
2. The System is an antagonist! It does things that harm the male lead! The protagonist hates it!
3. The heroine is a mermaid. In this story, mermaid culture is characterized by "reverence for strength," "openness," and "savagery." On the night the mermaid heroine comes of age at the beginning, she sees the male lead's "outstanding looks and aura," knocks him out, and drags him into a room.
(Important: The male lead wakes up in time and is capable of resisting. At first, both of them are attracted to each other's looks and willingly do what adults can do together. Nothing illegal happens.)
P.S.
Everyday life wears you down. Reading and writing are ways to unwind and relax.
The author is also a reader who loves web novels, and knows how upsetting it is to run into something you dislike.
If any of the three points above bother you, please don't read this. Thank you, everyone!
(Everyone's busy, and readers have a hard time finding time to enjoy a novel, while authors put in the effort to write each word. It's not easy for either side. Hope to see you in the next book if fate allows!)
Theme: A happy life
As expected of the boss's baby, he has memory before he is born
It's very good, but the content of the variety show is less and the plot is a bit rough, but Tuan Tuan and Doudou are cute. There are a lot of typos, which will cause discomfort when reading. The author can catch bugs.
A three-year-old baby is talking about love, while a baby in his twenties can only talk about Aba Aba...
"Baby" is a big thorn in the side of the author~
Mr. Qin: When will Luoluo give me a title?
So cute, so cute! !
Hahahahahahaha
The dumplings are so healing, cheers!
It feels like it's finished.
You can probably recognize him as your own grandson after just one look. He looked a bit like his son when he was a child.
As expected of the boss's baby, he has memory before he is born
It's very good, but the content of the variety show is less and the plot is a bit rough, but Tuan Tuan and Doudou are cute. There are a lot of typos, which will cause discomfort when reading. The author can catch bugs.
A three-year-old baby is talking about love, while a baby in his twenties can only talk about Aba Aba...
"Baby" is a big thorn in the side of the author~
Mr. Qin: When will Luoluo give me a title?
So cute, so cute! !
Hahahahahahaha
The dumplings are so healing, cheers!
It feels like it's finished.
You can probably recognize him as your own grandson after just one look. He looked a bit like his son when he was a child.