Pre-serialization: "The Dramatic Stepmom Gives Up [Ancient Times to Modern Day]". Please add it to your collection!
Story blurb:
Qin Nianwei was born the beloved granddaughter of a tycoon, blessed with both beauty and wealth and showered with affection.
But later she learns that she's the dramatic supporting villainess in a novel. The male lead is her fiance, and the female lead is the daughter of her family's servant.
Qin Nianwei: "You've got to be kidding me. The male lead is a cheating scumbag, and the female lead knowingly gets between them. What kind of outdated setup is this?"
Apparently, the leads will show off their love on a dating reality show, gain countless fans, and use her family's company and reputation as stepping stones to success. They'll achieve success in both love and career, then live happily ever after together.
Meanwhile, she'll be jealous of them and make a scene on the show, getting hated by the entire internet. In the end, her family will be caught in the crossfire: her relatives will die of serious illnesses, the family business will go bankrupt, and she'll meet a tragic end.
Qin Nianwei: "?"
She's rich and beautiful. What kind of man couldn't she get? That cheating scumbag doesn't deserve her!
Qin Nianwei sees the light.
She breaks off her engagement with the scumbag, fires the ungrateful servant, and starts going on sweet dates with the story's ultimate villain, showing off their love.
Then everyone realizes she's become even more dramatic.
During the dating show's livestream, the female lead shows off her cooking. The guests praise her, and the comments swoon.
Qin Nianwei: "Even dogs wouldn't eat that."
On a romantic date, the other couples enjoy a lovely atmosphere, surrounded by pink bubbles, while Qin Nianwei's date goes like this:
Qin Nianwei: "If you take me on a date to a place like this, my heart won't just fail to flutter. It'll stop beating altogether."
Later, the scumbag shows up with a carefully selected, exquisite gift, begging her to give him another chance. Qin Nianwei throws it away on the spot.
"Try looking in the mirror first, then check your bank balance, and finally ask your conscience whether you're even good enough for me."
On the topic of what she looks for in a partner...
Other guests: "We just have to click."
Qin Nianwei has a few things to say:
"First, you have to look good by my standards.
Second, you need at least a hundred billion in assets for me to spend as I please. And you can't keep a secret stash of your own.
Next, whenever I call, you have to come running. Not one second late, or it means you don't care about me, and the consequences will be serious.
Finally, a man needs to keep himself pure. I'm a germaphobe, and I won't share a man with anyone.
I'll tell you the rest when I think of it."
"What? You think my standards are too high?
I'm this beautiful. Why should I settle for some ugly loser?
I'm worth a hundred billion. If I don't marry a man worth a hundred billion, should I marry you?
You bring a wife home and don't want to spoil and indulge her? Then marry a block of wood. Wood doesn't have a temper.
A man who doesn't respect himself is like..."
Later, Qin Nianwei becomes a sensation.
On the show, she invites the guests to tour the luxury homes she owns and experience the real life of the rich and powerful.
Today, she enjoys a lavish feast on the scale of a Manchu-Han banquet. Tomorrow, she rides a yacht across the waves. The day after that, she attends all kinds of events hosted by the domestic and international elite. From time to time, she rescues a few companies on the verge of bankruptcy, and whenever she meets a celebrity she likes, she throws money at them to make them a star...
The viewers are stunned.
[Uh, is it too late for me to cling to her coattails?]
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#Today's Nianwei-isms# update:
"Spending money really can buy happiness. Spend enough and your troubles can't catch up with you. Don't believe me? Try it yourselves."
Pre-serialization blurb:
The Dramatic Stepmom Gives Up [Ancient Times to Modern Day]
Gu Yunzhi was the empress of the Great Xia Dynasty. After ten years in the palace, she outlived the old emperor and protected the former empress's son until he ascended the throne. She thought her hardships were finally over, but less than half a month after the new emperor's coronation, a cup of poisoned wine sent her to join the late emperor.
When she wakes up, Gu Yunzhi has transmigrated into the body of a young woman with the same name, two thousand years in the future. For some unknown reason, she's also bound to a System.
According to the System, the original Gu Yunzhi is the heroine of a novel about a stepmother. She marries a tycoon under a contract and helps raise his son. Eventually, she'll become the male lead's one true love and the ideal woman in the eyes of the second male lead and the ultimate villain. Everyone will get into all sorts of love-triangle rivalries over her.
But first, she has to endure plenty of hardships. In the book, 99.9% of the story is about her being bullied by the male lead, second male lead, ultimate villain, and various female supporting characters. Only the final 0.1% is her happy ending.
...To hell with that happy ending! Wasn't one lifetime of suffering enough? This Dowager Empress refuses!
This Dowager Empress is going to lie flat!
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[This is your stepson, Fu Yunting. You need to win him over and earn his approval so you can establish yourself in this wealthy family and prepare to win the male lead's heart in the future.]
Gu Yunzhi: "Heh. This stepson looks almost exactly like the one I had in my previous life."
"Good son, come here. Your mother... I mean, Mother really wants to give you a cup of poisoned wine."
System: !!! Host, stay calm! Murder is illegal in modern society!
Her dear stepson: So scary! My stepmother has finally been driven mad!
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Fu Yunting drags Gu Yunzhi onto a parent-child reality show, hoping her behavior will reveal her true nature and get her kicked out of the Fu family for good.
But...
The stepmother who used to make a scene about everything now spends every day lying flat on the show, while ordering him around until he's running in circles.
Every night, when he's completely exhausted and sprawled on his bed, Fu Yunting wonders how Gu Yunzhi always manages to make him obey her and do all the work. He swears that tomorrow, he definitely won't indulge her again.
But, unfortunately, when tomorrow comes, he still ends up running in circles at her command, completely confused.
This is downright supernatural!
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Gu Yunzhi, who halfheartedly deals with the System's missions and lies flat to the very end, never imagines that by giving up, she'll end up with an even more Mary Sue-like happy ending than the one in the book.
The male lead obeys her every command, the second male lead and the ultimate villain bang their heads against walls for her, and even the female supporting characters chase after her to be best friends!
Gu Yunzhi: "This Dowager Empress truly can't understand what goes through the minds of you people from the future."
Theme: Ignore the slander, accept yourself, and live a brilliant life with confidence!
Don't let the original male and female protagonists turn over.
It seems that my sister is not normal in that family either. . .
It seems that this family is not normal.
This chapter makes people very happy. The former heroine may have liked a scumbag, but it is still great that this person is not a bad person in nature.
Well done, remember to pay the fee
So what if it was intentional? How big is your Du Bailian face? (Rolling eyes)
So I was confused as to whether the blackening value should go up or down.
So what is this hibiscus gold and silver bud? Stir-fried bean sprouts with lilies. . . ?
Pu Xinnan hasn't figured out his status yet.
Why is it not updated and there is no leave request note?
Don't let the original male and female protagonists turn over.
It seems that my sister is not normal in that family either. . .
It seems that this family is not normal.
This chapter makes people very happy. The former heroine may have liked a scumbag, but it is still great that this person is not a bad person in nature.
Well done, remember to pay the fee
So what if it was intentional? How big is your Du Bailian face? (Rolling eyes)
So I was confused as to whether the blackening value should go up or down.
So what is this hibiscus gold and silver bud? Stir-fried bean sprouts with lilies. . . ?
Pu Xinnan hasn't figured out his status yet.
Why is it not updated and there is no leave request note?