After Becoming the Spoiled, Difficult, Sickly Stepmother of a Wealthy Family

[Coming soon next door: “Me, Inheriting a Transmigrator’s Legacy? [Interstellar],” please add it to your collection~] *A little unhinged fiction* Sheng Xia wakes up in the middle of summer to find she has transmigrated into a sweet romance novel about a stepmother. The System tells her that in the future, she’ll appear on a family-oriented reality show as a foil to the heroine, get flamed by the entire internet as a terrible stepmother, and meet a miserable end. Her rebellious stepson is a top-tier star. Her flirtatious brother-in-law has admirers everywhere. Her reclusive sister-in-law is obsessed with painting. Even the two little ones are so afraid of her that they won’t come near. Her rich husband is hardly ever home, and coldly tells her she can pretend he doesn’t exist. Wow, her ideal retirement is all set. Sheng Xia, who has returned from the apocalypse, is just about to lie flat and enjoy herself when the System forces her to maintain the original character’s persona, follow the plot, and complete her tasks. Sheng Xia: Fine :) And so Her rebellious stepson storms in, furious. “Sheng Xia, are you seriously sick in the head? If you really want to die, don’t drag me into it!” Sheng Xia gazes at him with trembling eyes and presses a hand to her chest, looking fragile. “Oh dear, what did you say?” Her stepson’s expression instantly twists. He grits his teeth. “N-nothing…” Her flirtatious brother-in-law narrows his charming eyes with a teasing smile. “So, sister-in-law, ” Sheng Xia clutches her head and sways, her lips pale. Her brother-in-law obediently brings her tea and water. “Well, you’ve just been in a car accident, so you should rest. Just call me if you need anything. I can still help out.” Her reclusive sister-in-law tries to avoid her. “Don’t… talk to me.” Sheng Xia slowly wheels herself away, her back even more dejected than her sister-in-law’s. After a moment’s hesitation, her sister-in-law hurries after her. “D-do you want to see my paintings?” The twins speak in unison. “Evil stepmom, ” Sheng Xia lazily pulls them into her arms, already half asleep. The little ones, trapped in her soft, fragrant embrace, immediately blush. “I-it’s not like we mind being bullied…” The original heroine says, “Do you know why your husband is never home? He already has someone he likes, just kidding!” Sheng Xia, who had deftly found the perfect spot to faint, immediately opens her eyes wide again. The original heroine: “…Could you be any more practiced at faking an accident?!” The System watches everything unfold, unable to figure out what went wrong: …??? Sheng Xia: ^_^ When her rich husband finally comes home, he discovers that everyone in the family has been completely taken in. Even if he raises his voice just a little, his younger siblings give him reproachful looks, blaming him for not being considerate enough toward Sheng Xia. After recalling Sheng Xia’s latest medical checkup, Mr. Feng says, “…?” She’s perfectly healthy. What’s wrong with her? Sheng Xia: ^_^ Who says laziness isn’t an illness? Not long after, Mr. Feng, who has always been devoted to his work, turns down a dinner party and explains in an unhurried manner, “A beautiful, fragile wife who can’t manage on her own is calling me home. Please excuse me.” Everyone: …?! The System, completely powerless to stop it: […] Fine. I’m giving up too. _(:з"∠)_ A dramatic, gorgeous beauty who’s given up trying X a powerful tycoon who plays along so he doesn’t get disowned Reader’s guide: 1. The stepson and the twins are not the male lead’s biological children. 2. There are lots of memes, and all kinds of literary tropes, comment-style text, and internet jokes may pop up anywhere. Please don’t pick out a few internet memes and say, “This feels way too familiar; it’s almost exactly the same.” QAQ I’m really begging you [bows deeply] [thanks profusely] [Coming soon next door~] “Me, Inheriting a Transmigrator’s Legacy? [Interstellar]” After Su Qingyuan is forced to drift to a garbage planet, a System suddenly appears at a moment of crisis. She is chosen to become a plane administrator, tasked with guiding a group of transmigrators who have been stranded in the Interstellar for a hundred years back home. And what she wants in return is their entire inheritance! So, to inherit everything perfectly without letting anyone notice anything strange, Su Jiuyuan starts acting alongside the transmigrators in one classic script after another. The first script she takes on is, “The True Heiress Returns as the Lord.” From then on, one melodramatic old-school Blue Star plot after another, the true and fake heiress, the substitute held captive, wealthy-family feuds, battles for control of a barren planet, the tyrant’s one and only beloved daughter, begins playing out in turn among the most powerful circles in the Interstellar. All the outside world sees is one cold and ruthless bigwig after another falling for the same person, cherishing her above all others, bowing to her, and even willingly letting her control them. But no one knows that these power brokers at the very top of the Interstellar all harbor the same obsession deep down Going home. They once had a private group chat where they supported one another, all hoping to return to their beloved homeland, Blue Star. One person fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood on a garbage planet to become a small-time lord ruling their own territory; Someone else stirred up the Interstellar financial world and amassed incredible wealth; Another carved out a territory in the stars and built a force no one dared to provoke… They had carefully planned every move and climbed to the top, not because they coveted power in the Interstellar, but because they wanted to get a little closer to the way home. But they found nothing. Just as they had given up all hope and resigned themselves to being buried in a foreign land, the group chat that had been silent for a hundred years finally lit up again. [Group admin: Su Jiuyuan] [Legacy transfer channel activated] [Transfer all assets to begin the return procedure immediately] From that moment on, vast territories and endless wealth were smoothly handed over to Su Jiuyuan through the scripts’ plots. She accepts every gift as it comes, riding the momentum all the way to the pinnacle of Interstellar power. Everyone sighs that she is cursed to bring misfortune to those around her. She commands an entire star region and possesses wealth and power unmatched across the universe, yet she has few family ties and a bumpy love life. The powerful people she grows close to die one after another, leaving no one by her side. Beneath her dazzling image lies only loneliness. Su Jiuyuan merely laughs it off. Lonely? Not a chance. This climb to power is an absolute blast! She should really thank her transmigrator benefactors for their generous gifts. She’ll gladly accept the throne of the Interstellar Emperor~❤️ Theme: Never bow to adversity; stand strong and independent