The Fussy Stepmom Gives Up: From Ancient Times to the Present

Gu Yunzhi was once the empress dowager of the Great Xia dynasty. After ten years in the palace, she outlived the old emperor and protected the late empress's son as he ascended the throne. She thought her hardships were finally over, only to be sent to join the late emperor with a cup of poisoned wine less than half a month after the new emperor's coronation. When she wakes up, Gu Yunzhi finds herself in the body of a young woman with the same name, two thousand years in the future, and inexplicably bound to a System. According to the System, the original Gu Yunzhi is the heroine of a novel about a stepmother. She marries a billionaire by contract and helps him raise his son. In the future, she'll become the male lead's darling, as well as the unrequited love of the second male lead and the main villain. Everyone will be ready to stage all kinds of love rival showdowns for her at any moment. But first, she has to endure plenty of hardship: 99.9% of the book is about her being bullied by the male lead, the second male lead, the main villain, and various female characters. Only in the final 0.1% do her hardships finally come to an end. ...To hell with those hardships ending. Wasn't one lifetime of suffering enough? I refuse! I'm going to slack off! * [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 capture the male lead's heart in the future.] Gu Yunzhi: Heh. This stepson looks almost exactly like the stepson I had before. “Good boy, come here. I... I mean, Mom really wants to pour you a cup of poisoned wine.” System: !!! Host, stay calm! Murder is a crime in modern society! Beloved son: So scary. My stepmother has finally been driven mad! * Fu Yunting drags Gu Yunzhi onto a parent-child variety show, hoping to make her reveal her true colors on camera so he can kick her out of the Fu family once and for all. But... The stepmother who used to be a menace now slacks off all day on the show and bosses him around until he's running in circles. Every night, when he collapses into bed, exhausted from running around, Fu Yunting reflects on how Gu Yunzhi manages to make him obediently do her bidding every single time. He swears that tomorrow he absolutely won't indulge her again. But, unfortunately, the next day he still ends up getting bossed around in a daze. This is too spooky! * Gu Yunzhi, who half-heartedly handles the System's missions and slacks off to the bitter end, never expected that slacking off would earn her an even more over-the-top, wish-fulfillment ending than the one in the book. The male lead does whatever she says, the second male lead and main villain bang their heads against walls for her, and even the female characters chase after her, wanting to be her best friends! Gu Yunzhi: I truly don't understand how you people of the future think. Moral: Choose a different life and live it differently. We all have a bright future!