After Transmigrating as the Stepmother in a Wealthy Family, I Became Everyone's Darling

Xin Nian transmigrates into the role of a supporting stepmother in an old-fashioned novel, a foil character destined to be cannon fodder.

The novel's heroine is everyone's first love. After getting married, she half-retires from show business and takes her daughter onto a parenting reality show. Netizens gush, "They're so sweet! So sweet!" and "The mother-daughter duo is the best ever!" She becomes a nationwide sensation again, landing one lucrative opportunity after another and helping her husband's family business soar along with her popularity.

By contrast, the original character is an oddball, washed-up actress from the lowest ranks of show business. After marrying a wealthy CEO, she uses her status as a rich man's wife to become arrogant and domineering. Then, on a parenting reality show, she abuses her five-year-old stepson, setting off a storm of public condemnation. The CEO is furious, and she ultimately meets a tragic end.

When Xin Nian arrives, the original character has just pushed her stepson down the stairs.

The little boy lies on the ground, weak and barely breathing, yet he still remembers to comfort those around him and tell them not to worry. Even the nurse accompanying him in the ambulance feels heartbroken for him.

What a well-behaved child!

By comparison, the stepmother standing nearby with an icy expression is downright vicious and sinister! Even a face as beautiful as a fairy's can't hide her cruel, black heart!

Xin Nian, utterly confused: ...

W-what kind of hard mode is this?!

In the novel, the original character pushes her stepson down the stairs, causing a brain hemorrhage that leaves him in a vegetative state. That's what gets her thrown out by the CEO and leads to her tragic end.

Just as Xin Nian trembles, helplessly awaiting her cannon-fodder fate...

Her stepson comes back full of energy?!

And his dad joins the show too?!

Xin Nian: ???

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Everyone in the industry says Xin Nian finally managed to snag Chi Yun, the most mysterious of the wealthy bigwigs, and that she was willing to become a stepmother just to marry into his family.

But she's cruel by nature and deeply scheming, so Chi Yun surely won't put up with her for long.

Everyone is waiting to see the day Xin Nian gets thrown out and meets a miserable end.

But then...

During the villa's daily-life segment, the genuine heiress gets up at six in the morning to make breakfast for her husband and daughter.

Xin Nian sleeps until nine. Chi Yun wheels over breakfast he made himself, while the kid coaxes her to eat.

During the island competition, the genuine heiress eagerly fishes and gathers seafood to please her husband and daughter. Even when she cuts her hand, she just smiles bravely.

Xin Nian sprawls lazily in a beach chair. On her left, the kid plays a conch shell to make her happy; on her right, Chi Yun rolls up his sleeves and prepares a seafood feast.

During the parent-child games...

The audience, who thought Xin Nian's stepson would hate her and Chi Yun would treat her coldly, are dumbfounded.

Weren't they told Chi Yun was extremely cold toward her? How did he become a model husband who ticks every box on the good-husband checklist?!

Weren't they told the kid hated his stepmother? Why is he always hanging around her and competing with his own dad for her attention?!

And how is Xin Nian even lazier than a salted fish?!

Where's the wicked stepmother from a wealthy family? Where's the deep scheming?!

Netizens: ...That's it? That's it? That's it?!

#What kind of winner's-life script is Xin Nian living#

#I don't understand the love and hate of the wealthy#

#I'll send you 50, let me experience Xin Nian's life too#

[Reader's Guide]

1. The female lead's identity has a secret.

2. One-on-one, happy ending. Both the male lead and the kid are dragons.

3. An alternate world, very much so. Logic is not a concern; everything serves the plot.

Theme: Love endures until death.