The Wealthy Heiress's Stepmom Goes Viral on a Parenting Show by Outworking Everyone

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"I Won Over the Villainous Demon Lord Through Self-Care" - Wait, even the villain has a soft spot for romance?

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Gu Ziqian, the number one mecha pilot in the galaxy, wakes up in the wilderness after her No. 666 mecha accidentally explodes. And to top it off, there's a little dumpling beside her, offering her a tiny fish no bigger than a thumb.

"This is the biggest one I could catch. Don't starve to death."

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It turns out she has entered a wealthy-family novel as a stepmother. In the book, she marries an unconscious wealthy CEO and has to care for her four-year-old stepson. Resentful of it all, she beats and scolds the child.

What's more, just to spite the male and female leads, she drags the four-year-old onto the bizarre wilderness survival reality show "How Do Mom and Dad Survive?"

In the end, she can't handle the hardship and makes her stepson search for food every day. She gets viciously roasted online.

Gu Ziqian: ???

Her husband is unconscious, her stepson is adorable and well-behaved, and she has more money than she can spend. Why not enjoy this life???

Having accepted reality, Gu Ziqian quietly gets up and scoops the little one out of the river.

Viewers:

"She's going to bully the kid again, ahhhhh!"

"Can't someone do something?!"

But instead, on camera, the woman dries the child off, rolls up her sleeves and pant legs, and takes a sharpened fork. With a blank expression, she spears the nimble fish swimming in the river.

One, two, three... all huge and plump.

Viewers are amazed to discover that while other couples are still relying on fish to stave off hunger, Gu Ziqian has already made a bow and started hunting game. While others are still making do with grass mats, Gu Ziqian has already built a house all by herself...

Viewers: That's ridiculous...

When disaster strikes, the other couples drop out of the show and terminate their contracts. Gu Ziqian alone draws on years of surviving in the galactic wasteland, assembles a mecha from scratch, builds a simple air-raid shelter, and lives comfortably inside with the child.

In no time, public opinion turns around. During an interview, the little dumpling blushes and says, "Mom says you shouldn't give up easily!"

Viewers:

"Ahhh, well said! Big sis is so cool, I love her!"

"I apologize for being so ignorant before!"

Other little ones: Look at everyone else's mom!

Parents forced into a competition: Can someone do something about her?!

[Scene]

Apparently, someone photographs Gu Ziqian going in and out of a hotel with a man late at night. The headline reads: "Shocking! Now that Gu has made it big, she's abandoned her child and husband to keep a pretty boy!"

The internet erupts.

Reporters surround a powerful business tycoon. "Have you seen the news about your wife keeping a pretty boy? How do you feel right now?"

Shen Jingxiu: "I have."

Reporters: "Then..."

Shen Jingxiu, calmly: "I'm the pretty boy."

Reporters: ????

Reading guide:

The child is adorable, but he isn't the male lead's.

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The Qingfeng Sect takes in a new junior sister. Her swordsmanship is terrible, but she drives everyone back with a magical brush at her waist. Then, when the finals coincide with lunchtime, she lowers her weapon in full view of everyone and starts cooking.

Her opponent: ?

Everyone else: ?

In her previous life, Su Huaixi developed stomach cancer after keeping an irregular schedule and eating at odd hours, and suffered terribly. Just before she kicked the bucket, she learned that her biological parents had left her a hundred million in assets.

When she opens her eyes again, she has become a powerful but lovesick supporting female character in a xianxia novel, bound to a health System.

In the original novel, she's a little demoness from Peach Blossom Valley, ostracized by the righteous sects. After catching a glimpse of the male lead during a battle between immortals and demons, she falls in love with him, dismisses all her "beauties," conceals her identity, and heads alone to the Qingfeng Sect to pursue him.

In the end, the male lead uses her to prove his path to ruthless enlightenment.

Su Huaixi: How foolish. What could possibly matter more than staying alive?

To return to the modern world and inherit a fortune worth tens of billions, Su Huaixi follows the plot diligently and grinds experience points.

While others fight tooth and nail over top-grade magic weapons, she chops vegetables. While others curse each other over sect rivalries, she heats oil in a wok. While others are already attacking her, she starts eating.

She also takes in a handsome, taciturn junior brother who clearly never gets enough to eat. While grinding health points, she gains a loyal and dependable meal buddy.

Until her identity as a demoness is exposed and the righteous sects hunt her down. Her meal buddy's hair turns white as snow. He cleaves a mountain in two with one sword, steps in front of her, and laughs arrogantly. "Who dares?"

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Su Huaixi watches her well-behaved meal buddy transform into a white-haired man wielding the Sword of Many Loves. It's none other than... the great villain who dies horribly in the book.

Just as Ji Xuanmu is considering whether to simply take her home by force, Su Huaixi packs her things and slips away that very night.

Rule for life: If you want to stay alive, keep your distance from the protagonists.

PS: Especially the villains.

[Scene]

When the demon lord Ji Xuanmu is betrayed by his own family and trapped, all he can remember is the lovely, radiant girl beneath the pear tree on Qingfeng Mountain, holding out a roast chicken to tempt him. "Want some?"

Later, Su Huaixi's magical brush breaks through his memories, and through the formation too, protecting him as she crisply declares, "Who dares?"

Rule for life: If you want to stay alive, keep your distance from the protagonists and villains.

PS: Meal buddies are the exception.

First draft written on 2022/11/1

The blurb has been revised slightly, but the story is unchanged. If that bothers you, feel free to drop the book. No need to tell me, mwah mwah mwah.

Reading guide:

She doesn't start at max level. My own settings are everywhere.

Theme: You have to learn to be yourself to live a brilliant life.