After the Useless Stepmom Stood Up for the Villainous Kid on a Parenting Show

1. Shen Yu is a famously useless beauty. Her family uses her as a pawn in an arranged marriage.

Shen Yu doesn't mind. As long as the dowry and bride price are enough, she's fine with anything.

Even if her husband is disabled and already has a five-year-old daughter!

But after an accident, she discovers she's the foil in a story about a stepmother on a variety show for kids.

The heroine is her cousin, Shen Yao.

In the book...

Shen Yu is useless, incompetent, stupid, and nasty, there to highlight the heroine's many talents, virtue, and broad-mindedness.

Her stepdaughter, Xiaoyundou, is a wicked, spoiled brat: competitive, withdrawn, and gloomy. By contrast, the heroine's child is well-behaved, sensible, and clever.

Shen Yu: “???”

Shen Yu looks down at her stepdaughter in a little suit. The girl is holding her chubby cheeks stiffly, pretending to be calm, but her eyes are red with hurt. Shen Yu then sweeps her gaze over the messy barrage of comments saying she has “none of a girl's sweet and obedient qualities.” Furious, she declares, “If my daughter wants to be a domineering CEO, then that's what she'll be! All you losers, get lost!”

Xiaoyundou looks at her stepmother, who is swaggering around like a triumphant little rooster, and is completely baffled. She asks timidly, “Y-you're not going to raise me into a useless person?”

Shen Yu: “If I let you grow up useless, who's going to take care of me when I'm old?”

2. Xiaoyundou knows she's an oddball among the little heirs of wealthy families. Other kids hate studying and love cartoons, but she loves studying!

So when the others say her stepmother has bad intentions and will deliberately spoil her to ruin her, so she can have her own child inherit the family fortune, Xiaoyundou already knows how to call the police and report her stepmother for abuse!

She makes every possible preparation, even agreeing to take part in the variety show so she can collect evidence...

But when the show challenges the families to buy groceries with a hundred yuan and make four dishes and a soup, her stepmother goes off to play mahjong, wins ten thousand yuan, and takes her out for a feast fit for an emperor. (She didn't cook. Deduct points.)

While the other moms show off their parenting philosophies, her stepmother points down a whole street and says that even if her daughter ends up sweeping the street, she'll be collecting rent with a QR code while she does it. (Trying to spoil her. Deduct points.)

While the other moms make elaborate handmade dollhouses, her stepmother spends a fortune outsourcing one, only for it to turn out like a tomb. Another deduction.

She gets last place yet again, but Xiaoyundou calmly accepts this “setback in life.” Then, in secret, she calls the police and asks, “Uncle, if my parents get divorced, can I live with Mom? Otherwise, I'm scared Mom will leave me and I won't be able to go on living...”

The ever-resilient President Yun has sand blown into her eyes. She cries.

3. The moment the variety show “A Day in the Life of a Wealthy Family Raising Kids” is announced, it sparks heated discussion across the internet. Countless onlookers grab their seats, eager to watch the rich families fight.

Shen Yao has been scheming behind the scenes, confident that she can use her useless cousin as a foil, making herself look noble for bravely becoming a stepmother for love. That way, her grandfather will give her more shares, making it easier for her to establish herself among the wealthy.

But what she gets is...

A hilarious rich lady and her domineering-CEO daughter becoming an instant sensation, with their “compliment-everything parenting method” widely discussed and praised by countless netizens.

Shen Yu also wins the approval of the Sheng couple. The two even emphasize on camera, “My daughter-in-law is the best. We won't tolerate anyone questioning that!”

The rumored cold and sinister disabled tycoon actually stands up and declares possessively, “She's my wife. She's mine!”

And her extremely, extremely old-fashioned grandfather even announces in public that Shen Yu is the heir to the Shen family!

Shen Yao regrets everything. All she can do is weep in despair.

Theme: Don't believe hearsay. Observe carefully.