I Transmigrated into the Stepmother of the Male Lead in a Redemption Novel

Before going to bed, Qin You had stayed up all night grinding a client's game rank up. When she woke, she had transmigrated into a book, landing in a school-life redemption novel.

The male lead, Lin Yanbai, lost his mother when he was young. Until the age of ten, he depended on his grandfather, but after his grandfather died of illness, he was sent back to live with his scumbag father. He had to do the laundry, cook, and collect trash, while his father even demanded money from him to buy alcohol. When drunk, his father would beat him.

And this awful father even found him a stepmother.

The stepmother was no better to the male lead. Whenever his father beat her, she would turn around and take twice as much out on him. In other words, she bullied the weak and picked on those who couldn't fight back.

Qin You had become that stepmother.

When she transmigrated into the book, she was holding a basin of ice water, about to pour it over the male lead's head. The forecast said the temperature was close to freezing. It was bitterly cold, and the boy had already burned with fever until he was barely conscious.

Lin Yanbai realized that his stepmother had changed.

When his father yanked her hair, she didn't take her anger out on him. Instead, she shaved his father's hair. When his father beat her, she jumped up, grabbed a knife, and chased him around trying to hack at him. His father was so frightened that he didn't dare come home for over half a month.

She also stopped asking him for money. She was nowhere to be seen all day, but one morning she handed him a handful of small bills and yawned as she said, "Here's your living allowance for the week. If it's not enough, ask me for more."

Later, when his school called in a parent, she rushed over. When he came first in an exam, she happily took him out for a big meal. For his eighteenth-birthday ceremony, she took him to have a suit made to measure...

On esports night, his friend leaned over and looked at him, hesitating to speak.

After a long struggle, his friend gritted his teeth and lowered his voice. "Don't you think my brother and Sister Youzi make a pretty good match?"

Lin Yanbai abruptly looked up. "What did you say?"

----- Coming soon: Please, Being a Part-Time Grim Reaper Is So Cool -----

The year Lin Zhile was born, she was switched at birth. At eighteen, when her biological older brother Lin Sui'an brought her back to the Lin family, she brought nothing with her but a list of the dead.

At first, someone complained to Lin Sui'an, "Lin Zhile keeps going around saying she's the Grim Reaper!"

Lin Sui'an adjusted his glasses. "What's youth without a little chuunibyou?"

Later, a murder took place in his jurisdiction. He worked for two days and two nights without going home. When he finally returned, he locked eyes with Lin Zhile, who was watching a video in the living room.

The 98-inch ultra-high-definition screen beside her was showing the very crime scene he had been investigating for two days.

After watching the entire murder from the victim's point of view, Lin Sui'an's hand trembled as he adjusted his glasses. He turned to Lin Zhile. "Are you a hacker?"

Lin Zhile corrected him indignantly. "I'm the Grim Reaper!"

Recently, a fortune-telling blogger had become popular online. Every celebrity the blogger predicted would have their career ruined or become famous had turned out exactly as foretold. Fans of all kinds of celebrities, from A-listers to those far below the eighteenth tier, began asking the blogger to tell their idols' fortunes.

Lin Zhile's fans were especially eager, since she had recently become a sensation thanks to her acting.

"Master, Master, can you tell my idol's fortune? I just want to know if she'll have a scandal. Every idol I stan ends up in trouble. I'm so tired I can't even love them anymore."

The master asked, "Who's your idol?"

"Lele! You can call her Xiao Le. Her full name is Lin Zhile!"

"Lin Zhile? Which Lin Zhile?" The master, who had been relaxed and casual just a moment before, suddenly sat up straight. After glancing at a photo his apprentice had brought over, his expression changed.

One second later, the master ended the livestream. One minute after that, the account was deleted.

Lin Zhile's fans: "??"

The whole internet: "Master, at least tell us what on earth Lin Zhile is before you run away!"

An anonymous user: "Stop asking. She's the Grim Reaper. Whatever you do, don't provoke her. And if you do, don't let her find out your name. Smile.jpg"

This message was sent from the Underworld three minutes ago.

A few months later, netizens spotted the master who had run away in a candid video of Lin Zhile.

Netizens: "Fine, fine. You deleted your account and ran away from us, but you're grinning like crazy around Lin Zhile. So you've been secretly enjoying the good life behind our backs, huh?"

Overnight, Lin Zhile's fanbase skyrocketed. Lin Zhile: "? What happened?"

Theme: The world is bright, and everything is lovely.