I Became the CEO's Stepmom After Our Marriage Alliance

Bai Xiaoxiao, known as the fashion world's devil, had just won the gold medal at an international design competition when she transmigrated into a wealthy-family romance novel, becoming the unloved real daughter and a pawn in a family marriage alliance.

The eldest son of the family she was to marry into was a business tycoon, the second was an Olympic champion, and the third, the man she was supposed to marry... was a sickly man with a five-year-old child in tow.

She was barely in her twenties and had already become a stepmother. Bai Xiaoxiao: I'm doomed.

Her first task as a newbie mom was taking her nominally youngest son on a parenting variety show.

When netizens heard that Bai Xiaoxiao would be among this season's guests, rumors and scandals began pouring out: #D-list diva with no talent# #Always trying to act like a rich young lady# #Having an affair with [celebrity]#

But after the show aired...

When her stepson, Cheng Jiaming, ripped his clothes and didn't dare tell his stepmother, Bai Xiaoxiao saw him and immediately stripped him naked.

Netizens mocked her: See? A stepmother is a stepmother. She hits a child over something so small!

Bai Xiaoxiao threaded a needle. While everyone else tried to win affection by taking care of their kids, she spent the whole day sewing a collection of children's clothes, making a different outfit for every day until the show ended.

When another child bullied Cheng Jiaming on the show, Bai Xiaoxiao heard about it and immediately took her son to confront them.

Netizens sneered: Is she going to run to the other kid's mom and cry?

Bai Xiaoxiao ordered her stepson, "Xiao Ming, beat him up!"

When the other child's mother tried to argue, she immediately rolled up her sleeves. "What? How about you and me settle this one-on-one?"

In the parents' talent competition, the other parents said:

"Son, watch Dad draw you a picture."

"Sweetie, watch Mom dance for you."

Bai Xiaoxiao tossed out a stack of design drafts. "Son, I just registered two companies. If you're a good son, they'll all be yours someday."

Cheng Jiaming: ???

After the show ended, public opinion turned around immediately: #I regret everything, can we get more screen time for Boss Bai? The clips aren't enough# #I haven't had enough, hurry up and make a second season# #Boss Bai, look at me! I'm your long-lost son!#

Bai Xiaoxiao became an overnight sensation, but threw herself right back into her career. Her supposedly loveless, sickly husband washed his hands every day to cook her meals and rolled up his sleeves to trim the flowers. Every time he made a dish, he would ask, "Xiaobai, come try it. Is it good?"

He took care of the home while she took care of the outside world. The two of them lived in perfect harmony.

Cheng Jiaming: ...Why does something feel off?

#I'm not the boss, my mom is the real boss#

#The story of my father, who can manage both the home and the outside world, and my boss stepmother#

Coming Soon 1: You Don't Listen [Infinite]

After graduating, Gong Ning found a high-paying part-time job: working as a hidden NPC in Infinite game dungeons.

Her duties included, but weren't limited to, keeping the game in order, cleaning up when NPCs went out of control, collecting trash when players broke the rules... and serving as a curtain when a dungeon was solved.

Gong Ning: Got it. I'm the fall guy, the boss behind the scenes.

"The Ancestral Shrine"

The unfilial descendants who never worshipped their ancestors were summoned to the family shrine. Just as the mad eldest son was burning the memorial tablets, his cousin suddenly took his head off. "You disrespect your ancestors. You're not being good."

"Double Happiness"

After cheating on one, two, three, four, and five actresses, the philandering male star finally found true love and had a son. But at the wedding, the bride pulled out his heart. "I told you men aren't allowed to fool around. Why won't you listen?"

"Death School"

A group of friends returned to their old middle school. At their class reunion, the senior who had jumped to her death ten years earlier suddenly appeared. "Good children listen. No lying~"

Gong Ning diligently staged games of Werewolf in various dungeons, and would even lend a hand to rescue players who followed the rules.

Gradually, all the players worked out a rule: there was a hidden NPC in the game. Listen and you live; don't listen and you're sent away. The big shot likes obedient kids.

Gong Ning, who loved darting around unpredictably and was always ready to stab someone in the back: The first rule of slacking off as an NPC is to make up your own game rules.

Coming Soon 2: Exorcising Evil on a Survival Variety Show Livestream

Xuan Ying graduated from university and immediately became unemployed, so she had no choice but to inherit the family business and return to its old line of work.

The Xuan family used to be a top-tier name in feng shui. After generations of glory, the family fell into decline and hardship. Xuan Ying was both the last head of the family and its only assistant. When she took over, all the family had left was a battered old compass and the... ghost king living inside it.

To survive, the two wage slaves had to work diligently and keep taking jobs.

Xuan Ying joined a survival variety show as a stand-in. Thanks to her yin-yang eyes, the lively, funny segments everyone else saw were full of danger in her eyes. The guests thought she was making a fuss for attention, while netizens thought she was pretending to be crazy and acting like a scheming green tea.

[Old House in the Ancient Town]

Every nightfall, a wronged ghost clung to the movie star, whose face resembled the ghost's enemy. To keep anyone from dying, Xuan Ying had to stay in the star's room every night.

The star's fans: @Xuan Ying Stay away from our Gege, you shameless clout chaser!

Guests: ??? Is something wrong with her? And what kind of attention-seeking is this?

Xuan Ying: Hurry up and hit it. I want to go to bed when we're done.

Ghost King Chu Shicheng: (cursing) Dragging a ghost out to work in the middle of the night. Do bosses these days have no conscience at all?

[The Number One Funeral Village]

The production crew took the guests to a haunted old house in the middle of nowhere and told them to escape within three days.

The guests were chased around, screaming and exhausted, while Xuan Ying spent her days eating, drinking, and living the good life.

Netizens: Ha, she's doing that lazy, carefree act again. Is this woman a total drama queen?

Guests: Xiao Xuan, play along. If we work together, we can definitely get out.

Xuan Ying: (irritated) How am I supposed to play along? The production crew barged into my home to film and didn't even pay me rent!

[Death Television Station]

Everyone escaped from the rooftop. One person sprained an ankle, another broke a leg, and someone else was suddenly shoved from behind and plummeted toward the ground.

While everyone stood there in a daze, Xuan Ying leaped down and caught the guest whose life was hanging by a thread.

Netizens: Holy crap! Is she risking her life just to get famous?!

Guest: Aaaaaah!

The next moment, Xuan Ying soared into the air, held steady by a pair of invisible hands behind her.

Netizens: Holy crap, Xuan Ying can fly?! What kind of supernatural power is this? That's so damn cool! She must have a pair of invisible wings!

Chu Shicheng, keeping a low profile despite his achievement: (cursing) Damn it, they keep jumping off buildings. Why's it so hard to make a little money?

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Ghost King Chu Shicheng had once been a powerful figure who could stir up heaven and earth. But now he was stuck in a compass, and on top of that, he couldn't even enjoy a peaceful life. Every so often, some junior would drag him out to work.

Chu Shicheng: Every time, I feel completely drained...

Xuan Ying: Are your kidneys perha-

Chu Shicheng, exhausted and sprawled on the bed: Get lost! Who's been yelling and making me work every damn day?

Theme: Happiness depends on yourself