After Becoming the Cannon-Fodder Ex Who Lived Off Others While Acting Tough

After dying suddenly from overwork, Fu Xin, an outstanding young entrepreneur, discovers she has transmigrated into the GL novel she just finished reading. She has become the cannon-fodder ex who never made it past chapter one, leeching off the heroine while treating her like dirt.

In the original story, the heroine, Feng Hua, was the youngest actress to win the Grand Slam in the entertainment industry. Her future should have been limitless, but a car accident left her unable to stand again. Heartbroken, Feng Hua retired from the industry, only to have her family arrange a marriage between her and her childhood betrothed.

After the wedding, the original owner revealed her true nature. She mocked Feng Hua for her disability, claiming she would never have married a cripple if it weren't for the money. Yet she spent Feng Hua's money without restraint, even becoming addicted to gambling. After losing Feng Hua's entire fortune, she dumped all the debts on Feng Hua and tried to run away, only to die in a car accident along the way.

System: If you want to run too, death is your only option.

Looking at her peerlessly beautiful bride in a wheelchair, Fu, who had spent her previous life working herself to death and ending up alone, thought: A wife delivered to me from the start? Only an idiot would run!

In her previous life, Fu was all about her career. In this life, she's got nothing but a brain full of love. Sure, she has no experience, but she can learn.

Taking over Feng Hua's care from the nurse, Fu does everything herself. She feeds her, carries her when she walks, gives her massages and helps her exercise every day, and takes her on walks while they chat. Fu Xin never gets tired of it.

Until she discovers why Feng Hua has been unhappy all along. It turns out retiring from the industry was never Feng Hua's choice. She still wants to return to the stage she had spent her life striving for.

Fu Xin: Leave it to me!

Fu gets back into her old line of work and quietly makes a fortune.

After building up her capital, all that's left is to get Feng Hua back in the spotlight. After discussing it with her, Fu Xin signs them up for a couples' reality show.

Before the show begins

Onlookers: The actress Feng Hua really has fallen on hard times. She's on a variety show now, and she's even married such a useless woman!

After the show begins

Onlookers: Hmm, this freeloader is kind of pretty. Wait, the food she makes looks delicious. Huh? She's so good at this! This pairing is extremely shippable!

After the show ends

Shippers: I'd rather envy Feng Hua every single day than envy the mandarin ducks or the immortals!

Then Fu Xin's identity as the secret owner of Love Hua Group, a rising star in the business world, is revealed.

Fans: That's an insanely direct name! How are we supposed to keep calling her the Freeloader now?

Fu, who has the stomach problems common to domineering CEOs, replies: You can keep calling me that. I have a bad stomach, so I can only live off my wife's money.

Feng Hua: ?

Fu Xin: I can only live off Teacher Feng's money.

Feng Hua: Mm.

Fans: ...Stop throwing this dog food in our faces!

Bonus scene:

When a photo surfaces of Fu Xin kissing a woman with a graceful silhouette in a quiet corner of a film set, the platform crashes for two hours.

Fans: My ship has sunk!!!

But before the fans can roll up their sleeves and gang up on Fu Xin, Feng Hua takes Fu Xin's hand while standing on her own two feet, claiming the title of the woman with the graceful silhouette.

Fans: !!!!

Reader's guide:

1. This is a fictional entertainment industry setting with no real-life inspirations. The story is mostly sweet, and everything serves the sweetness!

2. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

3. Fu is truly love-struck.

4. Fu denies point three and beats the author up.

Here's a new work I'm looking forward to publishing: After Becoming a Background Bigwig in a Scum A Novel. The blurb is below. If you're interested, please add it to your collection. Sending love~

Upcoming novel blurb:

Old-fashioned CEO A Xiao He VS. alluring, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside heroine O Jing Shen

After spending her whole life as a domineering CEO, Xiao He wakes up to find herself a background bigwig in a scum A harem novel. A bunch of scum As are throwing their weight around, bullying the beautiful but helpless heroine O.

Official yandere love interest No. 1: her adopted daughter, whom she took in years ago

Gentle, scheming love interest No. 2: the genius top student she sponsors

All-talk-and-no-action love interest No. 3: her cousin's daughter

Goofy tagalong love interest No. 4: her older female cousin's nephew

In poor health and always keeping to herself, Xiao He has stayed far away from human cubs. Now she stares at a bunch of troublesome kids still in high school: ...

Xiao He: What did you get on the college entrance exam? And you're bragging to me?

Thinking about all the outrageous, melodramatic, and illegal things these brats do in the original, Xiao He rolls up her sleeves and takes up the task of disciplining them. She also lends a hand to the pitiful little O from the original story. She's already raising so many kids, so what's one more?

After putting them through a truly hellish overhaul, Xiao He looks at the once-troublesome kids sitting obediently in front of her, now morally upright, well-versed in criminal law, and completely transformed. Satisfied, she accepts the tea Jing Shen hands her.

When graduation season arrives, Xiao He gets ready to send the brats off to far-flung corners of the country so she can enjoy a peaceful retirement, only to find she can't send a single one of them away.

Xiao He: ???

Theme: Love is mutual.