The Big Shot in the Background of a Scum Alpha Novel

The old-school, no-nonsense CEO Xiao He VS the flirtatious, sweet-on-the-outside-but-dark-within heroine Jing Shen

After spending her whole life as a domineering CEO, Xiao He woke up one day to discover she had become a powerful background character in a scumbag Alpha reverse-harem novel. A whole bunch of scumbag Alphas were throwing their weight around and bullying the beautiful, pitiful, helpless Omega heroine.

The official yandere candidate number one: the adopted daughter she took in years ago

The gentle, scheming candidate number two: the genius top student she sponsored

The tsundere candidate number three: her cousin’s daughter

The goofy candidate number four: her cousin’s nephew

Xiao He, who was in poor health, always kept to herself, and stayed far away from human cubs, looked at a bunch of unruly high school kids: ...

Xiao He: How many points did you get on the college entrance exam? What are you showing off to me for?

Thinking of all the outrageous, melodramatic, and downright criminal things these brats had done in the original story, Xiao He rolled up her sleeves and took up the business of disciplining them. She also gave the original story’s poor little Omega a hand. She was already raising so many kids, so she didn’t mind adding one more.

After a thoroughly brutal reform campaign, Xiao He looked at the now well-behaved kids sitting before her, who had re-learned their morals, memorized the criminal code, and completely turned over a new leaf. Satisfied, she accepted the tea Jing Shen handed her.

With graduation season here, Xiao He got ready to send the brats off to all corners of the country so she could enjoy her retirement in peace. Then she discovered she couldn’t send any of them away.

Xiao He: ???

Reader’s Guide:

1. All the protagonists are adults before any romance develops.

2. There is a ten-year age gap.

3. The setting is entirely fictional, and this is my take on an ABO world. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality, and no gender has a second set of reproductive organs.

4. Sending you a heart~

My next novel is The Calmly Insane White Moonlight. If you’re interested, feel free to add it to your reading list~

Blurb:

It was only when Ming Lan was on the verge of death that she finally awakened to the truth: she was the white moonlight of every character in a melodramatic substitute-romance novel. At last, her lifetime of hardships made sense.

Ming Lan was born into a wealthy family. She had bright, charming eyes and breathtaking looks, but had been sickly from birth. She had always been kind and gentle, hoping to build up good karma for herself. She spoke softly to everyone and helped anyone she could. Only later did she learn that the people she had helped were the protagonists, important supporting characters, and the villainous female antagonist.

Her neighbor, who was always cold-faced and taciturn but always greeted her when they met, was the icy male lead.

Her childhood friend, born into a wealthy family but unloved by his parents, whom Ming Lan patiently kept company, was the gentle male supporting character.

The pampered younger son of the Xiao family, which had always been at odds with the Ming family, was beaten black and blue in a fight. Ming Lan happened to pass by and had her bodyguards rescue him. It turned out he was the roguishly handsome male supporting character.

The impoverished student Ming Lan sponsored because they couldn’t afford school was the only daughter of a wealthy family, lost outside the family, as well as the novel’s villainous female character and ultimate antagonist.

After reaching adulthood, Ming Lan went abroad for treatment as her health deteriorated. After she left, the male lead met a heroine who looked about half like Ming Lan. The others met her too, and the melodramatic substitute romance officially began.

She ran, they chased, and she had no chance of escape!

After a cascade of plot twists, the white moonlight Ming Lan returned home. At the sound of her cough, everyone abandoned the heroine and gathered around Ming Lan, fussing over her and offering their humble devotion.

The heroine finally realized she was only a substitute and began faking her death to escape. At this point, everyone “came to their senses” and decided the heroine was their one true love. They blamed Ming Lan for the heroine’s “death,” accusing her of being evil and manipulative.

Ming Lan, who had done absolutely nothing, was more wronged than Dou E. She didn’t even know there was a heroine, but nobody would listen to her explanations. All she could do was watch as these people joined forces to drive her family into bankruptcy. After they found the heroine again, bullying Ming Lan became their way of currying favor with her.

Only the “villainous female character,” who had just returned to her wealthy family, the original story’s ultimate antagonist, chose to risk angering them all to rescue Ming Lan. Then she began taking revenge on them in earnest.

The book said the villainous female character acted so crazily, damaging the male lead’s career, because she loved him but couldn’t have him, and her love turned to hate. In the end, the male lead and the others joined forces to pressure her wealthy family into disowning her. Then, as she fled with Ming Lan, she jumped into the sea.

But Ming Lan clearly remembered the look of delight and heartache in her eyes the instant she found her in the male lead’s basement. In the days that followed, she treated Ming Lan with the utmost tenderness. Only shortly before Ming Lan died of illness did she ask her softly, her voice full of pain:

“Miss Ming, do you really not remember me?”

Ming Lan remembered her, but by then she could no longer speak.

Ming Lan died consumed by resentment. She thought that was the end, but when she opened her eyes, she had returned to the day she came home from abroad after recovering!

This time, she would take back all the kindness she had given them and have some fun trampling them underfoot.

Just after getting off the plane, she saw a group of domineering CEOs at the airport, all poised for a fight just to be the first to pick her up. She put on her sunglasses, ignored them, and got into her family’s stretch limousine.

At the welcome-home banquet, the icy male lead invited her to dance. She replied with cool elegance, “Get lost.”

As the male lead’s face darkened, her childhood friend, the gentle male supporting character, smiled and held out his hand.

Ming Lan tilted her head back and downed her champagne, then calmly said, “You too. Get lost.”

She had planned to go hide in the garden for some peace and quiet, but happened to catch the roguishly handsome male supporting character picking on the heroine. The heroine’s face flushed as she raised her hand, but she hesitated and couldn’t bring it down.

“Smack!”

Ming Lan slapped the roguishly handsome male supporting character across the face. The usually arrogant man was instantly at a loss when he saw Ming Lan, and before he could get angry, he only wanted to distance himself from the heroine.

Ming Lan didn’t even look at him. She looked at the stunned heroine instead. “If you want to hit him, just do it. What are you hesitating for?”

As time went by, Ming Lan’s smile grew more beautiful and she grew more insane. Yet those people went even crazier for her.

Leaving them to fight until they were battered and bleeding, Ming Lan crooked a finger at the “villain” in the corner. “Why are you standing so far away? Do you think I’m going to eat you?”

Reader’s Guide:

1. After being reborn, Ming Lan finds fault with the whole world and wants to charge straight into it. She attacks everyone indiscriminately, especially the male lead and male supporting characters, but also the lovestruck, foolish original heroine and random bystanders.

2. Ming Lan still has the good upbringing she received from childhood, so she goes mad with elegant composure and toys with people’s hearts. She won’t suddenly turn into some bizarre creature.

3. Since she wants to take everyone down, she can be unscrupulous at times and not always moral. She’s gone mad, so don’t expect a perfect protagonist.

4. The other protagonist is the “villainous female character,” the original story’s antagonist, but she loves only Ming Lan from beginning to end. She hates the original male lead and has never loved him.

5. All the potential triggers and the original romance plot are clearly laid out in the blurb. To reiterate, the original is a romance novel, a romance novel, a romance novel; it’s melodramatic, melodramatic, melodramatic, and old-school, old-school, old-school!!!

6. This story is written by a wandering-hero cat. The setting is entirely fictional, and the story follows the cat’s logic. Its development depends entirely on the mood of the great cat hero.

Theme: Stay positive and upbeat, and be a good kid with strong morals and excellent grades.