My other plot-driven story, "The Returned Cannon-Fodder Female Supporting Character Brings Her Tycoon System Back," is currently being serialized!
Ruan Su was widely acknowledged as the beauty of the neighborhood compound, but she was frail, and people often said she was doomed to die young.
Recently, after recovering from a serious illness, she began seeing countless strange lines of text drifting before her eyes.
That's when she learned that her fiance was the male lead of a historical-era novel, and she was his childhood sweetheart and first love who would die young.
After marrying him, she would be miserable as her husband flirted with other women, until she died and became the male lead's tragic, early-departed first love.
Disgusted, she promptly ditched her fiance and married the novel's villain, the man who had opposed both her and her fiance.
But he was an orphan she'd seen on the street, a taciturn man who always avoided her by keeping his distance. Ruan Su had thought he hated her.
Until one rainy day, when the road was slick and muddy, the orphan carried her through the muck with a stony expression.
The text on the screen shrieked: The big shot was so innocent when he was young! He still gets shy and blushes around the woman he loves!
Ruan Su eyed his stern, hard face dubiously, then brushed aside the hair falling over his ear.
His ear really was red...
She and the orphan lived together with mutual respect, and everything was peaceful, if not for the strange text.
"He doesn't love you?! Doesn't cherish you?! Call the villain big brother in his arms, and he'd give you his life!"
"Just see if he gets jealous, and whether he'll hold you. Love is simple: wherever love is, that's where the bed is!"
Ruan Su blushed shyly. But that night, when she softly called out to him in his arms, she discovered the text seemed to be telling the truth...
A frail, sweet heroine X a self-conscious, secretly-in-love tough-guy male lead
Coming soon!
"The Villain's Favoritism-Obsessed Mom [The 1980s]"
Qiao Li transmigrated to the 1980s and became the rich wife of a family with assets worth ten thousand yuan in a historical-era novel.
The good news: Her husband was rich and generous, and his favorite thing to do was give her money and stay away from home.
The bad news: Both her sons were major villains in the novel, with plenty of screen time.
Her younger son, whom she favored, was a brainless cannon-fodder villain. Her older son, whom she neglected, was a composed, scheming villain. Both would become obstacles in the male lead's path, eventually squander the family fortune, and leave her working away from home in her fifties, where she'd die of illness in a foreign land.
Her older son, Lu Shaoyan, seemed mature and steady, but was actually starved for affection and sensitive. His motto was to ignore the male lead and fight his younger brother to the end.
Her younger son, Lu Shaoci, was exactly the same inside and out: a little tyrant who would grow up to be good for nothing. His newly opened company ran a deficit every day, and all it took was a little goading for him to dream of replacing his brother and inheriting the family business.
The male lead played her sons like puppets with one line: "You'll never be as good as your brother/younger brother."
Qiao Li understood. The real problem lay within the family.
Then she'd make the two boys stand united.
First, she would treat them fairly in matters of affection. In everyone's eyes, Qiao Li changed. She stopped cleaning up Lu Shaoci's messes, stopped buying him snacks, and no longer nagged him every day. The neighbors even kept hearing her praise Lu Shaoyan.
Next came cooperation for mutual benefit. "Whoever gives me a shoulder massage today gets these five jiao."
"The older one cooks today, and the younger one washes the dishes."
"You two carry these fifty jin of date-and-peach kernels, peanut brittle, and oil, flour, rice, and eggs back here together."
Finally, they would advance side by side, competing through cooperation and cooperating through competition.
Before long, Lu Shaoyan's certificates covered the wall, he was the best cook, and Lu Shaoci washed the dishes the cleanest.
At first, their father had plenty of objections. But after seeing the results, he could only sigh.
"She must have her reasons for doing things this way..."
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Lu Shaoci had a father who was a national entrepreneur and a mother from a military family. Since his mother favored him, he was the most important person in the whole family.
But lately, he'd noticed that his mother had changed, and he felt it more than anyone. After a fight, he had no clean clothes to wear a few days later. His rivals ganged up on him, and his lackeys all left when he had no pocket money to support them.
He went to complain to his maternal grandparents.
His mother said, "Do you think they love you for your sake? They care about you because they love me, and that affection spills over to you."
He went to his father for support.
His mother pointed right at his father's nose. "You didn't get involved when I raised the kids before, so don't think you can get involved now."
To win back his mother's affection from his scheming older brother, how hard could it be to wash dishes and cook? Anyone could do that.
And acting cute and well-behaved? Anyone could do that too.
Getting the highest grades in his year? Anyone could... do that.
It turned out he wasn't very good at that last one. Still, going from the bottom of the class to the top ten earned him his mother's praise for the first time in ages.
And he really could learn! He wasn't the brainless idiot his classmates called a musclehead.
In the end, he stood proudly at the podium and said, "The person I'm most grateful to is my mother... and my brother too, just a little."
The boys' father: ...So I got completely left out of the speech too?
Reader's Guide
1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, but give it a try if you like. This is a child-rearing story. The "villain big shot" in the blurb refers to the older son, and the boys' father is the domineering male lead. There are character arcs and romance.
Theme: Discovering who truly loves you
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The Gods' Child Once Came from Fushiguro's Belly [Fushiguro Megumi Otome]
Reborn Before My Younger Stepbrother Was Kidnapped [The 1990s]
The Villainous Chancellor's Biased Mom
After a Substitute Marriage, I Became the Villainous Stepmother of the Era's Richest Man
The Biased Mom of Two Top-Tier Stars
The Return of a Comparison-Group Overseas-Born Female Lead with a Tycoon System [The 1980s]
The Genius Hero's Wicked Stepmother [The 1980s]
The Idle Little Aunt of a Genius Villain in the 1990s
The True and Fake Young Masters' Obsessive Mother from the Wealthy Family [The 1980s]
The Villainous Big Shot's Devoted Mom [The 1980s]
The Early-Deceased Ex-Wife of a Powerful Daughter-Doting Man [Period]
Woo woo woo, aren't there any more updates?
Oh, when will the baby get pregnant?
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Come on! Damn, I've been waiting for this book to be finished for a long time 😭 😭 😭
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