Yun Jing transmigrated into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder character who only appeared in the bonus chapter of the danmei sweet-romance HE novel he'd just finished reading: the protagonist's childhood nightmare, the vicious male spouse left behind by the protagonist's father.
That was the protagonist's stepfather, who shared Yun Jing's name and whose role was over after just six thousand words.
Yun Jing thought back to everything the protagonist had suffered as a child in the bonus chapter, and his fists clenched.
Then he remembered the cannon fodder's fate: the male lead's uncle took him abroad, where he died on a cold winter night. He was found barely clothed, every finger broken and crushed into a bloody pulp, with not a single patch of uninjured skin on his body.
Yun Jing shivered. It had been satisfying to read, but when it happened to him...
That was really not necessary!
At this point, the two children hadn't been abused by him. They were still adorable, lively, cheerful, and attached to their father, and felt both curious about and a little close to their original owner's new spouse.
Yun Jing thought this was the best start he'd ever seen in a wealthy-family-stepfather story!
After his husband died, Yun Jing breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he could bow out now that his job was done. But the will said that if he raised the two children to adulthood, he'd get fifty million and five houses. Otherwise, he'd only get five million and one house.
With tears in his eyes, Yun Jing patted the heads of the twins, a boy and a girl, as they threw themselves into his arms, and solemnly promised not to abandon them.
The fifty million didn't matter. The five houses didn't matter either. The kids were just too cute, and they couldn't bear to be without him. Besides, he couldn't let them turn out like their uncle, going abroad to get involved with the underworld (not really).
Yun Jing nervously welcomed Wen Sihan, the male lead's mysterious uncle, who had hurried back after hearing the news of his older brother's death to arrange the funeral and stabilize the company.
To avoid awkwardly living with his brother-in-law, and to bring about the childhood connection between the protagonist and the male lead, Yun Jing took the children on the parenting reality show where, in the original story, his brother-in-law would discover that he was abusing them.
Then he was forced into the spotlight by trending topics like #ParentingThePost00sWay# and #TheTemptationOfReturningHome: A Wealthy Young Widower And His BrotherInLaw's LoveAndHateStory#.
What kind of trending topics will people put together these days?!
Are they trying to get him killed? That was Yun Jing's anguished cry.
The other person involved in the trending topic calmly admitted to having an ulterior motive. “I bought the trending topic.”
Yun Jing: ???
What?!
Reader's Guide
1. The protagonist married the older brother by contract, essentially hiring someone to be the children's guardian so his ex-wife couldn't take them away. Instead, he hired a heartless guy.
2. The male lead isn't involved with the underworld. The original owner's death was partly caused by the male lead.
3. There's not much about the entertainment industry.
Theme: Stay positive and never bow to fate
