A Mama's Girl and a Son Who Lives Off His Parents

Chu Tao had spent three years in show business and was still an obscure nobody, until she somehow got paired up with a top-tier star for a publicity CP and was trashed by the entire internet.

Afterward, she was bound to a System.

The System told her this was a world formed by the fusion of several novels. She was a cannon-fodder character in one showbiz romance novel, whose sole purpose was to fake a CP with the top-tier star and bring the male and female leads together. In the end, the male lead's fans would throw sulfuric acid on her.

Terrified, Chu Tao shuddered and posted on Weibo: I'm retiring from show business.

Then she got nearly a million mocking comments.

After retiring, Chu Tao began documenting her daily life.

[The view from the rooftop is great. Mom gave me this skyscraper.]

-Netizen 1: "Wow, it's really beautiful. It feels like you're up in the clouds."

-Netizen 2: "Wait, that building across from the rooftop looks familiar. Does that mean her mom gave her the Guomao Building, the iconic landmark in Beijing's CBD?!"

[I took a liking to an ordinary little island, so Mom bought it for me.]

-Netizen 1: "You call this an ordinary little island? I don't even know what 'ordinary' means anymore."

-Netizen 2: "Are you new here? This blogger calls an island an ordinary little island, a private jet an ordinary mode of transport, and the antique bowl her dog uses an ordinary bowl."

Later, people dug up that the blogger was Chu Tao, the top-tier star's rumored girlfriend.

His fans came over, ready to curse her for leeching off their idol's fame. But when they saw the CBD skyscraper, private island, luxury cruise ship, hundreds of buildings, and more, they couldn't bring themselves to do it. They just couldn't.

Later still, the top-tier star, who'd cultivated the image of a rich young master, was exposed for renting the mansion he lived in. His landlady was Chu Tao.

Netizens started calling her their wife and husband. Her agent brought out the best contract to beg her to return to show business, and all kinds of film and TV resources that had once looked down on her began courting her.

Chu Tao was stunned.

She'd only wanted to record her life after retiring, never expecting to become famous out of nowhere.

Song Lin used to be the nightmare of everyone his age in the scientific research compound. He took the college entrance exam at ten and got into one of the country's top universities. After that, top schools abroad competed fiercely to recruit him.

While studying overseas, he won international awards again and again. His parents bought a villa just to store all his trophies, and held regular exhibitions to show them off.

Whenever the compound residents returned home from one of these exhibitions, they would give their own children a thorough scolding and a beating.

That is, until Song Lin returned to China and decided to lie flat, becoming a notorious freeloader in the scientific research world.

[Bonus scene]

One day, Chu Tao listened to her mother's advice and went on a blind date with the younger son of her mother's friend.

Looking at the tall, handsome man who was exactly her type, Chu Tao blushed and said, "My mom says you know to ask your family for help when something happens. You're marriage material."

Song Lin looked at the cute, pretty girl with her round face and round eyes, his heart pounding. "My dad says you know to take shelter when it rains. You're wife material."

They looked at each other and thought at the same time: That's the one.

★ A scatterbrained, clingy daughter x an unhappy freeloader, a silly, sweet, satisfying romance. Both leads are genuinely oddballs, and their romance is like a grade-school crush.

★ Other characters have transmigrated into books or been reborn. A lightly ensemble-style cast.

-Two upcoming novels, please add them to your favorites-

1. My Mother-in-Law Is the Real Daughter and Cannon Fodder of a Hong Kong Sweet Romance (1980s)

Blurb:

Yu Qingyan had a dream. In it, she was a female supporting character in a period novel who kept getting face-slapped.

Her mother-in-law was the real daughter of Hong Kong City's richest man, who had been lost outside the family. She was timid, and Yu Qingyan and her husband served as the contrast to the heroine's happy life.

The heroine was the fake heiress's daughter. She and her childhood sweetheart, a movie star, loved each other and fought their way through show business, ultimately becoming the nation's favorite couple.

As for Yu Qingyan, she was spoiled, vain, greedy, lazy, and loved food. Her husband was an idle street loafer. Unable to endure a hard life, she eloped with another man, spent her later years homeless, and starved to death.

Yu Qingyan: ???

Slander, absolutely slander!

Her mother-in-law was the founder of a famous clothing company, treated her like her own daughter, and let her spend freely with her credit card. Her husband was handsome, hardworking, obedient, and handed over his entire salary. He was the most eligible bachelor in their circle.

With a mother-in-law and husband like that, straight out of a dream, how could she possibly cheat on him and run away with someone else?

Yu Qingyan thought the dream was all made up, until her mother-in-law's biological father, the richest man in Hong Kong City, showed up...

★ A pampered, beauty-loving, fussy heroine x a rich second-generation male lead who only wants to eat, drink, and have fun, but is forced to work hard.

2. The Socially Anxious White Moonlight Raised a Tyrant

Blurb:

Sheng Zhaozhao had a secret.

The family heirloom jade pendant her father left her contained a pocket dimension. Through it, she traveled to ancient times and carefully raised a five-year-old boy.

Timid and socially anxious, she grew fruit and vegetables in her pocket dimension, raised the little boy, and lived a peaceful, comfortable life.

Until one day, she awakened her memories.

It turned out she was the male lead's white moonlight in a rich-family romance about winning back an ex, and the male lead's motivation to better himself. Her death was an important source of angst in the leads' relationship, so she had to die.

Sheng Zhaozhao: ...

Before she could even get over being a doomed cannon-fodder character in a book, an ancient man appeared in her bedroom and said that his family had an imperial throne to inherit, and he needed an empress to give him a little crown prince.

Sheng Zhaozhao: ...QAQ

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Jun Heng was the empress's eldest legitimate son. When he was five, his mother was murdered, and his maternal grandfather's entire family was unjustly convicted and exiled.

From then on came false accusations, beatings, insults, betrayal... He fell into an endless abyss. Only an immortal sister who appeared from time to time would stay with him, care for him, and look after him.

His already-rotten heart gradually began to nurture a mad thought: Even if I die, I'll make her stay forever.

As soon as the thought arose, she disappeared completely.

Exhausted after a bloody battle, Jun Heng lay on the ground, his body ice-cold, waiting to die. But the person who came was the one he'd missed like a madman.

[Bonus scene]

Official histories record that the fourth ruler of the Great Xia Dynasty was a tyrant, cruel and unpredictable.

One day at court, the ministers watched the young emperor on the throne, his face expressionless, and trembled with fear.

Two days earlier, this young emperor had said just one thing, and the Duke of Ying's family, powerful for decades, had fallen overnight.

As they silently prayed that misfortune would not befall them, a soft, flustered voice rang out in the quiet hall.

"Jun Heng, the baby wet himself again."

Everyone turned around in shock to see a strangely dressed woman standing in the doorway with a baby in her arms.

To their horror, the young emperor, who never went near women, came down from his throne with an adoring look on his face and pulled the woman into his arms.

From that day on, whenever the young emperor attended court, he found ways to praise his beloved empress, the only woman in his harem.

★ A sweet romance: a soft, adorable, socially anxious girl x an unpredictable tyrant who can't see his wife without having a meltdown, crawling around in the shadows, and wanting to cuddle her every day.

Theme: Turning the tables against the odds.