After rebirth, Jiang Zhe obtained the Heavenly Way Rewards Hard Work System. By learning knowledge and painting skills, he can get rewards from the system's monthly settlement.

Who says painters have to live in poverty? With the system, you will reap what you sow. Art exams, selling paintings, winning awards, and financial freedom are not a problem.

Reliving a new life, past regrets can be made up; the scenery of life will no longer be missed.

Lin Xi spent 14 years at this family and never did figure out why she had always been mistreated.

She finally learned that she was living in a cliché novel with radical moral standards.

Her mother was the female lead and her “father” was the male lead. Before the male lead fell in love with the female lead, he had belittled and was abusive to her in all sorts of ways. He even offered her up to others and, finally, the female lead had intimate relationship with a strange man.

The male lead fell head over heel in love with the female lead after that and expressed that he did not mind the child. Nevertheless, the existence of said child was a like a thorn in male and female leads’s hearts and it reminded them of their past constantly.

Unfortunately, Lin Xi was this child that should never had been born.

In the extra, Lin Xi tried to set up her sister out of envy but it backfired on herself and she ended up strangled. The male lead was able to locate the man who had intimacy with the female lead and ruined both his reputation and family fortune.

After 10 seconds of hesitation, Lin Xi decided to leave the family where she was not loved and go live with her own father.

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[1] When they first met, Gu Shao looked at the dirty girl with a foolish smile with resentment in his eyes.

Gu Shao: What’s your name?

Lin Xi: Lin Xi. No, I mean Gu Xi. Gu as in Gu Shao. Xi as in milkshake.

Gu Shao: … …

Lin Xi: Dad, if you will raise me till I am of age. I promise I will be around at your deathbed and buy you the best plot there are.

Gu Shao: … …

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Clarifications:

1. Real father. Father is an elite in electronics and very mighty.

2. Female lead is a valedictorian

3. Female lead’s original name is Gu Xi. She became Gu Xi after her father recognized her. Xi as in treasured/beloved.

4. There is a male lead, but romance line will not begin until after female lead is of age.

A poor, down on his luck kitchen hand, Ye Fei was this close to thinking about sleeping with his landlady to avoid paying rent for his shabby little apartment when he was suddenly electrocuted while trying to turn on the lights.

Unexpectedly, he did not die. Instead, a strange voice appeared in his head, “Divine Culinary Broadcasting System has successfully bonded with the host.”

Excuse me, who are you? Why are you living rent-free in my head?!

Wait, where did that new laptop come from? Also, a 24-hour unlimited Internet access?

“So long as Host performs your task well, the System shall also provide rewards and care packages from time to time.”

The f*ck? Tasks? Are they like missions? Hold on, where did those ingredients come from?

Whatever, Ye Fei was too hungry to care. Let’s just follow the System’s instructions for now and hope for the best!

She woke up from her sleep to the divorce papers that the original owner’s husband tossed at her.

Shu Yan picked up the document and took a look. She gets the house and the savings, but not the car.

Oh! And her son and daughter.

She had been a single woman in her 30’s in her previous life, and now she’s a mother?

How exciting is that?

She searched her memories. Two million dollars in savings. How much is two million dollars in the 90s?

What’s a husband? The other woman can have him. I’m taking the money and my instant son and daughter to go and enjoy ourselves!