The Cannon Fodder Stepping Stone Is Unprincipled [90s]

Back when Cheng Man was still a student, she watched a wealthy tycoon and his wife—whose face was practically made of plastic surgery and “pure technology”—flex their wealth on a hit variety show. The world hailed them as a real-life fairy-tale romance, completely forgetting the woman buried in the background: the tycoon’s first wife, who happened to share Cheng Man’s exact name. That first wife was the ultimate “vicious” stepping stone. She sold her house, quit her job, and poured every penny into funding her husband’s startup—only for her snake-of-a-best-friend to steal him away, leaving her cast aside without a single cent to her name. Cheng Man had pitied the woman, but she never imagined she would wake up inside her body. Opening her eyes in a run-down noodle shop, Cheng Man is greeted by two people: her freeloading, arrogant husband demanding her devotion, and her shady best friend shoving a pen into her hand, urging her to sign away her house. They expect a pushover who will sacrifice everything for their rise. Instead, they’re about to find out what happens when a stepping stone refuses to play nice, throws out the moral compass, and decides to ruin everyone’s day.