Akuyaku Mamahaha to Shite Ikinokoru Houhou

"All-out child-rearing to avoid execution! Or so I thought but somehow the entire family is all-out showering me with love?!" The protagonist possesses Arcelia, a wicked stepmother condemned to be executed on a false charge. Her condition for survival: "Protect the family name and the children until the eldest son comes of age." Three step-children who make no secret of their hostility. Relatives scheming after the family's fortune. And the most terrifying knight commander her husband's former subordinate. In a duke's household swirling with conspiracy, she throws herself into a life-or-death mission of child-rearing and reform. At least, that was the plan. But she ends up being loved so deeply that a "quiet retirement" becomes completely impossible. "Those two are fighting over you again! But you can't go with them Mother belongs to me." From despised villainess to the object of smothering, overprotective adoration from her step-family and knights alike escape is no longer an option.