[Secret identities + everyone dotes on her + strong heroine + face-slapping + adorable kid]
Because her mother’s identity was unusual, Xu Shengsheng grew up in the countryside, living on five jiao of pocket money a day and earning a reputation as the village’s biggest pauper.
Then a reality show about swapping lives sent her to live in the city, where she even got herself a fake dad.
Wait, her dad might actually be real.
“But a child doesn’t look down on her father for being poor, right, baby?”
Xu Shengsheng stares at the Rolls-Royce her dad drives off in late at night: “…”
Fine. They’re all pretending.
From then on, she lives like a super-poor little waif: five jiao in her pocket, riding a secondhand bicycle, and so pitiful that even the village dogs shake their heads at her.
“How can Mom be poor and Dad be even poorer? What a tragedy.”
Xu Shengsheng walks by with her worn-out schoolbag, looking perfectly calm.
Because she’s pretending, too.
At an international gaming tournament, hackers strike. From the audience, Xu Shengsheng pulls out her laptop and takes down a cyberattack involving thousands of attackers all by herself.
Only then do people learn she’s the world’s top white-hat hacker.
A virus breaks out, wiping out an entire laboratory.
She strides into an international conference room and drops a new drug on the table, earning the title of humanity’s savior.
After she gets a perfect score on the college entrance exam, someone tells her parents they’re too ignorant to know that becoming an heiress to a wealthy family is her only path to a bright future.
She turns around and flashes an account worth tens of billions of dollars.
“Mom says we should make ourselves a wealthy family.”
But watching her parents happily sew clothes and run a street stall every day, Xu Shengsheng really wants to ask:
“Mommy, Daddy, how long are you going to keep pretending?”
Pretending to be a silly little girl is exhausting.
