Only when Chen Wu was eighteen years old did he realize that the family had raised her not because they pitied her, but because she was "useful".
She was the backup donor for her sickly adopted brother, the one who was almost sold as a drinking companion on the eve of the college entrance examination, and the white-eyed wolf in everyone's eyes who was "ungrateful and ran away without saving people."
But no one knew that after Chen Wu escaped with all his life, he finally managed to live a decent life with scholarship, part-time job and strong bones.
Until a high-end dinner party, her adoptive parents suddenly broke in and tore apart her most embarrassing past in public.
It was also on that day that she met Lu Xichen again - the man who had reached out to her when she was most embarrassed, but who could not stand up and choose her after all.
She also met Gu Yanci - the man who approached her with a purpose at first, but later he couldn't bear to see her suffer any injustice.
An old hospital file, a destroyed birth index, and the words "take the child away" dragged Chen Wu back into the old case of a wealthy family.
It turned out that she was not an abandoned baby who was thrown away casually.
It turns out that her mother's death was not an accident.
It turned out that from the beginning of her life, she had been calculated, replaced, and sacrificed.
Everyone thought she would rot in the mud for the rest of her life.
But Chen Wu refused to accept his fate.
They used her as a surrogate, as a bargaining chip, as someone they could throw away easily.
Later, she stepped on everyone's debts, love, and calculations, and step by step, she took back her name, dignity, and life.
Only this time——
She didn't want her life to start with any man.
