Who Wants to Be the Foil?

Jiang Ruoyi was discovered to be a fake heiress at fourteen. That was nothing special. Stories about real and fake heiresses were old hat by now. What made her situation different was that she wasn't close to her supposed adoptive parents, nor was she close to her biological parents.

The only change was that the account paying her tuition and sending her money now belonged to someone else. And, by the way, her biological parents weren't some rural human traffickers. The hospital where she was born was too upscale for ordinary people to afford.

The anchor points of her life changed, and yet they didn't. It wasn't until there were only two people left in her real family that she could find no meaning in holding her world together except by gripping his hand.

He was her guide, her support, her family, her lover, her everything. He taught her what truly mattered, and that you had to hold on to it by any means necessary.

Luckily, she was his whole world too.

When everything came to light, everyone wanted her to become the foil to the real "princess," the scheming little green tea in the novel's world who lost everything, the failed contrast character. All she wanted to say was, who wants to be the foil? She only wanted to be the female lead.

Shen Mingming's world collapsed when she was fourteen. From that day on, it was as if she had been forced into a gorgeous dress two sizes too small and shoes three sizes too small. They looked beautiful, but they squeezed her until she could hardly bear it. She had to surpass Jiang Ruoyi because she was the real "princess," yet no one had ever asked if she wanted to be a princess.

Until one day, someone said, "It must have been hard, all these years..."

There is a CP, but the leads are not both virgins. Older male lead. The heroine has had a boyfriend during the story.

Theme: Growth, independence, self-determination, and clashes of values