/A guileless younger sister with a little cleverness vs. a seemingly proper older sister who schemes at every turn
/Cui Zhen vs. Xu Ruqing
Cui Zhen used to think everything in her life went her way, making her the ultimate winner: her family was wealthy, her mothers loved each other, and her older sister doted on her.
If she so much as asked, she could have the moon in the sky. She never had to face any consequences.
But that was only what she thought.
On her eighteenth birthday, Cui Zhen's beautiful dream shattered like a mirror, scattering into countless pieces.
Her mothers brought a girl home and said that, due to a hospital mix-up years ago, this was their real younger daughter.
It turned out Cui Zhen was a fake heiress who had taken someone else's place for years, and was supposed to have lived an ordinary life.
Her birth mother needed her by her side, so Cui Zhen had no choice but to leave with a sum of money and move into a cheap rental.
In just a month, she had spent it all.
No vacations, no auctions, no art exhibitions. She had to earn the exorbitant tuition herself. Lying in an eight-square-meter room, Cui Zhen wanted to die.
But she was afraid of pain. She couldn't die.
She needed money.
To get her comfortable life back, Cui Zhen waited for days along her eldest sister's route home from work and finally stopped her.
Her sister had always indulged her. No matter how unreasonable her demands were, she would fulfill them with a resigned sigh.
Cui Zhen was sure that if she asked Xu Ruqing, everything would be taken care of. At the very least, she could get a different place to live, one that wouldn't give her a rash.
She clutched Xu Ruqing's sleeve, pleading and crying over and over.
But Xu Ruqing simply looked down at her and let her carry on, saying nothing about her request.
Fine. So they really were just fake sisters.
Cui Zhen wiped away her tears and turned to leave, unwilling to let a sister who wasn't even related to her humiliate her any further. But someone grabbed her wrist.
Xu Ruqing sighed behind her and told her that there was no such thing as a free lunch. If she wanted one thing, she'd have to give up something else.
Cui Zhen asked Xu Ruqing what she wanted in return.
Xu Ruqing said:
To become her sister's partner.
Theme: Study hard and stop scheming
