The Beloved One Everyone Covets

Jiang Luoyue always thought she had a happy life.

Born into the wealthy Ning family, she had all the makings of a novel's heroine: a CEO older sister who doted on her, a childhood friend who was tsundere and fiercely protective, a quiet but clingy best friend, and her sister's friend, who often visited and looked out for her.

Then, at eighteen, Jiang Luoyue unexpectedly learned that she was a cannon-fodder character in a book.

She was only the Ning family's adopted daughter. Her true identity was the real heiress of the wealthy Jiang family, switched at birth. Out of resentment toward the fake heiress, who was adored by everyone, she would bully and frame her by any means necessary. When her wicked deeds came to light, everyone despised and abandoned her, and she spent the rest of her life in prison.

Jiang Luoyue, who had grown up cheerful, healthy, and with perfectly normal values: "..." How terrifying!

She told three people about it separately: her childhood friend Fu Yunqing, her deskmate Yu Jingtang, and her older sister's friend, Xiang Fan.

She thought they would isolate and avoid her, just like in the novel.

But her childhood friend told her, "I'll take care of you for the rest of your life."

Her deskmate said, "I've always liked you, Luoyue, never because of who you are."

Her sister's friend joked, "Kicked out? That works out perfectly. I can adopt you and be your mom."

Even her older sister, after hearing about it, solemnly told her, "You are everything to me. None of that will happen."

The Jiang family disappeared from Jiang Luoyue's life.

But the people around her gradually began acting strangely because of that dream.

Ning Fuguang seemed to dote on her and support everything she did, but had been secretly keeping track of her whereabouts.

The high-maintenance Fu Yunqing wouldn't let her get close to other girls and wrote a hundred times in her diary that she wanted to marry her.

Xiang Fan, who suffered from an insatiable need for physical contact, asked her after drinking whether she would marry her someday, and even covered an entire wall with her photos.

Her deskmate was the only one who seemed normal, yet after hearing her complaints, she suddenly confessed her feelings.

When Jiang Luoyue, at a loss, turned her down, her eyes gradually reddened.

When everything came to light, they gazed at Jiang Luoyue with damp, clingy, obsessive, tear-filled eyes.

Jiang Luoyue ran away in terror.

Years later, after returning from her studies abroad, Jiang Luoyue read a line online:

[The beauty of sisterly love is that even after breaking up, you still go home to eat New Year's Eve dinner together.]

Jiang Luoyue looked around at the welcome-home banquet, at her older sister and ex-girlfriends. "..."

Thanks for asking, but I've lost my appetite.

*The characters are not related by blood. This is not an incest story.

Theme: Understand that life is a process of giving and receiving love, and cherish everything you have, along with those who love and protect you.