The Real Heiress Writes a Scandalous Drama and Becomes a Hit

Shen Suyu transmigrates into a book about a wealthy family with a real and a fake heiress. She becomes the real heiress, the despised foil to the fake heiress, who is the female lead.

In the book:

The fake heiress is adored by everyone, while the real heiress is trampled into the dirt and ignored. When the fake heiress writes books, she's praised for her talent. When the real heiress writes, she's accused of imitating someone else.

Shen Suyu looks at the angst fiction praised to the skies: That's it???

As a playwright at a theater with a secure job, Shen Suyu decides to let loose. Does it make sense for everyone in a melodramatic world to spend all day wallowing in sorrow? She's going to expose the truth of this world and turn up the melodrama!

On the show The Birth of a Play:

Assigned the theme "Urban Youth," other people's scripts go: "The morning sun follows the breeze, while you accompany my uncertainty." Suyu's script goes: "She runs, he chases, and she has nowhere to escape."

Assigned the theme "A Wealthy Family," other people's scripts go: "The ballet of our dreams, the piano music at our fingertips." Suyu's script goes: "A replacement, an abortion, an illegitimate child, a car crash, cancer, and a cheating spouse."

Assigned the theme "Secrets of the Imperial Palace."

Other people's scripts go: "I love you, yet we must part." Suyu's script goes: "Your Majesty, the Empress has died in the Cold Palace, along with the child she carried!"

The audience in public: This is ridiculous, complete nonsense. Only a fool would watch it.

The audience in private: I'll just watch a billion more episodes.

Later...

A rich young heir is exposed for having a child out of wedlock, and his fiancee runs away while pregnant. A CEO declares that his replacement is his true love. And it turns out that something happened between a wealthy family's fake siblings!

The audience: We've learned so much. Art imitates life, and we're stuffed full of juicy gossip.

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After Suyu becomes famous, she looks at the man in the kitchen, now wearing an apron and bare-faced, all sweet and domestic. He's played countless scumbags and roles in groveling-after-your-wife stories, earning widespread hate for it. "What kind of compensation do you want?"

Chu Mingxiu smiles, innocent and gentle. "It's fine if you torment me, Sis. I like it."