Reborn, I Was Tangled Up with the Sickly True Heiress

After Ye Tingxi died, she discovered that she had been living inside a novel. She was the fake heiress of a wealthy family, a disposable character killed off early in the story.

At her birthday party, her true identity was exposed, sending her from the center of everyone's attention to rock bottom overnight.

Her parents and older sister refused to acknowledge her. Her old friends scattered, and she was met with scorn, betrayal, and open hostility...

Ye Tingxi tried to prove that she had once been loved. She clashed with the real heiress, Shen Zhixu, at every turn, but only became completely despised. All she got was a bank card thrown in her face and a single word: "Get out."

There wasn't enough money on the card to pay for treatment. Ye Tingxi died on a cold winter night.

Reborn, Ye Tingxi opened her eyes to find Shen Zhixu glaring at her as if she wanted to carve the flesh from her bones.

They were in a brightly lit private room, where Ye Tingxi's entourage was egging on the service worker in front of them, demanding that she drink the strongest liquor.

This was their first meeting. If Ye Tingxi helped Shen Zhixu up, sincerely apologized, and made an effort to get along with her, surely things would not end as miserably as they had in her previous life.

Thinking this, Ye Tingxi lifted Shen Zhixu's chin with one finger, then slowly poured an entire bottle of red wine over her head.

"Don't show your face around me again." She smiled as she admired Shen Zhixu's expression, speaking softly.

After Ye Tingxi's twentieth birthday party, the gossip spread throughout Ningcheng: the Ye family had switched babies, and the fake heiress had usurped the real heiress's place all these years.

Countless people waited to see Ye Tingxi make a fool of herself, speculating about how the once reckless second daughter of the Ye family would behave now that their positions had been reversed.

At the same time, quite a few people secretly reached out to help Ye Tingxi, hoping to become the knight who rescued the fallen princess.

At the center of the storm, Shen Zhixu clung tightly to Ye Tingxi, refusing to let her leave.

In her previous life, Shen Zhixu had hated the person who stole her life. She had humiliated Ye Tingxi in every way, and even tried to kill her after learning the truth about the switched babies.

But now, when Ye Tingxi truly stopped looking at her and tried to withdraw from her world completely, Shen Zhixu went mad.

Why should Ye Tingxi get to walk away unscathed after turning her whole life upside down?

Why should Ye Tingxi accept her sudden fall from grace without a qualm, and ignore Shen Zhixu's attempts at revenge?

Why... wasn't she the one who made Ye Tingxi smile?

It wasn't until she lay awake late at night, her mind hazy, and realized she was thinking about Ye Tingxi again that Shen Zhixu finally lost control.

In the basement, she built a cage for Ye Tingxi with her own hands. Stroking the cold metal, she imagined locking the other woman inside forever, and at last felt a sense of security she had not felt in a long time.

She was sick, and only Ye Tingxi could cure her.

Cheerful and uninhibited on the surface, but cool and distant underneath, gong x cold, obsessive, and aloof shou

Gong's POV, no side characters tagging along, both are virgins, both are reborn, happy ending, includes a groveling arc where the shou pursues the gong

There was a misunderstanding in the previous life. The gong has a universally adored quality. Please drop the story if you can't accept that.

Theme: Changing regrets