The Reborn Heiress Has No Time for Romance

Fifteen years after her death, Jiang Shanyue had become the villainess in a tragic love story in the eyes of the world. Her billions in inheritance would eventually be squandered by the niece she had raised, an adopted heiress who would run the family into bankruptcy.

After being reborn, she learned that she was merely a cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel, destined to die young.

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Everyone knew that Jiang Shanyue was madly in love with the second young master of the Gu family, Gu Zuo. Everyone also knew that Mr. Gu loved the actress Yiyi, but he had never openly broken things off with Jiang Shanyue because of their childhood engagement and their families' interests.

After Jiang Shanyue died, everyone said that Mr. Gu would be on top of the world, indirectly inheriting his fiancee's entire estate and winning the beauty's heart.

The next day, the Jiang family carried out her will: they ended the engagement and pulled their investments. The Gu family's stock price plunged, and its market value evaporated at an astonishing speed.

The internet was stunned!

Only after Jiang Shanyue had died and he had fallen into poverty did Gu Zuo suddenly realize that she held a place in his heart.

It had never been that she was like Yiyi. It was Yiyi who was like her.

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Adopted heiress niece skit:

Jiang Shanyue sat in her wheelchair, half her body hidden in shadow, her expression inscrutable as she looked at her three-and-a-half-year-old niece.

"Come... recite page seventy-five of the New Chinese Dictionary from memory."

The little girl stared at her blankly.

Jiang Shanyue tilted her head. "You're already in kindergarten. You still don't understand?"

The little girl: Auntie, get a grip! QAQ

Three months later, the little niece had memorized the entire New Chinese Dictionary.

Jiang Nuannuan: What's it like having a cold, obsessive, top-student aunt?

Jiang Nuannuan appeared on a child prodigy show and let it slip in her childish voice: "My aunt is amazing! She speaks eight languages, and she's a master of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She can recite every book she's read from memory, and she's always so 'patient' when she teaches me."

Everyone scoffed inwardly. The head of the Jiang family, Jiang Shanyue, never appeared in public. They said she was vicious and ugly, and had only taken over because there was no heir.

Most importantly, this woman had died several months ago. The little girl took out a photo of herself with her aunt, taken just three days earlier. The woman in the photo was even more breathtakingly beautiful than before, and looked very familiar...

The female lead is a beautiful cannon-fodder supporting character with impaired mobility who needs a wheelchair.

But she has a secret identity with a healthy body that can walk freely.

Your admiration is nothing more than an afterthought to me. This story is also called "After My Ex-Fiance Dumped Me, He Found Me Again and Made Me My Own Replacement."

Coming soon: "The Kraken's Personal Code of Conduct"

The massive full-immersion game Sweet Dream has an NPC interaction and relationship System. Players can freely pursue NPCs in this role-playing game, and NPCs can develop affection for different players. The first player to reach one hundred percent affection can claim that NPC as their exclusive character.

*Lu Mobei once tried the game, pursuing an NPC character. She had a tragic past, was timid and fearful, and was utterly self-effacing for love. Unfortunately, her stats were too poor. He couldn't bring himself to abandon her, but there was no fun in keeping her around either, so he started trying to pursue other NPCs who hadn't been claimed yet.

Before the game shut down, she clung to his leg and wept bitterly, saying that she loved only him and would wait for him to come back. Still, Lu Mobei quit without hesitation. Three years later, Sweet Dream went back online. The world lines had reset, but NPC affection levels hadn't.

Lu Mobei logged back in and headed to the game lobby.

"Hello, sir." Lu Mobei said, "I'm here to see Xu Lu. I'm the only player who maxed out her affection."

*After logging back into the game, Lu Mobei thought Xu Lu would come running to see him. He couldn't help sneering. One day, two days... Five days. He couldn't take it anymore, so he went to the game lobby to look for Xu Lu among the NPCs.

Only then did he discover that more than a dozen players in the lobby had come to see her.

You're the only player who maxed out my affection. Lu Mobei: This is freaking ridiculous. :)

From Xu Lu's perspective, she was just a low-ability S-rank NPC. Back then, in order to find a player to bind herself to, she had started frantically raising players' affection, planning to catch some sucker. The game was going to shut down anyway.

Three years later, the game came back online, and all the players she'd romanced back then came looking to rekindle things.

Xu Lu: I'm waiting online, and I'm in a real hurry.

Theme: Live your own life!