The blurb for this story has been revised.
Lin Yiran read an eighties-era novel about a real daughter and a fake daughter. In the novel, the real daughter was switched at birth by a nanny and only found eighteen years later.
Her biological father thought she was stupid and ill-mannered, with vulgar habits and a knack for making a fool of herself. She wasn't fit to be a member of the Lin family and wasn't as good as the fake daughter...
Her biological mother thought she was fat and dark, and looked tacky in everything she wore. She didn't seem like her real daughter and wasn't as good as the fake daughter...
Her biological brother watched his friends laugh at her. He thought she embarrassed him and wasn't as good as the fake daughter...
No one cared what the real daughter had been through during those eighteen years. No one asked why she was so dark and looked so tacky, or why she had stopped going to school so young...
They were only afraid that the real daughter's return would bring shame on them, so they concealed the truth about which daughter was real and which was fake.
After the real daughter returned, her father didn't love her, her mother didn't care for her, and her brother rejected her. She endured mockery and scorn from the outside world. In the end, unable to bear such unequal treatment, she went further and further down the path of self-destruction.
After finishing the novel, Lin Yiran cursed the author for having such a warped worldview. She never expected to wake up transmigrated into the body of the real daughter, a supporting character with the same name.
Facing the mirror, Lin Yiran touched the real daughter's face with her calloused hands and said tenderly, "I'll help you take back everything they owe you!"
The Lin family never imagined that the country bumpkin from the village they'd all looked down on would one day become someone they couldn't hope to reach...
Theme: Don't bow to the author. Be brave enough to live as your true self