The Real Heiress of the Eighties Compound

Ruan Tang, the beautiful, rich girl from a military family compound, had a starting point that was already the finish line for others.

Her grandfather was the top man in the national defense forces, and her grandmother was a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Her father was a young major general in the military, and her mother was a pioneering doctor in domestic women's and children's healthcare.

Ruan Tang's life was practically unstoppable. But recently, her family discovered that she wasn't their biological daughter.

After they brought back Yan Yan, the grubby little girl from the countryside, Ruan Tang looked at her as if she were a speck of dirt.

The real daughter was mocked by the other kids in the compound and ostracized at school. Ruan Tang merely smiled faintly and told her, "If I were you, I'd have gone back to the countryside ages ago."

Growing up with a gambling father and an abusive mother, Yan Yan learned at a very young age that she needed to earn money to pay for her education.

She collected bottles, cardboard, and scrap metal, and learned to make hair clips on weekends. She sold them, along with women's skirts, on the streets and at the train station. At the end of each term, she set up a tutoring class to help her classmates and younger students prepare for the entrance exams to middle school, making a fortune.

By the age of eleven, Yan Yan had saved nearly a thousand yuan. After her biological parents brought her home, she used her own money to buy skirts, toys, chocolate, and ice cream. Every time, Ruan Tang, the fake daughter, would glare at her and ask, "Did you steal money from the family again?"

Yan Yan smiled. "Want some? My treat."

The boy Ruan Tang had a crush on in the compound was Qi Ziqi. When he saw Yan Yan, he asked, "Ruan Tang says you bully her?" He'd noticed that Yan Yan was selling little wholesale toys like bubble guns and slingshots near the family compound, and he was quite curious about her.

"What, are you here to stand up for her?" Yan Yan wasn't particularly thin or tall and bulky. On the contrary, she had the makings of a beauty, with fair skin and a rosy glow.

"I'm here to apply for a tutoring job at your class," Qi Ziqi said. "Could you use a top student who's even better than you?"

Yan Yan replied, "There's no one in this world who's a better student than me."

The female lead is the real daughter, and a scientist.

A satisfying power fantasy.

Two career paths: scientific research and making money.

Theme: Let hardship forge your will. Let suffering hone you. Keep your faith alive, and look up to the towering mountains.