Reborn as a Scheming Heiress

Zhang Yan transmigrates into a wealthy-family romance novel as the male lead's doomed ex-fiancée.

As the scheming villainess of the story, the original Zhang Yan acts meek and pitiful in front of the male lead one moment, then trips up the heroine and makes trouble for her the next. In the end, she lands in prison and meets a miserable fate.

Faced with the plot, Zhang Yan readily agrees to the male lead's request to call off their engagement and plans to become an unobtrusive freeloader in a wealthy family.

In her free time, she plays chess and drinks tea with Grandpa, the head of the family;

Gossips with her two aunts by marriage about the love and hate between the various wealthy families;

Becomes the sweetest little cousin to her three older male cousins, and even helps them out as their wingwoman;

What a blissful life of doing absolutely nothing~

It's just that her younger uncle can be gentle and refined one moment, then snide and sarcastic the next.

He's impossible to figure out.

Unexpectedly, the male lead comes to her door asking to get back together, saying that his feelings for the heroine were just a moment of temporary madness.

When she turns him down, he claims to have proof that she isn't a blood relative of the Zhang family and "advises" her to think it over carefully.

Zhang Yan: Could there be a hidden plotline????

Not wanting anyone to lead her around by the nose, Zhang Yan hurries home to get the truth.

Grandpa narrows his eyes. "That brat wants to die?"

Her two aunts by marriage: "He's so ordinary, yet so confident."

Her three older cousins step in front of her to protect her. "Don't be scared, Yanyan. We'll get even with him for you!"

Her younger uncle falls silent for a while, then says, "Ask him if he wants the Lin family to go bust when the weather turns cold."

Zhang Yan: ...

So there really is a hidden plotline!!!!

After her true origins come to light, Zhang Yan reunites with her birth family and prepares to turn over a new leaf and keep working hard.

Yet everyone in the Zhang family still dotes on her just as much as before.

Her younger uncle, in particular, comes by every day to make sure she notices him.

Zhang Yan asks curiously, "Uncle, don't you have work to do at the company?"

Shen Sui: "Stop calling me Uncle. I'm only a few years older than you."

Zhang Yan: ...

There's something off about this uncle!

Special Notes:

1. The male lead is Shen Sui, the heroine's younger uncle, but they are not related by blood.

2. The heroine was raised by the Zhang family, but was never legally adopted. She has her own household registration and will leave the Zhang family later on.

3. There are no romantic feelings described while the leads still appear to be related.

4. The male lead lived overseas for many years and didn't return to China until the heroine was twenty. He did not raise her.

Synopsis for "The White Moonlight's Substitute Wakes Up":

Tang Tang has lived a smooth life for twenty years before discovering that she's living in a novel.

Her boyfriend, Jiang Xu, is the male lead, but she is only a substitute for his white moonlight's ex-girlfriend.

According to the plot, the heroine, the white moonlight, will return from overseas in a month. Jiang Xu will break up with Tang Tang and give her an astronomical breakup fee.

As the novel's vicious villainess, Tang Tang doesn't take the money and leave. Instead, she tries every way she can to make trouble for the heroine, only to be face-slapped again and again, until she is utterly disgraced and meets a miserable end.

Tang Tang would never follow the original plot, of course. She takes the astronomical breakup fee and runs off to enjoy her own little life.

Unexpectedly, the day after the breakup, the male lead's uncle, Feng Yu, comes to her in person, claiming he's there to ask her to invest in a project.

Tang Tang: ...

There's no way a wealthy CEO worth hundreds of billions would lower himself to swindle her out of her breakup money!

Six months later, Tang Tang has not only made a fortune, but also found herself an extremely handsome, considerate, and amazing boyfriend.

After breaking up with Tang Tang, Jiang Xu quickly got back together with his high school sweetheart, the white moonlight he had lost. Yet he didn't feel as though he had regained something precious.

It wasn't until six months later, when he saw his ex-girlfriend holding his maternal uncle's arm as she attended a press conference with him, smiling with such dazzling beauty, that he suddenly understood what he had once lost.

Jiang Xu knew his uncle well. He knew that even if he spent his whole life trying, there was no way he could take Tang Tang back from him.

Message: Always keep a positive outlook.