The Real Heiress Is the Greatest Cultivator

[Working title]

At ten, Jiang Wanning reached Foundation Establishment. At sixteen, she formed her Golden Core. In the Age of Dharma's Decline, she was unquestionably the greatest cultivator of her time.

At twenty-one, she became deputy director of the Special Security Bureau, holding the rank of colonel and overseeing all work involving paranormal incidents.

She could fight monsters and cultivators, take on vampires and espers, and sweep across the five continents with her sword.

People called her "a national treasure."

One day,

her superior handed her a report.

Your birth parents have been found.

Only then did she suddenly remember: she might have transmigrated into a book.

What was the original plot again??

A melodramatic tale about a baby switched at birth.

And she was the real heiress.

*

The latest hot topic among the upper crust of Haishi was just one thing.

The Zhao family's heiress was a fake. The real heiress had been found.

They said the real heiress had dropped out of school at eighteen.

How tragic. Wouldn't she be worlds apart from the fake heiress?

Amid the rumors, plenty of people quietly asked Lu Jiuming about it.

Lu Jiuming wasn't interested in the Zhao family's newly reclaimed real heiress, even though he was engaged to her since childhood.

At a birthday party aboard a cruise ship, the real heiress made her first appearance.

Onlookers whispered that the Zhao family seemed to take the real heiress seriously. At least, there would be a few families willing to form an alliance with a dropout heiress for that reason alone.

But the moment the real heiress appeared at the top of the grand staircase, everyone in the hall fell silent.

Black hair, skin like snow, exquisite features, and an otherworldly beauty: she looked like a figure carved from jade and set in crystal.

She descended gracefully, led by her elder brother from the Zhao family.

In an instant, no one believed any of the wild rumors anymore.

This real heiress was no ordinary person.

Lu Jiuming's legs went weak, and the stemmed glass in his hand shattered with a snap.

His childhood friend teased him under his breath. "Love at first sight?"

Lu Jiuming's face went pale with shock. "I didn't! I haven't! Don't make things up!!!"

"Huh?"

Lu Jiuming was the current captain of the Special Security Bureau's Second Special Operations Team.

He was internally falling apart!

"B-Boss!"

Everyone watched the Lu family's young troublemaker become a different person, timidly addressing the real heiress that way.

*

Jiang Wanning was born to cultivate the sword. Her sword intent was cold and austere, her bearing pure and otherworldly. Wherever her gaze fell, frost followed.

She'd only returned to the Zhao family to settle a karmic debt.

She'd planned to get it over with as quickly as possible.

But the supposedly gracious and dignified Madam Zhao completely ignored her icy demeanor, insisting time and again that they sleep together to build their mother-daughter bond.

The supposedly reserved and upright Mr. Zhao kept trying to make awkward small talk. Every time she replied, he would beam, then take a deliberate, composed sip of water.

The supposedly stern and imposing Old Master Zhao gave her a bank card every time they met, always saying, "Kiddo, you've gotten so thin."

Her two supposedly aloof older brothers made up for every birthday, New Year, Children's Day, and other gifts they'd missed over the years, filling an entire room.

As for the so-called fake heiress:

Lin Nianqin had been found not to be the Zhao family's biological daughter as a child. She was currently working toward a PhD, and Zhao wasn't even her surname on her ID. She was an accomplished, decisive academic.

The first time she saw Jiang Wanning, her eyes lit up.

Lin Nianqin earnestly suggested, "May I call everyone here my in-laws?"

The entire Zhao family was shocked. "No!"

Jiang Wanning: "…"

A few things to know before reading:

1. There's no catfight between the real and fake heiress. Just look at Lin Nianqin's name and you'll know there was more to what happened back then.

2. Lu Jiuming, who appears in the blurb, is not the male lead! At best, he's a minion.

3. The female lead is insanely cool, adored by everyone, and surrounded by unrequited crushes.

4. The male lead is in the background, and he's not human. He's a dragon: the greatest cultivator meets the first dragon of Heaven and Earth.

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light, and there will be light.