Shen Qingnian woke from a nap and suddenly came to her senses. It turned out she was a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a world where several melodramatic novels had merged, and she was the real heiress in the story.
In the book, she had grown up in the countryside. After being brought home, she was already timid, insecure, and weak by nature, and several branches of the Shen family ostracized her. In the end, she died young, consumed by sorrow.
After waking up, Shen Qingnian got bound to a gossip System. The more gossip she learned, the more money she earned. At last, this incredible fortune had fallen into her lap. She was not going to die young out of insecurity.
When she was welcomed back into the family, her cousin learned that one more person would be sharing the family fortune and could not resist sneering, "Qingnian grew up in the mountains, huh? I hear girls there get married young. Have you married yet? If you have, that family must have struck it rich."
Shen Qingnian was absorbed in her gossip and could not help thinking, "They definitely didn't get as good a deal as you did. You worked yourself to the bone raising someone else's son."
Everyone at the table turned to look at Shen Qingnian.
Before her cousin could faint, her second uncle fainted first.
Everyone scrambled to help him up, urging him to stay calm. At least his grandson was fake, but his son was real.
Shen Qingnian: "Huh? Why did Second Uncle faint? Did he find out his son was fake too? Oh my gosh, how is a wealthy family this ridiculous? Raising someone else's son is a family tradition now?"
The Shen family: "????" The second branch immediately began a large-scale round of DNA testing that very night.
After the results came back, Second Uncle stopped fighting over the family fortune. He even gave his entire share to Shen Qingnian!!!
Her second brother's farce made her aunt clutch her chest in relief. Fortunately, she knew her own daughter was biologically hers!
When Shen Qingnian found out that her white-lotus cousin was the heroine of an angsty romance, she smiled faintly. "Yes, luckily she's your biological daughter. Otherwise, you'd probably want to kill her right now. She's the heroine of an old-school angsty romance. Sooner or later, the domineering CEO will have her heart and liver cut out, keep her imprisoned, and do all sorts of awful things to her. Because you tried to stop them from being together, he'll bankrupt your family and kill everyone. In the end, the CEO will kneel and say, 'I never knew how to love someone.' Then my cousin, with her love-addled brain, will immediately throw herself into his arms."
"As the saying goes, you lose your lives, while they gain love. Brilliant!"
Her aunt's whole family: "????"
Later, her aunt's entire family handed all their assets over to Shen Qingnian. They were going to go bankrupt sooner or later, so they might as well give it away early.
Having saved their lives, her aunt's family was especially proud. Their perspective had just opened right up!!
Her eldest brother, Shen Wenzhi, was usually busy with work and paid little attention to the sister who had just been found. Then one day, before a new product launch, their father told him to take her along so she could broaden her horizons.
During the meeting, he heard Shen Qingnian mutter, "No wonder this product launch will deal a devastating blow to the Shen family. Big Brother's assistant is a corporate spy from the company next door. They stole our new product's information and formula, and they're even launching it two hours ahead of us."
"Oh my gosh, that assistant was introduced by the fake heiress. I thought Big Brother wasn't smart enough, but it turns out his eyes were covered in crap."
Should she warn her big brother? He probably wouldn't believe her, right? After all, blood ties with a stranger might not outweigh the affection of growing up together. But if she did not warn him, she'd inherit part of the family fortune too, wouldn't she?
While Shen Qingnian was hesitating, Shen Wenzhi had already put an emergency plan into action. He showed no mercy, sending both the assistant and the fake heiress to prison for corporate theft.
In the end, he placed a black card with no spending limit in Shen Qingnian's hand. "You're my only sister. I'll always believe what you say."
Shen Qingnian: Huh?
Her second brother, a top-tier star who had just returned from an overseas awards ceremony, came home to find an unfamiliar younger sister. Before he could say a word, he saw her looking at him with a pitiful expression.
"Oh my gosh, my poor second brother has finally come back."
"He doesn't know yet, does he? For the variety show he's about to join, he's afraid people will mock him for having a country bumpkin sister, so he's going to take his good friend's younger sister instead."
"But the fake younger sister is a schemer. To marry her, she'll even falsely claim on the show that Second Brother harassed her. From then on, the whole internet will turn against him."
Second Brother: "???"
He immediately transferred ten million to Shen Qingnian's account, then asked ingratiatingly, "Little sister, would you come with me to be on a family variety show?"
Theme: Believe in yourself.