What! The Real Heiress of a Powerful Family Is a Beacon of Faith

Xia Lu had just finished the college entrance exam when she was stabbed while trying to help someone in danger.

As she died, she made a bitter wish: "If I had the power, I'd wipe out every evildoer!"

"I have heard your wish."

A distant, cool voice answered her.

When she opened her eyes again, Xia Lu had transmigrated into a novel about a fake heiress doted on by a wealthy family.

"I am the Faith System. You are now the true heiress, a cannon-fodder character in a novel about a wealthy heiress adored by her family. You are seventeen years old and have just been brought back to the Xia family. Your biological parents, older brother, and younger brother all favor the fake heiress and consider her their only true family. They brought you back so you could take her place in an arranged marriage with the second son of the Su family, who is in a vegetative state, making you a pawn in a marriage alliance between wealthy families."

Xia Lu: "…"

I understand. Cannon fodder characters are just there to be sacrificed, but why did I transmigrate in my senior year of high school?

Do I really have to take the college entrance exam all over again?!

"…" The cool, pleasant voice in her head paused for a moment. "That's not important. This is just your identity."

"Your most important task now is to uphold justice and help me gain faith, or you'll die."

Shu Li was just trying to scare her.

In an age of rapid scientific advancement, people had gradually stopped believing in gods. As divine power faded, he could no longer maintain a human form. This studious god disguised himself as a System, a popular trope in modern novels, and chose Xia Lu as his medium so he could regain his faith.

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On her first day back with the wealthy Xia family, guided by a mission from the "System" and enduring her younger brother Xia's sarcastic remarks, Xia Lu left the house and turned into an alleyway barbecue shop.

Xia Lu saw a thug raising an empty beer bottle to strike someone and two girls fallen on the ground. Bolstered by the System's power, she gritted her teeth, charged into the crowd of thugs, hoisted a girl over each shoulder,

then ran for it at seventy miles an hour.

One of the girls she rescued turned out to be the little heiress of the Su family. After her first act of upholding justice, Xia Lu had earned the Su heiress's favor √, faith √, and an invitation to the banquet the Xia family had been desperate to attend √.

On her third day back with the wealthy family, then her fifth...

From helping an old lady cross the street to breaking into criminals' homes to rescue hostages with her bare hands, and even playing a key role in capturing a major fugitive, Xia Lu appeared onstage at the city's award ceremony for citizens who had acted bravely in the face of danger. The entire Xia family and the teachers and students at her school stared in disbelief.

But in truth, she could only look cool for three minutes at a time.

Once the three minutes of enhanced strength wore off, she became weak and helpless, fleeing in a panicked, chaotic mess.

The proud god Shu Li refused to let his believer be so fragile.

So, little by little, Xia Lu found that the cool, pleasant voice in her head had gone from assigning missions to saying things like: "Get up. Go running."

"Sign up for taekwondo. I'll learn it and teach you."

"Go get your driver's license. I'll feel better that way."

Xia Lu was forced into becoming a tearful all-rounder.

At last, she had saved enough faith. Xia Lu excitedly waved goodbye to the System, ready to enjoy the life of a true heiress with five hundred thousand a month in spending money.

But the next day, her younger brother Xia told her in horror that her fiance, who had been in a vegetative state, had woken up!

Worse, her fiance's voice was exactly the same as the System's…

The boy in the hospital bed had delicate features, like porcelain. When he spoke, his voice was cool and clear, like snowflakes softly falling, and Xia Lu felt her heart go cold.

He smiled and asked, "Xia Lu, did you go running today?"

Reading Guide:

1. A very loose modern setting with gods. Don't take it as a depiction of reality!

2. Slow burn. They focus on missions before adulthood and only fall in love after they grow up.

3. The System is a studious god in disguise. His speech is a little chuunibyou at first, but later he talks like a normal person.

4. The characters aren't perfect, including the male lead, who is a god. His idea of justice differs from a human's, and sometimes he believes in an eye for an eye and doesn't play fair.

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