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Xiao Xiaoxiao spent sixteen years in a home that felt like a swamp. Then, one day, a tycoon she had only ever seen in financial magazines came to her door and told her that she'd been switched at the hospital at birth. She was their daughter.
Looking at her elegant parents, whose faces were full of concern as they gazed at her, Xiao Xiaoxiao went home with them without hesitation. From that day on, Xiao Xiaoxiao became Xiao Xiaoxiao.
What Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't expect was that she was also in a story about a real and a fake heiress.
The fake younger sister, Xiao Zhuzhu, greeted her warmly as soon as she saw her, calling her "big sister." But when the two walked back to their room arm in arm, she deliberately leaned backward. Before she could even fall down the stairs, her eyes filled with tears. "Sister, why did you push..."
Before she could finish, the head of a broom pressed against the back of Xiao Zhuzhu's head, suspending her in midair in a peculiar pose.
Auntie Wang, the housekeeper, pulled back the arm holding the broom, crunched sunflower seeds, and spat the shells into a dustpan. "What a stale plot. I could predict what happens next with my eyes closed."
Xiao's father and mother hurried over to thank her, while in the background Xiao Xiaoxiao scrambled to pick the sunflower seed shells out of Xiao Zhuzhu's hair as the latter glared, speechless.
Auntie Wang: "As long as I get a raise."
At school, the students whispered about the timid Xiao Xiaoxiao: "She's so tacky." "I heard she's the Xiao family's country girl." "How could someone like her be allowed into our school?"
Her childhood-arranged fiancé sneered. "A woman like her thinks she deserves to join our family? So many girls like me. I'd choose anyone but her!"
After he finished speaking, a delighted voice rang out from the seat behind him. "Wow, Young Master Jing! I like you. Can you be with me?"
Jing Zetian turned around. The boy's dead-fish eyes and neat buzz cut left him stammering. "A-actually, Xiao Xiaoxiao isn't bad either. She's a girl, too."
NPC classmate Xiao Mo quietly took credit, lowered his head, and charged another 10,000-plus into the game. A trace of satisfaction appeared in his dead-fish eyes. Mm, it feels great to be a rich person in the background.
When the domineering CEO brother heard that his fake younger sister was sick, he stopped caring about his real sister's welcome-home banquet. "Assistant Liu, the banquet is all yours. Set the budget yourself. And remember to follow up on my business trip to Country A tomorrow."
Assistant Liu nodded and asked, "General Manager, what time will you leave and arrive, and..."
"I'm paying you to handle things. Figure it out yourself!"
The next day, the domineering CEO stood at the train station in a daze, holding a twenty-hour sleeper-train ticket and an itinerary that involved changing to a bus, then a boat, then a helicopter.
Assistant Liu: You told me you had a business trip the day before you were supposed to leave, and during a public holiday, no less. You should be grateful there's any way to get there at all.
In the end, the domineering CEO brother took a ride-hailing car and made it to his real sister's welcome-home banquet... for the last ten minutes.
Xiao Xiaoxiao thought the people and events she encountered after returning home were all very strange. But overall, she really liked her parents, and she got along reasonably well with her fake younger sister. It was much, much better than the sixteen years before.
Theme: Someone will always do the right thing