The Real Heiress Becomes the Family Favorite by Reading Minds and Sharing Gossip

Ji Ran was a disposable true heiress, branded as someone who brought misfortune to her family and deliberately sent back to the countryside. She'd been away for eighteen years.

The Ji family had no idea she'd been born with a gossip System.

After the true heiress returned to her wealthy family, the fake heiress came back from studying abroad. She was beautiful, kind, and capable, and was set to marry into the most powerful financial dynasty in their circle.

Her eldest brother, Ji Hong, lectured the true heiress, who sat in a wheelchair. "Stop scheming. Don't covet what's not yours. The Qin family won't marry a true heiress in a wheelchair."

Ji Ran: "..."

The System fumed: [Can he even speak like a normal person?! Let's check out his gossip. He'll be crying in a minute.]

Ji Hong: ???

Sitting in her wheelchair, Ji Ran looked calm and composed, without a trace of the gloom and irritability in that voice.

"Don't be angry. Making money is more important."

[Hmph, I'm not angry.]

The System secretly turned on its speaker, making sure anyone who came near its Host could hear the conversation between them.

Once, someone had deliberately pushed Ranran out of her wheelchair.

Only five years old and unable to move her legs, Ranran had lain on the cold ground all night. Someone didn't help her up until morning.

The System couldn't step in to help, so it had turned on the speaker ever since, to scare off every bad person!

[Tsk, tsk. Ji Hong's girlfriend has been keeping a handsome male model and spending every night carousing with him for six months.]

Ji Ran, serene and elegant, looked through the System's material. When she'd finished, she sighed too. "I never would have guessed that man was the third son of the head of state next door..."

[Hahaha, right? And they even... How wonderful!!]

Ji Hong's face twisted with curiosity and frustration. And what??? Just say it already!

But Ji Ran gave a satisfied smile. "Still, it's best if we keep this to ourselves. We absolutely can't say it out loud."

Her eldest brother stormed away with a green face.

Ji Ran uploaded the story to the System's interface. Chapter One was finished.

To find out what they were talking about, Ji Hong completely changed his attitude. He showered her with money, took her out to eat, and offered her a job, turning into a doting older brother.

Ji Ran assumed he was just acting crazy for no reason.

Her father said, "Your sister Ji Hua's engagement to Qin Shitian still stands... Don't bother him. You're not a match for each other."

[That's true, they're not a match. That man was your stepmother's first love. What a huge pitfall! The Ji family is really ruthless. Our Ranran doesn't want him anyway!]

Her father was furious and shocked. How could she make up such nonsense?!

Wait, no. She hadn't said anything, had she?

He looked around carefully and realized that nobody else seemed surprised.

Everyone else looked numb. They'd already heard some of the gossip, and their whole worldview had been blown away. Ji Ran really was the bane of all the world's mischief!

[Qin Shitian's unrequited love... Your sister really does look like his stepmother, though. Both are stunning beauties with delicate features and a classical air!]

Ji Ran was busy eating, jotting things down, and updating her story, without noticing that the whole family around her was breaking into a cold sweat.

Ji Hua covered her face sadly. Maybe this was for the best... At least now she wouldn't have to hide her pain.

Her father saw her reaction. "...Call your three cousins. We're going to the Qin family right now!"

At a banquet.

[Is Mrs. Zhao getting a divorce? Sigh, President Zhao has it rough.]

Ji Ran: "Which Zhao family?"

[The woman in yellow to your left. Her husband, President Zhao, is raising his brother's children, but he kicked his own children out...]

The whole room was shocked, then looked at President Zhao with "sympathy"...

President Zhao trembled as he looked at his three "illegitimate sons"...

Mrs. Han was deeply grateful to Ji Ran and became a regular at the gossip sessions from then on.

[That big-name singer from the Wang family? Actually, this kid lip-syncs. The real singer is the young maid who waits on him. You heard me right, her voice is so androgynous it's hard to tell if it's male or female.]

Ji Ran exclaimed, "That girl spoke to me earlier. Her voice really is lovely..."

Everyone: "?"

[And it's not just that he doesn't give the maid a cent of what he earns. He drove her into a corner, so she started her own account. She's already number one on the newcomer rising-stars chart...]

The young maid was mopping the hall. She'd already made a comeback, but people were accusing her of faking it. She suddenly looked up, only to see everyone gazing at her with delight.

Afterward, countless people came to recruit her! She became a world-renowned diva!

Ji Ran had planned to stay home and enjoy the gossip, but one by one, the Ji family members forgot what they'd said and kept dragging her out to uncover gossip about the people in their circle!

The Ji family doted on her. They never imagined the Zhou, Han, and Qin families would all compete to get her to come to their events...

Later, Ji Ran became wildly famous and was revered by everyone in the wealthy circles as their "grandaunt."

Later still, she even appeared at a historic national negotiation...

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The Qin family had a wealthy bachelor named Qin Shizhi, and everyone in their circle was dying to hear his gossip.

Friend 1: "Ranran, what do you think of Qin Shizhi? I heard he fell for a younger guy. Is that true?"

You couldn't afford to offend important people, but Ji Ran thought: "There's not much gossip about him, but he seems upright and dignified on the surface. Actually, he's..."

[He's a masochist! Hahaha, he likes buying all kinds of whips.]

"He likes being whipped."

The next day, Qin Shizhi's study was ransacked by a few younger men. They found thirty whips, and he ended up trending.

Friend 1: "Ji Ran, did you know Qin Shizhi likes buying whips?"

"No idea." Ji Ran thought: "What a coincidence. I definitely didn't say anything."

[Buying whips is nothing. He's also a...]

Friend 1 clapped a hand over their mouth in horror, thinking: "What the hell???? Why?"

The whole incident caused Qin Shizhi a great deal of inconvenience and trouble.

He suppressed the urge to lose it. ...Fine, I'm done holding back. I have to find out who's behind this!!!

Qin Shizhi was a lifelong bachelor and opposed to marriage. Once he found the culprit, he planned to send them a lawyer's letter and make them pay until they were penniless!

When he found Ji Ran, he looked over her information with disdain. ...Another one of those fake-heiress and true-heiress stories. Does she think domineering CEOs are sold like cabbages at a wholesale market? So cheap that everyone can buy ten jin of them???

Ji Ran sat down in front of him and opened the gossip System to update it. She froze.

[The woman Qin Shizhi hates most: Ji Ran]

All right, then.

[Tsk, tsk... He's actually a fake young master... His adoptive mother actually agreed to take in someone else's illegitimate child? No wonder, she can't have children!]

[I hate these fake-young-master and true-young-master stories. I wonder which true heiress is going to get unlucky.]

"..." Qin Shizhi gritted his teeth and thought: It's you. You're the true heiress who's going to get unlucky!

But when he looked up in anger, he was taken aback.

She was in a wheelchair? And that lively voice didn't seem to match her temperament at all.

So this was the all-knowing big shot the files had described?

Someone who used secrets to threaten people?

A ruthless figure who attacked the top-tier stars of the calligraphy, literature, music, livestreaming, and dance worlds by any means necessary???

Qin Shizhi stared in disbelief at the backpack beside the "big shot." Inside was a thick pack of adult diapers...

Ji Ran noticed him looking. Calmly lowering her gaze to avoid the pity in his eyes, she reached over and straightened the pack of adult diapers at her side, tucking away the packaging that had been exposed when her wheelchair jolted on the way in.

"Hello, Mr. Qin."

Qin Shizhi met her gaze and came back to himself. His face turned red first. "I'm sorry. I didn't know. I... I'll pick you up next time."

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