The Real Heiress of the Sixties Refuses to Be a Foil

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Lu Yu was the real heiress, who had spent twenty years away from home while her family raised a fake heiress.

In her previous life, the Lu family gave the fake heiress all their money and resources, while Lu Yu got their love and the supposedly symbolic pearl.

Lu Yu in her previous life: ...I might as well change my name to Lu Speechless. All they give me is useless stuff!

The latest gossip from the military compound: That distant relative at Colonel Lu's home is crude, shrewish, and miserly. She's nothing like Lu Mei.

Lu Yu didn't care. While Lu Mei wore little sheepskin wedge heels and discussed life and ideals with a book in hand, Lu Yu dodged the crowds and searched high and low for money.

Later, disaster struck the Lu family. Colonel Lu announced in the newspaper that he was severing ties with Lu Mei, but planned to take Lu Yu along to endure hardship and sandstorms.

Lu Yu at the time: ...You've got to be kidding. She wasn't even on the Lu family household register!

She had already packed her bags and was ready to run, but there was no way she could stand up to someone more powerful. If only she hadn't exposed the brigade leader's daughter for impersonating her back then!

She'd thought she was heading toward family affection and a good life!

Of course, the scene the Lu family imagined, where Lu Yu would be grateful and dutifully work herself to the bone caring for them after they "drove" Lu Mei away, never happened. She only did her share of the work, and she was never slow to reach for the serving chopsticks at mealtimes.

The Lu family tried to guilt-trip her?

That wouldn't work. She didn't have a conscience to appeal to!

Besides, she was busy looking for money everywhere. She had no time to listen to their nonsense!

But she never imagined that Lu's mother could be so ruthless as to push her into a lake in the freezing cold!

So when Lu Yu, reborn, discovered that the pearl symbolizing the Lu family's identity had come back with her, she gave a cold laugh.

Lu Yu later: ...Sorry, I laughed too loudly!

That pearl, whose material was impossible to identify, turned out to be the vessel for a cross-dimensional trading System!

Thinking of all the money she'd scrimped and saved in her previous life, only for the Lu family to benefit from it, Lu Yu wasn't as obsessed with money this time around (Not true! Mainly because she had a System now!).

Still, she needed a source of income to explain herself.

So she used a few tricks to become the manager of the Xiangqianjin Brigade branch of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. In public, she sold needles, thread, and other odds and ends. In private, she quietly sold some of the useful things from the trading System that she had no use for.

Buyer: A dagger that can slice through iron like mud!

Buyer: Food!

Buyer: A life-restoring elixir!

Lu Yu: ...I really don't have that! ...And even if I did, I couldn't just hand it over!

Only much later did Lu Yu realize how many things had happened in her previous life without her knowing.

Coming soon: A Highborn Marriage

Fu Xiangsi was the illegitimate daughter of Fu, an editor at the Hanlin Academy. Given her status, she had no hope of marrying into a marquis's household, let alone getting involved with the young marquis who was famous throughout the capital.

But life is unpredictable. The young marquis's brother-in-law, the Third Prince, was investigated for corruption and placed under house arrest. The Second Prince's faction, his political enemies, used the unborn imperial grandson in the Third Princess Consort's belly as leverage and forced the young marquis to marry an illegitimate daughter of the Fu family.

Fu Xiangsi was sitting at home when a marriage proposal fell from the sky.

Her legitimate mother and elder sister were green with jealousy. Afraid she would rise to prominence and threaten their standing, the mother and daughter came up with the absurd idea of opening the ancestral hall, switching identities, and stealing the marriage. They also mistreated her in public and in private, hoping to wear her down until she died and the marriage went to the legitimate daughter instead.

The young marquis, Feng Ting, was renowned throughout the land for his unmatched intellect and strategic brilliance. But being made to marry the illegitimate daughter of a seventh-rank official was an insult from the Second Prince's faction, and an attempt to cut off his chance of using a marriage alliance to pull the Third Prince out of trouble.

The Feng family had been marquises for generations, a household of wealth and prestige. Even in decline, they could never have married an editor's illegitimate daughter.

For the sake of the young imperial grandson, they gritted their teeth and accepted the marriage, then turned around and welcomed their cousin's daughter into the household.

The young marquis didn't want to marry, and Fu Xiangsi didn't want to either. She understood that a mismatch in status made for a bad marriage.

She repeatedly dodged her legitimate mother's and sister's schemes, and, fed up with them, began considering whether she could let her sister take her place. But her legitimate mother, desperate, actually sent people to assassinate her.

Feng Ting accompanied his mother up the mountain to pray for his sister when he came across a young woman being chased by assassins. Though disheveled, she stayed calm in the face of danger, used the terrain to evade their attacks, and even killed the assassins.

Only later did he learn that the young woman was the fiancée he was about to marry.

If it was her, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad.

Theme: We create our own good lives