The Useless Fake Heiress Takes the World by Storm [Reborn]

2024.02.02 It'll be finished eventually... eventually.

20230920 update note: Laying low on the rankings and building up my collection. I promise I won't abandon this. Let it build up before you read.

Reader's Guide

Happy ending / both are each other's first and only / couple who actually communicate

Female lead: A seemingly wealthy, carefree, silly beauty, but actually sweet or sharp-tongued as she pleases, and always gets even.

Male lead: Aloof, cold, and hard to approach in public; sensitive, obsessive, and warm-hearted beneath his icy exterior.

After spending five years as a ghost in a cemetery,

Shen Zhijie, oh... no, she should be Xia Zhijie.

Thinking back on her previous life, she had never fit in with that family during her first sixteen years.

Her father was selfish, her mother was jealous and constantly competed with other women, and her older brother was a hypocritical fraud.

The day the truth came out, everyone watched to see how she would react and to laugh at her.

Only she suddenly understood. At last, the question that had troubled her for years had been answered.

[She had been switched at birth!]

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In her previous life, the Shen parents had happily welcomed their brilliant biological daughter, intending to throw their useless adopted daughter out of the house.

Mrs. Shen: “Honey, isn't the company planning to expand? Let's marry Zhijie off for a business alliance... We can't have raised her all these years for nothing...”

At the critical moment, Xia Zhijie saw the nouveau riche who was nearly twenty years older than her and ran away.

After the eldest Shen son had brainwashed her, she believed she was “good for nothing and only brought trouble to the Xia family,” so she left on her own and died suddenly in an accident.

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Reborn as Xia Zhijie, she remembered the Xia father and son who had collected her body and cried until they nearly fainted... and their stunning good looks.

She went back and started over, choosing to return to the Xia family.

The Shen father and son: That's my precious daughter / adorable little sister!

The adored Xia Zhijie has luck on her side at every turn. One casual point of her finger reveals a priceless, top-grade Yuhua stone. Her advice helps them earn a fortune, and she awakens a talent for traditional medicine, concocting miraculous prescriptions, and more.

She also makes plenty of friends: the quirky catlike girl Su Wan, the haughty older-sister type Shang Shiyan, the sunny, warm-hearted chatterbox Huo Nan, the ruthless wolf in sheep's clothing Mu Hanzhou, the fierce-but-gentle Bai...

[Coming next! Choose one of two]

Please add my upcoming story to your collection: The Laid-Back Island Life of a Seventies Girl [Reborn]

A brilliant, beautiful woman with both looks and brains x a tough military officer who defends the country

Rebirth story:

In the 1970s, supplies are scarce and the whole nation pulls together.

Ye “newly minted little rich girl” Baizhi drowns and is reborn.

#Gongs and drums, blowing suonas, colorful lanterns, sleeping in a coffin

Ye “forced ghost-bride” Baizhi: ...Fine, I'll come clean. I'm done pretending. I can't keep grinding.

She schemes her way out of her broken family

and follows the troops to an island in the south.

Just as she's about to settle into a carefree life,

unexpected things keep happening:

Does slacking off earn her a group commendation as an “Outstanding Individual”?

Does gathering seafood earn her the honorary title of “Excellent Military Wife”?

Please add my upcoming story to your collection: End-of-the-World Death Squad

In 2036, viruses, nuclear contamination, and radiation cause genetic mutations in people x ordinary humans in a “death squad.”

P.S. Worried this story might get no rankings and go unwritten, I'm posting the upcoming stories early to build up my collection. (●'?'●)

Theme: Time, fate, fortune...