The Wicked Adopted Daughter's Rise [Period]

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Zhu Xiyu is the most beautiful girl in the factory district south of the capital. The adopted daughter of the First Textile Mill's director, she ranks at the top of her class. Less than a year after graduating and starting work at the mill, she passes a selection process and joins the publicity department. She's also famous for her sharp writing.

To outsiders, her life seems flawless, but it is actually the lowest point of her fate. The textile mill once belonged to the Li family, the family of Zhu Xiyu's mother, Li Man. Her adoptive father had been no more than a demobilized battalion commander under her father more than ten years ago. Her life changed drastically when she was five, and one after another, the family who had cherished her passed away.

At some point, the little girl who was the most doted-on in the residential compound gradually faded into the background. After that, she became someone everyone shook their heads over.

They say she secretly bullies her adopted younger sister, Hou Yuxi, day in and day out. Hou Yuxi is the kind, considerate girl everyone loves.

They say she throws her weight around in her adoptive father's home, using her birth and the elders' past kindness to her as leverage, until Hou Yuxi's two brothers are afraid to come home.

Who told them? Everyone says so.

Why do they believe it? The Hou parents look miserable every day, the Hou brothers have left the capital, and the Hou family's youngest daughter is terrified of her big sister. Who else could be to blame?

At last, the girl who, according to everyone in the residential compound, has nothing going for her but her looks is sent to the countryside. Everyone thinks the Hou family will finally have an easier life, but instead, things go downhill until everything lies in ruins.

And the adopted daughter no one believed in? She has already reached heights they could never hope to attain.

After leaving Beicheng, Zhu Xiyu becomes the master of her own fate through sheer determination.

She meets more and more people who love her and treat her well, fulfills the dreams she had as a girl, and heals the self who has suffered so many years of injustice...

Most importantly, Zhu Xiyu meets Han You.

A young man who is perfect by every conventional measure. He makes his peers look like unripe fruit growing at the foot of a mountain, while he himself is the towering peak.

Yet this man, who seems so domineering, is more than willing to kneel at his beloved's feet after meeting Zhu Xiyu.

After they marry, Zhu Xiyu thinks Han You is a perfect husband, with just one flaw: he's as gentle as can be off the bed, but so domineering in bed that she finds it exhausting.

1. Everyday life, with a focus on the ensemble cast. The pacing is a little slow. Alternate setting with original worldbuilding, so please don't nitpick historical details.

2. Anti-piracy ratio: 60%, 36-hour lock. The whole book costs just one cup of milk tea. Writing isn't easy, so please keep supporting the original~

My next book, Hey, I Really Did Keep Acting Up My Whole Life [Period], is complete.

[An adored and formidable heiress x a pilot who becomes a doting father figure for love]

Shen Yihuan is the late-born daughter in her family. Her strict, no-nonsense parents, both soldiers, have raised her into a pampered girl who can't lift anything heavy or do any hard work.

An old leader is sent down to the countryside, and Shen's father has to transfer to a border military corps. Naturally, Shen's parents can't bear to make their precious daughter, who just got into a cultural troupe, go through hardship with them.

Knowing how much Shen's father loves his daughter, his comrades volunteer to take care of Shen Yihuan. After much careful thought, Shen's father chooses the old comrade he considers the least threatening and most reliable.

The old comrade is gentle and thoughtful. Most importantly, his only son is a famous bachelor who avoids women, ten years older than his daughter. There's no need to worry about his precious girl being led astray.

Shen's father is pleased with himself and leaves to follow the old leader, never realizing that he has personally sent his daughter into a wolf's den.

Everyone in the residential compound knows that Shen Yihuan is spoiled, demanding, and bad-tempered, but that never stops the young men from lining up to be ordered around by her.

Jin Yan is ten years older than Shen Yihuan. When he was flying fighter jets, she was still playing in the dirt. So even when he learns a heiress is about to move into his home, he doesn't care. It's a three-story house. They can easily keep out of each other's way. He even wants to laugh at those young fools blinded by her beauty. What could be more fun than flying a plane?

Two years later, Shen Yihuan's longest-time admirer sobs uncontrollably in the arms of her groom, Jin Yan, at their wedding, and throws the question back at him.

Jin Yan smiles without a word. What could be more satisfying than making his grumpy little princess happy?

1. Extra sweet, extra satisfying, extra romantic. An alternate setting with an ensemble cast, so please don't nitpick historical details.

Theme: Seize every opportunity fate offers.