After an Ordinary Girl Loses Her Halo as Everyone's Darling

Yu Ling, the eldest daughter of the Changping Marquis's household, was dull-witted and plain-looking. She was known throughout the capital as a block of wood. But thanks to her beloved-by-all aura, everyone adored her.

Her cold and distant elder brother, the heir apparent, obeyed her every word. Her gentle and affectionate childhood friend did everything to please her. Even her fiance, meeting her for the first time, fell in love at first sight.

The System wanted her to play all sides and manipulate everyone in the palm of her hand.

But Yu Ling was always on edge about it.

She knew she was only a fake heiress who had taken someone else's name. Sooner or later, she would be thrown out and end up starving to death in a ruined temple, reduced to begging.

So, after she rejected the System's demands for the fifth time, it finally lost patience. It sped up the true heiress's return and took away Yu Ling's beloved-by-all aura.

Overnight, everyone who loved her stopped loving her.

They used to speak gently to her and would have plucked the stars and moon from the sky for her. Now they all accused her of scheming and playing dirty, of stopping at nothing for vanity, and said she belonged back in her beggar's hovel.

Yu Ling: Just what I wanted!

She happily packed her things and fled to the little home she'd secretly prepared for herself. Before she could even lie down, a crowd surrounded her doorstep.

"Lingling, I'm the person who loves you most in this world."

"Little sister, bad children have to be punished when they do something wrong..."

"Baby, when can we make our marriage official?"

Yu Ling: "..."

Something seemed to be going wrong.

Theme: Rise against the current, and never give up.