The Tenth Year After the Eldest Daughter of the Wealthy Family Died

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* Apocalypse powerhouse heroine who is everyone’s unattainable ideal vs. gloomy, obsessive widower hero

* Ultimate sister-con lovers vs. possessive wife-con

Ten years after Xie Zhaoyue died, she came back from the apocalypse.

Before she could get over the excitement of having hot pot, milk tea, spicy malatang, and all her other favorite foods again, the System told her that the world she now lived in was a fusion of four novels.

She was a doomed cannon-fodder character who died early in the story. To survive, she had to win over four major villains. The mission was rated five stars in difficulty, and no one had ever succeeded.

Well, she was already alive, so Xie Zhaoyue happily accepted the mission^^

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A luxurious banquet, with glasses clinking and guests mingling.

Xie Zhaoyue buried her head in the buffet. There, she saw the crazed, prison-bound villain from a CEO romance. In front of the entire wealthy elite, the charming CEO was fighting his best friend over the sweet, innocent heroine.

“Woman, you’ll never escape my grasp.”

Xie Zhaoyue’s eyes widened in shock. She recognized him at a glance… The villain who was a walking legal liability was her own well-behaved, thoughtful youngest brother!!!???

Her fists clenched. She casually grabbed a feather duster and whacked the villain three times. Instead of getting angry, he held out his other hand, eyes reddening, and asked her to hit him again.

The entire wealthy elite erupted.

[Target Xie Huainian’s affection: 100. Mission progress: 99%]

The System exploded too! Host, you’re cheating!!!

Xie Zhaoyue :)

No, this isn’t cheating.

It’s the power of an older sister’s bloodline!

…

Xie Zhaoyue came to terms with one fact: ten years after her death, all her younger siblings had grown up to become major villains!

Her second brother was a top-tier star and villain in an entertainment-industry novel. Her third brother was a hot-tempered, arrogant villain at an elite academy. Her younger sister was a romance-obsessed villainous heiress in a school romance… None of them had a happy ending!

Xie Zhaoyue’s fists clenched tighter and tighter. Time to strike back!

What should she do if her younger siblings have gone astray?

No worries, your big sis is here^^

The System watched the villains’ affection scores automatically shoot to 100 the moment they saw their big sister. It was completely numb.

The four villains, infamous enough to make people tremble with fear, spent every day making catty remarks and fighting over who was their sister’s most devoted, most loyal servant.

Every day, they had to ask: Who’s their sister’s favorite???

The System was stunned. So… this is the Host’s “family hierarchy”?

Xie Zhaoyue: Your big sister will always be your big sister^^

#BigSisOnlineToDisciplineHerCorgiBrothersAndSisters#

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Yan Tinglan gazed up at the moon with humble devotion.

In the seventh year of his secret love, he finally summoned the courage to confess. But that very day, he learned that the girl he loved had died in an accident.

From then on, he lived in hell, trapped in endless darkness and longing… until one day, beneath a cherry tree, he saw the ghostly image of the girl he had dreamed of night and day.

His fingertips trembling, he dared not disturb her. He followed her carefully, only to be suddenly thrown hard over her shoulder and into a shower of cherry blossoms.

Pain shot through his back. He looked up and met her cool gaze. Twisted, almost pathological delight surged through Yan Tinglan’s eyes as he murmured hoarsely,

“Long time no see, my moonlight, my… late wife.”

It was the tenth year after her death, and the seventeenth year of his secret love for her.

His goddess… had truly come back to life.

You can throw me down and trample me all you want… As long as you come back alive, I’d gladly let you crush me every day.

*

One day, the ultimate sister-con brothers and sister prepared a surprise for their big sister. All four suddenly appeared at Xie Zhaoyue’s vacation villa, where they came face to face with a handsome, gentle family man wearing a pink cat apron.

Wait, isn’t this Yan Tinglan, the man their sister once defeated?

The sister-cons roared furiously: “What are you trying to do to our sister, you creep???”

Then they saw Yan Tinglan smile tenderly at a sleepy-eyed Xie Zhaoyue. “Honey, I made your favorite braised beef noodles^^”

“!!!”

The sister-cons erupted. “Who’s your wife??? Get away from our sister, you creep!!!”

“Do you even know how to make braised beef noodles? My sister only likes the ones I make!!!”

#HowCouldANewlyPromotedWifeSlaveBeAsEasyToOrderAroundAsTheServantsWhoHaveBeenWithHerForDecades(◣_◢)!!!#

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[Reading Guide]

* One-on-one romance / both leads’ first love and only partner / happy ending. A seventeen-year secret love finally comes true.

* The heroine is everyone’s unattainable ideal, an all-around apocalypse powerhouse who can fly a plane and fix a tractor. (This will be shown in the family variety show in the middle and later parts of the story.)

* The hero is a gorgeous, crazed, gloomy obsessive who is seriously unwell and has attempted to die for love. He looks gentle and harmless, a breathtaking beauty, but underneath he is unscrupulous, humble in his pursuit of love, and fiercely competitive.

* Both leads are teenage geniuses. The heroine always comes first, and the hero always comes second. He’s always been defeated by her^0^

* There is a System, but it doesn’t play a major role.

All the Villagers in the Demolition Zone Eavesdrop on Me Gossiping [1990s] is now open. Come check it out, and please add it to your collection!

* Sweet, beloved gossip-loving girl x cool, reserved childhood friend who cries easily

After transmigrating into a book as a baby and living for eighteen years, Jiang Shiyuan awakened memories of the story and became bound to a gossip System.

The good news: Jiang Village was about to be demolished.

The bad news: Everyone in the village was either a villain or cannon fodder, and every one of them met a tragic end.

Even worse, all her family in this life were top-grade villains. After she, a cannon-fodder supporting character, died, they went mad and fought the male and female leads.

Her parents, the top-grade troublemakers in a period novel, died in a car accident. Her ruthless, taciturn older brother and sharp-tongued, highly intelligent second brother joined forces to drive the leads into a corner, but the leads fought back. Her eldest brother was left paralyzed, and her second brother became mentally disabled…

In her previous life, Jiang Shiyuan was an orphan. In this one, she had been spoiled by her daughter-obsessed parents and brothers who adored their little sister. “Damn it!”

The gossip System: Your whole family’s fortune is at -999999. If you want to change your fate, gossip with me and share in the good fortune!

Jiang Shiyuan: Let’s do it! I want the whole village’s gossip!

And so, a girl and a System traveled from one end of the village to the other, rushing to every gossip hotspot.

They had no idea the System had a bug: everyone in the village could hear them gossiping…

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At the village chief’s grandson’s hundred-day celebration, the village chief was beaming. After having two granddaughters in a row, he had finally gotten a chubby grandson, so he threw a lavish banquet.

[Wow, that chubby grandson was conceived with the help of Old Wang’s son next door. The village chief’s eldest son is impotent!]

The old village chief’s eyes rolled back. The villagers feasting at the banquet: !!!

[And Old Wang from next door has had a crush on the village chief’s wife for years. Every day, he fantasizes about sleeping between the two of them… He used to listen in by the wall all the time, tsk tsk tsk.]

Jiang Shiyuan was having a great time gossiping when she looked up…

Huh? Why are they fighting?

…

[Did honest Jiang the Third fake his own kidnapping to trick his family into giving him demolition compensation?]

[The beloved wife Jiang Iron Crutch brags about every day came first in a finishing school for socialites!!!]

[The pure-hearted genius fiance who married into the family of her top-scoring cousin on the college entrance exam has a child bride and two sons back in his hometown???]

[Her lovesick uncle married his ideal woman after she got pregnant, but the child belongs to her current boyfriend? So her uncle… is the sixth one?!!!]

…

Jiang Shiyuan happily gossiped every day, then discovered a huge bug!!!

Every time she shared gossip with her cool, handsome childhood friend, her fortune score increased a hundredfold!

Jiang Shiyuan wanted to stick by her childhood friend twenty-four hours a day and gossip with him! Up, up, up went her fortune score!

Who would’ve thought the aloof, untouchable childhood friend liked gossip so much^^

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As a cannon-fodder character in a period novel, Jiang Shiyuan had originally only wanted to change her own fate and her family’s by listening to gossip.

She never expected that her whole villainous family, and even the entire village, would escape the tragic ending of the original story. Their careers flourished, and she, a carefree gossip-lover, made a fortune too, raking in rent until her hand cramped!

Even more terrifying, why was her cool, abstinent, handsome childhood friend lying on her bed in disheveled clothes, looking so pitiful???

…

Not long afterward, Jiang Shiyuan found out why.

Later, at the highly anticipated annual business awards ceremony, industry leaders gathered and the venue buzzed with people.

Jiang Shiyuan and Shen Yujin were among the most powerful people there.

The gossip System suddenly said mysteriously, “Host, I’ve uncovered a shocking piece of gossip!”

Jiang Shiyuan idly played with her childhood friend’s cuff link, her eyes lighting up. “Tell me, tell me! What’s the shocking gossip?”

The entrepreneurs from the village slated for demolition, who had also been invited, eagerly pricked up their ears. Whose family was the gossip about this time?

[Your cool childhood friend has a crush on you!]

[He loves hearing everything you say!]

Jiang Shiyuan, who had just become the subject of gossip herself: ???

[All of Shen Yujin’s passwords have something to do with you. The wallet in his pocket holds a photo of the two of you as children. He stayed up all night writing gossip notes so he’d have something to talk about with you, and they’re nearly filling his entire study… Oh… and he keeps a diary about his secret love for you!]

Jiang Shiyuan looked up and met eyes full of love. Her powerful childhood friend gazed at her, his eyes sparkling, his ears red, his smile bashful but determined.

“Jiang Shiyuan, I like you.”

“I’ve liked you ever since we first met at six years old.”

That year, the abandoned crybaby met his little ray of sunshine, and it was love at first sight, lasting a lifetime.

Reading Guide

1. Beloved, sweet girl who loves gossip x cool childhood friend who cries easily. Both are devoted to each other; he’s been secretly in love with her.

2. Getting rich through demolition in the 1990s / feel-good wish fulfillment / doted-on heroine / mind-reading.

3. The heroine, Jiang Shiyuan, gets her wishes fulfilled, all the time. Her name is a beautiful wish for the best things in life.

Theme: Love creates miracles