The Fake Little Sister

The year Zheng Lingling discovered she was the real daughter, the emperor bestowed the fake daughter, Deng Wanjing, in marriage to the Crown Prince. When her adoptive mother told Zheng Lingling who she really was, her face held the glee of revenge. She asked how Zheng Lingling felt about it. Zheng Lingling paused her work grinding herbs and said, "That's great. Your biological son, Zheng Yanqiu, likes me. He'll be thrilled to know I'm not really his sister." She saw the look of disbelief on her adoptive mother's face. She sneered. "What, you can't believe that the son you raised so carefully could have feelings for me that violate the bounds of kinship?" Her adoptive mother spat blood and died after hearing her words. Everyone had loved Zheng Yanqiu since he was a child, praising him as a man of noble character. But who could have imagined that a man like him would fall for his own "sister"? The world is unpredictable, and fate plays cruel tricks. The Crown Prince is deposed, and Prince Xin takes his place in the Eastern Palace, becoming the new Crown Prince. The Deng family is arrested and their property confiscated by Zheng Yanqiu. The fake daughter, Deng Wanjing, is reduced to being the deposed Crown Prince's consort. Zheng Lingling tells Zheng Yanqiu, "I want to be the new Crown Princess." Zheng Yanqiu knows Zheng Lingling has found him annoying since childhood. She's gentler to her dog than she is to him. He hates that dog. Zheng Yanqiu holds power over the court. He asks Zheng Lingling what she wants. Zheng Lingling says she wants to be the Crown Princess. He hates the Crown Prince. Later, he learns Zheng Lingling isn't his real sister, and that she's known all along. She knew he loved her, yet calmly used him to marry the Crown Prince. He hates Zheng Lingling. Zheng Yanqiu hates Zheng Lingling, hates that they share a surname, hates that she deceived him. But after all his hatred, all he really hates is that she doesn't love him. In the end, Zheng Lingling doesn't marry the Crown Prince. On her wedding night, she rides back to the Zheng residence and capriciously asks Zheng Yanqiu if he'll run away with her. A story of mutual hatred x true and fake heiresses x pseudo-siblings with no blood relation between the leads Content warnings and reading guide: Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending, melodramatic and angsty romance. The female lead is 21, and the male lead is 25. The female lead really does drive the male lead's mother to her death, and the male lead really does confiscate the female lead's birth family's property. Read with caution if these bother you. The fake daughter ends up a commoner and has a bad ending with Zhao Yu. Please do not judge the female lead in any way. One-sentence summary: Zheng Lingling and Zheng Yanqiu are a pair of enemies made for each other, but fate makes them siblings. Synopsis dated March 17, 2026 Main couple: siblings who hate each other. Side couple: coercive pursuit. Theme: Rejecting society's definition of success