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- 1 The Real and Fake Heiresses: The All-Round Big Shot Takes the World by Storm 真假千金：全能大佬A爆全球 [Cool, aloof, and decisive heroine with a mysterious identity. The hero is a little unhinged and turns into a scheming boy later on.] The Gu family's real daughter has been found? So the girl the Gu family raised for eighteen years was a fake? But I heard she came from some poor, remote backwater. The Gu family's fake heiress may not have been a good student, but they still spoiled her. Who could have guessed that not long afterward, the Gu family would kick her out and reveal that she was the Y 1.4kReads8.5Score15814d adds
- 2 The Reborn Legitimate Daughter: I'm the True Heiress 嫡女重生，我才是真千金 Reborn + Taking Down Scumbags + Revenge + Sweet Romance She was the real heiress, yet the fake heiress, a scheming white lotus, kept her cowed and meek, forcing her to grovel while she endured cold looks and ridicule. She thought marriage would finally set her free. Instead, her husband despised her and her mother-in-law made her life difficult. Her wholehearted love was trampled into the dirt, leaving her with nothing but schemes. Reborn into a new life, she finally breaks free of her shackles. 5.1kReads8.9Score70614d adds
- 3 Master Jiang's White Moonlight Has Arrived, Setting the Capital's Elite Circle Ablaze 江爷的白月光驾到，京圈炸燃了 [Both Pure + Equally Matched] [Cool-headed but warmhearted all-around heiress Shen Qinghuan + CEO Jiang Huai, who has been plotting to win her over for years] Everyone knew that the Shen family of the capital had two beautiful daughters. The younger sister was both talented and beautiful, and scored a perfect mark on the college entrance exam. When older sister Shen Qinghuan was young, her gangster grandfather took her to Nancheng after an accident. She was hopelessly uncultured and illiterate. 30.5kReads9.3Score4k14d adds
- 4 Switched at Birth and Reborn! The Top Tycoon Family’s Beloved Daughter 抱错重生！她是顶级财阀全家宠儿 [Fake heiress and real heiress + reborn supporting character + entertainment industry in the middle and later arcs] [There is a male lead, but romance gets 1 point and career gets 9] In her previous life, Bai Zi tried to protect the so-called affection of her family. She battled the reborn real heiress, desperately trying to hold on to everything, but ended up with nothing and died full of resentment. Reborn, she decided to let go. Love whoever you want. I’m done putting up with this! She quickl 8.4kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 5 The Heiress of Beicheng Goes Wherever She Pleases 北城千金她横着走 Gorgeous young heiress × childhood friend and one of North City’s overlords As the heiress of North City, Shu Mu had been the darling of the whole family since childhood. The phrase she heard most often was: “Do whatever you want. Your brother’s one of North City’s overlords, after all…” Then Shu Mu finally realized that her brother’s best friend, the other overlord of North City, was the best of the best. When he once again cleaned up a mess she’d made on her brother’s behalf, she threw herself 2.5kReads9.2Score25014d adds
- 6 The Whole Family’s Darling: Her Fortune-Telling Goes Viral in the Capital 团宠小奶包：靠玄学算命火爆京圈 [Beloved by the whole family + mysticism + lighthearted comedy] The Ye family, the richest family in the country, had waited over a decade for their little girl, only for her to go missing. Everyone in the Ye family went frantic searching for her. Four years passed, and they found nothing. Then the little one came back on her own. The Ye family was overjoyed and wanted to place every good thing in front of their precious girl. Then things started to take a strange turn. Why were so many people t 2.3kReads9.4Score35714d adds
- 7 The Real Heiress in Lord Qin's Arms Came from the Countryside 秦爷怀里的真千金她从乡下来 [The short drama The True Heiress, a Master Physician, is now streaming] She is the heiress to the Li family conglomerate in the capital, but she spent fifteen years living in the countryside... When she returns to the Li family, everyone calls her a country bumpkin and an airhead. Just watch her face-slap them all. An internationally renowned designer, a professor at a top university, a financial tycoon, a medical genius... Everyone else: “We can't afford to offend her!” He is the richest man i 30.6kReads9.4Score3.7k14d adds
- 8 After Breaking Off the Engagement, Young Master Si Is Desperate to Win Me Back! 退婚后，司少追妻火葬场！ After living with the Bai family for eighteen years, Ou Yan finally learned she was a fake heiress. The real heiress came back, and Ou Yan was cast aside, set to be sent back to some poor mountain village... But who would have guessed that this so-called poor mountain village was actually the most expensive luxury villa district in the country? Overnight, she went from being an ordinary rich family's fake heiress to the true heiress of a top-tier wealthy family! Her biological parents doted on h 14.6kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 9 The Fake Heiress Becomes the Villain Squad’s Beloved, So Of Course She Takes It Easy 假千金成反派团宠了当然要摆烂啊 Yuan Luoyi thinks of herself as a little hamster in a nest of venomous snakes. Everyone in her family is a lunatic villain, while she, the fake heiress, is the only one focused on doing nothing. Her father is an arms mogul, and her mother is a top assassin. Her eldest brother is a business-world killing machine with factitious disorder imposed on another. Her second brother is a cold-blooded lawyer with no sense of morality. Her third brother is a born sociopath with a bloodlust. Her fourth brot 18.2kReads9.5Score2.5k14d adds
- 10 The Heiress Returns: My Vision Is as Grand as My Motherland 千金归来：我的格局是祖国 [Completed, Cool-Tempered Heroine + True Heiress of a Wealthy Family (The Family’s Real Darling) + The Main Story Is About Soldiers and Family Bonds + No Male Lead] Liao Xu, the long-lost heiress of the Su Group, one of the capital’s top wealthy families, returns after fourteen years. The upper crust is thrown into an uproar. Everyone assumes a prestigious family must care about appearances. This true heiress, they think, has nothing going for her but her stunning looks. How could she compare to 11.9kReads9.4Score1.3k14d adds
- 11 The Real Heiress's Secret Identity Is Exposed, and All of the Capital's Elite Kneel! 真千金马甲被爆，全京圈都跪了！ Also known as The Fake Heiress Became the Capital's Crown Prince's Beloved After Her Engagement Was Broken Qin Wan never knew that she was not the Ye family's biological daughter, until her childhood sweetheart grew tired of her, outsiders cursed her, and the Ye family, disgusted with her, drove her out and told her to return to the mountain ravines to find her biological parents... Qin Wan merely smiled, preparing to reveal her secret identity and stun everyone. Unexpectedly, the mountain ravin 74.2kReads9.3Score8.7k14d adds
- 12 EN The Whole Family Brings Stools to Watch the Drama as the Real Heiress Spills the Tea 全家带凳子吃瓜，真千金爆料啦 Originally titled My Whole Family Brought Stools to Watch the Drama, and the Real Heiress Spilled the Tea [Showbiz + Real and Fake Heiresses + Gossip System + No-Brainer Fun + Lighthearted Comedy + One-on-One Romance] After transmigrating into someone else’s body, Tang Shiba discovered that her whole family was destined to be cannon fodder. Her eldest brother loved the female lead, but his feelings were never returned. He’d drink himself into oblivion every day and die in a garbage-strewn alley, 21.6kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
- 13 The Tycoon's Wife Has Many Secret Identities 豪门夫人马甲多 (A fictional setting, feel-good wish fulfillment, online face-slapping, and the female lead has tons of secret identities!) The eldest daughter of the Qin family, missing for years, has finally been found. Everyone says she is talentless and immoral, with no money or power, and that a pheasant can never become a phoenix. The leader of a gang in M Continent calls her his ancestor. A mysterious piano master? A poison doctor whom everyone pursues, yet who is impossible to find? The top-ranked elite 70.6kReads9.4Score8.4k14d adds
- 14 Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家 [Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to 128.5kReads9.6Score20.2k14d adds
- 15 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 116.3kReads9.6Score13.7k14d adds
