I Cut My Hair and Ties with My Family. Now They’ve Seen the Light, but I’ll Never Forgive Them

[The Whole Family Gets Their Comeuppance] [The Swapped-Marriage Contrast Pair] Jiang Zhinian was raised with great care as a noble young lady by an illustrious family. Skilled in every art and adept at every scheme, she learned on the day she came of age that she was the fake heiress who had been switched at birth. In her previous life, she devoted herself to planning for the family, helped her elder brother navigate the officialdom, and managed household affairs for her mother, making the Jiang family wealthy and renowned. Yet the Jiang family used everything she had earned to pave the way for their real daughter: they hired famous tutors for her, tended to her beauty, spent lavishly to build her reputation, and elevated her to the title of the capital’s foremost female talent. Everyone said Jiang Zhinian was ambitious and calculating, while the real heiress was as aloof and pure as a chrysanthemum, untouched by the mortal world. No one knew that, in order to steal her engagement, the real heiress had plotted to ruin Jiang Zhinian’s virtue, leaving her to die with her name in disgrace. Reborn, Jiang Zhinian simply smiled. Her brother could handle the treacherous officialdom himself, her mother could manage the household herself, and they wouldn’t get a single coin from the family’s farms and shops. The Jiang family soon found their lives getting worse and worse. The real heiress, who had seemed so pure and aloof, revealed her selfish nature and tried to beg Jiang Zhinian’s forgiveness, only to be turned away by someone. The blind-playacting young lord, Lu Junyan, said, “This family is blind in both eyes and heart. Niannian, don’t forgive them.” Jiang Zhinian asked, “What about you? Are you really blind?”