Jiang Jinran died.
A self-made first-generation rich woman, she had only just achieved financial freedom at twenty-nine when a car accident suddenly sent her to her doom!
When she opened her eyes again, she was lying on a lavish princess bed.
Pretty rag dolls filled the head of the bed.
She rubbed her dizzy head as a jumble of memories flooded her mind.
Damn!
She had actually transmigrated into a novel!
Why had something so clichéd happened to her...
Jiang Jinran's greatest hobby was making money, and she spent most of her time doing just that. If she hadn't been suffering from unbearable insomnia one night and accidentally tapped into a fiction website-
She would never have opened this novel called Rebirth: The Real Heiress Awakens.
In this utterly Mary Sue novel, the real heiress, Sang Ning, was the halo-covered female lead doted on by everyone.
In her previous life, Sang Ning had grown up poor in the countryside. After growing up, she came to the Imperial Capital, only to be bullied at every turn by high society. In the end, she married the wrong man and died in misery.
Only on her deathbed did she learn the secret of her origins-
She was actually the real heiress of a wealthy family in the Imperial Capital!
Given another life, Sang Ning resolved to reclaim everything that belonged to her.
She rushed to the Imperial Capital without stopping to acknowledge her family, face-slapped the fake heiress who had bullied her in her previous life, and swiftly won the hearts of her wealthy biological parents and five big-shot brothers.
Afterward, she even stole the fake heiress's fiancé-
The novel's actual male lead.
From then on, Sang Ning reached the pinnacle of life, while the fake heiress became a penniless outcast despised by everyone, eventually being locked in a psychiatric hospital after developing mental problems.
Of all the rotten luck, Jiang Jinran had transmigrated into this cannon-fodder fake heiress who shared her full name and met a tragic end!
She helplessly pressed a hand to her forehead.
In that case, should she pack her bags and hurry to the psychiatric hospital to reserve a luxury bed?
Only after getting out of bed did Jiang Jinran realize she had shrunk by at least a dozen centimeters.
Her long limbs had turned into chubby little arms and legs...
At this point, the fake heiress was only a thirteen-year-old girl!
The good news was that the real heiress hadn't come knocking for revenge yet.
The bad news was that the real heiress would be reborn and come knocking in a few years.
A ding-dong sounded.
On the bedside table, a phone chimed with a text notification.
Jiang Jinran opened it and took a look. It was a bank notification about an incoming transfer-
It showed that 500,000 had just been deposited into her account...
Wait, how much?
Jiang Jinran cautiously counted exactly how many zeros there were. Once she confirmed it was 500,000, her head immediately stopped spinning, her back stopped aching, and she felt refreshed from head to toe-
All she had to do was be a fake heiress? Fine, she would!
This 500,000 was merely the original owner's monthly allowance. That meant she didn't need to do anything but lie around counting money every day.
In her previous life, Jiang Jinran had worked herself to the bone and finally earned enough money to lie flat. Now, she could skip straight to lying flat and waiting to die!
She had no intention of fighting the real heiress to the death.
Please, that was the female lead, Sang Ning!
What could cannon fodder like her possibly use to fight the female lead?
She might as well be a salted fish, take the money, and slack off!
"I just asked the young miss to come downstairs for dinner, but she's stayed in her room and ignored me..."
A maid's troubled voice came from outside the door.
"I'll take a look." The voice answering her was low, mellow, and magnetic, its cool tone carrying pressure and authority.
Almost in an instant-
Jiang Jinran's bedroom door was pushed open.
She instinctively picked up the rag doll beside her and hugged it in front of her.
The little girl wore twin ponytails, her bright eyes slightly widened like round black grapes, making the skin of her palm-sized face look snowy white.
She hugged a long-eared rabbit plush, her expression innocent and bewildered.
That was the scene Jiang Yuehan saw when he pushed open the door.
At the same time, Jiang Jinran was also sizing up this eldest brother who had suddenly appeared.
The Jiang Family was one of the wealthiest families in the Imperial Capital, and its children were dragons and phoenixes among men.
Each of its five young masters had his own strengths, and all were extremely famous.
Yet its youngest daughter, the original owner of this body, was a mediocre, unlikable oddball.
The original owner had been withdrawn and taciturn, dull and silent, and her relationship with her family was terrible. Although the Jiang Family had never shortchanged her materially, their relationship could certainly not be called close or affectionate.
So when the clever, adorable, and understanding real heiress came knocking, the Jiang Family's parents and five brothers quickly switched sides to the real heiress, Sang Ning, and began neglecting and disdaining the original owner.
That was also one of the reasons behind the original owner's tragedy.
Jiang Jinran's lips curled almost imperceptibly.
Sigh, so what if the Jiang Family was awesome? So what if these brothers were awesome...
As someone who had transmigrated into the novel, she knew exactly how the plot would unfold-
Apart from the female lead, everyone in the Jiang Family was actually a villain!
This novel ran to nearly a million Chinese characters. Its first half was an immensely satisfying power fantasy about how the female lead, Sang Ning, reclaimed everything that belonged to her, while its second half turned into a melodramatic mystery-
As various forces in the Imperial Capital fought, the Jiang Family, a top-tier wealthy family, inevitably became embroiled. After being framed and driven apart by others, the Jiang Family's parents and five brothers all blackened into unhinged villains.
As someone on the side of justice, the female lead, Sang Ning, was eventually even forced to put righteousness above family...
So, the Jiang Family was bound to fall in the end.
But by the time that happened, it would have nothing to do with Jiang Jinran anymore.
As a minor villain who exited the story early, she would already be counting money on her luxury bed in the psychiatric hospital by then.
Jiang Jinran strained to tilt her head back and meet the eyes of Jiang Yuehan, who stood dozens of centimeters taller than her.
The man had deep, icy phoenix eyes that seemed capable of seeing through everything, their depths filled with cold indifference and oppressive authority.
Naturally, he was impeccably handsome, his features sharply hewn as though carved with an axe, every curve exquisite and perfect.
"Go downstairs for dinner."
Jiang Yuehan suddenly parted his thin lips and uttered those words in a flat voice, his cold words betraying no emotion.
Jiang Jinran blinked, her gaze landing on Jiang Yuehan's meticulously neat suit.
[He dresses this formally even at home. Doesn't he get tired?]
The young, clear voice reached Jiang Yuehan's ears, and his gaze briefly stilled.
If he hadn't misheard, that had been-
Jiang Jinran's voice.
But the little girl before him hadn't opened her mouth at all.
Jiang Yuehan lowered his eyes slightly, his expression remaining indifferent. As if possessed, he spoke, seemingly to answer that inexplicable voice. "I just got back from the office."
That was why he was dressed so formally.
Jiang Jinran froze for a moment.
She hadn't expected this iceberg of an eldest brother to take the initiative to say so many words to her...
"Oh, I see..." Jiang Jinran tightened her hold on the long-eared rabbit in her arms and nodded obediently, while in reality-
[Well, well! Well, well! The sun's risen in the west! This guy actually said so much today! Did something set him off?]
Jiang Yuehan's lips tightened.
At that moment, he could finally be certain-
He could hear Jiang Jinran's thoughts.