Song Shiwei

Biodata

Background / History

Life Before Transmigration

Song Shiwei grew up in an orphanage and regarded its director as her mother. After entering the novel’s world, she deeply missed both the director and her friends at the orphanage. She was a college student in her original life and had died suddenly before transmigrating 45 400 430.

She entered the body of another Song Shiwei: the Song Family’s biological daughter, who had been switched at birth and raised in the countryside. Shortly after being brought back to the family, the original owner was made to marry Jiang Xun in Song Yurou’s place. Outsiders instead accused her of stealing her younger sister’s fiancé 1 2 39 133.

The original novel assigned this true heiress a brutal fate involving repeated humiliation, persecution, and the removal of a kidney to save Song Yurou. Her longing for her father’s and brother’s affection made her vulnerable to their mistreatment and intensified her jealousy of Yurou 1 45.

The Banquet and “Sister Song Gua”

Song Shiwei attended her first post-marriage society banquet primarily for its gossip and food. Her system, A Tong, had disappeared after leaving her a plot encyclopedia and the novel’s complete text. She did not realize that other people could hear her reactions to what she read 2 6 7.

Her information helped the Wang Family find their younger son and helped police arrest their eldest son. She also exposed the affair involving couture designer Zhang Leyao’s husband. Police publicly commended her, overturning the banquet guests’ initial contempt for the supposed country girl 6 27.

As reports connected her to several wealthy-family scandals, netizens gave her the nickname Sister Song Gua. What began as private gossip consumption became her public identity 27.

Finding a Home with the Jiang Family

Song Shiwei initially feared the Jiang Family because the novel portrayed them as villains destined for miserable endings. She even considered saving money to escape, although she intended to take her mother-in-law with her 16.

Living with them changed her judgment. She came to see Mother Jiang as gentle, Father Jiang as kindhearted, Jiang Ye as fundamentally decent despite his recklessness, and Jiang Zhuxin as a fellow gossip enthusiast. Their affection gave her a sense of home, prompting her to decide that she wanted to save them 45.

Her leaked thoughts supplied warnings about Jiang Ye’s destructive involvement with Wen Chuxue, a criminal-filled production he planned to join, and threats involving Li Minru and Gao Changyi. The family increasingly treated her as one of their own, buying her gifts and planning a banquet to introduce her formally to their relatives 17 18 28 29 39 85.

Public Recognition and the Song Family’s Downfall

At Movie Night, Song Shiwei appeared with Jiang Ye in a pearl-studded mermaid gown designed by Zhang Leyao. Her red-carpet appearance attracted substantial attention, and the event’s official account introduced her as Sister Song Gua 103.

Online speculation then invented an elaborate background in which she was the Zhang Family’s hidden second daughter and Jiang Ye’s fiancée. Zhang Leyao publicly claimed her as an unrelated younger sister, while statements confirmed her actual identities as Mrs. Jiang and the Song Family’s eldest daughter. The resulting scrutiny exposed her history as a switched-at-birth heiress and Song Yurou’s attempts to discredit her 126 131 132 133.

After receiving the “melon eater of the year” award, Song Shiwei answered a provocative question about her background by sarcastically thanking her family for losing, marrying off, exposing, and betraying her. She subsequently helped Chen Jingxian secure control of the Song Group and remove Song Yurou and Song Ruchu from the family, receiving one million yuan for her contribution 139 143 144.

Investments and *Let’s Gossip Together*

Song Shiwei began investing in entertainment projects and visited a production she identified as her first investment. Although initially reluctant to work on a gossip variety show, she eventually spent more than ten days arranging its guests, crew, blind-box segment, and livestreams 178 200 206.

The resulting travel variety show, Let’s Gossip Together, became popular before its premiere, and its first episode dominated trending searches. During the show’s activities, she publicly exposed Secretary Lin’s offer of a hundred-thousand-yuan bribe rather than cooperating with his attempt to buy villagers’ watermelons cheaply 240 250 263.

Her business interests also expanded through an investment partnership involving Jiang Lanxin and Yun Xi. By the later story, her net worth exceeded several hundred million yuan 263 410.

Tongtong and Her Relationship with Jiang Xun

After police arrested a group of criminals, Little Tongtong remained with Song Shiwei and became the darling of the Gossip Courtyard. Song Shiwei connected the child’s situation with the original owner’s experience of human trafficking and felt that helping Tongtong might also offer a form of redemption 301.

She wanted to adopt Tongtong and even offered Jiang Xun a divorce if the adoption threatened the Jiang Family or its company. Jiang Xun refused to separate and promised to help. Chen Jingxian ultimately adopted Tongtong, with Song Shiwei and the Jiang Family accompanying them to complete the paperwork 353 364.

Meanwhile, Jiang Xun confessed his feelings and promised to become someone Song Shiwei could rely on. She remained anxious about their dangerous scripted fates, but gradually accepted his care and affection. She later introduced him to Tongtong as her husband and someone she liked 206 302 331.

Discovering the Mind Leak

Song Yurou and her Female Lead System tried to exploit Song Shiwei’s knowledge of the story by implanting a modified plot into her dreams. The aim was to frighten her into attacking Yurou, allowing Yurou to pose as the victim and rebuild her reputation 400.

When A Tong finally returned, it investigated why the world had changed so dramatically. It discovered that the System Bureau had intended to give Song Shiwei mind-reading, but had reversed the permissions: other people could read her thoughts instead. Song Shiwei was mortified to learn that her private commentary had been audible all along 416 417 424 426.

The mistake had allowed people around her to awaken and escape their assigned storylines. The System Bureau had sent her into the world as an emergency measure after rogue systems turned its inhabitants into supporting characters and brought the world close to collapse 427 447.

Choosing to Stay

Song Shiwei eventually met the original owner of her body in a dream. The original owner explained that, after dying, she had chosen to find someone to take her place rather than relive her own life. She was now living as Song Shiwei in the real world, where the orphanage director and children had given her the affection she had lacked 430 431 432.

The two were offered a final opportunity to switch back before the system’s mission ended. After collapsing, Song Shiwei saw how happily the original owner was living with the children and decided to remain in Jiang Xun’s world. She woke in the hospital, reunited with him, and promised not to leave him again 431 449.

Appearance

• Public impression: Often appears cool or reserved despite her excitable inner monologue 6.
• Casual style: Visits her investment’s production in a casual outfit, hair bun, and canvas shoes; Jiang Ye thinks she could be mistaken for a high-school student 178.
• Signature formal look: Wears Zhang Leyao’s white, pearl-studded mermaid gown to Movie Night. Her red-carpet photographs are compared to a mermaid coming ashore 103 131.

Personality

Song Shiwei is an enthusiastic gossip lover whose private reactions are loud, irreverent, and full of jokes. She eagerly attends gatherings for their scandals, sometimes forgetting her own business commitments because she is absorbed in other people’s affairs. Her reserved exterior contrasts sharply with her inner excitement over gossip, cakes, money, and attractive men 2 6 12 178 307.

She openly enjoys financial rewards and luxurious gifts, but her attachment to people is strongly reciprocal. Once the Jiang Family treats her kindly, she wants to protect them. Her concern for Tongtong and the original owner likewise outweighs her desire for an easy life: she is willing to risk her marriage for the child and does not want her own happiness to depend on another person’s suffering 12 45 353 431.

Her apparent resilience coexists with insecurity. She can laugh at absurd online rumors, yet fears rejection, predestined tragedy, and losing her place in the world. Jiang Xun’s respect helps her recognize that she deserves thoughtful treatment, while caring for Tongtong strengthens her appreciation of the family and friends she has gained 131 206 334 396.

She is also socially anxious and initially timid in confrontations, but becomes much sharper with the Song relatives who mistreated the original owner. She prefers answering their provocations immediately rather than tolerating them for the sake of family affection 8 39 44 250.

Abilities & Skills

Plot Knowledge and the Gossip Compendium

A Tong leaves Song Shiwei a World Outline Preview Encyclopedia, also called the Gossip Compendium, alongside the novel’s full, uncut text 2 17.

• Reveals concealed relationships, crimes, financial schemes, and future plot events 15 18 29.
• Helps her recognize valuable jadeite rough beneath unappealing stones 12.
• Can reflect changed developments; she notices both an event occurring ahead of schedule and gossip that no longer matches her expectations 85 184.
• Does not make her immune to deception: Song Yurou’s system implants a false plot sequence that seriously unsettles her 400.

Involuntary Thought Broadcasting

A reversed System Bureau permission allows other people to hear Song Shiwei’s thoughts rather than allowing her to read theirs 426.

• Exposes secrets without her needing to announce them aloud 7 17 21.
• Gives listeners information they can use to avoid manipulation and alter their futures 21 427.
• Operates without her knowledge for much of the story; she only learns of it after A Tong investigates 426.
• Is a system error, not a deliberate ability she develops or initially controls 426 447.

Variety-Show Organization

• Completes arrangements for guests, crew, a blind-box segment, and livestreams over more than ten days 206.
• Becomes central to the appeal of Let’s Gossip Together, whose audience follows her reputation for uncovering scandals 250 263.

Equipment / Items / Assets

• World Outline Preview Encyclopedia and complete novel text — Her principal sources of plot information and gossip 2.
• Jadeite rough stones — Purchased cheaply because she knows their hidden value 12.
• Emerald jewelry set — Bought for her by Mother Jiang 39.
• Bank card from Jiang Xun — Given as a betrothal gift and an expression of thanks 63.
• Maserati — A gift from Father Jiang 73.
• Pearl-studded mermaid gown — Designed by Zhang Leyao and worn to Movie Night 103.
• Song Family assets and investments — Chen Jingxian states that more than half of the Song Family’s assets belong to her; her later net worth exceeds several hundred million yuan 360 410.

Relationships

• Jiang Xun — Husband and eventual romantic partner. His patience and practical care help her move beyond fear of his villainous role and accept a shared future 206 331 449.
• Fu Lanjun / Mother Jiang — Mother-in-law who grows from distant acquaintance into an affectionate protector. She publicly insists that the Jiang Family is fortunate to have Song Shiwei, not the other way around 7 12 162 301.
• Father Jiang — Father-in-law whom she comes to regard as refined and kindhearted. He gives her a car, and he and Mother Jiang thank her for warning them about Li Minru and Gao Changyi 45 73 85.
• Jiang Ye — Brother-in-law and actor. Her thoughts expose the dangers of his romantic and career choices; he later accompanies her to Movie Night 18 28 29 103.
• Jiang Zhuxin — Sister-in-law and close gossip companion. She shops with Song Shiwei, follows family scandals beside her, and helps defend her against the Song Family 39 43 45 63.
• Zhang Leyao — Designer and friend who gifts her couture and publicly claims her as a younger sister “from another father and another mother” 12 103 131.
• Chen Jingxian — The original owner’s stepmother and Song Shiwei’s ally. Song Shiwei helps her obtain the Song Group; Chen later adopts Tongtong 143 144 364.
• Little Tongtong — A child to whom Song Shiwei becomes deeply attached. She calls Tongtong her baby and fights to secure a safe family for her, although Chen Jingxian becomes the legal adoptive mother 301 353 364.
• Song Yurou — The fake heiress and persistent antagonist. Her attempts to humiliate or erase Song Shiwei repeatedly backfire, intensifying her resentment 133 250 251 400.
• Song Linhai — Father of the body’s original owner. Song Shiwei rejects his demands for filial loyalty because of his abuse and favoritism 44 45 430.
• Song Ruchu — Initially presented as her paternal half-brother, but revealed not to be Song Linhai’s biological son. He helped push the original owner into the substitute marriage 39 40 43.
• A Tong / Gossip System — Her mostly absent system companion. Despite resenting its disappearance, she is delighted by its return and wants it to share her comfortable new life 2 416 417.
• Original Song Shiwei — The body’s former owner, who now lives in her place in the real world. Their mutual concern resolves into an agreement to keep the lives in which each has found happiness 430 431 449.

Notable Quotes

“We don't need love from scum like that! Loving ourselves is what matters most.” 430

“Thank you, Jiang Xun. You've shown me that I can be treated differently, too, that I'm worth someone putting thought into making me a late-night meal, that someone will respect my opinions.” 206

“No, I've decided. I'm staying in that world. Bye!” 449