No wonder the name Qiao Wenxue always seemed familiar, yet I knew I had never seen such a radiant and beautiful star before. It turns out I had only seen her in a novel!
Gong Yu stared blankly at Qiao Wenxue, whose face had brightened slightly but whose fox-like eyes were filled with utter dejection. Only then did he realize that he had transmigrated into a romance novel, and that he, the big star, was the undisputed top-tier female cannon fodder in this book, someone everyone wanted to trample on.
My colleague was reading a novel called "The Fake Heiress of a Wealthy Family Reborn," which, as the title suggests, incorporates three trendy tropes: a wealthy family, a real and fake heiress, and rebirth. My colleague was very excited while reading it and kept telling Gong Yu about the plot.
Gong Yu remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he thought, "Are all these wealthy families idiots? Don't they know if the children they gave birth to are their own? Don't they get medical checkups all year round? If their blood types are different, wouldn't a single checkup expose it? How could they keep it a secret for decades?"
Despite his complaints, when Gong Yu was bored after a busy day at the company and had nothing to do, he would sometimes flip through the book.
With just a few quick glances, I roughly got the gist of the plot.
The female protagonist of this novel is named Bai Zhijun. She is a fake heiress who was switched at birth by a wealthy family. The Bai family started out in traditional Chinese medicine and is a real big family in the medical industry. They already had considerable assets during the Republic of China period. Later, during the war, they went abroad to learn more advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing techniques. After returning, they opened many pharmaceutical companies. From Bai Zhijun's grandfather's generation to her father's generation, the assets of Bai's pharmaceutical companies have even reached tens of billions.
Bai Zhijun was switched at birth and ended up in such a top-tier wealthy family. She was still very much loved, since the Bai family only had sons. As the only girl in this generation, Bai Zhijun was pampered by the Bai family and grew up spoiled. She was not good at her studies and did not study medicine like the others. She just drifted through university. There was no way around it, because she had congenital leukemia. Naturally, her family did not expect her to create any glory.
In fact, there are quite a few rich young ladies like this, but what's strange is that Bai Zhijun's true identity was discovered, and only then did she realize that she was not the real heiress of the Bai family.
That was when Bai Zhijun was a junior in college. Her health had always been well taken care of by the Bai family, and she was only shocked when she learned of this news.
Qiao Wenxue, who was found by the Bai family, is the real eldest daughter of the Bai family. She is not only beautiful, but also a top female celebrity with super high popularity. With her beauty and strong abilities, she was naturally welcomed by everyone in the Bai family.
Bai Zhijun also met her biological parents, an ordinary couple who, in addition to giving her a frail body, also had a younger brother who also had leukemia. If Qiao Wenxue hadn't become a female celebrity to treat Qiao Han's illness, Qiao Han would probably have died long ago.
After the incident was discovered, the Bai family praised Qiao Wenxue's good character and made it public that she was the eldest daughter of the Bai family, making Bai Zhijun, the former eldest daughter of the Bai family, a target of ridicule.
Seeing her former parents and brother doting on Qiao Wenxue, and seeing her own biological parents and brother also showering Qiao Wenxue with affection, she couldn't bear it any longer, and her leukemia, which she had suppressed for many years, relapsed.
Previously, Bai Zhijun had been treated with medicine and precious ancient prescriptions by the Bai family. Now, due to a sudden outbreak, Bai Zhijun died before she could even have a bone marrow transplant.
After her death, she never expected to have the opportunity to be reborn. She was reborn at the age of eighteen. At this time, Qiao Wenxue had just become famous after shooting an advertisement. Bai Zhijun did not want to see all the people close to her being taken away by Qiao Wenxue, so she began to change herself, to please her parents and brother, to fight for her own interests, and even secretly approached her younger brother Qiao Han, becoming his best friend with whom she could talk about anything. In this life, she also wanted Qiao Wenxue to taste what it felt like to be betrayed and abandoned by everyone!
Gong Yu had only casually flipped through the book when he learned that after Bai Zhijun was reborn, she had been trying to please her parents and relatives, and had even secretly contacted Qiao Han, who was hospitalized with leukemia, and had developed deep feelings for him.
Qiao Han liked this gentle older sister very much. After hearing Bai Zhijun's words, he felt that being a celebrity was not good. After his condition stabilized a little, he told his parents that the entertainment industry was dirty and thought about joining forces with his parents to ask Qiao Wenxue to leave the entertainment industry so that the family could live an ordinary life.
He thought he was being good to his sister, but he never expected that Qiao Wenxue would have a big fight with her parents and Qiao Han in order to stay in the entertainment industry. This made the Qiao family feel that their daughter had changed. Before, she entered the entertainment industry for their son's illness, and they were grateful to their daughter. But now that their son's illness has stabilized and the family has money, they no longer need their daughter to go out and show her face in public. They also felt that the entertainment industry was full of unspoken rules and that Qiao Wenxue would be deceived.
They just didn't expect Qiao Wenxue to disagree with leaving the entertainment industry. So the three of them thought that Qiao Wenxue was vain, unwilling to give up her fame and status in the entertainment industry, and unwilling to give up her glamorous life of being admired by others. They started to have a cold war with Qiao Wenxue.
Unexpectedly, she then heard rumors about Qiao Wenxue's affair with actor Lu Yuanzhou. Before she could say anything, Lu Yuanzhou and Yan Wei were exposed as having gotten married, and Qiao Wenxue was branded as a mistress with no chance of redemption.
Seeing the online messages cursing Qiao Wenxue made Qiao Han even more upset. He felt ashamed to have such a sister and couldn't help but curse Qiao Wenxue, calling her incredibly dirty in the entertainment industry, accusing her of seducing married men, degrading herself, and being depraved. The eighteen-year-old boy's reckless words directly drove Qiao Wenxue to her death.
That's right, Qiao Wenxue received a call from her younger brother, and after cursing him, she committed suicide by cutting her wrists.
Gong Yu thought of the plot in the book. Qiao Wenxue's parrot couldn't talk at all, so it couldn't save Qiao Wenxue. When Tang Rui came to the door the next day, Qiao Wenxue's body was already cold.
This matter eventually escalated, and Qiao Wenxue's death was pinned on Lu Yuanzhou. Naturally, Lu Yuanzhou was unwilling to accept this. He was about to expose that his approach to Qiao Wenxue was arranged by someone, but it was immediately exposed that he had slept with many fans over the years in the entertainment industry, and that his marriage to Yan Wei was because Yan Wei was pregnant, but the child was not Lu Yuanzhou's, but Yan Wei's sugar daddy's.
Lu Yuanzhou obtained excellent film and television resources by marrying Yan Wei, and subsequently won a new Best Actor award, all thanks to the influence of Yan Wei's wealthy backer.
All of this was exposed by an anonymous account, and Lu Yuanzhou and Yan Wei were naturally ruined, eventually forced to leave the entertainment industry, and even face imprisonment.
But behind all this, Bai Zhijun, who orchestrated everything, remained completely innocent. When she learned that Qiao Wenxue had died, she was so happy that she couldn't sleep all night, because Qiao Wenxue could no longer take everything from her.
Gong Yu only glanced at the rest of the plot, which mentioned how Bai Zhijun continued to be a pampered little princess in the Bai family, and how she pretended not to know even after her older brother Bai Lingxiao found out, helping her keep it a secret from the family, etc...
Gong Yu was filled with regret at this moment. If he had known he could transmigrate into a book, wouldn't he have memorized it by rote? He would have used the same effort he put into the college entrance exam, wishing he could recite it backwards!
We know too little right now. Apart from Qiao Wenxue's suicide and the fact that Lu Yuanzhou and Yan Wei are also gone, everything else is really too vague.
While Gong Yu was in a daze, Qiao Wenxue had already put away her phone and put on a forced smile.
"Sister Tang, I'd better not post on Weibo for now. I'm not feeling well right now, and posting might make my fans worry."
Although she could play the victim and more easily gain fans' sympathy, Qiao Wenxue wouldn't allow herself to do that. She has many fans, and she wants them to like her because she can bring them joy, not sadness.
"...As for my family, let's just keep it a secret. It just so happens that my parents are angry about what happened to me anyway."
It's unclear whether she was trying to comfort Tang Rui or herself with those words. Tang Rui felt bad after hearing them, since she knew about the Qiao family's situation. Qiao Wenxue entered the entertainment industry to pay for her younger brother's medical treatment. Later, she became a workaholic in the industry, filming five TV series and more than twenty advertising endorsements in three years. With various activities, she almost never rested 365 days a year, averaging only five or six hours of sleep a day.
But the Qiao family is quite comfortable. When they were poor, they didn't say anything about not letting their daughter become a star. But once they had money and lived in the big house that Qiao Wenxue bought, and their son Qiao Han's condition stabilized, they wanted Qiao Wenxue to retire from the entertainment industry, saying that being a female star was shameful. What kind of international joke is this?
Tang Rui looked down on these people, but she never mentioned them to Qiao Wenxue, afraid of upsetting her.
"Okay, then you should rest well in the hospital. The company has arranged a week's leave for you, which is a good time to deal with the follow-up matters. By the way, the company previously required you to record all your phone calls. I have already retrieved all your phone recordings and WeChat chats with Lu Yuanzhou. The company believes that releasing this evidence is the only way to clear your name. WenXue, this is your privacy, and you can choose to refuse."
Although the company has access to Qiao Wenxue's WeChat and Weibo accounts, it will not do anything behind Qiao Wenxue's back. Moreover, in the past three years, Qiao Wenxue has been a rising star among female celebrities in the entertainment industry. All five of her TV dramas were broadcast on satellite TV in three years, and her fans have reached 80 million. Which female celebrity can be so amazing?
"Don't worry about privacy anymore, just make everything public. I was not a mistress. He pursued me first, but I did not agree to be with him."
Qiao Wenxue shook her head and expressed her thoughts, saying that from the moment she stepped into the spotlight, she had already given up her privacy.
Tang Rui nodded and then began to make arrangements to quickly restore Qiao Wenxue's reputation.
Gong Yu stood obediently in Qiao Wenxue's hands, accepting the food. In addition to raw meat, there were also special snacks for pet parrots, which he ate with great relish.
Since he's already transmigrated into the book and saved Qiao Wenxue, let Bai Zhijun bring on any wicked ideas she might have!
He wanted to know whether he, the transmigrator Gong Yu, was more powerful, or Bai Zhijun, the reborn one.
The fake heiress was a usurper, and Gu Huai was determined to help Meng Songxue get everything she rightfully deserved!