Song Ying was thunderstruck just hearing Shi Li's wild imagination running wild.
She now had only one question: would the future really unfold according to Shi Li's imagination?
Shi Li's imagination continued to run wild as she added more details to her earlier plot: "The parents and relatives all favor the biological sister while neglecting the sister they've lived with for years. The biological sister appears fragile on the surface but is actually a green tea bitch, secretly sabotaging the fake sister. It's precisely because of this green tea biological sister that the obstacles between the two become a catalyst for their love."
Song Ying: "Enough, my ears can't take any more of this filth."
But Shi Li felt it wasn't enough. Song Ying found herself passively listening to a pseudo-sister-brother romance novel. Hmm, she was the biggest villain in this book, a deeply scheming green tea bitch who, despite harboring deep hatred for the fake heiress, could pretend to have a deep emotional bond.
Song Ying did indeed hate the fake heiress who had taken her place. It was her birth mother who had taken her away from her parents, yet treated her like an enemy.
She had also indeed thought that if she were recognized and brought back in the future, she would hate the fake heiress in her heart but maintain a peaceful coexistence on the surface. After all, well-behaved children are more lovable.
But hearing Shi Li describe it this way, it did sound a bit like a green tea bitch.
So what should she do?
This was truly difficult to handle.
"Besides, the fake heiress isn't a good person either. I remember she picked up a lot of bad habits in high school abroad, like inhaling that stuff... you know, the kind of thing that's usually accompanied by group debauchery."
"After the family's daughter was exposed for this kind of thing, the Xu family's reputation took a huge hit, and their stock prices plummeted."
"Madam Xu's sister-in-law had always had issues with her. She started nitpicking, saying this child might not be from their family, as their family had never produced such a disgraceful child for generations. She took a strand of her niece's hair for testing, and the results were what she had hoped for, but shocking for the rest of the family."
This child had no blood relation to Younger Aunt Xu.
When the DNA test results came out, Madam Xu was also stunned.
She knew whether she had been with anyone else or not.
She had never fooled around, so how could this child not be her husband's?
Then the entire Xu family did DNA tests, including Old Mr. Xu, Old Mrs. Xu, Xu Xing, and of course Madam Xu and the fake heiress.
Old Mr. Xu, Xu Xing, and the others all had blood relations. Just as everyone suspected Madam Xu of infidelity, the test results between Madam Xu and the fake heiress saved Madam Xu's reputation.
This child wasn't related to Madam Xu either. She wasn't Xu Xing and his wife's child at all. The Xu family then began to investigate what had happened to the child, wondering if she had been switched at birth.
It had been over ten years, so it wasn't easy to investigate, but with the Xu family's influence, they quickly uncovered the truth: the baby had been switched by Hong Yan after birth.
The Xu family was eager to find their biological daughter, but she had become nothing but ashes half a month ago.
After the truth about the real and fake heiresses came out, the family's previously damaged reputation was instantly restored. The public spontaneously sympathized with the Xu family. Their biological daughter had been switched, and the girl they raised turned out to be of poor character, bringing shame to the whole family. But that wasn't even the worst part – the most tragic thing was that their biological daughter had passed away not long ago.
This couldn't be more heartbreaking.
Hearing Shi Li describe the fake heiress as such a person, Song Ying felt that she wouldn't need to use green tea tactics to win over her biological parents in the future. As long as she was a normal daughter, she would win.
Learning about future events from Shi Li, she realized that it was because of the fake heiress's ruined reputation that she would be found and brought back.
She felt that she didn't need to rush to be recognized at all. It would be better to let things take their natural course, wait for that person to be exposed and rejected by the family, and then appear herself. The significance would be completely different.
The only problem was that Hong Yan was now single-mindedly trying to match her with her brother, which was troublesome.
After Madam Xu left, Song Ying had some free time, and Shi Li went home as well.
Song Ying knew her classmates were all closely following this conversation, so she recounted the details to everyone.
When the classmates heard that Hong Yan was trying to match Song Ying with the Xu family's youngest son, everyone exploded. Even the most mature and steady class monitor lost his composure.
[This woman is too evil, isn't she?]
Being civilized people, the harshest words they could think of were "malicious" and "wicked."
Then, hearing Song Ying say that the fake heiress was inhaling that stuff, they immediately exclaimed that she deserved it, truly a case of evil being repaid with evil.
Thus, everyone fell into a heated discussion about what Song Ying should do next.
Rongrong had been pulled into the group chat by Song Ying the day before. She had muted the group messages and would, on some unknown day, open this group chat to see tens of thousands of messages, receiving a small shock from her classmates.
At lunch in the cafeteria, Shi Li overheard a guy at the next table bragging about his learning talent.
"Actually, I don't have any special tricks when studying. It might just be natural talent. You shouldn't always stay up late doing practice questions. I go to bed at ten every night, hardly ever do extra practice, and my grades are still pretty good. I think when it comes to studying, it's all about talent."
With every other sentence about learning talent and good grades, Shi Li felt increasingly irritated. She raised her head from her tray, wanting to see who this talented learner was.
As she looked, she realized it was someone familiar.
This guy always did well in exams, and Shi Li often saw him in the same exam room. They had never spoken, but she was aware of his existence.
Catching a glimpse of the dejected expression on the girl sitting diagonally opposite, Shi Li rolled her eyes dramatically.
"Hey, you cheater, why are you out here showing off?"
"What do those grades have to do with you anyway?"
"Besides, it's just a monthly test. What's worth cheating for? It's not like it's some life-changing exam. If you've got the guts, why don't you try cheating on the college entrance exam?"
Of course, he didn't have the guts. "In the college entrance exam, he performed normally. With grades that could usually get him into a key university, he barely passed the undergraduate line in the end. Then he said he underperformed, and I think he ended up sliding into a vocational college."
Because of the stark contrast between this person's performance before and after, Shi Li had a deep impression of him.
Knowing that he had underperformed in the college entrance exam, Shi Li had wondered if he had cheated in previous exams.
However, without concrete evidence or having seen it with her own eyes, this was just speculation.
She later heard from classmates that they had seen him using cheat sheets during exams before, so his previous grades must have been inflated.
Shi Li's inner voice rang out like a thunderclap, and classmates eating in other parts of the cafeteria all heard her words.
Cheating in exams, compared to the real and fake heiress situation, seemed utterly mundane.
But explosive life always needs some calm to balance it out.
Moreover, as students, they hated nothing more than seeing others cheat.
It's painful enough to have poor grades yourself, but others' excellent grades are even more heartbreaking.
Being able to knock a fake outstanding student off their pedestal was a scenario everyone would be glad to see.
It all depended on whether he was skilled enough. With everyone watching him in every exam, if he could still cheat, it would be a testament to his ability and their lack thereof.
Unaware of this situation, the homeroom teacher returned from a meeting and announced, "Everyone, please be careful in future exams. Our school's invigilation equipment has been upgraded to match that of the college entrance exam venues. The high-definition equipment will capture every small movement clearly. Don't harbor any false hope."
Everyone looked at each other: Not you? Not me.
Who acted so quickly?
