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Miss Chi Yu of the Chi family has been plagued with misfortune since birth. She has endured car accidents, kidney failure, and experts predicted she wouldn’t live past eighteen. Fortunately, those around her dote on her excessively, indulging her bad temper and pampering her into a spoiled princess.

However, one day she accidentally opens a book and discovers that she is actually an adopted child of the Chi family, meant to serve as a scapegoat for the true heiress, the real Miss Chi born on the same day, month, and year as her.

They elevated her to the clouds, subjected her to public scorn and hatred, all to later declare that the “innocent” girl was the true heiress once she was gone. Desperate to change her fate, Chi Yu finds herself thwarted by a mysterious force—destined to die on her eighteenth birthday.

In her despair, Chi Yu turns dark. If she’s doomed to die a wretched death, then no one else will have a peaceful life!

She becomes increasingly ruthless and arrogant, forcing her deceitful assistant to apologize on his knees and disrupting her uncle’s multi-million-dollar deal. They are furious, enraged, and helpless. If they want the kitchen maid’s daughter to survive, they cannot touch her.

Everyone hates her, except for the newly hired bodyguard who brainlessly defends her to the end. “Miss, you’re spot on, brilliant, and absolutely infuriating!”

Chi Yu: Although he seems a bit foolish, he’s quite endearing, isn’t he?

As her eighteenth birthday approaches and she resigns herself to her grim fate, a prominent family from the capital arrives, claiming their lost daughter…

The Spoiled and Malicious Young Miss Awakens

Before the auction began, Gu Qinnian quietly asked Qi Chao what his goal for the night was.

"Elder Yan's painting donated out of goodwill, or the golden-threaded, intricately carved jewelry box?"

Qi Chao smiled faintly. "Big Brother, don't you think that jewelry box would suit Chi Yu perfectly?"

Gu Qinnian had thought so too; that's why he had set his sights on it from the very beginning.

But Qi Chao also fancied the same item, which made things tricky.

When the jewelry box made its grand appearance, the spotlight illuminated its surface, revealing a palm-sized, gemstone-encrusted treasure that shimmered brilliantly, exuding extraordinary opulence.

The host announced the starting bid: three million.

The attendees, all affluent figures, raised the stakes in increments of ten thousand with ease.

Five minutes later, the price had reached six million.

Sour Grapes for What You Can’t Have