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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

"I bear much responsibility for what happened before. I deeply regret the trouble I caused you. I'm sorry."

Gu Monian's earnest apology quickly dissipated the lingering anger in Chi Yu's heart.

"Those unaware of the truth cannot be blamed. There was a time I found you quite vexing, but after talking it through with my mother, I let it go."

Chi Yu's words brought to mind the conversation between Qiao Yu and Gu Monian in the study.

Qiao Yu had revealed that Gu Shiyan initially intended to tell Gu Monian the truth. However, fearing that the revelation would shatter Monian's idealized perception of Tao Jing—his pure and flawless mother—Qiao Yu persuaded Gu Shiyan to keep it secret, worrying about the irreparable psychological damage it might cause to a teenage Monian.

New Year Greetings at the Gu Residence – Fragile Brotherhood