Qing City.
Qing City's First Prominent Family.
Today is the seventeenth birthday banquet of Young Miss Zhang, Zhang Xianxian of the Zhang Family.
The Zhang Family's guests fill the residence.
Luxury cars worth millions line the roadside.
Not only is Zhang Xianxian beautiful with an ethereal temperament, but at just seventeen, she's already recognized as Qing City's number one talented young woman. As such, her birthday banquet has gathered all the influential and powerful figures of Qing City.
Dressed in a haute couture gown, Zhang Xianxian, like a princess attended by the stars, is graceful and poised.
Without a doubt.
Zhang Xianxian is the protagonist of this banquet.
But who knew, the Zhang Family's once hidden illegitimate daughter would choose this moment to show up.
An eighteen-year-old girl, crying, kneels before Zhang Xianxian, "Sister, I am your long-lost older sister..."
Zhang Xianxian looks down at her with nothing but disgust in her eyes, "Miss Lin! Please have some self-respect. My parents are deeply in love, and I only have a younger brother, no older sister! Leave my house immediately and stop making irresponsible remarks here!"
Zhang Xianxian is the moon in the sky, not tolerating a speck of dust in her eyes, let alone an illegitimate older sister a year her senior!
An illegitimate daughter, even as a stepping stone, she would find too filthy.
"My last name is not Lin, it's Zhang! My name is Zhang Wu!" The girl looks at Zhang Xianxian, her mother indeed the original wife, yet her demeanor is exceedingly humble, "Sister, please let me stay. From now on, I will do anything you ask!"
At that moment, an old lady with graying hair walks out of the house.
Seeing the old lady, the girl clings to her legs as if she's seen a savior, "Grandma, I am your long-lost granddaughter! If you don't believe me, I can take a paternity test!"
Old Madam Zhang frowns slightly and kicks her away, "I only have one granddaughter named Xianxian! What are you supposed to be?"
The girl falls to the ground.
Bang.
Lin Wu is awakened by the pain.
As she opens her eyes.
She's been kicked.
???
Who dares to kick her?
Surrounded by an unfamiliar environment, Lin Wu furrows her brows slightly.
Is she dreaming?
But the pain coming from her knees sharply reminds her.
This isn't a dream!
With a flood of strange memories rushing in, Lin Wu, who holds multiple powerful identities, quickly understands her current situation.
She has been reborn.
Reborn as the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family.
The original owner of this body is named Zhang Wu.
Her mother Lin Guixiang met Zhang Dalong when she was eighteen. At the time, he was unmarried, and she was unwed. Zhang Dalong got the waitress Lin Guixiang drunk through schemes and had relations with her.
It was that very night that Lin Guixiang conceived the original owner of the body.
With no other options, Lin Guixiang reluctantly registered for marriage with him.
Who could have imagined, after giving birth to a daughter, her husband would suddenly disappear!
Lin Guixiang searched for a long time without any word of her husband, and eventually had no choice but to take the child back to her parents' home in Lin City Town.
By chance, Lin Guixiang found out that her husband was actually the head of Qing City's First Prominent Family.
Thus, she took the train to Qing City with her daughter.
Once in Qing City, she discovered that her husband already had a new love, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
She thought about suing her husband for bigamy, only to be told that their marriage certificate was a fake!
Even though her daughter was older than Zhang Xianxian and she was the first to have a marriage certificate with Zhang Dalong, she was now condemned as the despised mistress.
She had been deceived so cruelly and completely!
Heartbroken, Lin Guixiang had no choice but to return to Lin City Town.
But her daughter Zhang Wu refused to go back!
The Zhang Family is Qing City's First Prominent Family—if the Zhang Family acknowledged her as their daughter, she would henceforth be the Young Miss Zhang.
Even being a maid at the Zhang Family would be better than following Lin Guixiang!
Moreover, she was indeed the Young Miss Zhang!
Old Madam Zhang watches Lin Wu with cold eyes, "Your mother is a promiscuous tramp, who knows from where this mongrel sprang! Butler! Have someone chase her out immediately!"
If it weren't for the fortune-teller who said Lin Guixiang had the hips of a woman destined to give birth to sons blessed with a life of wealth, she never would have tolerated Lin Guixiang giving birth to the child!
Unexpectedly.
After a ten-month pregnancy, Lin Guixiang actually gave birth to an unwanted financial burden!
This infuriated Old Madam Zhang deeply.
A financial burden that couldn't carry on the Zhang Family's legacy!
So, Old Madam Zhang promptly made Zhang Dalong leave Lin Guixiang to remarry a well-matched heiress from a wealthy family.
Unexpectedly, eighteen years later, Lin Guixiang would come knocking on their door with this little financial burden.
Such misfortune.
Nowadays, Old Madam Zhang's granddaughter is the number one talented young woman in Qing City, and in the past few years, she also managed to hold her first great-grandson, ensuring there's an heir to carry on the family line!
What is Zhang Wu compared to that?