There was a particularly hot post on the Shenghua High School campus forum.
The talented piano prodigy of the senior class, Jian Yunnao, had fallen down the stairs and injured his hand, which could mean he might never play the piano again.
In no time, the thread was flooded with responses as everyone expressed their sympathy and offered prayers for his recovery.
However, as the discussion progressed, someone suddenly dropped a bombshell.
"You won't believe it! Jian Yunnao didn't just fall; he was pushed by his own sister, Jian Yiling! It's absolutely true!"
At that moment, the gossip erupted.
"Is Jian Yiling really that malicious?"
"Oh my God, that's terrifying! Even if someone else did it, it would be despicable, let alone a sister!"
"I've known for a while that Jian Yiling is difficult to get along with. She always acts high and mighty, looking down on everyone. I just didn't expect her to be so ruthless to her own family!"
"I've seen Jian Yiling's true colors; my instincts were right!"
"It's so scary that someone like her is at our school. She should just transfer and stop causing trouble for us!"
"Come on, everyone who wants Jian Yiling expelled, give a thumbs up! Let's get this noticed by the school!"
In an instant, Jian Yiling became the target of everyone's ire.
Within half an hour, the post received over five hundred likes, quickly becoming a trending reply.
Meanwhile, the instigator, Jian Yiling, was just coming to grips with the shocking reality of being transmigrated into a novel.
Growing up in a research institute surrounded by pharmaceutical studies, Jian Yiling had never read novels; her reading was primarily academic papers and research reports.
Just a few days ago, an intern at the institute had brought her a romance novel, claiming that the female supporting character shared her name and even recommended that she read it. The intern thought that she worked too hard on academic reports and should relax with some entertainment.
Jian Yiling read the book, where the character Jian Yiling was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. The Jian family was one of the wealthiest in Hengyuan City.
The patriarch of the Jian family, Jian Yiling's grandfather, had retired, and now the family business was in the hands of Jian Shuxing and his two younger brothers.
The three brothers each had their strengths; the eldest and second brother were commercial geniuses, while the youngest chose a career in politics.
Jian Yiling was the only girl in her generation of the Jian family, with three older brothers and five male cousins. It could be said that she was quite fortunate in her birth.
However, the Jian Yiling in the book had a very bad temper—rebellious, proud, and obsessive—leading her to offend many, including her family. She also did many foolish things in her infatuation with the male lead, even attempting to harm the female lead.
In the end, she brought about her own downfall, dying alone in a hospital room at the young age of twenty-two.
What had just happened marked a turning point in Jian Yiling's life.
She had a quarrel with her two-years-older brother Jian Yunnao over the female lead, Mo Shiyun. During their argument, Jian Yunnao lost his footing and fell down the stairs.
When he fell, he crashed into a glass ornament at the foot of the stairs, shattering it into pieces, and countless shards embedded in his palm.
Jian Yunnao had been studying piano since childhood and had already achieved some success. If his hand was ruined, so was his future.
Jian Yiling hadn't pushed Jian Yunnao, but he firmly insisted that she was the one who did it.
Jian Yiling tried to explain herself, but it was clear that everyone believed Jian Yunnao more, given Jian Yiling's notoriously difficult personality.
People unanimously concluded that Jian Yiling was the one who pushed Jian Yunnao, believing her to be malicious and unrepentant for her wrongdoing.
Feeling wronged and unsupported by her family, Jian Yiling became even more rebellious.
In truth, while the original Jian Yiling had some traits typical of a spoiled girl, she was not inherently bad. However, after this incident, she began to stray further off course, unwilling to express her true feelings and growing increasingly defiant.