Chapter 6

For a family like the Li family, adopting a daughter naturally couldn’t be as simple as just having a meal together. They would choose an appropriate time to host a banquet and formally introduce the two newcomers to the public. As for the specific date, it still needed careful arrangement.

When night fell, Fang Junrong returned to her room. After being reborn, she couldn’t bear to share a room with Li Wangjin anymore. Fortunately, the villa was spacious with plenty of rooms, so she simply tidied up one as her new bedroom.

Of course, her excuse was casually made up. She claimed that her health had been poor recently, and after consulting a master, it was said that her original room clashed with her destiny. Li Wangjin didn’t ask further, and the two naturally began sleeping separately.

In the past, she had enjoyed a small glass of wine before bed, but after her rebirth, she dropped this habit. In her previous life, the wine she often drank had been laced with drugs that made her prone to irritability, leading to a period where she was quick-tempered and frequently lashed out for no reason.

In her past life, she truly had been surrounded by enemies on all sides, with no allies in sight.

After some reflection, Fang Junrong lay down to rest, not forgetting to lock the door. Whether it was her imagination or not, the moment she closed her eyes, she seemed to catch a glimpse of a faint green radiance flickering briefly before vanishing.

……

Fang Junrong knew she was dreaming now. But strangely, though she had dreamed before, she had never been this lucid in a dream. She stood atop a towering mountain, its peaks piercing the clouds, surrounded by misty fog like a celestial realm.

This was a place she had never visited before, and she didn’t know why she was dreaming of it. But dreams often defied logic, so dreaming of an unfamiliar mountain wasn’t particularly unusual.

She noticed a stone stele standing not far away, glowing faintly with an extraordinary aura.

Perhaps because it was a dream, Fang Junrong felt bolder than in reality and walked straight up to the stele. The characters on it weren’t in any script she recognized, exuding an indescribable, mystical quality. Yet, the moment her gaze fell upon them, it was as if they were automatically translated—she understood the stele’s contents.

Three qian of du ruo, two liang of Yunying Grass…

Huh? This looked like a medicinal prescription. Du ruo was one thing, but Yunying Grass—she didn’t think she’d heard of it before? Out of curiosity, Fang Junrong made an effort to memorize these prescriptions.

However, she could only clearly see the first two prescriptions on the stele. The rest of the content seemed blurred, as if pixelated, making it impossible to discern. In the upper right corner of the stele, a book was carved. Astonishingly, the book was flipping its pages on its own. A carved book moving—how unscientific!

Wait, no—since this was a dream, science didn’t apply here anyway.

After the initial shock, Fang Junrong quickly adjusted her mindset, finding her logic flawless. Well, it was just a dream, after all.

The book’s cover bore a line of text—”The Beloved Heiress’s Good Fortune.”

This title…

Fang Junrong reached out toward the book, and the constantly flipping pages suddenly froze, as if petrified. The next moment, the book transformed into a streak of light and shot into her fingertip.

Fang Junrong gasped, the sudden influx of overwhelming information sending a splitting pain through her head.

Jiang Yage stood in front of the exquisitely painted villa, wearing a faded dress, her heart filled with unease. Was she really going to the Li family?

Before her mother passed away, she had told Jiang Yage that if she ever encountered difficulties, she could seek help from Uncle Li, saying that he would surely assist her out of their college friendship. But Jiang Yage lacked such confidence. The Li family was listed among the wealthiest in the country—would they really pay her any attention?

If her summer earnings for tuition hadn’t been swindled away by her cousin, leaving her without money for the next semester, she wouldn’t have come here at all.

Summoning her courage, she was about to press the doorbell when a luxurious car pulled up. The door opened, and out stepped a radiant young girl. Jiang Yage’s eyes fell on the girl’s dress—a brand she had once seen in a magazine, costing tens of thousands. She couldn’t afford such a dress even with four years of tuition combined. A faint sense of inferiority welled up inside her.

The girl glanced at her in surprise, her voice crisp and clear, “Are you here to apply for the maid position?”

Jiang Yage’s face flushed crimson, humiliation making her eyes instantly redden. “No, I’m not.”

……

The book contained a great deal of content, with Jiang Yage as the protagonist. At first, Fang Junrong had thought it was merely a fictional novel—until the events described in the book began matching exactly with what she knew had happened in reality.

In the book, after arriving at the Li family, Jiang Yage encountered Li Wangjin, who treated her like his own daughter; the handsome yet aloof Li Shize; the elegant but distant Fang Junrong; and Li Xinyun, who always seemed to oppose her.

She silently harbored a crush on Li Shize, who also seemed to have some affection for her, though neither ever voiced their feelings. Then, at a banquet, Jiang Yage drank too much, accidentally entered the wrong room, and ended up sleeping with Li Shize. Enchanted by her body, Li Shize began a secret affair with her, even gifting her his mother’s bracelet.

Jiang Yage usually kept the bracelet hidden beneath her clothes—until one day, Fang Junrong accidentally cut herself and bled. Hoping to win over her beloved’s mother, Jiang Yage helped bandage the wound. Her hand came into contact with Fang Junrong’s blood, and when she later took out the bracelet to admire it, the blood touched the jewelry, unlocking a gateway to a new world. The bracelet turned out to be a Blessed Grotto, containing an Immortal Mountain, a Mountain Spring, and even some medicinal recipes from the Immortal Realm.

She secretly brewed Miracle Drugs, earning the favor of several powerful figures who took her in as their honorary granddaughter, allowing her to thrive effortlessly in high society. From an orphan, she transformed into everyone’s ideal.

With the Miracle Drug, she saved the injured heir of the underworld, Wang Xiao, who then fell deeply in love with her. Cold and ruthless to others, he showed only tenderness to her.

She helped the movie star Fang Jueming, whose fingers had been maliciously crushed, and though he couldn’t voice his love, he silently guarded her like a knight whenever she was hurt.

She traded Spirit Herbs with the renowned physician Zhang Bi, who gradually became captivated by her stubborn yet pure-hearted nature. For her sake, he even drugged Fang Junrong, making her temperamental and prone to hallucinations.

Surrounded by numerous high-quality men, she made Li Shize extremely jealous. Due to Fang Junrong and Li Xinyun’s dislike for her, coupled with her close friend Zhong Yi also falling for Li Shize, their relationship endured repeated trials, growing stronger through breakups and reconciliations. Throughout this process, Jiang Yage maintained ambiguous relationships with other backup suitors, while malicious supporting female characters attempted to drive them apart.  

Her friend Zhong Yi turned dark, framing and scheming against her in every way possible, only to be exposed in the end and sold to a destitute mountain region, where she lived a life worse than death every day.  

As for Li Xinyun, because of her constant hostility, she was set up by underworld heir Wang Xiao and handed over to his subordinates, becoming a plaything until she finally suffered a mental breakdown and jumped from a building.  

Fang Junrong, meanwhile, was personally sent to a mental institution by Li Shize and Li Wangjin.  

Jiang Yage had a doting father-in-law, a husband who adored her beyond reason, and lived a blissfully happy life. Upon receiving news of Fang Junrong’s death, she shed a few tears, but deep down, she felt nothing but relief.  

On another note, Li Wangjin ended up with Jiang Yage’s aunt who had returned from abroad. It turned out that in his youth, Li Wangjin had once been in love with Jiang Yage’s mother, Wen Sier. Since Jiang Yage’s aunt was her mother’s twin sister, their appearances were strikingly similar. For Li Wangjin, this was like fulfilling a dream from his younger days.  

…  

From Jiang Yage’s perspective, her life—aside from a bit of hardship at the very beginning—was nothing short of a blissful, drama-filled existence, as if she were the protagonist of a sixty-episode soap opera, with twists and turns that kept people hooked.  

But Fang Junrong was so consumed by hatred that her eyes seemed to drip blood.  

She hated Jiang Yage, but what she despised most were her son Li Shize and her husband Li Wangjin. Leaving aside how Jiang Yage had used her own possessions against her, Li Shize—that Barbecue Pork Son—had not only stolen her bracelet for the sake of love, gifting Jiang Yage a Golden Finger, but had also cruelly turned against her and her daughter.  

As for Li Wangjin, though his heart belonged to another, he had pursued her, married her, and yet never stopped pining for Wen Sier in his heart.  

No wonder—no wonder he treated Jiang Yage so well, always scolding Xinyun for her sake.  

She only regretted that in her past life, she had realized too late, only awakening to the truth when she was already trapped. Perhaps even the heavens couldn’t stand their despicable behavior, which was why they had given her a chance to start over.  

Fang Junrong opened her eyes again. Her head still ached faintly, but the book she had just read remained vividly imprinted in her mind, refusing to fade.  

A steely glint flashed in her eyes, and the smile on her lips was cold.  

Thanks to that book, she finally had a better way to divorce. Since Li Wangjin was so obsessed with his unattainable white moonlight that he was even willing to settle for Jiang Yage’s aunt as a substitute, then she would grant them their wish!