Chapter 24 "The Real and Fake Heiresses" The Real Heiress Wants to Sit on the Judges' Panel (Part 7)...

It's good to be rich.

In her previous life, the original owner lived with an old woman who collected scraps. Thanks to the popularization of nine years of compulsory education and the help of kind-hearted people in the neighborhood, she managed to finish high school despite many setbacks.

Under such high pressure, the original owner actually did very well, always being a top student in the elite class from childhood to adulthood.

Although some people sourly said that she was a bookworm who only knew how to study, she would definitely fall behind in high school when the knowledge became more flexible.

But the immense pressure of life left the original owner with no time to listen to these gossips. All she knew was that if she ranked first in her grade, the school would give her a scholarship of three thousand yuan.

Three thousand yuan is a very considerable sum of money; my mother-in-law will be very happy to see it.

Occasionally there are class rewards, such as notebooks, stationery, and books, so you don't have to spend extra money.

While her classmates were asking their families for money to buy this and that, she was able to get money from her family. This was the deepest, most secret pride in the heart of a teenage girl.

But this pride was too fragile. When she entered high school, she suddenly realized that something was really blocked in her, like a stone whose orifices were covered with mud and sand.

She was neither good at expressing herself nor at listening, to the point that she felt like the only alien among her classmates.

This mentality, besides bringing her social pressure, also manifested in the learning process as her suddenly being unable to learn a foreign language.

When the radio broadcast about hearing loss started, she felt as if the heavy stones in her ears were working, and she couldn't hear what it was saying.

When the teacher spoke in class, she felt a huge weight lift from her shoulders; she didn't understand what the teacher meant.

The original owner's foreign language grades were not bad; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to be specially admitted to the best high school in the city with the highest score in the entire school.

However, the primary and junior high schools she attended had weak teaching staff, did not place much emphasis on listening comprehension, and taught simple material. Teachers would even specifically teach rote memorization methods to pass exams, without going into too much depth.

In that small junior high school, no one noticed that when she entered a high school with excellent teaching conditions and faced top students selected from various schools, her true abilities were immediately revealed.

So much so that the comments I had heard before about her being "too rigid" and "falling behind in high school" resurfaced in my mind like ghosts. What I had thought was absurd had now become her verdict.

The original owner didn't know how many times she cried because of this, but she didn't get any benefit from it. All she got was the evaluation that "poor students have weak psychological resilience".

She has to put in her absolute best effort to ensure her survival in the top class and prevent new questions from arising, such as "How did she even get in?"

But it was really too tiring. The more I wanted to learn, the less I understood. The more I wanted to do well on the exam, the more I failed. When I gave it my all in the college entrance exam and was ready to prove myself with my grades, I only got a score that missed out on getting into a top-tier university.

Actually, it wasn't that bad, but the original owner still cried for a very long time. Even though she eventually got into X University through the Ye family's influence and donations, she felt no joy at all.

Endless setbacks and failures wore down her last bit of strength, and she seemed to be able to calmly admit that she was really mediocre.

The original owner admitted to being mediocre, which was fine, but Ye Xiqing always considered herself extraordinary. So, after the original owner interfered with her emotions for the thousand and first time, Ye Xiqing finally couldn't hold back anymore and looked up to question her—

"System, did you assign me a body with a split personality?"

"Hehe." After endless setbacks, the system finally found the strength to get back up.

A pair of mechanical eyes darted around, a meaningful smile playing on them: "Host, you've finally figured it out?"

Ye Xiqing withdrew her attention and looked at it seriously, and there really was a hidden plot.

The system chuckled maliciously, "Don't be nervous, you're just merging with the original owner."

The live broadcast hosted by 7418 is an immersive quick-travel "game" where selected participants become characters in a small world, experience the rich and colorful life of that character, and are displayed on the screen to attract viewers and generate profit.

Because of the theme, the roles chosen are all female protagonists. In order to create a more immersive experience, the presence of the characters will be gradually reduced to prevent the audience from being pulled out of the story. At the same time, it will also prevent the characters from obtaining advantageous innate resources based on their own conditions.

For example, if the character being portrayed is unremarkable, but the person performing the task is a stunning beauty, and the person performing the task doesn't have to do anything to gain an innate advantage, then how can they sell their "Beauty Pill" trial cards?

In Ye Xiqing's first world, as a novice protecting the world, her complete personal data was preserved.

In the world that follows, she will become increasingly integrated with the characters she portrays, and this world is one of emotional integration.

When she arrives in the next world, she will no longer even retain the name "Ye Xiqing," and will appear entirely as the body, intelligence, and emotions of the character she portrays.

The system looked at her with schadenfreude: "Host, the newbie protection isn't always there. You can't just stand by and watch and mess around forever."

"You used to treat mission worlds like games and had a lot of fun, right? The price of that fun is that if you mess up the world, it will punish you."

Ye Xiqing rubbed her temples, her expression unchanged.

This little system is quite cunning.

She originally thought she could easily get first place in the city and amaze everyone, but she didn't expect that the original owner's emotions could already affect her mindset.

Ye Xiqing looked at the system: "Is it really just emotions that have been integrated? I feel like these emotions are already controlling my physiological functions."

In response to Ye Xiqing's question, the system replied without hesitation and with righteous indignation: "Of course it is! Emotions are generated by the activity of the human brain. Don't you know how amazing the brain is?"

"The host was too arrogant before, thinking that he was different from the original owner. In fact, if you were given the conditions that the original owner had, there would be many things that you just couldn't do."

Ye Xiqing: ...

She glanced coldly at the system, then looked away, trying to overcome her emotions with reason.

But when she faced the English exam paper, she still felt short of breath, as if her body had betrayed her consciousness overnight.

In the original world, Ye Xiqing always had such a good sense of language that she didn't need to memorize grammar; she could make the right choices just by relying on her intuition.

But with the original owner's arrival, even her strongest skill, reading comprehension, became incomprehensible.

Foreign languages ​​are a core subject, worth 150 points, and Ye Xiqing didn't want to ruin her chances on this.

So after a moment's thought, she threw down her pen and rushed downstairs.

Upon entering Ji Yuxiu's room, without caring who was inside, he said directly, "Mom, I want a car."

Ji Yuxiu: ...

Ye Xueli: ……

Because of the mix-up, both of her daughters missed their 18th birthday ceremonies, which made Ji Yuxiu very distressed.

However, fearing that the two might clash if they did it together, Ji Yuxiu decided to give each of them a gift.

She prepared two necklaces, identical in style and priced the same.

Seeing that no one was around, Ji Yuxiu quickly pulled Ye Xueli into the house, hung the diamond necklace worth one million around her neck, and smiled gently: "Li'er, this is your coming-of-age gift from your mother."

These days, Ye Xueli has come to realize that she is no longer the biological daughter who can ask her mother for things without expecting anything in return.

Upon seeing the necklace, tears immediately welled up in her eyes. She hugged her mother's neck and cried bitterly, pouring out her grievances.

Ji Yuxiu gently patted her back to comfort her.

At such a heartwarming moment, Ye Xiqing suddenly arrived, and Ji Yuxiu instantly felt as if she had been caught red-handed.

She awkwardly let Ye Xiqing in. She had given the two necklaces without any subconscious bias or distance; she just gave them to whoever she saw first. What was she going to do now?

Fortunately, Ye Xiqing didn't notice this detail and went straight to the point: "Mom, I want a car."

Ji Yuxiu breathed a sigh of relief, then realized, "A car? What do you need a car for?"

Ye Xiqing replied matter-of-factly, "Is that not allowed? My brothers all have them, and I want one too. If you think they're too expensive, cheaper ones are fine too."

Ji Yuxiu: ...

This isn't about money. In fact, all three boys in the Ye family will receive their first car of their lives at their coming-of-age ceremony.

But for Ye Xiqing, a girl, driving is inherently too dangerous, not to mention whether she would need it or not.

Why buy a car when you already have a driver at home who can just call out to you?

After listening to Ji Yuxiu's words, Ye Xiqing did not understand her good intentions at all, and said with an unchanged expression: "But Mom, I'm all grown up now. I have my own secret itinerary. I don't want to share the route of every trip with the family driver."

This reason sounded even more terrifying, and Ji Yuxiu was naturally even more unwilling to agree, but no matter what, she couldn't change Ye Xiqing's mind. After all, her daughter's stubbornness was evident from the first meeting.

Ji Yuxiu, who was never good at arguing but only at compromising, finally had no choice but to agree.

But of course she wouldn't buy a cheap car like Ye Xiqing suggested. Instead, she repeatedly told Wang Ma, "Make sure to buy the one with the highest safety rating!"

On this point, Ye Xiqing and Ji Yuxiu shared the same opinion on the car inspection, so they didn't refute it. Instead, they stared intently at Ye Xueli's neck: "I don't think I've seen this necklace before, little sister. Is it new?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Xueli's face immediately showed a look of panic. Ji Yuxiu, however, was somewhat annoyed by Ye Xiqing's rebelliousness and looked up at her: "What's wrong? Is it not allowed? I originally wanted to give it to you, but you already want the car, so there's no way."

However, before she could finish venting her dissatisfaction, Ye Xiqing had already walked up to her uninvited.

She picked up a box from the dressing table, tilted her head, and asked, "Is this the one for me?"

Just as Ji Yuxiu was about to cross her arms and snort, Ye Xiqing leaned down and kissed her hair, saying, "Thank you, Mom. I will cherish it."

Ji Yuxiu: ...

Ye Xueli: ……

Wang Ma: ...

system:……

Hey! You just got back! Aren't you being a little too forward?

Ji Yuxiu's face turned completely red as she stared blankly at Ye Xiqing's straightforward actions, wondering if she was dreaming.

As her children have grown up, she has rarely experienced such intimate interactions, so this is quite unexpected!

Covering the spot where her daughter had kissed her, her heart pounded, but she felt no discomfort. She could only scold in a clearly coquettish tone, "What are you doing? This is so inappropriate!"

The rising intonation at the end of the note couldn't be stopped.

Ye Xiqing straightened up nonchalantly, holding the gift box in her hand, revealing a smile that said she had everything under control.

The heart within his chest, seemingly full of thoughts and trembling wildly, also received a stern interrogation from its owner—

Why are you so nervous about something so simple?