Is that girl in the video?
"Right? The moles on the tips of their noses are exactly the same."
"Tsk tsk, no wonder she was still dressed in designer brands even after going bankrupt. Turns out she was working as a hostess in a bar."
"That's really shameful. I heard her dad was so angry he died?"
"Ha, just think back to two years ago, how glamorous was the young lady of the Jiang family. She was involved in a business marriage with the Shen family and spent money to flirt with that unattainable beauty. Who told her to have nothing better to do than mess with Ruan Tang..."
"Shh, she's here..."
The campus was brimming with youthful hormones. A girl in a long black dress, her brown hair neatly styled, walked quietly along the tree-lined path, looking out of place with her surroundings, her expression lifeless.
She couldn't control the mocking whispers around her, nor did she want to anymore, the photos that kept circulating on the campus website...
I don't know how long I walked, but the number of students around me gradually decreased until I arrived at the Qinghu Lake in a corner of the campus.
At night, many young couples meet here for secret rendezvous. During the day, the place is deserted, with only the blinding white sunlight.
The girl looked at the shimmering lake surface, but did not stop walking. Instead, she stepped into the lake.
The lake water, warmed by the sunlight, enveloped her, making her feel as if she had returned to her mother's womb. She couldn't help but squint and walk faster toward the center of the lake.
The warmth vanished, and the lake, where the sun couldn't reach, was icy cold, engulfing the girl completely.
It's cold, very cold.
An overwhelming sense of suffocation.
On the lake, the girl's head was completely submerged, and the lake was calm again. The girl didn't struggle at all, as if nothing had happened.
It was as if no one had ever been there.
As soon as Jiang Fei woke up, she couldn't help but gasp for breath. The eerie calm and the painful feeling of suffocation in the original owner's last memory kept lingering in her mind.
After a while, Jiang Fei finally calmed down and looked around at his surroundings.
She was in a girl's room, which was decorated in a warm and elegant style, with a bright and uplifting atmosphere.
Only a crystal ball ornament and a photo frame on the bedside table are the only remaining touches of delicate gentleness in this room.
Inside the crystal ball is a couple dressed in a wedding dress and a suit. In the photo frame, a smiling, bright girl and a free-spirited boy stand side by side.
Jiang Fei stroked the photo frame and walked to the mirror.
The girl in the mirror is now more radiant than in the photo frame. When she's not smiling, her lips are slightly pursed, a symbol of stubbornness, but once she smiles, her eyebrows and eyes curve slightly, adding a touch of charm.
Thinking of the original owner's last memories, Jiang Fei frowned, wondering why the original owner, who was so wealthy, had ended up in such a destitute state.
"system?"
[System: The storyline has been delivered to the host.]
Jiang Fei narrowed his eyes.
The original owner was the eldest daughter of the Jiang family in Chen City. She was beautiful and intelligent, but she was stubborn and would never easily give up on anything or anyone she had set her mind on.
The original owner's mother died early, and the original owner's father and stepmother loved the original owner very much.
When she was ten, her family moved to the villa they live in now. There were many naughty children in the surrounding villa area, and the original owner of this body was naturally the one who was bullied. However, she was stubborn and never said a word when she was bullied, nor did she ever mention it when she got home.
One day, when the group of children were bullying her again, a boy appeared out of nowhere and shielded her behind him.
The boy's name is Shen Fang.
At that moment, the original owner looked at the back of the boy protecting her, and her heart was instantly captivated.
Later, Jiang's father learned about the original owner being bullied. He went to investigate and found out the whole story. He gave the naughty children a good scolding and then went to the Shen family to express his gratitude.
The Shen family was a prestigious clan, and the Jiang family was also a wealthy and influential family. The two families sat together and chatted happily. In the end, they even brought up the marriage of their two children.
The original owner sat to the side, her heart pounding faster and faster.
Shen Fang had just returned from outside, covered in sweat, and his mother stopped him to ask if he was willing.
Shen Fang glanced at the original owner of the body and thought of the boys who bullied her saying, "They bullied her because she's pretty." And she was indeed the prettiest girl he knew. Driven by vanity, he nodded and agreed.
Thus, the marriage agreement between the two families was finalized.
The original owner never told Shen Fang that she liked him, but she showed it every moment.
When he skipped class, she covered for him with the teachers; when he was caught secretly smoking, she spoke to Shen's mother on his behalf; when he got injured in a fight, she was always the one who sneaked out in the middle of the night to bail him out, take him to the hospital, and take care of him there...
Even because of his comment that "girls who play the piano are pretty," the original owner started practicing the piano; in order to be able to dance with him at the graduation ceremony, she practiced dancing until her ankles were red and swollen...
Shen Fang accepted the original owner's kindness without a second thought until one day during a fight, he was ridiculed for "arranging betrothals in this day and age." Shen Fang began to reject the original owner's existence and even started to deliberately find girlfriends one after another.
He never told the original owner about fighting, getting sick, or skipping classes.
The original owner was bewildered and wondered if she had done something wrong.
It wasn't until she entered university and Ruan Tang appeared that the original owner completely panicked.
Ruan Tang can't play the piano or dance. When she sees the scars left by Shen Fang from fighting, she only calls him a "bad boy". She is only considered pretty and cute. However, Shen Fang fell in love with Ruan Tang and felt that she was so different from others. He even proposed to cancel the engagement with the original owner because of Ruan Tang.
Even though... Ruan Tang already had another boy in her heart.
The boy was Song Yan, who had been classmates with Ruan Tang for six years. He was a true beauty on a high mountain in the university. He came from a poor family but excelled in his studies. He rarely smiled and always wore a worn-out white shirt, which made his aloof and noble face even more handsome.
It was precisely because of Ruan Tang that Shen Fang disliked Song Yan.
One was as passionate as fire, the other as reserved as ice, yet they were locked in a stalemate over a girl, like fire and water.
During the second year's vacation, Shen Fang's pursuit of Ruan Tang failed, so he simply focused his attention on Song Yan. He believed that as long as Song Yan had a girlfriend, Ruan Tang would definitely give up.
Shen Fang had long been accustomed to treating the original owner of the body as someone to be summoned and dismissed at will, so the first person he thought of for this girlfriend was the original owner—firstly, to make Ruan Tang lose heart towards Song Yan; secondly, to take the opportunity to dissolve his engagement with the original owner; and thirdly, because she liked him, she would definitely not refuse him.
Killing three birds with one stone.
So Shen Fang took the initiative to invite the original owner to a restaurant for the first time.
The original owner happily went to the appointment, thinking that he had finally given up on Ruan Tang and turned around to see her.
However, in that romantic restaurant, the original owner of the body asked her to get close to Song Yan.
The original owner was stunned.
Her fiancé begged her to get close to other boys for his sake.
But when Shen Fang made his "request," the original owner of the body, who had never refused him before, ultimately neither refused nor agreed. She made a request: during this holiday, treat her well, just like you would treat Ruan Tang.
Shen Fang agreed.
He started inviting the original owner of this body out for trips, showing him great care and attention, and even introducing him to his friends who were into racing cars...
The original owner finally realized that Shen Fang really liked Ruan Tang.
He liked her so much that he was willing to endure his dislike for her for an entire holiday to make the effort for her.
The original owner, heartbroken, agreed.
So, for the rest of the semester, she began to get closer to Song Yan.
In the original owner's mind, she and Song Yan were actually the same kind of people—pitiful people who loved but could not be loved in return.
Even though she deliberately approached him, she didn't toy with him.
Knowing that Song Yan was poor, she bought his time with money, made him a tutor, created a series of coincidences to squeeze out his time with Ruan Tang, and even... when his grandmother was sick, she tried her best to please the old lady and forced him to admit to his relationship with her by offering a sum of money for surgery.
And as expected, the deeply hurt Ruan Tang grew closer and closer to Shen Fang...
Later, when Jiang's father fell ill, the original owner stayed by his bedside day and night. In order to repay the original owner for accompanying his grandmother, Song Yan stayed by the original owner's side.
During that time, the original owner contacted Shen Fang several times, and he stayed with Ruan Tang.
The original owner was disappointed.
Song Yan is an outstanding person, and it's not difficult to like someone like that.
When the original owner realized that she wasn't as heartbroken as before when she saw Shen Fang and Ruan Tang being intimate, she knew that she might have fallen for Song Yan.
Before she could even understand her own feelings, Song Yan was taken back into the Song family.
It turns out that he was the only son of the Song family, a top-tier wealthy family, who had been living away from home.
Song Yan was no longer poor, and no longer needed the original owner's "help".
He was a well-mannered person. He found the original owner of the body, carefully recorded every penny she had given him, and returned it to her.
Finally, Song Yan said: "Jiang, I don't want to bring up the matter of deliberately getting close to you again. I just hope that we will never have anything to do with each other again in the future."
We will never see each other again.
It turned out that he had guessed her purpose from the beginning, but never exposed it.
It turns out that Song Yan's feelings had never changed from beginning to end.
That day, after returning home, the original owner also received a message from Shen Fang saying that he wanted to "cancel the engagement".
The original owner stayed alone in the room for three days and three nights.
On the fourth day, as she walked through the school gate, she heard the news that Shen Fang and Song Yan had fought over Ruan Tang.
The original owner started to get stuck on trivial matters and became jealous of Ruan Tang.
Relying on her family background, she tried many tricks on Ruan Tang, but without exception, they all failed.
In the end, the original owner exposed her childhood engagement with Shen Fang on the school website. Later, someone dug up photos of Ruan Tang kissing Shen Fang's cheek and Ruan Tang hugging Song Yan.
Rumors such as "Ruan Tang is a mistress" and "Ruan Tang is two-timing" began to spread on campus and even in the upper-class circles, and countless insults against Ruan Tang followed.
Shen Fang and Song Yan were both furious and used their family influence to teach the Jiang family a small lesson.
Shen Fang directly canceled the engagement with the Jiang family and snatched several major business deals from the Jiang family from the Song family.
Mr. Jiang's health had been poor since his last hospitalization, and this time he fell seriously ill.
Exhausted from caring for her ailing father, the stepmother was involved in a car accident on her way to the hospital and died.
The Jiang family is doomed.
Even though the original owner went to beg Shen Fang and Song Yan to sincerely apologize, she still couldn't support the huge Jiang family on her own.
The Jiang family fell.
But the original owner cannot fall.
Her father is still in the hospital and needs expensive medical treatment.
She began asking her father's old friends and former business partners of the Jiang family, but managed to raise very little money.
In the end, the original owner decided to go to the bar. She didn't want to work as a hostess; she just wanted to be a bar girl. She no longer cared about morality.
She was completely desperate.
It was at this time that she met a boy named Jiang Cuo. He was two years younger than her, with innocent and harmless eyes, but he was a flower with deadly poison.
Jiang Cuo gave the original owner a sum of money, just enough for the hospital's surgery fees.
His only request was to spend one night with him.
The original owner wanted to refuse, but the hospital started urging her.
She eventually agreed.
Jiang Cuo, however, got her drunk, filmed her sitting in another man's lap, and released the video to the public.
It turns out that Jiang Cuo's mother was the original owner's stepmother.
Jiang Cuo's father was powerful and influential, but had a violent temper. Jiang's mother eventually couldn't bear the pressure and was willing to abandon everything to get a divorce.
Among everything she abandoned was Jiang Cuo.
Jiang Cuo was frequently beaten and scolded by his father. He once ran away to find his mother, only to see her smiling warmly as she held his hand. When his mother saw him covered in wounds, she didn't even dare to recognize him.
In the end, he took his resentment out on Jiang's mother and Jiang Fei.
Jiang's mother is dead, and he wants to get revenge on Jiang Fei, to make her taste the bitterness he suffered.
On the same night, Jiang's father's surgery failed, and he died on the operating table.
With her last support gone, the original owner finally put on her only remaining exquisite black dress, neatly combed her hair, and quietly walked into the lake...
The plot has been received.
Jiang Fei narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment.
This was during the vacation when Shen Fang had promised to treat the original owner well, just to get the original owner to agree to get close to Song Yan.
Jiang Fei paused, dipped his finger in water, and slowly wrote the three characters "Chen, Song, Jiang" on the mirror.
After she finished writing, she casually asked, "How much is the reward?"
[Song Yan: Reward: 4 million spirit coins; Current favorability: 0.]
[Shen Fang: Bounty 5 million spirit coins, current favorability: 10.]
[Jiang Cuo: Bounty: 6 million spirit coins; Current favorability: -30.]
Jiang Fei responded softly, and then slowly put an X on those three words.
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