Chapter 802 - 723: Displaced Lives 1
In the blood-colored Flower Sea Space, Shuangshuang awoke from her cultivation, sighing helplessly. It’s truly troublesome; although she had regained her strength, the countless failed reincarnations before had left her with lingering obsessions. If she didn’t eliminate these obsessions now, a Heart Demon might emerge.
It seems she needs to revisit each of the worlds she had reincarnated into before, to erase these obsessions, to prevent the formation of a Heart Demon. The Heart Demon of the Main God is arguably more terrifying than the actual Demon Clan.
Her parents were in seclusion; although they had left a Divine Thought saying their retreat would be brief, their concept of time differed from that of mortals. What they consider brief could mean a millennium or even ten millennia. Perhaps, by the time her cycles of reincarnation were over, they still wouldn’t have emerged, so Shuangshuang abandoned the idea of leaving a Divine Thought mark.
When Shuangshuang’s parents sent her to reincarnate, they needed to use the Time Wheel, but Shuangshuang herself did not. Each time she reincarnated, she left a Divine Thought mark in that world, allowing her to return to these past worlds by following these marks.
This time, Shuangshuang chose to go to a modern world she had reincarnated into before, a world resembling Earth’s twenty-first century. Of course, this world wasn’t Earth, and her reincarnated name in this world was Wen Shuangshuang, supposedly a rich heiress. But in truth, this heiress identity was fake!
This is a story of a true and fake heiress. Wen Shuangshuang was born into a wealthy family, with elegant and noble parents and considerable family assets. As the only daughter, Wen Shuangshuang was deeply loved by her parents, and even her grandparents adored her.
Wen Shuangshuang was sweet-mouthed and filial, adept at appeasing the elders. With her parents having only one daughter, they naturally spoiled her, giving in to her every whim. Over time, Wen Shuangshuang was raised somewhat naive and ignorant of the hardships of the world and common people’s struggles.
Originally, as the daughter of a wealthy family, she was raised with privilege and wouldn’t marry a financially struggling "Phoenix". Even if she did, her family wouldn’t mind supporting an extra daughter-in-law financially.
But who knew Wen Shuangshuang’s fate would alter drastically at eighteen when police came knocking, claiming she wasn’t the Wen Family’s biological daughter.
The story traced back to eighteen years ago, when Wen Shuangshuang was born, during a time when hospital management was lax, and there were many births but few nurses. Amid the chaotic care of infants, some babies had been swapped, and two pairs of infants ended up with the wrong parents.
One child grew up only to be inadvertently discovered as not being the biological offspring of their parents. After police involvement, they untangled this bizarre case.
Wen Shuangshuang wasn’t the biological daughter of her parents, while her biological parents were merely average wage earners. She had usurped another’s identity, enjoying eighteen years of privilege she shouldn’t have had.
After this matter surfaced, naturally, each was to return to their rightful place. Wen Shuangshuang relinquished her identity to the true heiress, Fang Zhijin, and returned to her biological parents’ home, resuming the life she was meant to lead.
Although the transition from wealthy to poor left Wen Shuangshuang struggling in life—mainly due to her lavish lifestyle as a rich girl—she was unaccustomed to worrying about finances and was thoroughly ignorant of common people’s spending habits.
Still, Wen Shuangshuang didn’t cling to her former privileged life. She hoped not to burden her biological parents and aimed to change herself while hoping they might accept her.
Knowing she wasn’t a wealthy heiress anymore, Wen Shuangshuang began saving money, altering many of her extravagant habits. But Wen Shuangshuang’s idea of saving money was reducing spending from ten thousand to one thousand, which already felt like extreme frugality for her!
However, for her wage-earning biological parents, this remained an unaffordable extravagance. Wen Shuangshuang wasn’t unreasonable; if her biological parents had voiced their struggles, she certainly would have adapted.
Yet her biological parents treated this long-lost daughter with politeness, never voicing difficulties. They only reminisced in private about how understanding and thrifty their adopted daughter was. Towards this biological daughter, they felt a faint, even resistant indifference.
But Wen Shuangshuang, raised in luxury, was oblivious to worldly matters; she couldn’t comprehend the earnings of a regular wage-earning lifestyle, mistakenly assuming she was already being so frugal that she wouldn’t burden the family.
The result was one party thinking they had done well, while the other was dissatisfied yet unspoken, secretly disliking. Not only her biological parents but even her grandparents disliked Wen Shuangshuang’s extravagant ways and inability to perform chores, leaving Wen Shuangshuang feeling out of place in this new family.
She struggled to adjust to meals featuring one or two palatable dishes instead of a dozen fine ones, to no longer wearing comfortable branded clothes, to not applying skincare daily and only using basic creams, to not having housekeepers for chores and needing to handle things personally.
Beyond material hardships, Wen Shuangshuang felt alienated by the indifference she faced; no amount of appeasement seemed to warm their regard—grandparents ignoring her, parents cold to her. She was lost in this household, unsure how to transform the situation.
Wen Shuangshuang wished to integrate into this family, earnestly trying to adapt, learning housework, showing care toward her hardworking parents, avoiding those once everyday luxury brands.
However, her actions were still met with disdain. The family disliked her forcefully swallowing during meals, her picky clothing habits, her clumsy, inefficient housekeeping.
Unlike Wen Shuangshuang, the real Wen Family heiress, Fang Zhijin, was thriving naturally. Her diligence and grace won unanimous favor from the entire Wen Family. Her capability conjured images of a past lacking fortune, as only those unused to privilege could be so capable.
The loved child would understand nothing, while the neglected child could do everything—triggering guilt imagining their biological child enduring hardships while Wen Shuangshuang enjoyed comfort. Her foster father, Wen Jianyun, and foster mother, Liu Yun, felt pained.
That pain led them to harbor resentment toward the Fang Family and towards their long-loved foster daughter, Wen Shuangshuang, further cooling their affections. With a deemed-agreeable and capable biological daughter, the pampered foster daughter became insignificant.
Wen Shuangshuang led an extremely dismal life. Her upbringing left her bereft of skills, and her sudden fall from a pampered young lady to an ordinary family’s daughter left her attempting yet failing to adjust.