Summary
Gu Xiaocong never expected to return to the present timeline after spending twenty-four years in the ancient past. In her original life, she grew up in the countryside, raised by parents who showed her little love or care. When they heard about a neighbor’s daughter making money by working outside, they saw an opportunity for profit. They forced Gu Xiaocong to quit school and join a reality show, exchanging her participation for a mere seven hundred dollars.
This reality show became a turning point in her life, but not for the better. The show featured ordinary people, contrasting girls raised in the countryside with those raised in the city. The producers edited the content with a biased perspective, portraying Gu Xiaocong as an “uncultured hillbilly” to stir up drama. Consequently, she became a target for relentless cyberbullying.
Three years later, Gu Xiaocong’s biological parents found her. It was then she uncovered a devastating truth: her original parents were actually human traffickers. They had swapped her with their own daughter, allowing their biological child to lead a privileged life in the city while Gu Xiaocong suffered. Ironically, the very girl who had become her rival on the show was, in fact, the traffickers’ real daughter. Her birth parents turned out to be the masterminds behind her mistreatment, yet they felt no remorse, choosing to support the fake young lady they had raised instead. They accused Gu Xiaocong of being petty and troublesome for not conforming to their expectations.
Enduring constant mistreatment, Gu Xiaocong finally reached her breaking point and ended her life by jumping off a balcony. Yet in an unexpected twist, she woke up in the distant past, where she worked her way up from an ordinary citizen to the status of empress. There, she found the sense of home and belonging she had always craved.
But just as suddenly, she reincarnated back into her original timeline. Determined to rewrite her story, Gu Xiaocong set out to send her adoptive parents to prison. She vowed to achieve all her past aspirations and make her biological parents deeply regret their choices.