【Loot Check-In Point】
Winter, 1966.
Shanghai, the Lu Family Residence.
“Lu Rao, it has now been confirmed that you were switched at birth. Everything belonging to the Lu family must be returned to Shuxin—she is my elder brother’s true biological daughter.”
“Your second uncle has raised you for ten years. After all, there are feelings involved. I’ve already signed you up to go to the countryside—consider it finding you a way out.”
“You still have three days. Pack your things. When the time comes, you’ll head down to the countryside.”
Lu Rao stared blankly at the middle-aged man in front of her, his lips moving with a look of feigned reluctance on his face.
This was indeed her second uncle. Her name was indeed Lu Rao.
Then the one that was wrong… was this world.
Just moments ago, a system notification had suddenly sounded in her mind.
【The female lead has appeared. The plot has begun. Prepare to scavenge.】
【Scavenge successful. Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the female lead’s awakened consciousness.】
Immediately after, a wave of dizziness hit her, and a flood of memories poured into her mind.
When the dizziness subsided, the memories that had suddenly appeared left her stunned.
She was actually living inside a period novel titled “The Sixties Underworld Heiress: Reborn for Revenge, Then Cherished by All.”
It turned out that her entire family had been schemed against by her second uncle.
Her father hadn’t gone missing at all—ten years ago, when she was five, he had been imprisoned in a basement by her second uncle.
Her mother hadn’t died from an accidental drowning either—she had discovered her second uncle’s greed for the Lu family fortune and had been silenced.
All these years, her second uncle hadn’t been able to force the location of the family assets out of her father, so he never made a move against Lu Rao. Instead, he raised her, hoping to uncover the fortune through her.
But starting last year, the domestic situation had grown increasingly tense. By this autumn, many capitalists had already been “cut down.”
Since winter began, the city had become even more oppressive—many prominent families once close to the Lu family had secretly taken their assets and fled to Hong Kong or overseas.
The Lu family had originally risen from the underworld, only later transitioning into legitimacy under her father, becoming a force that operated across both sides in Shanghai.
But in the current climate, that past could never be safely buried—the Lu family was bound to face disaster.
Seeing that trouble was about to reach them, her second uncle—Gu Yucheng, who bore the maternal surname—could no longer wait. He brought his illegitimate daughter, Qiao Shuxin, from the countryside, claiming she was Lu Rao’s father Lu Fengtang’s real daughter, while Lu Rao was just a fake.
He forced Lu Rao to hand over the Lu family token.
At first, Lu Rao didn’t even know what the real token was. After Gu Yucheng took the heirloom jade pendant, he drove her to the countryside to fend for herself.
Even with the pendant, Gu Yucheng still failed to locate the Lu family fortune. In the end, unwilling to give up, he took the family’s visible assets and fled abroad with his mistress and Qiao Shuxin.
But what Gu Yucheng didn’t know… was that Qiao Shuxin had been reborn.
In her previous life, after the three of them went abroad, Gu Yucheng quickly squandered the Lu family fortune, turned to alcoholism, and beat Qiao Shuxin whenever he got drunk.
She tried to escape several times, only to be betrayed by her own mother. She was forced to associate with wealthy young men to earn money for her parents, and eventually died of disease beside a garbage heap.
Carrying overwhelming hatred, Qiao Shuxin was reborn.
She hated everyone connected to the Lu family.
This time, she didn’t go abroad. After activating her spatial ability, she seized the Lu family assets Gu Yucheng had gathered, killed her biological parents, tortured Lu Rao’s father in the basement, and didn’t spare Lu Rao, who had already been sent to the countryside.
Using an enemy agent, she framed Lu Rao as a spy, turning her into a model target for public criticism. Not long after, Lu Rao died under torture.
In the end, after learning that Lu Rao had a childhood betrothal, Qiao Shuxin didn’t let that person go either—she eliminated everyone who could possibly be that fiancé.
Lu Rao let out a laugh of anger.
What kind of brain-dead plot was this? Anyone connected to her had to end up as cannon fodder?
And as the female lead, the darling of fate, Qiao Shuxin could commit so many evil acts, yet still be doted on by the male lead’s family, marry, have children, and live happily ever after.
That very male lead… was currently pursuing Lu Rao with great enthusiasm.
She laughed again.
Really laughed.
Lu Rao slowly exhaled.
Right now, it was the very day Gu Yucheng brought Qiao Shuxin back to the Lu family to acknowledge her ancestry.
The Lu clan had gathered in the main hall of the residence. Gu Yucheng had just presented various identity documents, and even the nurse who had delivered Lu Rao’s mother back then had been brought in.
“When Miss Lu was born, she had a crescent-shaped red birthmark on her right arm. I remember it very clearly,” the nurse said with certainty.
Before awakening, Lu Rao would have believed her lies.
After all, the Lu family did have a hereditary birthmark trait.
But each family member’s mark was different—her grandfather had a plum blossom-shaped mark on his thigh, her father had a round moon on his chest.
And Lu Rao… had none.
Her appearance inherited the best features of both parents. On close inspection, there were traces of them—but at a glance, she resembled neither.
So when Qiao Shuxin rolled up her sleeve and revealed the crescent-shaped birthmark on her arm, people believed it three parts out of ten.
With the additional “evidence” prepared by Gu Yucheng, the clan believed eight parts.
The remaining two parts of doubt were simply out of respect for the heir of the Lu family.
For a family like the Lu family, how could the position of heir be decided just because someone brought a few pieces of evidence?
Lu Rao glanced at the nurse standing quietly in the hall. Watching her lie without even blinking, she couldn’t help but feel impressed.
Her father had taught her since childhood—people are deceitful. It was indeed true.
She then glanced at Qiao Shuxin standing beside the nurse, head lowered, and raised an eyebrow slightly.
At this moment, Qiao Shuxin seemed to be enduring an intense headache, her fingers pressing repeatedly against her temples.
“Has she… been reborn?”
Lu Rao recalled the plot. Qiao Shuxin was indeed reborn at this exact moment.
But after her rebirth, she didn’t reveal anything. Instead, she observed quietly, watching Gu Yucheng drive Lu Rao out of the Lu family before beginning her revenge.
“Lu Rao, do you have anything to say? Hand over the Lu family token.”
Seeing Lu Rao either spacing out or looking around without speaking, Gu Yucheng could no longer suppress his impatience and urged her.
He had already secretly booked passage—he would leave in five days. There was no time to delay.
Lu Rao came back to her senses.
Given the Lu family’s background, they were destined not to escape this disaster. Soon, they would be investigated, and at best, the family would be sent down to the countryside.
At this moment, abandoning her identity as the Lu family’s young lady and leaving the family might actually be a good thing.
But if she was to let go cleanly, she would first have to take a vicious bite out of Gu Yucheng and his daughter.
The Lu family token wasn’t that jade pendant—she already had a rough idea of what it really was.
Back then, her father had given that item to her together with the pendant.
Now, she had to retrieve it first.
Lu Rao looked steadily at Gu Yucheng. The gloom in her eyes vanished, replaced with a flustered and helpless expression.
“Second Uncle, this is too sudden. I don’t know what to do.”
Hearing this, Gu Yucheng quietly let out a sigh of relief, a hint of smugness rising in his heart.
“Good thing I raised my elder brother’s daughter into uselessness. With how naive and foolish she is, how could I not control her?”
But then Lu Rao continued:
“Didn’t you already take everything the Lu family passed down to me, Second Uncle? Why are you still asking me for the token?”