After arriving in this world, He Ying had been busy absorbing memories, reviewing the world’s plot, searching for mission weaknesses, studying, dealing with F4, venting frustrations, and thinking about how to flawlessly inherit the family fortune so she could retire in peace once everything was over. But she had overlooked one thing.
She had forgotten to use her objective, post-memory-recovery perspective to judge this world’s monetary value, instead directly trusting the value assessments from her memories.
If students at Hongru Academy could go to such lengths, she might have vastly underestimated her own status.
This oversight was related to He Ying’s experiences.
He Ying had been through too many mission worlds. In many of those worlds, due to flaws in their creation, prices were extremely distorted—simply put, money wasn’t money.
In some worlds, there were even situations where 100 billion could only buy a toilet, and domineering CEOs would casually throw around trillions to insult people.
Compared to those worlds, assets of 1.3 trillion were just middle-class among domineering CEOs.
Back when He Ying finished reading the development from Xia Shuyue’s perspective, her mind uncontrollably assumed this world was a domineering CEO world, and in such worlds, it was normal for prices to go crazy along with everything else.
He Ying, with her memories blocked, should have established a correct understanding of prices from a local’s perspective for her future self. However, during her life with blocked memories, He Ying’s parents, in order to instill He family values in her, never told her the prices of things they bought for her. They only told her not to buy things for the brand, but to buy what she truly needed or liked.
One should buy things for the item itself, not for the so-called brand.
People from the He family didn’t need external objects to prove anything; those were illusory and would burst at a touch. What truly allowed a person to stand tall and unyielding was the strength of heart supporting their backbone.
Thanks to this abstract way of thinking, He Ying—the version without memories—grew up all the way to her first year of high school without ever forming a concrete concept of money.
To her, money wasn’t money; it was merely a tool to measure value. Problems that could be solved with money weren’t problems at all.
The amnesiac He Ying was a true young lady of privilege. She knew money was necessary, but she didn’t know what it was like to be without it. Her desire for money stemmed more from the constraints of her own status than from genuine longing.
And precisely because of this, after becoming lovestruck, she could chase after Shangguan Mingyu, even giving up her inheritance rights.
After realizing this issue, He Ying hurried to the classroom early, before morning self-study began. Using her phone, she looked up the prices of some common daily necessities online, checked local housing prices, and finally searched the world’s rich list.
Ranked first was none other than her father, He Yi.
And the prices in this world weren’t exaggerated either.
In other words, 1.3 trillion was not some middle-class amount in a domineering CEO world; it was, without a doubt, the number one in the world.
At this point, He Ying’s head was starting to ache.
She reviewed her family’s businesses once again and finally realized just how naive the memory-less He Ying had been.
Under her mother’s heavy pressure, her father had still raised “He Ying” into a clever, polite, yet naive child.
After regaining her memories, He Ying only realized that the story recorded from Xia Shuyue’s perspective was a trap, but overlooked that her own memories were also a trap.
The He family’s business was far from the simple, supposedly large-scale conglomerate in her memories. From its beginnings in innovative technology, their enterprise had now developed into national infrastructure, even a global necessity. Such things held in private hands were extremely dangerous.
Which ruler could tolerate merchants who could easily damage the foundations of the state?
He Ying saw in her memories that from childhood, besides receiving intellectual education, she also had to undergo education in character. Her parents placed extremely high demands on her conduct, emphasizing the cultivation of her loyalty to the nation.
In the eyes of He Ying without memories, this merely indicated that her parents were good merchants who, after amassing immense wealth, did not forget to contribute back to society and the nation.
But in the eyes of He Ying who had now experienced 100 worlds, she had already sensed the scent of danger.
The He family enterprise in private hands was a threat to a nation, yet the He family could still control it now. That must mean He Yi had done something, likely related to the He family’s inheritance conditions.
Hongru Academy was a privately founded, state-controlled school. If He Ying gained recognition in such a school, it meant gaining recognition from above, allowing her to continue holding the He family’s industries.
But if her performance did not gain recognition?
Then she would lose her inheritance rights.
He Yi once said that if He Ying did not meet the inheritance requirements, he would donate all the family assets. He Ying without memories only thought this was her father’s words to motivate her, but now He Ying knew: this wasn’t donating, it was clearly handing over dangerous items to survive by severing ties.
While ordinary enterprises were still thinking about how to grow bigger and stronger, the He family had already begun contemplating how to weaken, how to become harmless.
Without unexpected circumstances, He Ying originally could not inherit.
At that time, it would be like a whale falling, giving life to all things.
Once the He family’s industries were relinquished, the state could not absorb them all and would inevitably disperse some. Even these alone would be enough to shake the current social strata.
He Ying thought of herself seen from Xia Shuyue’s perspective: pursuing a man unsuccessfully and being subjected to psychological manipulation, heartbroken over a man and neglecting studies, grades plummeting in school and always thinking about competing with women, eventually sent abroad by her biological father, while the He family’s assets were donated.
When these events occurred, did the He family intervene? No.
Only He Ying alone; other He family members never appeared, nor did the common F4 plot of “Release my daughter’s man, I’ll give you 5 million.”
Everything that happened to He Ying seemed both conspicuous and silent.
He Ying thought of what Ding Yunyun said earlier. Assuming people in this circle knew the He family’s inheritance conditions, then did Shangguan Mingyu’s approach to Xia Shuyue after entering Hongru Academy to drive her mad count as deliberate?
No wonder, why even though she clearly did not order it, someone still bullied Xia Shuyue.
Why even though she clearly did not speak, someone still dared to move against F4.
Indeed, it wasn’t F4 directing it, but they were not innocent either.
According to their plan, Xia Shuyue would be used as a bullet shot into the heart of the He family.
That girl who originally had bright dreams was exploited amid everyone’s cheers.
In the end, only He Ying and the He family vanished.
While those people feasted on the flesh and blood of the He family, they began to grow rapidly.
Damn it, this world isn’t just a massive Tomato Novel—it’s a massive Promised Neverland!