“Ye Cai’e! I never imagined our Ye family could produce someone with such a vicious heart. As expected, a child not raised at home has no upbringing!”
“Bad and stupid. If I had known, I wouldn’t have given birth to you. You’re inferior to Yaoyao in every way, and you even scheme against your younger sister!”
“Yaoyao, if only you were truly born into our Ye family. You’ve suffered so much. I don’t think the Ye family in Yulin Village is any good either. If you go back, you’ll surely be bullied.”
Half‑conscious, Ye Cai’e heard a shrill female voice hurling insults at her nonstop. She was certain she had never heard this voice before, yet hearing those words made her heart ache as if pierced. She slowly opened her eyes and saw two unfamiliar women standing over her.
Almost instantly, a violent pain erupted in her head as a flood of memories surged in.
Tragic indeed. Ye Cai’e, who in modern times worked three jobs a day just to save for retirement so she could lie flat someday, had transmigrated into a period novel titled The Capitalist Fake Heiress: Emptying the Family Fortune for a Perfect Life.
The original body was the True Heiress of the wealthy Ye family of Shanghai. Because of upheaval in those years, the Ye family she had been left with in Yulin Village in the Northeast had swapped children. She was only found and brought back last year, at nineteen.
This happened because the novel’s female lead, Ye Yingyao, had been reborn. In her previous life, she was sent down to the countryside along with the Ye family. After learning she was not their biological child, she immediately abandoned them. When the Ye family was later rehabilitated, their attitude toward her plummeted, and she could only remain a rural girl for life.
By contrast, Ye Cai’e soared straight to the top, relying on the Ye family’s power to live a prosperous life.
Unwilling to accept this, Ye Yingyao was reborn and quickly found a chance to let the Ye parents discover that she was not their biological daughter, then had Ye Cai’e brought back. She also seized the Ye family’s spatial jade bracelet from the previous life and took away most of the family fortune. By the time the Ye family was rehabilitated, Ye Cai’e had already starved to death. Ye Yingyao took advantage of the situation to seize everything that should have belonged to the original body and became the daughter of both families.
As Ye Cai’e was absorbing these memories, the two women spoke again.
“Still pretending? What, did the fall knock your head bad? A little blood and you act delicate. Raised in the countryside, you’re just disgusting. You try petty tricks and you’re stupid at that, even daring to frame Yaoyao by saying she pushed you. I watched her grow up. Wouldn’t I know what kind of person she is?”
“Poor Yaoyao, with her biological parents not by her side, and she still has to suffer this. Let Mom see. Oh my, her wrist is red!”
Ye Cai’e quickly accepted that she had transmigrated. When she had read this novel before, she never stopped cursing the Ye family and the female lead. After all, the Ye family’s immense wealth had never come from legitimate means. Their ancestors were high officials, and corruption was commonplace. In recent years they had also made money off war, so the scale of their fortune was immeasurable.
Looking at the hypocritical mother and daughter before her, she raised a hand to touch her forehead. Seeing the blood on her fingers, she froze for a moment, then a surge of sour grief flooded her chest.
She realized it was the lingering emotion of the original Ye Cai’e, and she made a promise in her heart. “Don’t worry! Since I’m here, it’s fate. I will make the Ye family and Ye Yingyao all receive the punishment they deserve.”
As the thought settled, it felt as if something in her heart vanished, leaving only Ye Cai’e’s hatred for those capitalist dogs.
Chen Yumei, as if seeing the red mark on her precious daughter’s hand, was so distressed that she directly stomped hard on the hand Ye Cai’e had braced on the ground. She then jabbed twice at the bleeding wound on Ye Cai’e’s forehead.
“I really don’t know how I gave birth to such a stubborn thing. Bad and vicious. This stomp repays you for making Yaoyao’s hand red. Get up and apologize right now. No upbringing!”
After speaking, she even wiped the blood from her hand onto Ye Cai’e’s clothes in disgust.
Ye Yingyao cast Ye Cai’e a smug glance, then held the young woman’s arm and soothed her. “I’m fine, Mom. Big Sister definitely didn’t mean it. I’ll just put on some medicine later.”
She used her sleeve to hide the red mark, wearing a pitiful expression.
Sure enough, Chen Yumei felt even more heartbroken. She affectionately tapped Ye Yingyao’s forehead. “You’re the kind‑hearted one. Yaoyao, don’t worry. The marriage to Anguo will definitely be yours. That cheap girl doesn’t deserve a family like Anguo’s. No matter how she fights for it, it’s useless.”
Ye Cai’e sneered. This tiny injury really was nothing. Not to mention the wound on her forehead that was still bleeding steadily, just look at her body. Which part of her had no scars?
Back in Yulin Village, the original Ye Cai’e had not passed a single day without being beaten. Yet all of that was invisible to them.
Has the Shanghai Ye family gone mad from being capitalists? Not cherishing their biological daughter and instead favoring that Fake Heiress. If they knew it was Ye Yingyao’s father who had deliberately swapped the two children, would they regret it?
She watched as Chen Yumei took off the jade bracelet she always wore and slipped it onto Ye Yingyao’s wrist. “Yaoyao, this is Mom’s favorite dowry. Your grandfather searched for a long time to find a jade bracelet with this color and translucence. Take it. Mom will apologize to you on her behalf.”
A flash of delight crossed Ye Yingyao’s eyes before panic covered it. “How can I accept this? It’s far too precious. I’m just a farm girl now. How could I be worthy of such a fine bracelet?”
Seeing her love it yet timidly refuse, looking so wronged, Chen Yumei felt so distressed she could die. She wished Ye Cai’e had never been found, so Yaoyao could remain her daughter forever, not this stupid, ugly girl.
“Nonsense! You will always be Mom’s daughter. I won’t allow you to say that!”
The two of them cried and hugged each other again. Even while fake crying, Ye Yingyao did not forget to cast a provocative sideways glance at Ye Cai’e.
If it were the Ye Cai’e of the past, she would surely have jumped up and screamed, earning the entire Ye family’s hatred. In truth, Ye Cai’e was not ugly. It was just that when she first returned to Shanghai she was too dark and too thin. Years of hunger and endless farm labor had drained all youthful vitality from her, leaving the Ye family with the impression of a thoroughly rustic country girl.
Even though a year of city life had lightened her skin somewhat, it still could not change their view.
Ye Cai’e raised her brows slightly. This bracelet must be the spatial bracelet that Chen Yumei never removed in the book.
She slowly stood and walked up to Chen Yumei. Blood from her forehead had already run to her chin, dripping down drop by drop.
“I think the two of you have water in your brains, especially you, Comrade Chen Yumei. I am your biological daughter. If your brain weren’t diseased, would you ignore your own flesh and blood to dote on an outsider who stole your daughter’s life for nineteen years? And are you blind to the bowl‑sized wound on my head? You stomped my hand and poked my injury. Who gave you the nerve? You can’t tell right from wrong. You recognize thieves as daughters. You deserve punishment!”
With that, she stomped hard on Chen Yumei’s foot.
When facing ghosts, you speak ghost words and do ghost deeds.