Switched at birth (aka Fake versus Real child) BG

Switched at birth (aka Fake versus Real child) BG
This list contains stories on my reading lists where MC or someone else important in the story was switched at birth or the family replaced real child with a fake one later on. In most of these stories the biological family does not treat MC right. In cases where MC is replaced after birth the real child was usually either lost at young age or had a reason for replace the real child with a fake.

Descriptions may contain spoilers. They help me remember the contents of the novel.

I added a few novels that can't be found on NU in the comments. I moved the BL ones to a different list.

My personal ratings:

5 - I really love this novel. Will read this again again.

4 - I really like this novel. Will read this again.

3 - this is a nice novel. I liked it. I might read this again.

2 - this novel was okay, but I wouldn't want to read it again. Usually I find these rather boring, or at least not interesting enough to check out again.

1 - I didn't like this novel.
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Created: Jul 23rd, 2022, Updated: Jun 29th, 2025
Created Jul 23rd, 2022
Updated Jun 29th, 2025
CN (3.8)
55 Chapters Every 23.3 Day(s) 2931 Readers 32 Reviews 12-11-2024
5 - MC is transported in novel as daughter who was switched at birth. Brother and parents treat her badly and favor fake daughter in everything. ... more>>
CN (4.5)
113 Chapters Every 65.7 Day(s) 9942 Readers 237 Reviews 04-17-2023
5 - MC is reborn in novel as daughter who was switched at birth. She is found back by her real familu around the age of 15. In the novel MC dies very young from a cancer without telling her family, because they pay no attention to her.... more>>
CN (3.3)
60 Chapters Every 116.3 Day(s) 1083 Readers 15 Reviews 10-31-2020
4 - MC was switched at birth and found back around age of 15. At 17 years old MC's soul takes over the body and wakes up in mental hospital where her family sent her. Her 3 brothers are reborn around the same time. They did not treat her right in previous life but decide to make up for it in this life.... more>>
CN (4.2)
154 Chapters Every 103.9 Day(s) 10375 Readers 194 Reviews 07-05-2021
4 - Yu Xiang and her twin brother have a very strong bond. Her brother has a serious heart condition and she is paralyzed. After her mother begs her to give her heart to her brother she agrees to have her heart transplanted inside her brother's body and dies. When her brother finds out about this he asks buddhists to give her a good next life.... more>>
KR (4.3)
0 Chapters Every 1301 Day(s) 4550 Readers 20 Reviews N/A
4 - FL is found by a noble family in an orphanage and adopted to become the future wife of the emperor, because their own... more>>
CN (3.9)
125 Chapters Every 85.1 Day(s) 2875 Readers 15 Reviews 03-28-2022
4 - In her past life Gu Wei Wei’s heart, dug out by the man she loved, was transplanted into her best friend’s body.... more>>
CN (4.4)
517 Chapters Every 38.2 Day(s) 6042 Readers 72 Reviews 05-04-2024
3 - China in the 70's. MC is transported into a book. She is the fake daughter of a wealthy family. Her blood-related family are quite poor. When MC wakes up her parents have died after she refused to live with them. Knowing what will happen in the book she decides to live with her brothers and sister. ... more>>
CN (4.3)
151 Chapters Every 436.4 Day(s) 10006 Readers 221 Reviews 07-26-2017
3 - After five years, Ning Xi has returned and is out to take revenge on the sister who turned her parents against her and the childhood sweetheart who betrayed her for her sister. She aims to fulfill her childhood dream and become a famous actress. However, her sister is still out to get her, and she has to avoid all her underhanded schemes.... more>>
CN (3.8)
500 Chapters Every 66.1 Day(s) 6965 Readers 114 Reviews 12-26-2022
3 - MC and ML are both transported in book. MC's fiancee leaves her, but she quickly marries ML, someone very rich. A fortune teller has told his family that she has to spend his money to give him luck. At first she spends the money on him, but this gives him misfortune. When she starts spending money on herself he gets lucky.... more>>
CN (3.5)
39 Chapters Every 117.3 Day(s) 1158 Readers 18 Reviews 10-16-2020
3 - MC was switched at birth and grows up in a wealthy family. After the switch is found out the family wants nothing to do with her and send her to her grandfather in the country who was raising the fake daughter.... more>>
CN (3.8)
133 Chapters Every 86 Day(s) 5390 Readers 74 Reviews 03-16-2022
3 - MC is transmigrator (novel world), ML is reincarnator. ML has been switched at birth. His adoptive mother deliberately switched him to give her son a better life. MC has a system that is sent back to school to help MC. MC has loving parents who first didn't want her to marry ML because he came back home from the army wounded. There are more transmigrators and reincarnators. MC acts as a shrew occasionally to protect ML. Doting husband. ML isn't disabled, just injured. Sweet feel good story.... more>>
CN (3)
19 Chapters Every 118.5 Day(s) 416 Readers 7 Reviews 03-25-2021
3 - MC was switched at birth. She starts to live with real parents, but is treated very badly and crippled and dies of a... more>>
CN (3.5)
54 Chapters Every 24.7 Day(s) 1291 Readers 14 Reviews 06-15-2025
3 - MC is a transmigrating cultivator who for some reason lost her memories until the age of 18. She is the assumed real daughter of the Ying Family. Lost as an infant and recovered at the age of 15.... more>>
CN (3.2)
40 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 930 Readers 11 Reviews 06-28-2019
3 - As the second daughter of Ningyuan Army General, Qin Wanru, who had been set up by her so-called mother and elder sister, lost her reputation and suffered a lot on her wedding in her previous life.... more>>
CN (3.9)
164 Chapters Every 213.3 Day(s) 6309 Readers 163 Reviews 01-03-2018
3 - “This guy, how heavy is his taste, he’s still able to eat?” Waking up, she looked at her reflection in the mirror, explosive hair, tattoos, and a demon-like face. Look at her for more than a second and you’ll have spicy eyes (your eyes will bleed-aka she looks really ugly).... more>>
CN (3.4)
1 Chapters Every 1174 Day(s) 355 Readers 11 Reviews 06-01-2021
3 - The entire Yunzhou knew that the Ye Family had a new step-child in the house: Ning Li, a low-born and barely literate. However, when she looked at her 17 years old self in the mirror after coming back to life, she grinned.... more>>
CN (4)
60 Chapters Every 18.4 Day(s) 1752 Readers 19 Reviews 02-27-2025
3 - Su Xiaoman was raised in a wealthy family. However the family was very patriarchal and didn't love her. They preferred her younger brother. Later they discovered she was switched at birth and returned to her biological parents. However they preferred the daughter they raised. She was setup by the other girl's boyfriend and died.... more>>
CN (3.6)
303 Chapters Every 2.9 Day(s) 2816 Readers 20 Reviews 08-08-2025
3 - moves in with maternal grandparents and uncle. Jiang Li transmigrated into a true and false daughter novel and became the cannon fodder in the book. On the first day of transmigrating, the wealthy parents came to the door and said that Jiang Li was their biological daughter who had been living outside for fifteen years.... more>>
CN (4.2)
112 Chapters Every 45.1 Day(s) 3593 Readers 35 Reviews 08-23-2024
3 - MC kidnapped at 4 years old. Later found her way back home.... more>>
CN (3.2)
39 Chapters Every 116.6 Day(s) 278 Readers 9 Reviews 11-13-2020
3 - MC is reborn twice. After her first death she transmigrates to a cultivation world and when she dies there she returns to her 17 year old self.... more>>
CN (3.2)
0 Chapters Every 684 Day(s) 1325 Readers 23 Reviews N/A
3 - [Online Shopping Mall] This story shows the 3rd life of An Zhi Xia and gives some insight in her previous lives. When An Zhi Xia was born and immediately had her identity swapped out. When she was 16 the fake daughter An Meiyun was reborn and contacted her parents and told them to keep An Zhi Xia out of sight. An Meiyun wanted to prevent An Zhi Xia from finding her parents and returning to them. When she was 18 they sold her to an old widower who killed his first wife. She was killed by him when she resisted him and became a ghost. After drifting for a hundred years as a... more>>
CN (3.2)
80 Chapters Every 34 Day(s) 1073 Readers 8 Reviews 06-10-2024
3 - Xu Xiao Jiao transmigrates into a novel she is reading. Her original body committed su*cide when her fiancee broke up with her according to novel. MC was switched at birth and had been living as an educated youth in a small rural village. She recently found out her real mother came from this village, while she had been raised by a couple from the city. Her "adoptive" mother never liked the way she looked, so she gets be abandoned by her parents. Zhou (previously Xu) Yan Yan, with whom she had been switched immediately started connecting with her parents in the city and also wants her boyfriend, an educated youth. So she set... more>>
CN (4)
75 Chapters Every 101.1 Day(s) 3082 Readers 57 Reviews 06-27-2021
2 - Shen Tingshuang is a ten thousand-year-old ginseng spirit who has been transmigrated into a book after being struck by lightning, where the original owner is the villainess of the entertainment industry. The original owner was the real daughter, but was forced out of the house by the fake daughter.... more>>
CN (3.3)
100 Chapters Every 152.6 Day(s) 1077 Readers 18 Reviews 05-11-2019
2 - In her previous life, Lu Man is sent to prison after being framed by her step-sister and an a**hole. After being released from prison, the only thing that greets her is her mother’s tombstone. Seeing the as*hole and bit*h getting happily along together like one big family with her birth father and step-mother, she sets out to die together with the as*hole and her step-sister in fiery flames.... more>>
CN (4.3)
0 Chapters Every 1803 Day(s) 6736 Readers 101 Reviews N/A
2 - Only after Chu Yin died did she realize she was the first love (white moonlight) of the male lead in a novel.... more>>
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  1. novelreader141
    novelreader141· Jul 23, 2022 10:38 AM
    Its interesting how every one of them have a female mc , do authors not like to swap male child ? 
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    • solar_eclipsxx
      solar_eclipsxx· Jul 23, 2022 06:03 PM
      true lol, like the only one I found was "After Retiring From The Entertainment Industry, I Became The Real Young Master Of A Luxurious Family"
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    • Addictedtoreading
      Addictedtoreading· Author · Jul 30, 2022 11:15 PM
      @solar_eclipsxx I like BL too, but hadn't found any in this category. Read and added the mentioned novel.clear.png
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    • fortune.cookie
      fortune.cookie· Aug 23, 2022 04:25 AM
      [The Greatest Astrologist] swaps female MC with a male child if ur interested :))
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  2. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 12, 2025 10:47 PM

    Becoming the Real Rich Daughter After Divorce (TBR)

    Webnovel

    Qiao Jinniang's parents passed away the moment she came of age. For the sake of inheriting a restaurant, she had no choice but to ‘recruit’ a husband who would take her family name. Who knew that her husband, who looked like a banished immortal, was an ingrate? He snatched her child away and left behind a divorce letter.

    Qiao Jinniang became the bu*t of every joke in Lin’an City. Seeing that her uncle was about to take her parents' blood, sweat, and tears for himself, the son of the Prefect of the Superior Prefecture wanted to take her in as a concubine.

    However, a horse carriage sent from the Marquis arrived in Chang'an City. An old lady servant clad in an embroidered robe walked up to her and called her "Young Miss".

    It was only then that Qiao Jinniang realized that she was the eldest daughter of the principal wife of Marquis Anyuan. Back then, when the marchioness gave birth to her, she encountered a robber. At that time, a jealous concubine switched out her daughter with the chef's daughter.

    Therefore, a divorced female chef who had already given birth entered the capital. Everyone was waiting to see this real heiress make a fool of herself.

    They were secretly guessing when the real heiress would be abandoned by the Marquis.

    Yet, they failed to expect Qiao Jinniang to open up a restaurant in Chang'an using her amazing culinary skills. Even His Majesty showered her with praise. She was pampered by everyone in the Marquis' residence.

    Those long-tongued women in Chang'an City said sourly, "So what if a woman gets pampered at home? She's long past the age of 18 and has already given birth. Who will marry her?"

    The Marquis found Qiao Jinniang quite a few husbands. However, despite many marriages being in discussion, none of them went smoothly.

    As the marchioness's face was covered in tears, the fake daughter said she wanted to give Qiao Jinniang her husband instead.

    Qiao Jinniang took the rolling pin and kicked open the Eastern Palace's main door. "Since you've already divorced me, why are you still ruining my marriage?"

    A certain crown prince said, "How can we let the mother of the royal grandson marry someone else?!"

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  3. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 20, 2024 02:23 PM

    The Bigshot Shocks The World When She Backs Home

    Yao Tang, the daughter of the Yao family who mistakenly exchanged at birth, was finally found.

    Unexpectedly, since her parents felt that she was embarrassing, they never recognized her as their own, and claimed that she was a relative's child who came to live with them. Everyone thought that Yao Tang was just a bloodsucker who was greedy for glory and clung to her "relative's" family. 

    Her father, Yao Feng, registered Yao Tang at the Municipal No.1 Middle School for school. Since Yao Tang failed all of her subjects, she was rejected by the teaching supervisor. When Yao Feng left with Yao Tang, he met the principal of No.1 Middle School. He quickly went up to greet him, but the principal walked past him and tugged at Yao Tang excitedly. "You're finally willing to come to school!" 

    Yao Tang bumped into Cheng Yan, who had once saved her life. Cheng Yan's friends were all convinced that Yao Tang was a gold-digger and waited for her to ask Cheng Yan to pay. When the bill came, Yao Tang quietly rummaged through her bag. 

    Cheng Yan's friend said, "See, she's just stalling for time and waiting for Brother Cheng to pay!" 

    Yao Tang took out a diamond-studded card. "Waiter, how much discount am I given for this card?" 

    The waiter replied, "Honored guest, our diamond black card entitles you to spend here for free!"

    After that, a group of elite bigshots appeared. The heir of a top corporation posted, "CEO Yao, you've been on leave for a long time. Come back to work!" The international hacker group flooded computer screens everywhere. [To Yao Tang: Boss, it's fine if you don't come back to work, but can you not assault your own database?] 

    When the usually emotionless prince, Cheng Yan, saw his little wife being surrounded, he flipped the table angrily. "Everyone, stay away. This is my wife!"

    Very OP MC

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  4. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 20, 2024 12:47 PM

    I Woke My Vegetative Husband Up After Booktransmigrating

    Ming Liuyi transmigrated into a novel she had read, and to make matters worse, she was placed into the body of the novel's antagonist who shares the same name. The original Ming Liuyi, bullied into marrying a cripple, decided to ab*se the rich male lead, Yao Zizhou, until he went into a vegetative state. Ming Liuyi knew she had three months of safety before Yao Zizhou woke up and took his revenge. But for some reason, she was drawn to him, and when she touched him, her spiritual energy began to stir.

    No one suspected that Yao Zizhou would actually still be perfectly aware of his surroundings, though he couldn't move. He continued his days in great confusion when his arranged wife from hell was suddenly replaced with a sweet, nice girl, who actually cared for him dutifully and spoke to him with gentle words. It aroused his curiosity, but right before he could wake and see her, she fled. Yao Zizhou huffed in annoyance. There was no way he would let her escape his clutches
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  5. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · May 13, 2025 02:44 PM

    Fake Rich Daughter Is A Scientist From The Future

    Raw Title: 冒牌富家女是未来的科学家

    Author: The Technology Bigshot

    Incomplete, not finished by author, ends abruptly, while a lot of things are happening.

    2 - Huo Tian transmigrates from 100 years in the future to modern day. She had participated in a time travel experiment, but lost her body while going back and her soul took over her present body. She has just found out she has been switched at birth and her wealthy parents want to send her to her real (single) other who is very poor. Her original body had drunk herself to death after hearing that. The Huo family parents are very selfish, only care about profit and never treated their daughter right. She had been longing for love all her life, but never received it. She started acting out to get their attention by handing in empty test papers at school and dying her hair in strange colors.

    The Huo family throws a party to welcome their real daughter Huo You, who is the best in her class and shows great manners. They tell Huo Tian not to show up. Huo Tian appears anyway and leaves their house with nothing but an IOU for 20 mln for having raised her. Huo Tian agrees to pay it, convinced she will be able to earn that money. Shi Nian gives her a lift to her mother's place. Her mother repairs and adjust clothes for others and earns her living that way. Huo Tian immediately hits it off with her mother and uncle who are living together. 

    Huo You is reborn. She has always wanted wealth and has been trying to convince her mother to accept offers from wealthy men to become a mistress. Her mother has always refused. In her previous life their families found out later the daughters had been switched. When they found out Huo Tian kept living with the Huo family and later married Si Nian. They were known to have a happy marriage. Huo You was forced into a marriage with a man of lower standing who ab*sed her. Her parents refused to help her get a divorce. When her younger brother Huo Feng took over the company he bankrupted her husband's company and refused to take her back, leaving her without the wealth to shop as she liked. After her rebirth she hates Huo Tian with a vengeance. She convinces her parents to throw out Huo Tian and also wants to have Huo Tian expelled from school.

    During the school holidays Huo Tian contacts Bi Ying. In the future he is known as a brilliant computer programmer. However his programming had bugs, which later caused computers to revolt, causing a lot of loss for humanity. Bi Ying has lost both of his legs. He is an illegitimate son of the He family and was thrown down the stairs by his brother when he was 5 years old, leaving him to die there for 3 days. He was rescued, but lost both of his legs. His uncle tried to get revenge and ended up in prison for 5 years. His aunt doesn't treat him right so he is a pretty dark place. Huo Tian convinces him to help her by creating artificial legs for him. He is convinced by her and they work on it together and succeed. Shi Nian follows their progress and offers to help with funding setting up a company for them. They agree.

    On her first day of school Shi Nian has heard of the school planning to expel her because of her low grades. He shows the school how she and Bi Ying have been working on their project and convinces the school principal to accept both. They give Huo Tian a test which is mostly for appearances sake. She ends up in the same class as Huo You, who immediately starts harrassing her. Huo Tian doesn't care much about her and mostly lets her be and claps back when necessary.

    Huo You can't stand being in the same class as Huo Tian. She gets together with He Yu, who was known as a great businessman in her previous life. He tries to get Huo Tian and Bi Ying expelled from school as a board member, but fails thanks to Shi Nian's help. He Yu is the one who threw Bi Ying down the stairs when they were young. He has several illegitimate brothers who all try to take a bite of the He family and has been dealing with that for years. He has become quite ruthless dealing with his enemies and has a hard time keeping his temper. Huo You convinces him to act against Huo Tian's mother and uncle. He wants to give a blow against Shi Nian who is a competitor and has invested in their new company. Huo Tian's uncle saves himself without much trouble. However her mother is kidnapped with the kidnappers demanding a huge ransom. The neighbour boy who is an influencer starts recording what is happening. Huo Tian rushes in to save them and pretends she has received the money from Shi Nian. She has installed many robotic helps in their home and with the help of Bi Ying they reprogram them to attack the kidnappers. One is killed by a robot arm and the others are beaten by Huo Tian who is a good fighter. They are taken in by the police.

    He Yu later lets it slip that he is responsible for the kidnapping. Huo Tian sees red and beats him up. He ends up in the hospital with brain damage. As an apology Huo Tain creates a computer chip that can control his anger issues by sticking it to his head.

    Huo You keeps acting up against Huo Tian, but always loses. She loses the little respect she had received from her parents and is put in another class at school. At school they start to see her in a different light. He Yu is abusive towards Huo You, which makes her consider breaking up with him. However her parents refuse to let her do that.

    Xi Chen, a wealthy businessman, has been unable to walk after an accident. He contacts MC's company after he hears about their project and has a system created for him to help him walk while still doing rehabilitation. He lost part of his memories almost 20 years ago and regained part of them a few years ago. He knows he got married and his wife was pregnant. He has been trying to find them for years, but has had no success so far. He finally finds out that Huo Tian is his daughter and reconnects with her mother. They come back together. He invites a lot of wealthy people to a party to welcome his wife and daughter. After forcing Huo You to apologize to Huo Tian, the Huo family receives an invitation as well. Xi Chen however is determined to get revenge on the Huo family.

    Huo Feng hates his parents. They have always been very controlling and abusive. Whenever they wanted to harm him, Huo Tian interfered and took the blows for him. He is very attached to Huo Tian and hates the fact that Huo Tian was forced out of the family. He implements plans to take over the company and leave his parents with nothing. He has asked for his uncle Huo Xia's help. Huo Xia has found out his father was killed by his brother and also tried to kill him. Because he is very sickly his father left the company to his brother even though is much more competent. Hul Feng also is quite obsessed withh Huo Tian and becomes even more so when he finds out he is not her real brother.

    Andrew Coleman, a brilliant biologist who is interested in neurobiology, meets Huo Tian and Bi Ying to discuss what they are doing. Huo Tian finds out he is the Andrew she knew from the future. He combined a computer with his brain and is half computer and half human who is very logical and doesn't understand humans emotions very well. He went back to the past as well.

    Here is where the story ends. At this point Huo Feng has just shown his mother his real face and told her he hates her. He is about to take over the company. Her parents want to set Huo Tian up with Andrew Coleman to see if they are compatible. They know that Shi Nian like Huo Tian, but don't like the idea of him dating their daughter. Huo Tian finds out the Hill family has made a wedding contract with the Coleman family in the past. Huo You is still rather forced with He Yu, but has given up on him.

    This was an okay story, but it is incomplete. I assume the author gave up on this novel. I didn't like the idea of Huo Feng going after Huo Tian myself. He is too obsessed with her so I assume this would cause a lot of drama if author had continued. The novel became too longwinded about halfway through. It became somewhat of a struggle to continue. 

    Huo Tian is obsessed with her research. She is a genius in her area. She can work 3 days im a row with hardly any sleep when she is working on something. She is optimistic and sure of herself. She also has a low EQ and doesn't understand others very well. For example she doesn't see that Shi Nian likes her. Shi Nian has become the family patriarch after his parents and grandfather died while he is still at high school. The other family members constantly trying to take over, but he deals with them ruthlessly. He has always shown a cold face to everyone and only shows Huo Tian his warm side. He stays pretty anonymous to me.

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  6. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 3, 2025 08:08 AM

    I, The Female Protagonist With Superpower, Am Super Fierce

    我; 异能女主; 超凶的

    https://novelfull.com/i-the-female-protagonist-with-superpower-am-super-fierce.html

    She was born into an affluent family, but she was swapped at birth and got a different life.

    Reading, didn't write down last chapter I read, is completed now

    She grew up in a village. Just as she got the opportunity to transform her life, it got taken from her, and she was forced into a marriage to trade for a marriage for her mentally-challenged big brother.

    In the end, she died tragically.

    Gu Yan thought that if she could be reborn, she would make those who had bullied and insulted her regret everything!

    After being reborn with a superpower, her life became quite different.

    “With both the medical skill and the superpower, wastrels, shiver for me!”

    “Also you, handsome boy, I saved your life; shouldn’t you pledge to marry me?”

    Lu Ye smiled naughtily. “Of course. Just tell me, Yanyan, how many times do you want me to pledge per night?”

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  7. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Jan 9, 2025 07:20 PM

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  8. Darcie_rei
    Darcie_rei· Nov 19, 2024 02:01 PM
    Speaking of Real daughter vs Fake one, do some of yall know a novel similar to these? Fmc's a real daughter, that got washed away by the river when she's still a baby and found by a master [i think? I hardly remember the title, let alone the plot] then later on was found by her parents in a temple, she has tons of brothers and some of those brothers are her actual cousins. The ML is a dragon of if I recall. I do recall that the fmc keeps getting retribution by thunder?¿ Also she has tiny paper companion if that adds up to the memoryclear.pngclear.png
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    • levoN18
      levoN18· Aug 8, 2025 12:58 PM

      Oh gosh I do remember maybe you mean this?:

      Crying Brothers: The Little Sister We Hate Is Actually a Bigshot 

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  9. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 20, 2024 02:26 PM

    Everone thought I was born again

    2 - Qi Shu is reborn. She died in prison, setup by her "sister" and died there on her instigation. As a ghost she sees what happens after she dies and is then sent to several different worlds and returns to age 18 and plans to pay back the people who were responsible for her death and treated her badly.

    One after the other these people are all reborn as well.

    Qi Shu was deliberately switched at birth by a woman who wanted to give her own child a rich life. The woman ab*sed her severely and she has scars all over her body. When she was about 10 her parents found out about the switch and took her back. However they didn't press charges and treated her very indifferently. They and her brother favoured the fake daughter they raised. They always believed the fake daughter and did nothing to help her when she was in trouble (for example accused of cheating at school, accused of stealing designs, sent to prison).

    Her sister Qi Yuanyuan had all kinds of accomplices who slowly turned MC's life into a nightmare. During the course of the novel most of them pass by and have a bad ending. Not by MC doing it herself, but by her instigating it.

    First MC's father is reborn. He remember having had a stroke and Yuanyuan neglected him and he helplessly starved of hunger in his bed. He tries to get a connection with MC and starts treating Yuanyuan badly, but MC wants nothing to do with him anymore.

    Then her mother is reborn. The same counts for her. She is even harsher and evicts Yuanyuan from their house. She died in the hospital while being mocked by Yuanyuan and her real mother and died in their hands.

    Her classmate Qiu Yunhan who liked Yuanyuan told the teachers that a cheating note written in her handwriting was made by Qi Shu. He was reborn a little later and remembered having committed su*cide because of Yuanyuan. MC anonymously tips him to steal Yuanyuan's admissions exam notice so she can't participate in the exams. Yuanyuan does the same to him. They both can't participate in the exams, but MC's brother helps Yuanyuan get into university anyway. Qiu Yunhan's life is destroyed.

    MC reads a letter her maternal grandfather left to her. This letter went missing in her previous life (was stolen by fake sister). In it he tells her he leaves her a home in the capital. Her sister got this home in her previous life.

    MC goes to the capital and meets Zhuo Shu, whom she has also met in her home time. They get along very well. Her grandfather, who was a friend of MC's grandfather asked her brother to bring Qi Shu to him. Zhuo Shu's boyfriend is Qi Jian, MC's brother. He brings Yuanyuan to the capital with the intention of letting the fake pretend to be the real Qi family daugther. She immediately sees through the ruse and breaks up with him.

    In the capital she meets Zhuo Jin and his grandfather who promises to help her. She finds out her grandfather, the only one who really cared for her, was probably killed by her father. Her father, who was poor at the time, convinced her mother to marry him and became rich because of this marriage.

    From then on it starts to read like a suspense / detective novel. She and Zhuo Jin try to find out the truth about her grandfather's death.

    Zhuo Shu is reborn. She was killed by Yuanyuan and the actor Zhong Yang because she stood in her way. She tells Zhuo Jin about being reborn. They both guess that Qi Shu is reborn as well.

    Qi Shu once saved Li Jingyao. He thought that Yuanyuan saved him and had Qi Shu's leg broken in her previous life which made her limp. He later finds out that Qi Shu was the one who really saved him and a little later he is killed by Yuanyuan's real father. He is also reborn. Qi Shu finds a job during the summer at his company to find out things about his company and later punish him. He has a large real estate business Zhuo Jin wants to take over and also has illegal businesses like dog fighting. He is a senior and "friend" / mentor of Qi Jian. He has helped Qi Jian a lot in settimg up his business.

    He decides to kidnap Yuanyuan and brings her to his dog fighting place and harms her. Her face and body gets scarred quite badly.

    Zhong Yang is reborn. He was attacked on the internet and was comforted by Qi Shu. Because of her he could go through a difficult period. Yuanyuan found the messages they sent and let him believe she was the one who messaged him. Because of that he helps Yuanyuan accuse Qi Shu of stealing designs and blackens her through the internet. After she dies he finds out through his agent that Qi Shu was the one who really helped him. He regrets what he did. He also dies because lf Yuanyuan. He finds Yuanyuan on the road after she has been tortured at Li Jingyao's place and thinks she is Qi Shu because of what she says. He brings her to the hospital. He later finds out she is Yuanyuan and plans revenge.

    Zhuo Shu has her friend Qin'er kidnap Yuanyuan and lets her drink boiling water. Her vocal cords are destroyed because of that. Qi Juan finds her again and brings her into his house to take care of her. Zhong Yan whose reputation has been destroyed by Zhuo Jin now moves in with them pretending to love Yuanyuan. Zhuo Shu arranges for a quack doctor to take care of Yuanyuan, so her condition worsens.

    Qi Juan is also reborn and remembers having been killed by Yuanyuan because he heard her and her fiancee (former MC's fiancee) talk about setting Qi Shu up and putting her in prison. He throws her (and her mother who is now takong care of her) out of his house.

    They move in with Zhong Yan. Zhong Yan continues to deliberately give medicine to worsen her condition. He throws her mother out.

    Li Jingyao's company gets into trouble when one of their buildings collapses causing many wounded. He lets Qi Juan take the blame (he has things set up in his company against him to convince him to do this). Then 5 bodies are found underneath another building of his company.

    These bodies belong to people who are partially responsible for Zhuo Jin's, Zhuo Shu's and Qin Yang's (=Qin 'er) parents. Qin Yang has been killing the people responsible for that. When Zhuo Jin finds out, he decides to hide it and not report it after his brother's begging.

    Qi Shu sends her father a fake video of him visiting her grandfather in hospital when he died and makes him believe it is sent by her adoptive mother. Her father finally kills her.

    When her father finds out Qi Jian is taking the blame for the 5 dead people and might be executed, he gets a stroke. He can't work again. His company which is in trouble because of Zhuo Jin gets taken over by Zhuo Jin.

    Qi Jian fakes a su*cide to get out of prison and rams his car against Li Jingyao's car.

    People who feel threatened by Qin Yang try to kill him. Zhuo Shu gets wounded during an attack on him. He decides to commit su*cide.

    Yuanyuan dies in the hospital.

    Zhuo Jin and Qi Shi find out they met when they were young. MC comforted him at one time after the death lf his parents and ML brought MC to the hospital when she fell unconscious outside (while parents not caring about her). They get married after she graduates from university. Her company has become quite huge by this time.

    In retrospect I can't say I like the novel very much. It started by somewhat resembling After Rebirth, the s*um All Cry for Forgiveness but then goes a completely different way. In that novel family shows some sincere regret and they are not really bad, though they are never forgiven by MC.

    In this novel the family were kind of scum. I didn't get a full reading on mother, but father and brother were. They never mourned her even after she died. They never cared for her during the years she lived with them and severely neglected her. They only regretted treating the fake daughter well after she had harmed and killed them.

    It reads kind of like a suspense novel. At different times it shortly mentions several lives of MC during her world hopping time. Each time she ended up with ML, comforting him. A few times this was as a pet (cat, wolf, white fox).

    A little school life at the start, but most of it is MC or others getting revenge.

    At the start MC's parents try to get her forgiveness, but harrass her every day at the hotel she moved into while she is studying for the university exams. Don't they think this might distract her and badly influence her grades? (She becomes the best in her province).

    I don't know what happened to Zhong Yang and MC's fiancee / boyfriend from her previous life.

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  10. Addictedtoreading
    Addictedtoreading· Author · Apr 20, 2024 02:13 PM

    My wife is a psychic

    2 - Jiang Xin has transmigrated into ancient times into the body of a girl raised in a peasant family in a small village. The original body was engaged 3 times and 3 times her fiancee's found another woman and broke off their engagement. She tried to commit suicied 3 times and the beam she hung herself on in 3 different houses all broke. During her final attempt she died and her body was possessed by MC.

    MC lived has an extreme amount of luck and is extremely favoured by the gods. When her family kept trying to take advantage of her she pretended to be mentally ill and was sent to a mental hospital. Though she is somewhat coocoo as well. She quickly became the leader of the hospital. Everyone including the director was afraid of her and listened to her. Whatever she says will come true and people who try to act against her have a bad ending.

    At first sight it seemed that Jiang Xi was treated well by her family, but soon we notice that her mother favoured her son Jiang Si in everything. She also helps her maternal family a lot. Jiang Si is a scholar and everything in their family has to make way to let him learn and pay for his expenses. The money she has been paid after her fiancees broke off their engagements has been spent on getting her eldest brother a wife and Jiang Si.

    Her eldest brother's wife hasn't been able to conceive and he is spending a lot of money on medicine to change that. She is pretty timid and treats MC well. Her youngest brother Jiang Shan supports MC unconditionally in everything.

    Jiang Si meets Zhao Ruifeng, a general who is the opposite of her. He has extremely bad luck. 7 of his fiancees have died after their engagement was announced. The emperor won't even let him enter the room he is in in the palace. They have to talk from 2 different rooms. Zhao Ruifeng's mother died young because of a woman his father raised outside. The woman came to their house and his mother couldn't take it and died. ML was sent away by his father because he wouldn't accept his father marrying this woman. His father is a real womanizer and now has about 26 (?) woman. The eldest daugter of his new stepmother has been brought up learning the ways of the palace and she is expected to marry the crown prince.

    She meets Jiang Xi and decides to convince the crown prince to let her marry Zhao Ruifeng. Jiang Xi keeps the stuff she gets from the emperor and her fiancee and won't let her family take any of it anymore. She gets a huge pig from the mountains to guard her and her things. Jiang Xi is made village head on her demand. When a disastral winter arrives she is prepared for it. 

    Her future sister-in-law Zhao Yingying (only full sister of ML)has had a dream about her precious life where MC died. In that life her brother died a few years later, Jiang Si blackmailed MC's ex-fiancees and became the number 1 scholar in their province. Zhao Yingying was forced to marry Jiang Si and had a miserable life. She first had been treated badly by her stepmother and then by her husband and mother-in-law. In the end Jiang Si burned her to death while she was pregnant. She warned Jiang Xi about a disastral winter coming, so Jiang Xi is prepared. She forbid the villagers to sell their food and put a stone at the entrance of their village which will make women pregnant. Because of this a lkt of women including her eldest sister-in-law became pregnant. Even the robbers who came to their town became pregnant. She also took the robbers and homeless people in and their town was the only one that grew in size while they were cut off from the rest of the world. 

    Jiang Xi goes to the capital with her fiancee to get married. The empress doesn't like her. She knows that the crown prince played with her when she was little and liked her. They mad her believe that ML's halfsister was the one he played with when he was young. 

    On the day she gets married ML's halfsister also got married with the emperor (she seduced him instead of the crown prince). There are signs that the world is celebrating (animals letting themselves die in front of their home to offer food, etc. Everyone believes that this is because of the halfsister until proven otherwise. Birds start to poop on her etc when she wants to leave the home before MC arrives. 

    The empress is very angry when she marries the emperor. She switched her baby when it was born because her baby was a girl. Everyone expected her to have a boy because the signs said the baby would bring extreme luck to their country. She thought halfsister was her child and wanter her to marry the crown prince to continue the bloodline. She thinks the emperor is comitting a great sin. Signs start to appear that their country is losing their prosperity. 

    They send ML to guard the border though he has only been married a few days.

    Halfsister gets pregnant with a twin. 

    The crown prince finds out MC was his childhood friend and and wants her to divorce and marry him. She refuses. When children start to die and it seems that someone is making sacrifices to increase their luck, MC is accused and imprisoned along with the rest of the Zhao family. 

    Several inmates from the mental hospital in her previous life has also transmigrated along with MC. 2 of them (one is the emperor's concubine), decide to punish the crown prince in revenge. When the crown prince doesn't wake up frommhis dreams of being with MC and his body is deteriorating, the empress gives her blood causing him to die right after because their blood types don't match. Because of this the emperor finds out this is not his son. The empress tells him she switched her child, making the emperor believe he has children with his own daughter. He is devastated and doesn't knkw what to do.

    ML's halfsister gives birth to children who are deformed. She decides to execute MC and the Zhao family. During the execution the heavens react and a phoenix arrives who starts to harm halfsister, making everyone believe the Zhao family is innocent. 

    During the following discussions the emperor arrives. It turns out MC is his daughter. And halfsister is having twins of Jiang Si, who turns out to be her brother. She cuckolded the emperor. The Jiang families' daughter was stolen when she was young and Jiang Shan found MC around the same time in the snow and brought her home. His mother was very angry with Jiang Shan and let her family mistreat him, making him ill and causing him to become dull. He was very intelligent before that. 

    The emperor had a twin brother. The twinbrother was raised as the crown prince though he was 2nd born (the empress switched them because the 2nd son looked stronger). The other prince was raised in the cold palace. However this prince was very mature and intelligent and the crown prince wss very playful. He found out about his twinbrother and started to switch with him, letting him go to classes while he left and played. When their father found out about that, the real eldest prince (now emperor) convinced everyone he was the crown prince because he knew about his school lessons, etc. The other prince was convicted to death but managed to escape. He maimed his face to make himself unrecognizable and plotted with ML's stepmother to take the throne. He tried to rob MC's town during the winter and taken in by her and followed her to the capital. He is executed.

    Halfsister dies and babies are brought to Jiang Si.

    Everyone in the cabinet wants MC to become the empress right away. The emperor is very sad about that. He has been doing his best for years, but everyone wants him to step down asap. MC becomes empress. Jiang Si fails his exams in the capital because of MC.

    His mother has been sleeping with young men while her husband stayed in the village and has become pregnant. She starts to bleed when she hears about Jiang Si failing his exams. Jiang Si starts to hit her to make her lose her baby and kills her. 

    ML is kidnapped by the saint of a neighbouring country. She wants to marry him to increase her luck. Apparently saints in their country don't live long and have to marry someone with very bad luck to increase their luck. MC decides to travel there to find ML. Turns out the saintess is the director of the mental hospital from her previous life (was male previously). She begs for forgiveness. When MC sees ML again he faints and is declared dead. When a few days later they want to cremate him, the heavens send out rain. At the same time MC is delivering her babies. She gets triplets, 1 boy and 2 girls. When the last girl is born, ML wakes up. He has been sleeping this whole time. He has a condition where he regularly looks dead when he sleeps. He turns out to be a famous actor in MC's previous life who was in love with MC. He also had very bad luck then. She also liked him.

    Suddenly we find out that MC was also pregnant with triplets in her previous life. We also suddenly find out a warlock stole MC's luck.

    One of MC's mental patients invented time travel in her previous life. She sends MC, ML and her children back to her previous life. Their bodies still exist there. They have been lying in a hospital in a coma for 3 years. MC's body is in the morgue. While she was in a coma her children were delivered and raised by ML's parents. They were dull and their family didn't really like them.

    When the children get near MC their intelligence comes back. MC helps a kidnapped child and meets their family. The child's grandmother takes her in as her godchild. It is not said but implied that this is her real mother and the Jiang family kidnapped her when she was a baby. They held her prisoner in the first 15 years of her life and let her bring them good luck. 

    ML, MC and children are back together. MC's luck seems to be back. The end.

    The story was alright. Don't have to read it again. It read like a slapstick or cartoon. The end was very messy. A lot of new things that were never mentioned before are suddenly introduced. An actress pretends that ML's children are hers. She is questioned when MC's body disappears from the morgue (she happened to be there at that time) and doesn't appear again. We don't find out who the warlock was who stole MC's luck. It is never confirmed that the Yang family is her real family. We don't know if MC and her family go back to the past. She became empress and immediately left to find ML and then went back to her previous life. What was the use of becoming empress? 

    Her luck is greatly exaggerated. For example it is mentioned that when an airplane she was in was about to crash lots of birds came to support the airplane and carry it to the ground. This seems rather impossible and if she's really that lucky would an airplane even start to crash?

    A short part of what one of the mental patients says about MC.

    "You have to study hard so that you can serve Boss Jiang Xi better in the future. Although you're s*upid and a little dimwitted, you've been reincarnated in a good family and become boss's brother. You have to serve Boss Jiang Xi with a grateful heart. When Jiang Xi is standing, you can't sit. When Jiang Xi eats, you have to serve her. When Jiang Xi sleeps, you have to keep an eye on our family. Jiang Xi is the center of everything. Jiang Xi is the heaven, Jiang Xi is the earth, and Jiang Xi is the only God!” Song Yun lectured Jiang Si with a serious expression."

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