The mind-reading fake heiress changes her fate by eating melons.

The popularity of blog posts speculating on Qiu Nian's true identity is also increasing.

What exactly is the relationship between Qiu Nian and An Ling?

Am I the only one who thinks Qiu Nian resembles Pei Goddess's daughter more than An Ling?

No, you are not alone!

[Could it be someone from the Pei family? Maybe she's Pei Goddess's niece or something.]

[No way, if she really is a member of the Pei family, why would she need to act in this kind of small web series? The Pei family could just give her some resources.]

[Maybe they just want to hone their acting skills.]

[But I think she looks a bit like Anling's dad, and also Anling's older brother, especially their noses, they're both very straight and prominent.]

[You're just making assumptions, aren't you? Her eyes look like An Ling's mom's, and her nose looks like An Ling's dad's. Do you really think she's a child of An Ling's parents? We only know An Ling has a twin brother, but we've never heard of her having triplets.]

[Maybe they were switched at birth, or maybe it's a real or fake heiress or something, hahaha.]

This comment was originally posted as a joke by netizens. At first, no one took it seriously. Everyone was laughing and joking in the comments, saying that it might actually be true. Some people even asked for novels about real and fake heiresses. More and more enthusiastic netizens started to reply and recommend novels they thought were good. This comment quickly became a top-rated comment.

Then, some marketing accounts that love a good show reposted a screenshot of this comment, and as a result, the hashtag "An Lingqiu reads about the real and fake heiresses" also ridiculously became a trending topic.

Although most of the people who clicked in were joking or recommending novels for fun, some uninformed passersby actually believed it and asked in the trending topics whether it was true or not.

Yang Yao called An Ling because of this trending topic, wanting to find out what was going on.

"Anling, have you seen the trending topics?"

An Ling immediately knew what Yang Yao wanted to ask her. She guessed that Gu Chenming had sent her to find out the situation. After all, she only had the identity of the An family's daughter to make Gu Chenming care. Now that her identity was being questioned, Gu Chenming would naturally want to know the truth.

However, since the parties involved are not fully aware of the situation, An Ling naturally will not reveal it casually. Even if she wants to make it public, she will wait until the An family is aware and prepared before making it public, so as not to be used by Gu Chenming.

"No, I've been resting at home recently and haven't been looking at my phone much."

Yang Yao, unsuspecting, assumed An Ling genuinely hadn't paid attention to the online news, so she asked again, "Who is that Qiu Nian to you?"

“Qiu Nian?” An Ling asked back, “Who is that? I’ve never heard of her.”

Yang Yao found it strange. "How could that be? Didn't you meet with her in that startup town in the west of the city yesterday?"

"You've got it wrong. I've been home these past few days and haven't gone out at all," An Ling said, feigning ignorance.

Yang Yao realized that An Ling was taking advantage of the fact that no one had photographed her face and was not going to admit that the man in black was her. So Yang Yao had no choice but to ask her directly.

"Why don't you take a look at the trending topics? There are photos of Qiu Nian there. She looks about 50% like Teacher Pei Yuning. The topic of whether she and you are the real or fake heiresses is trending online. Do you want to ask someone to remove it?"

"Aren't you my manager? You can handle things like removing trending topics," An Ling replied nonchalantly.

“Precisely because I’m your agent, I should know the truth so that I can make the best decision for you,” Yang Yao asked tentatively. “Could Qiu Nian really be Teacher Pei’s daughter?”

Just then, a voice calling An Ling to eat came from outside the room. She responded and chuckled at her phone, saying only two words, "Guess."

Hearing the phone call being disconnected, Yang Yao gritted her teeth and spat.

"Let's see how long you can be so smug. If it weren't for wanting to help Chen Ming, who would want to serve a pampered young lady like you?"

She immediately dialed Gu Chenming's number again, her voice instantly becoming sweet and cloying.

“Chenming, I just asked Anling, but she won’t say anything. I think this is just a rumor. If it were true, it would be too outrageous.”

"Understood," came Gu Chenming's voice, his expression unreadable.

"Hey, don't hang up," Yang Yao quickly said, noticing that Gu Chenming was about to hang up. "Can't you talk to me on the phone? I was your manager for a few years and I'm working for you now. What's wrong with talking to me a little more?"

Gu Chenming was silent for a few seconds, then coldly said, "Do what you're supposed to do, and you'll get the benefits. Don't think about anything else."

After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.

Yang Yao was naturally in a bad mood after being hung up on by two people in a row, but her attitude towards the two people hanging up on her was completely different.

She cursed An Ling in her heart, but as for Gu Chenming, Yang Yao felt a mixture of displeasure and interest.

"Chen Ming probably doesn't know how charming his aloofness is. I've already been working like a slave for him for the young lady, and the benefits he wants in the end won't be so simple."

……

At the An family dinner table, it was still An's father, An's mother, An Chong, and An Ling eating dinner together.

An Ling observed the other three people and found that she still couldn't tell anything. Dinner was almost over, and no one had brought up the matter of a paternity test with her.

【Seriously? I even sent it again, and no one checked their email?】

Yang Yao's phone call reminded An Ling that the topic had been trending online for so long, and her family must have seen it by now. Why not start there?

"Mom and Dad, older brother, have you seen the trending topics?"

"Trending topics? What trending topics?"

“You’re talking about Qiu Nian and me being the real and fake heiresses,” An Ling replied directly.

“Oh, I’ve been a bit busy lately and haven’t had time to check the trending topics,” An Chong said calmly. “There are a lot of true and false information on the trending topics, so just take a look.”

An's parents nodded as they ate.

An Ling felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. It seemed like her family members were avoiding talking to her, but she really didn't want to drag it out any longer.

Previously, she lacked concrete evidence, and since she couldn't directly tell her family that she learned from the novel's plot that Qiu Nian was the An family's biological daughter, she chose to undergo a paternity test first. Now that she has the test report, there's no reason for her not to tell them.

Seeing that the three of them had finished their last bite of rice and were about to get up and leave, An Ling got up first and placed the four paternity test reports she had brought with her on the table.

“What the trending topics said is true. I am not your daughter. Qiu Nian is.”

Quiet, too quiet.

An Ling's parents and brother, An Chong, had clearly seen the paternity test report that An Ling had produced, but none of them spoke. This was completely different from what An Ling had imagined. She looked at each of them one by one, carefully observing their expressions, and finally realized what was going on.

"Have you already seen the email?"

Seeing that the others remained silent, An Ling finally realized that they had been pretending not to know anything and acting with her for the past two days, which puzzled her greatly.

"Why are you pretending nothing happened when you saw it?"