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

[It turns out that Guan Zhengyan had calculated that my parents and I, who don't really like gatherings, would leave at the end of the first half of the banquet. He then used the excuse of wanting to discuss a business deal to keep An Chong behind, and then drugged An Chong's drink to make him unconscious.]

[Then Guan Zhengyan decided to go all the way and, after doing *that*, use the excuse of being drunk and out of control to beg An Chong for forgiveness.]

Knowing that Guan Zhengyan hadn't administered the drug yet, An Chong breathed a huge sigh of relief.

After the banquet concluded, the elders left in fits and starts. Guan Zhengyan, as expected, used the excuse of needing to discuss a collaboration with An Chong to tell An Chong to wait until the second half of the banquet to return.

“No,” An Chong coldly refused. “I’m going back with my family.”

“This…” Guan Zhengyan felt that An Chong’s attitude towards him seemed to have changed.

In his memory, even though An Chong was a rather aloof person, he had never treated him like this before.

Everything was normal when An Chong first arrived today, so why has his attitude changed so much in just one night?

But if An Chong were to leave just like that, all my preparations for tonight would be for nothing.

"An Chong, look, today is my birthday, can't you even have a few more drinks with me, the birthday boy/girl?"

An Chong wasn't stupid. How could he stay after knowing the truth? He ignored Guan Zhengyan's words and left with An Ling and the others without looking back.

Watching An Chong's departing figure, Guan Zhengyan's heart was pierced, and a layer of gloom gradually appeared in his eyes.

Just like when they came, An's parents were in one car, and An Ling and An Chong were in another.

After getting into the car, Anling finally felt relieved.

[Finally out! Nice! Big brother's innocence is finally protected.]

An Chong: ...

But I need to find a way to get my older brother to fire Luo Chen, and I also need to make him keep his distance from Guan Zhengyan, otherwise he's still in danger.

The former is easier to handle, but the latter seems a bit more difficult.

An Ling turned to look at An Chong sitting next to her with a helpless expression. His older brother was indeed handsome, but it was really unlucky for him to run into these two people.

How come I'm being targeted from both ends...?

An Chong: ...

He couldn't listen to it anymore. "It's still early before we get home. Do you want to take a nap?"

The house and the housekeeper's place are quite far apart, more than an hour's drive away. Considering that the driver will be more careful at night, it will probably take almost two hours to get home, so I can definitely get some sleep.

"Okay, then call me when you get home."

An Ling fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. She always fell asleep more easily when traveling by car than in bed, so she gradually developed the habit of sleeping as soon as she got on a vehicle.

This time, however, she didn't sleep well. In her hazy state, she felt as if her consciousness was locked up by something. Although she was still in her own body, she had lost control of it and could only watch "herself" act from a first-person perspective.

Was it a dream? Anling wondered.

She watched as "herself" won the Best Actress award, was stabbed, and was discovered to be a fake heiress. Then she gradually became hysterical, witnessing An Yun's disgrace, An Chong's suicide, An's parents' hair turning white overnight, and even the Qiu family...

She was trapped in this body, only able to watch as "herself" foolishly did the same things as in the novel, yet powerless to stop it. Everything seemed to be proceeding just as described in the novel.

So, did she really not change anything?

Why, why can't she do anything even though she knows everything?

Anling felt overwhelmed by a tremendous sense of despair, and she felt like she was drowning and couldn't breathe.

Just when she felt she was about to suffocate, she heard a voice calling her repeatedly.

"Xiao Ling? Xiao Ling?"

An Ling woke up with a start, her expression terrified as if she had been pulled out of the water, gasping for breath and covered in cold sweat.

"Xiaoling, what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

An Chong's worried voice came through the door, and the slight swaying beneath her made An Ling realize that she was still inside the car.

So were all of those dreams?

An Ling took a few deep breaths, and her heart rate, which had been rising due to fear, gradually calmed down.

"Big brother, I'm fine. I just had a nightmare."

An Chong nodded silently, but his eyes were full of heartache as he looked at An Ling.

Anling's reaction just now was really strange.

She appeared to be experiencing great pain even while asleep. It was clear that whether it was the matter of the real or fake heiress, or some of Anling's experiences unknown to others, it must have affected her and even hurt her.

After calming herself down, the images from her previous dream kept flashing through her mind, and a pessimistic question welled up in her heart.

Can I really change everyone's future?

Anling suddenly thought of a method that could be verified right now.

[How about I see what Guan Zhengyan plans to do now that today's plan has fallen through?]

If this matter concerning my older brother can be changed, wouldn't that prove that other things can also be changed?

An Ling searched for Guan Zhengyan's name again using the character lookup tool.

She has now figured out how to use the search tool. If she wants to find out what someone did in the original text, the search tool can directly display all the content.

However, if you look up the situation in the real world, the results may be different each time you search.

For example, just before they left the banquet, An Ling could see Guan Zhengyan preparing to drug An Chong.

But now that the elder brother has left, Guan Zhengyan's plan has fallen through, and things will inevitably change. The results displayed by the query tool will be different from before.

An Ling had transformed into a screaming chicken countless times tonight, but upon seeing the new content pop up on the query tool, she suddenly lost all her strength and abilities, and even lost the will to become a screaming chicken.

Guan Zhengyan proved to An Ling just how outrageous a person can be.

Because his plan fell through, Guan Zhengyan sulked and drank heavily in the latter half of the banquet, but still had nowhere to vent his resentment.

[As expected of someone who shares a bed, he and Luo Chen had the same idea. Knowing that An Chong would definitely go back to the An family home tonight and not to his own residence, Guan Zhengyan planned to sleep in An Chong's bed, since Luo Chen had already given him the password to An Chong's house.]

An Chong: ...What did my bed do to deserve this?

When he opened An Chong's room door, he found Luo Chen committing filthy acts on An Chong's bed...

An Chong: Huh? ???

Guan Zhengyan then realized Luo Chen's feelings for An Chong. He was already furious that day, and the two had a huge argument that even escalated into a physical fight.

Then, as they moved, they started rolling around on An Chong's bed...

An Chong: ...

Even as they rolled away, they were still calling each other...by their older brother's name.

An Chong: Damn it!