The Fake Heiress Who Took It All

Whitney and Juliana came from the same mountain village. Juliana was the daughter the Jiang family of Jiang City had lost years earlier, and Whitney was there when she was killed. Juliana asked her to go back in her place, and Whitney entered the Jiang house under Juliana's name. Whitney's own parents were farmers with no money. She took first place in an international biology competition at twelve and was admitted to MIT by special exception, and her family locked her in the house and pulled her out of school, planning to marry her off for a bride price once she was old enough. She had been waiting for a way down out of the mountains. Inside the Jiang house nobody said what they meant and everything was weighed by what it was worth. Whitney played the harmless one, took apart the people who worked against her, and planned each step before she made it. Quentin, who had a reputation in Jiang City for being cold and looking down on everyone, proposed a marriage between the two families. She used the Jiang labs, took the family's biomedical research to an international level, and the government came in as a partner. The family named her its heir. A cousin then found out what Juliana had hidden and hired Whitney's real parents to come and identify her.