Love Is a Game, I Play for Power

A nanny swapped Wen Ran with another infant just after her birth. Wen Ran grew up in the countryside, poor and treated badly, for twenty years. She was then returned to the Wen family. On the day she arrived she was told not to compete with the adopted daughter for the parents' affection. Wen Ran asked instead for the position of heir. The adopted daughter spread rumors about her and worked to push her out. The eldest brother was used repeatedly by the adopted daughter and acted on it. Wen Ran's own mother favored the adopted daughter. Wen Ran did not contest any of this openly. She played the injured party, drew on her father's guilt over the twenty years, and took money and company shares from him. She accumulated the shares quietly while the others were occupied with each other. By the time the family noticed, she had pushed the eldest brother out of the succession and was sitting in the heir's place herself.