Chapter 104

Chapter 104 Break

Zhou Xiao pushed A Miao aside and shouted at Song Baohua, “What do you really want? With A Miao, everything is all right, isn’t it? After all I’ve done for my family, you still lecture me. In the end, who is your daughter?”

“Zhou Xiao, please speak less.” A Miao tried to pull her, but Zhou Xiao dodged her. She looked at A Miao like she was her enemy. “Shut up, this is our family’s business!”

A Miao stared blankly, then heard Zhou Xiao’s shrill voice. “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you back from the orphanage, you unwanted bastard!”

“Pa!” Song Baohua’s hand stopped in midair, and her lips quivered as she pointed at Xiao Zhou. “How did I get you into this condition? How can you say that?”

“Why shouldn’t I?” Covering her face, Zhou Xiao let out a scream, and then ruthlessly looked A Miao. “Why are you a rich family’s child? Why are you not as ugly and poor as before, and why are you living a better life than me? It’s all your fault, it’s all you!”

After the hysterical shouting, Zhou Xiao picked up the bags and rushed out. Song Baohua shook her head and gasped. She looked at A Miao with tears in her eyes.

“A Miao, don’t take it to heart. The child… the child, she…”

“Auntie Song.” A Miao helped her sit down. “I’m fine, don’t get angry. Zhou Xiao, she…”

Song Baohua took her by the hand and shook her head. “I know my own child, I just wronged you.” Her eyes suddenly became firm. “A Miao, you don’t have to worry about Zhou Xiao anymore. Now she is not your friend.”

After comforting Song Baohua for a long time, A Miao left. In the car, she leaned against Shen Xinglan’s shoulder and said nothing.

“Knowing this is the result must make you feel bad.” Shen Xinglan gently stroked her back and kissed her on the forehead to comfort her.

A Miao breathed on through her nose. “It turns out that she had always been kind to me because I was inferior to her and because she wanted to find balance in me.”

“Didn’t you already know that?” Shen Xinglan looked at her. A Miao was a very sensitive little woman, how could she not have figured it out?

“Right…” A Miao sighed, thinking of things when she was a child. At that time, Song Baohua had just taken her from the orphanage. When Zhou Xiao saw her for the first time, her eyes were envious and even filled with disgust.

Later on, she found that she had to pick up her clothes, use things she did not want, and deface her eyes all the time. Only then did she slowly accept herself.

“I won’t look after her, but Auntie Song…”

“When he left, Le Yi had a doctor arranged for her who can operate on her at any time.” Shen Xinglan patted her. “I suggest that the sooner the better, so that you don’t have to associate with them.”

After obtaining Song Baohua’s consent, A Miao asked for leave to accompany her to the hospital on Monday, while Zhou Xiao could not be reached. After the operation, Song Baohua spent half a month in the hospital, and Zhou Xiao never came once…

“All right, you go home quickly. I’ve been bothering you for half a month.”

Today, Song Baohua was discharged from the hospital. A Miao took her home.

“Auntie Song, call me if you need anything in the future and don’t let yourself get too tired. Business is good now. Just fix the number of steamed buns every day and close the store when you have sold them.”

A Miao poured her a glass of water. “No matter what happens between me and Zhou Xiao, I will look after you in the future.”

“That is good for you. Thank you!” Zhou Xiao’s voice came from the door.

The two of them looked up and saw her walking in high heels with heavy makeup on.

“Where have you been all this time? The school said you took sick leave, and you even didn’t go to school?” Song Baohua became angry when she saw her. “Go back to school right away, do you hear me?”

Zhou Xiao cocked her leg and sat on the sofa. First, she glanced at A Miao and found that she even had a brand-name limited-edition hairpin on her head. She could not help getting jealous again.

“What’s the use of going to school? I already have a job.” Zhou Xiao showed another look of pride. “Mom, close the shop and I’ll support you in the future!”

Song Baohua shot her a glare. “What nonsense are you talking about? What are you going to support me with?”

“My boyfriend!” Zhou Xiao took a glance at A Miao. “Not only some people have boyfriends. Mom, you can enjoy your happiness in the future!”

A Miao endured it, but still could not hold back. “Zhou Xiao, do you know who Liu Ran is?”

“Why? Do you want to say that he is not sincere to me, to be careful of being cheated on?” Xiao Zhou hissed, “Come on, put away your public face. You can’t bear to see that I am better than you!”

Song Baohua was so angry that she wanted to swear. A Miao held her back and smiled. “Auntie Song, you should pay more attention to your health. I’ll go first.” After she finished saying that, without looking at Zhou Xiao, she went out through the door.

“Wait a minute!” She did not expect Zhou Xiao to chase after her.

A Miao stopped and looked at her coldly.

“You should know who my boyfriend is. He will have his birthday tomorrow. You should call on Shen Xinglan to come.” Zhou Xiao confidently said that if Liu Ran had not asked her to invite Shen Xinglan, she would not have asked A Miao to go.

“I don’t have time.” A Miao turned to get in the car.

Zhou Xiao stopped her and said, “You don’t have time or you don’t want to come?”

Shen I had opened the door, and saw Zhou Xiao still nagging, he frowned.

“I really don’t want to go.” A Miao turned to look at her. “Are you satisfied?”

“A Miao, can’t you just wish me to be better?” Zhou Xiao was short of breath. “But I just ask you to go to a party. What’s wrong with asking Shen Xinglan to go?”

A Miao smiled. “What does it matter to you if I don’t go to the party?”

“You…” Zhou Xiao eyes glinted. She did not want to let A Miao know, but Liu Ran was together with her mostly because she said she was A Miao’s homegirl.

If A Miao did not go with Shen Xinglan, she was afraid that she would not be able to explain it to Liu Ran.

“We are good friends!” Her voice slowed down, and she took A Miao’s hand and waved it like before. “I want to introduce my boyfriend to you. Why don’t you come and have fun?”

A Miao’s smile faded and she pushed Zhou Xiao’s hand away. “No, we are not good friends. We are not even friends. Conduct yourself well!”

“A Miao, you…” Zhou Xiao still wanted to stop her, but Shen I pushed her away. She had to watch A Miao get in the car and leave and she stamped her feet angrily.

The next day, when A Miao came home at noon, she met Ling Lang, whom she had not seen for a long time.

“How are you?” Ling Lang took the initiative to greet her. “I haven’t seen you recently. Didn’t you say that college students are very idle?”

A Miao did not reply.

“I’ve been busy lately.” Her answer was rather perfunctory.

Ling Lang also saw that she did not want to talk to her anymore and her eyes flickered. “Haha, I won’t delay you, I’m going to work.”

As she spoke, she brushed past A Miao and knocked into the environmentally friendly bag in her hand on purpose. A Miao had gone to the supermarket to buy fresh eggs, so she instinctively moved when she saw the bag leave her hand.

“Excuse me, are you okay?” Ling lang looked at her meaningfully.

A Miao regretted the moment that she had reached her hand out, but the shopping bag had returned to be firm and secure in her hand.

“It’s okay, I’ve always been quick!”

Ling Lang nodded and turned away.

A Miao came home to find herself in a cold sweat. When Shen Xinglan came back, he saw his little woman holding her head on the sofa motionless.

“What’s up?” He loosened his tie and carried her in his arms.

“I made a fool of myself…” A Miao put on a long face and told him about the afternoon.

After hearing this, Shen Xinglan rubbed her head indifferently. “I said not to be afraid. Even if she found out you were fast, there’s no evidence to prove that the auction was related to us.”

“Unless…” Shen Xinglan picked up the corners of his mouth, “unless she finds stolen goods in our house.”

A Miao blinked. “Where did you hide the jade pendant?”

“Are you sure you want to know?”

“No.” A Miao facepalmed. “The more you know, the more worried you will be…”

In the evening, when A Miao was doing her homework in the living room, Shen Xinglan’s facial expression was somewhat subtle after he answered the phone.

“What’s up?” A Miao asked.

“Nothing. Have you finished writing?” He leaned in and hugged her, breathing spray on A Miao’s ear, and she shivered inside.

Shen Xinglan bit her earlobe, and his voice was like that of a spirit on a dark night. “If you finish writing, we’ll do something else, right?”

“Go away!” A Miao was captured instantly, pushed him away with a red face, and threw down the books in a hurry. “I… I haven’t finished writing yet.”

“Hehehehe…” His muffled laughter came from behind, and Shen Xinglan pressed tightly against her back. “Then I’ll hold you in my arms as you write.”

In the end, A Miao was knocked unconscious by his kiss, and naturally, she did not finish her homework. However, going to school early in the morning, she was shocked by more exciting news.

“Those upper-class circles are really chaotic. Look at how bold and unconstrained this woman is.”

“Yes, and with five men at the same time, wow!”

“Why? Seeing your envious face, do you also want to try that?”

“Die!”

As soon as A Miao entered the classroom, she saw that the students were discussing it using their mobile phones. She listened to the general comments and was not interested in gossip about such matters.

She was able to read the news during a break and randomly came across the topic.

—The man surnamed Liu’s birthday had one female and five males performance in public, breaking the passion scale—

“Man surnamed Liu?” Her hand paused for a moment and then clicked on it. Finally, her face changed when she saw the mosaic picture.

At this time, Zhou Xiao was crying and holding onto the man’s leg. “How could you do this to me? How can I face people?”

“Haha, aren’t you with me for the sake of money? Yesterday, didn’t those five people compensate you afterward, how about that? Isn’t it great?”

Liu Ran kicked her away. “Come on, you’ve made a lot of money from me, now we owe each other nothing in the future.”

“You… what did you say?” Zhou Xiao looked at him incredulously. “You did this to me because I didn’t invite Shen Xinglan?”

“Otherwise, do you think I’d like you?” Liu Ran pinched her chin. “If you were not a virgin and clean and knew Shen Xinglan’s fiancee, I wouldn’t be interested in you even if you were naked.”

She had originally thought that Liu Ran at least liked her a little bit, but now he had revealed the reality and Zhou Xiao cried hysterically.

“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you lied to me, right? You like me, don’t you?”

Liu Ran pushed her to the ground. “Get out of here. I’m still busy. I don’t have time to listen to you whine.” Then he slammed the door and left.

Chapter 104 Break

Zhou Xiao pushed A Miao aside and shouted at Song Baohua, “What do you really want? With A Miao, everything is all right, isn’t it? After all I’ve done for my family, you still lecture me. In the end, who is your daughter?”

“Zhou Xiao, please speak less.” A Miao tried to pull her, but Zhou Xiao dodged her. She looked at A Miao like she was her enemy. “Shut up, this is our family’s business!”

A Miao stared blankly, then heard Zhou Xiao’s shrill voice. “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you back from the orphanage, you unwanted bastard!”

“Pa!” Song Baohua’s hand stopped in midair, and her lips quivered as she pointed at Xiao Zhou. “How did I get you into this condition? How can you say that?”

“Why shouldn’t I?” Covering her face, Zhou Xiao let out a scream, and then ruthlessly looked A Miao. “Why are you a rich family’s child? Why are you not as ugly and poor as before, and why are you living a better life than me? It’s all your fault, it’s all you!”

After the hysterical shouting, Zhou Xiao picked up the bags and rushed out. Song Baohua shook her head and gasped. She looked at A Miao with tears in her eyes.

“A Miao, don’t take it to heart. The child… the child, she…”

“Auntie Song.” A Miao helped her sit down. “I’m fine, don’t get angry. Zhou Xiao, she…”

Song Baohua took her by the hand and shook her head. “I know my own child, I just wronged you.” Her eyes suddenly became firm. “A Miao, you don’t have to worry about Zhou Xiao anymore. Now she is not your friend.”

After comforting Song Baohua for a long time, A Miao left. In the car, she leaned against Shen Xinglan’s shoulder and said nothing.

“Knowing this is the result must make you feel bad.” Shen Xinglan gently stroked her back and kissed her on the forehead to comfort her.

A Miao breathed on through her nose. “It turns out that she had always been kind to me because I was inferior to her and because she wanted to find balance in me.”

“Didn’t you already know that?” Shen Xinglan looked at her. A Miao was a very sensitive little woman, how could she not have figured it out?

“Right…” A Miao sighed, thinking of things when she was a child. At that time, Song Baohua had just taken her from the orphanage. When Zhou Xiao saw her for the first time, her eyes were envious and even filled with disgust.

Later on, she found that she had to pick up her clothes, use things she did not want, and deface her eyes all the time. Only then did she slowly accept herself.

“I won’t look after her, but Auntie Song…”

“When he left, Le Yi had a doctor arranged for her who can operate on her at any time.” Shen Xinglan patted her. “I suggest that the sooner the better, so that you don’t have to associate with them.”

After obtaining Song Baohua’s consent, A Miao asked for leave to accompany her to the hospital on Monday, while Zhou Xiao could not be reached. After the operation, Song Baohua spent half a month in the hospital, and Zhou Xiao never came once…

“All right, you go home quickly. I’ve been bothering you for half a month.”

Today, Song Baohua was discharged from the hospital. A Miao took her home.

“Auntie Song, call me if you need anything in the future and don’t let yourself get too tired. Business is good now. Just fix the number of steamed buns every day and close the store when you have sold them.”

A Miao poured her a glass of water. “No matter what happens between me and Zhou Xiao, I will look after you in the future.”

“That is good for you. Thank you!” Zhou Xiao’s voice came from the door.

The two of them looked up and saw her walking in high heels with heavy makeup on.

“Where have you been all this time? The school said you took sick leave, and you even didn’t go to school?” Song Baohua became angry when she saw her. “Go back to school right away, do you hear me?”

Zhou Xiao cocked her leg and sat on the sofa. First, she glanced at A Miao and found that she even had a brand-name limited-edition hairpin on her head. She could not help getting jealous again.

“What’s the use of going to school? I already have a job.” Zhou Xiao showed another look of pride. “Mom, close the shop and I’ll support you in the future!”

Song Baohua shot her a glare. “What nonsense are you talking about? What are you going to support me with?”

“My boyfriend!” Zhou Xiao took a glance at A Miao. “Not only some people have boyfriends. Mom, you can enjoy your happiness in the future!”

A Miao endured it, but still could not hold back. “Zhou Xiao, do you know who Liu Ran is?”

“Why? Do you want to say that he is not sincere to me, to be careful of being cheated on?” Xiao Zhou hissed, “Come on, put away your public face. You can’t bear to see that I am better than you!”

Song Baohua was so angry that she wanted to swear. A Miao held her back and smiled. “Auntie Song, you should pay more attention to your health. I’ll go first.” After she finished saying that, without looking at Zhou Xiao, she went out through the door.

“Wait a minute!” She did not expect Zhou Xiao to chase after her.

A Miao stopped and looked at her coldly.

“You should know who my boyfriend is. He will have his birthday tomorrow. You should call on Shen Xinglan to come.” Zhou Xiao confidently said that if Liu Ran had not asked her to invite Shen Xinglan, she would not have asked A Miao to go.

“I don’t have time.” A Miao turned to get in the car.

Zhou Xiao stopped her and said, “You don’t have time or you don’t want to come?”

Shen I had opened the door, and saw Zhou Xiao still nagging, he frowned.

“I really don’t want to go.” A Miao turned to look at her. “Are you satisfied?”

“A Miao, can’t you just wish me to be better?” Zhou Xiao was short of breath. “But I just ask you to go to a party. What’s wrong with asking Shen Xinglan to go?”

A Miao smiled. “What does it matter to you if I don’t go to the party?”

“You…” Zhou Xiao eyes glinted. She did not want to let A Miao know, but Liu Ran was together with her mostly because she said she was A Miao’s homegirl.

If A Miao did not go with Shen Xinglan, she was afraid that she would not be able to explain it to Liu Ran.

“We are good friends!” Her voice slowed down, and she took A Miao’s hand and waved it like before. “I want to introduce my boyfriend to you. Why don’t you come and have fun?”

A Miao’s smile faded and she pushed Zhou Xiao’s hand away. “No, we are not good friends. We are not even friends. Conduct yourself well!”

“A Miao, you…” Zhou Xiao still wanted to stop her, but Shen I pushed her away. She had to watch A Miao get in the car and leave and she stamped her feet angrily.

The next day, when A Miao came home at noon, she met Ling Lang, whom she had not seen for a long time.

“How are you?” Ling Lang took the initiative to greet her. “I haven’t seen you recently. Didn’t you say that college students are very idle?”

A Miao did not reply.

“I’ve been busy lately.” Her answer was rather perfunctory.

Ling Lang also saw that she did not want to talk to her anymore and her eyes flickered. “Haha, I won’t delay you, I’m going to work.”

As she spoke, she brushed past A Miao and knocked into the environmentally friendly bag in her hand on purpose. A Miao had gone to the supermarket to buy fresh eggs, so she instinctively moved when she saw the bag leave her hand.

“Excuse me, are you okay?” Ling lang looked at her meaningfully.

A Miao regretted the moment that she had reached her hand out, but the shopping bag had returned to be firm and secure in her hand.

“It’s okay, I’ve always been quick!”

Ling Lang nodded and turned away.

A Miao came home to find herself in a cold sweat. When Shen Xinglan came back, he saw his little woman holding her head on the sofa motionless.

“What’s up?” He loosened his tie and carried her in his arms.

“I made a fool of myself…” A Miao put on a long face and told him about the afternoon.

After hearing this, Shen Xinglan rubbed her head indifferently. “I said not to be afraid. Even if she found out you were fast, there’s no evidence to prove that the auction was related to us.”

“Unless…” Shen Xinglan picked up the corners of his mouth, “unless she finds stolen goods in our house.”

A Miao blinked. “Where did you hide the jade pendant?”

“Are you sure you want to know?”

“No.” A Miao facepalmed. “The more you know, the more worried you will be…”

In the evening, when A Miao was doing her homework in the living room, Shen Xinglan’s facial expression was somewhat subtle after he answered the phone.

“What’s up?” A Miao asked.

“Nothing. Have you finished writing?” He leaned in and hugged her, breathing spray on A Miao’s ear, and she shivered inside.

Shen Xinglan bit her earlobe, and his voice was like that of a spirit on a dark night. “If you finish writing, we’ll do something else, right?”

“Go away!” A Miao was captured instantly, pushed him away with a red face, and threw down the books in a hurry. “I… I haven’t finished writing yet.”

“Hehehehe…” His muffled laughter came from behind, and Shen Xinglan pressed tightly against her back. “Then I’ll hold you in my arms as you write.”

In the end, A Miao was knocked unconscious by his kiss, and naturally, she did not finish her homework. However, going to school early in the morning, she was shocked by more exciting news.

“Those upper-class circles are really chaotic. Look at how bold and unconstrained this woman is.”

“Yes, and with five men at the same time, wow!”

“Why? Seeing your envious face, do you also want to try that?”

“Die!”

As soon as A Miao entered the classroom, she saw that the students were discussing it using their mobile phones. She listened to the general comments and was not interested in gossip about such matters.

She was able to read the news during a break and randomly came across the topic.

—The man surnamed Liu’s birthday had one female and five males performance in public, breaking the passion scale—

“Man surnamed Liu?” Her hand paused for a moment and then clicked on it. Finally, her face changed when she saw the mosaic picture.

At this time, Zhou Xiao was crying and holding onto the man’s leg. “How could you do this to me? How can I face people?”

“Haha, aren’t you with me for the sake of money? Yesterday, didn’t those five people compensate you afterward, how about that? Isn’t it great?”

Liu Ran kicked her away. “Come on, you’ve made a lot of money from me, now we owe each other nothing in the future.”

“You… what did you say?” Zhou Xiao looked at him incredulously. “You did this to me because I didn’t invite Shen Xinglan?”

“Otherwise, do you think I’d like you?” Liu Ran pinched her chin. “If you were not a virgin and clean and knew Shen Xinglan’s fiancee, I wouldn’t be interested in you even if you were naked.”

She had originally thought that Liu Ran at least liked her a little bit, but now he had revealed the reality and Zhou Xiao cried hysterically.

“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you lied to me, right? You like me, don’t you?”

Liu Ran pushed her to the ground. “Get out of here. I’m still busy. I don’t have time to listen to you whine.” Then he slammed the door and left.

Chapter 104 Break

Zhou Xiao pushed A Miao aside and shouted at Song Baohua, “What do you really want? With A Miao, everything is all right, isn’t it? After all I’ve done for my family, you still lecture me. In the end, who is your daughter?”

“Zhou Xiao, please speak less.” A Miao tried to pull her, but Zhou Xiao dodged her. She looked at A Miao like she was her enemy. “Shut up, this is our family’s business!”

A Miao stared blankly, then heard Zhou Xiao’s shrill voice. “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you back from the orphanage, you unwanted bastard!”

“Pa!” Song Baohua’s hand stopped in midair, and her lips quivered as she pointed at Xiao Zhou. “How did I get you into this condition? How can you say that?”

“Why shouldn’t I?” Covering her face, Zhou Xiao let out a scream, and then ruthlessly looked A Miao. “Why are you a rich family’s child? Why are you not as ugly and poor as before, and why are you living a better life than me? It’s all your fault, it’s all you!”

After the hysterical shouting, Zhou Xiao picked up the bags and rushed out. Song Baohua shook her head and gasped. She looked at A Miao with tears in her eyes.

“A Miao, don’t take it to heart. The child… the child, she…”

“Auntie Song.” A Miao helped her sit down. “I’m fine, don’t get angry. Zhou Xiao, she…”

Song Baohua took her by the hand and shook her head. “I know my own child, I just wronged you.” Her eyes suddenly became firm. “A Miao, you don’t have to worry about Zhou Xiao anymore. Now she is not your friend.”

After comforting Song Baohua for a long time, A Miao left. In the car, she leaned against Shen Xinglan’s shoulder and said nothing.

“Knowing this is the result must make you feel bad.” Shen Xinglan gently stroked her back and kissed her on the forehead to comfort her.

A Miao breathed on through her nose. “It turns out that she had always been kind to me because I was inferior to her and because she wanted to find balance in me.”

“Didn’t you already know that?” Shen Xinglan looked at her. A Miao was a very sensitive little woman, how could she not have figured it out?

“Right…” A Miao sighed, thinking of things when she was a child. At that time, Song Baohua had just taken her from the orphanage. When Zhou Xiao saw her for the first time, her eyes were envious and even filled with disgust.

Later on, she found that she had to pick up her clothes, use things she did not want, and deface her eyes all the time. Only then did she slowly accept herself.

“I won’t look after her, but Auntie Song…”

“When he left, Le Yi had a doctor arranged for her who can operate on her at any time.” Shen Xinglan patted her. “I suggest that the sooner the better, so that you don’t have to associate with them.”

After obtaining Song Baohua’s consent, A Miao asked for leave to accompany her to the hospital on Monday, while Zhou Xiao could not be reached. After the operation, Song Baohua spent half a month in the hospital, and Zhou Xiao never came once…

“All right, you go home quickly. I’ve been bothering you for half a month.”

Today, Song Baohua was discharged from the hospital. A Miao took her home.

“Auntie Song, call me if you need anything in the future and don’t let yourself get too tired. Business is good now. Just fix the number of steamed buns every day and close the store when you have sold them.”

A Miao poured her a glass of water. “No matter what happens between me and Zhou Xiao, I will look after you in the future.”

“That is good for you. Thank you!” Zhou Xiao’s voice came from the door.

The two of them looked up and saw her walking in high heels with heavy makeup on.

“Where have you been all this time? The school said you took sick leave, and you even didn’t go to school?” Song Baohua became angry when she saw her. “Go back to school right away, do you hear me?”

Zhou Xiao cocked her leg and sat on the sofa. First, she glanced at A Miao and found that she even had a brand-name limited-edition hairpin on her head. She could not help getting jealous again.

“What’s the use of going to school? I already have a job.” Zhou Xiao showed another look of pride. “Mom, close the shop and I’ll support you in the future!”

Song Baohua shot her a glare. “What nonsense are you talking about? What are you going to support me with?”

“My boyfriend!” Zhou Xiao took a glance at A Miao. “Not only some people have boyfriends. Mom, you can enjoy your happiness in the future!”

A Miao endured it, but still could not hold back. “Zhou Xiao, do you know who Liu Ran is?”

“Why? Do you want to say that he is not sincere to me, to be careful of being cheated on?” Xiao Zhou hissed, “Come on, put away your public face. You can’t bear to see that I am better than you!”

Song Baohua was so angry that she wanted to swear. A Miao held her back and smiled. “Auntie Song, you should pay more attention to your health. I’ll go first.” After she finished saying that, without looking at Zhou Xiao, she went out through the door.

“Wait a minute!” She did not expect Zhou Xiao to chase after her.

A Miao stopped and looked at her coldly.

“You should know who my boyfriend is. He will have his birthday tomorrow. You should call on Shen Xinglan to come.” Zhou Xiao confidently said that if Liu Ran had not asked her to invite Shen Xinglan, she would not have asked A Miao to go.

“I don’t have time.” A Miao turned to get in the car.

Zhou Xiao stopped her and said, “You don’t have time or you don’t want to come?”

Shen I had opened the door, and saw Zhou Xiao still nagging, he frowned.

“I really don’t want to go.” A Miao turned to look at her. “Are you satisfied?”

“A Miao, can’t you just wish me to be better?” Zhou Xiao was short of breath. “But I just ask you to go to a party. What’s wrong with asking Shen Xinglan to go?”

A Miao smiled. “What does it matter to you if I don’t go to the party?”

“You…” Zhou Xiao eyes glinted. She did not want to let A Miao know, but Liu Ran was together with her mostly because she said she was A Miao’s homegirl.

If A Miao did not go with Shen Xinglan, she was afraid that she would not be able to explain it to Liu Ran.

“We are good friends!” Her voice slowed down, and she took A Miao’s hand and waved it like before. “I want to introduce my boyfriend to you. Why don’t you come and have fun?”

A Miao’s smile faded and she pushed Zhou Xiao’s hand away. “No, we are not good friends. We are not even friends. Conduct yourself well!”

“A Miao, you…” Zhou Xiao still wanted to stop her, but Shen I pushed her away. She had to watch A Miao get in the car and leave and she stamped her feet angrily.

The next day, when A Miao came home at noon, she met Ling Lang, whom she had not seen for a long time.

“How are you?” Ling Lang took the initiative to greet her. “I haven’t seen you recently. Didn’t you say that college students are very idle?”

A Miao did not reply.

“I’ve been busy lately.” Her answer was rather perfunctory.

Ling Lang also saw that she did not want to talk to her anymore and her eyes flickered. “Haha, I won’t delay you, I’m going to work.”

As she spoke, she brushed past A Miao and knocked into the environmentally friendly bag in her hand on purpose. A Miao had gone to the supermarket to buy fresh eggs, so she instinctively moved when she saw the bag leave her hand.

“Excuse me, are you okay?” Ling lang looked at her meaningfully.

A Miao regretted the moment that she had reached her hand out, but the shopping bag had returned to be firm and secure in her hand.

“It’s okay, I’ve always been quick!”

Ling Lang nodded and turned away.

A Miao came home to find herself in a cold sweat. When Shen Xinglan came back, he saw his little woman holding her head on the sofa motionless.

“What’s up?” He loosened his tie and carried her in his arms.

“I made a fool of myself…” A Miao put on a long face and told him about the afternoon.

After hearing this, Shen Xinglan rubbed her head indifferently. “I said not to be afraid. Even if she found out you were fast, there’s no evidence to prove that the auction was related to us.”

“Unless…” Shen Xinglan picked up the corners of his mouth, “unless she finds stolen goods in our house.”

A Miao blinked. “Where did you hide the jade pendant?”

“Are you sure you want to know?”

“No.” A Miao facepalmed. “The more you know, the more worried you will be…”

In the evening, when A Miao was doing her homework in the living room, Shen Xinglan’s facial expression was somewhat subtle after he answered the phone.

“What’s up?” A Miao asked.

“Nothing. Have you finished writing?” He leaned in and hugged her, breathing spray on A Miao’s ear, and she shivered inside.

Shen Xinglan bit her earlobe, and his voice was like that of a spirit on a dark night. “If you finish writing, we’ll do something else, right?”

“Go away!” A Miao was captured instantly, pushed him away with a red face, and threw down the books in a hurry. “I… I haven’t finished writing yet.”

“Hehehehe…” His muffled laughter came from behind, and Shen Xinglan pressed tightly against her back. “Then I’ll hold you in my arms as you write.”

In the end, A Miao was knocked unconscious by his kiss, and naturally, she did not finish her homework. However, going to school early in the morning, she was shocked by more exciting news.

“Those upper-class circles are really chaotic. Look at how bold and unconstrained this woman is.”

“Yes, and with five men at the same time, wow!”

“Why? Seeing your envious face, do you also want to try that?”

“Die!”

As soon as A Miao entered the classroom, she saw that the students were discussing it using their mobile phones. She listened to the general comments and was not interested in gossip about such matters.

She was able to read the news during a break and randomly came across the topic.

—The man surnamed Liu’s birthday had one female and five males performance in public, breaking the passion scale—

“Man surnamed Liu?” Her hand paused for a moment and then clicked on it. Finally, her face changed when she saw the mosaic picture.

At this time, Zhou Xiao was crying and holding onto the man’s leg. “How could you do this to me? How can I face people?”

“Haha, aren’t you with me for the sake of money? Yesterday, didn’t those five people compensate you afterward, how about that? Isn’t it great?”

Liu Ran kicked her away. “Come on, you’ve made a lot of money from me, now we owe each other nothing in the future.”

“You… what did you say?” Zhou Xiao looked at him incredulously. “You did this to me because I didn’t invite Shen Xinglan?”

“Otherwise, do you think I’d like you?” Liu Ran pinched her chin. “If you were not a virgin and clean and knew Shen Xinglan’s fiancee, I wouldn’t be interested in you even if you were naked.”

She had originally thought that Liu Ran at least liked her a little bit, but now he had revealed the reality and Zhou Xiao cried hysterically.

“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you lied to me, right? You like me, don’t you?”

Liu Ran pushed her to the ground. “Get out of here. I’m still busy. I don’t have time to listen to you whine.” Then he slammed the door and left.

Chapter 104 Break

Zhou Xiao pushed A Miao aside and shouted at Song Baohua, “What do you really want? With A Miao, everything is all right, isn’t it? After all I’ve done for my family, you still lecture me. In the end, who is your daughter?”

“Zhou Xiao, please speak less.” A Miao tried to pull her, but Zhou Xiao dodged her. She looked at A Miao like she was her enemy. “Shut up, this is our family’s business!”

A Miao stared blankly, then heard Zhou Xiao’s shrill voice. “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you back from the orphanage, you unwanted bastard!”

“Pa!” Song Baohua’s hand stopped in midair, and her lips quivered as she pointed at Xiao Zhou. “How did I get you into this condition? How can you say that?”

“Why shouldn’t I?” Covering her face, Zhou Xiao let out a scream, and then ruthlessly looked A Miao. “Why are you a rich family’s child? Why are you not as ugly and poor as before, and why are you living a better life than me? It’s all your fault, it’s all you!”

After the hysterical shouting, Zhou Xiao picked up the bags and rushed out. Song Baohua shook her head and gasped. She looked at A Miao with tears in her eyes.

“A Miao, don’t take it to heart. The child… the child, she…”

“Auntie Song.” A Miao helped her sit down. “I’m fine, don’t get angry. Zhou Xiao, she…”

Song Baohua took her by the hand and shook her head. “I know my own child, I just wronged you.” Her eyes suddenly became firm. “A Miao, you don’t have to worry about Zhou Xiao anymore. Now she is not your friend.”

After comforting Song Baohua for a long time, A Miao left. In the car, she leaned against Shen Xinglan’s shoulder and said nothing.

“Knowing this is the result must make you feel bad.” Shen Xinglan gently stroked her back and kissed her on the forehead to comfort her.

A Miao breathed on through her nose. “It turns out that she had always been kind to me because I was inferior to her and because she wanted to find balance in me.”

“Didn’t you already know that?” Shen Xinglan looked at her. A Miao was a very sensitive little woman, how could she not have figured it out?

“Right…” A Miao sighed, thinking of things when she was a child. At that time, Song Baohua had just taken her from the orphanage. When Zhou Xiao saw her for the first time, her eyes were envious and even filled with disgust.

Later on, she found that she had to pick up her clothes, use things she did not want, and deface her eyes all the time. Only then did she slowly accept herself.

“I won’t look after her, but Auntie Song…”

“When he left, Le Yi had a doctor arranged for her who can operate on her at any time.” Shen Xinglan patted her. “I suggest that the sooner the better, so that you don’t have to associate with them.”

After obtaining Song Baohua’s consent, A Miao asked for leave to accompany her to the hospital on Monday, while Zhou Xiao could not be reached. After the operation, Song Baohua spent half a month in the hospital, and Zhou Xiao never came once…

“All right, you go home quickly. I’ve been bothering you for half a month.”

Today, Song Baohua was discharged from the hospital. A Miao took her home.

“Auntie Song, call me if you need anything in the future and don’t let yourself get too tired. Business is good now. Just fix the number of steamed buns every day and close the store when you have sold them.”

A Miao poured her a glass of water. “No matter what happens between me and Zhou Xiao, I will look after you in the future.”

“That is good for you. Thank you!” Zhou Xiao’s voice came from the door.

The two of them looked up and saw her walking in high heels with heavy makeup on.

“Where have you been all this time? The school said you took sick leave, and you even didn’t go to school?” Song Baohua became angry when she saw her. “Go back to school right away, do you hear me?”

Zhou Xiao cocked her leg and sat on the sofa. First, she glanced at A Miao and found that she even had a brand-name limited-edition hairpin on her head. She could not help getting jealous again.

“What’s the use of going to school? I already have a job.” Zhou Xiao showed another look of pride. “Mom, close the shop and I’ll support you in the future!”

Song Baohua shot her a glare. “What nonsense are you talking about? What are you going to support me with?”

“My boyfriend!” Zhou Xiao took a glance at A Miao. “Not only some people have boyfriends. Mom, you can enjoy your happiness in the future!”

A Miao endured it, but still could not hold back. “Zhou Xiao, do you know who Liu Ran is?”

“Why? Do you want to say that he is not sincere to me, to be careful of being cheated on?” Xiao Zhou hissed, “Come on, put away your public face. You can’t bear to see that I am better than you!”

Song Baohua was so angry that she wanted to swear. A Miao held her back and smiled. “Auntie Song, you should pay more attention to your health. I’ll go first.” After she finished saying that, without looking at Zhou Xiao, she went out through the door.

“Wait a minute!” She did not expect Zhou Xiao to chase after her.

A Miao stopped and looked at her coldly.

“You should know who my boyfriend is. He will have his birthday tomorrow. You should call on Shen Xinglan to come.” Zhou Xiao confidently said that if Liu Ran had not asked her to invite Shen Xinglan, she would not have asked A Miao to go.

“I don’t have time.” A Miao turned to get in the car.

Zhou Xiao stopped her and said, “You don’t have time or you don’t want to come?”

Shen I had opened the door, and saw Zhou Xiao still nagging, he frowned.

“I really don’t want to go.” A Miao turned to look at her. “Are you satisfied?”

“A Miao, can’t you just wish me to be better?” Zhou Xiao was short of breath. “But I just ask you to go to a party. What’s wrong with asking Shen Xinglan to go?”

A Miao smiled. “What does it matter to you if I don’t go to the party?”

“You…” Zhou Xiao eyes glinted. She did not want to let A Miao know, but Liu Ran was together with her mostly because she said she was A Miao’s homegirl.

If A Miao did not go with Shen Xinglan, she was afraid that she would not be able to explain it to Liu Ran.

“We are good friends!” Her voice slowed down, and she took A Miao’s hand and waved it like before. “I want to introduce my boyfriend to you. Why don’t you come and have fun?”

A Miao’s smile faded and she pushed Zhou Xiao’s hand away. “No, we are not good friends. We are not even friends. Conduct yourself well!”

“A Miao, you…” Zhou Xiao still wanted to stop her, but Shen I pushed her away. She had to watch A Miao get in the car and leave and she stamped her feet angrily.

The next day, when A Miao came home at noon, she met Ling Lang, whom she had not seen for a long time.

“How are you?” Ling Lang took the initiative to greet her. “I haven’t seen you recently. Didn’t you say that college students are very idle?”

A Miao did not reply.

“I’ve been busy lately.” Her answer was rather perfunctory.

Ling Lang also saw that she did not want to talk to her anymore and her eyes flickered. “Haha, I won’t delay you, I’m going to work.”

As she spoke, she brushed past A Miao and knocked into the environmentally friendly bag in her hand on purpose. A Miao had gone to the supermarket to buy fresh eggs, so she instinctively moved when she saw the bag leave her hand.

“Excuse me, are you okay?” Ling lang looked at her meaningfully.

A Miao regretted the moment that she had reached her hand out, but the shopping bag had returned to be firm and secure in her hand.

“It’s okay, I’ve always been quick!”

Ling Lang nodded and turned away.

A Miao came home to find herself in a cold sweat. When Shen Xinglan came back, he saw his little woman holding her head on the sofa motionless.

“What’s up?” He loosened his tie and carried her in his arms.

“I made a fool of myself…” A Miao put on a long face and told him about the afternoon.

After hearing this, Shen Xinglan rubbed her head indifferently. “I said not to be afraid. Even if she found out you were fast, there’s no evidence to prove that the auction was related to us.”

“Unless…” Shen Xinglan picked up the corners of his mouth, “unless she finds stolen goods in our house.”

A Miao blinked. “Where did you hide the jade pendant?”

“Are you sure you want to know?”

“No.” A Miao facepalmed. “The more you know, the more worried you will be…”

In the evening, when A Miao was doing her homework in the living room, Shen Xinglan’s facial expression was somewhat subtle after he answered the phone.

“What’s up?” A Miao asked.

“Nothing. Have you finished writing?” He leaned in and hugged her, breathing spray on A Miao’s ear, and she shivered inside.

Shen Xinglan bit her earlobe, and his voice was like that of a spirit on a dark night. “If you finish writing, we’ll do something else, right?”

“Go away!” A Miao was captured instantly, pushed him away with a red face, and threw down the books in a hurry. “I… I haven’t finished writing yet.”

“Hehehehe…” His muffled laughter came from behind, and Shen Xinglan pressed tightly against her back. “Then I’ll hold you in my arms as you write.”

In the end, A Miao was knocked unconscious by his kiss, and naturally, she did not finish her homework. However, going to school early in the morning, she was shocked by more exciting news.

“Those upper-class circles are really chaotic. Look at how bold and unconstrained this woman is.”

“Yes, and with five men at the same time, wow!”

“Why? Seeing your envious face, do you also want to try that?”

“Die!”

As soon as A Miao entered the classroom, she saw that the students were discussing it using their mobile phones. She listened to the general comments and was not interested in gossip about such matters.

She was able to read the news during a break and randomly came across the topic.

—The man surnamed Liu’s birthday had one female and five males performance in public, breaking the passion scale—

“Man surnamed Liu?” Her hand paused for a moment and then clicked on it. Finally, her face changed when she saw the mosaic picture.

At this time, Zhou Xiao was crying and holding onto the man’s leg. “How could you do this to me? How can I face people?”

“Haha, aren’t you with me for the sake of money? Yesterday, didn’t those five people compensate you afterward, how about that? Isn’t it great?”

Liu Ran kicked her away. “Come on, you’ve made a lot of money from me, now we owe each other nothing in the future.”

“You… what did you say?” Zhou Xiao looked at him incredulously. “You did this to me because I didn’t invite Shen Xinglan?”

“Otherwise, do you think I’d like you?” Liu Ran pinched her chin. “If you were not a virgin and clean and knew Shen Xinglan’s fiancee, I wouldn’t be interested in you even if you were naked.”

She had originally thought that Liu Ran at least liked her a little bit, but now he had revealed the reality and Zhou Xiao cried hysterically.

“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you lied to me, right? You like me, don’t you?”

Liu Ran pushed her to the ground. “Get out of here. I’m still busy. I don’t have time to listen to you whine.” Then he slammed the door and left.