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It was twelve hours of travel to the hometown, so the Li family bought sleeper tickets.

 

Papa and Mama Li fell into a deep sleep. But Li Xinyu couldn’t fall asleep. She looked out the dark window, thinking about the unknown future, feeling dazed and lost.

 

Li Huairou took out a lunch box from her bag and opened it. “Here, eat some.”

 

“What is this?” Li Xinyu didn’t respond.

 

“Braised pig trotters, braised chicken feet, and a bottle of beer. Let me tell you—when you’re in a bad mood, eating is the best way to relieve stress.” Li Huairou took out two bottles of beer, opened them, and handed a bottle to Li Xinyu. She grabbed a trotter and gnawed it.

 

Li Xinyu had never seen such a rough way of eating. She was stunned for a few seconds, and then she remembered that she was Li Xinyu now. It was time for her to get used to it.

 

Following her elder sister’s example, she picked up a pig trotter, but she couldn’t hold it firmly with one hand. So she put down the beer, held it in both hands, and gnawed at it. She took a bite, and her eyes widened in surprise. The pig trotter turned out to be so good. 

 

“Is it delicious?” Li Huairou smiled. “Have another sip of beer.”

 

Then she lifted the beer to Li Xinyu’s mouth.

 

Li Xinyu drank a sip. How to describe it? The taste was beyond her imagination. But it seemed to be pretty good. She continued to happily gnaw on the pig trotters with her head down.

 

Li Huairou drank her beer, looked at Li Xinyu, and smiled.

 

In the plot, Li Xinyu hadn’t changed her name, and she stayed in the Luo family as Luo Xinyu. But it didn’t end well for her. She was not a daughter of the Luo family, but she’d enjoyed the love of the Luo family for sixteen years. The real daughter of the Luo family had returned, and she was different from a pampered and self-willed girl. Luo Huaishan, as her name suggested, was kind, well-behaved, sensible, and filial. She soon won everybody’s favor, from Madam Luo to the cleaning aunt.

 

Those cousins of hers ​​​​who hadn’t gotten along with Luo Xinyu in the past loved and liked Luo Huaishan very much.

 

Madam Luo, who’d loved her the most in the past, turned a blind eye to her after learning that she was not a child of the Luo family, pretending she was not there.

 

After learning the truth, her elder brother, who was usually nice to her, no longer tolerated and loved her as much as before. Instead, because of guilt and pity, he took good care of Luo Huaishan.

 

In the whole Luo family, only Papa and Mama Luo really held the same attitude towards Luo Xinyu as before. But, gradually, things changed.

 

It was because Luo Huaishan was really too smart—too good. Although she’d lived with the Li family for so many years, she was able to learn anything, no matter what it was, after returning. Her college entrance examination scores were higher than Luo Xinyu’s. With nearly 200 points, she was admitted to the best university

 

When Luo Huaishan received her admission notice, the Luo family threw a big banquet and invited relatives and friends.

 

Luo Huaishan was the Luo family’s pride. In front of many relatives and friends, Madam Luo took Luo Huaishan’s hand and said, “This is the child of our Luo family!” Luo Huaishan was directly rewarded with a house in the capital that was worth tens of millions. Her uncle, Papa Luo, and several brothers also had gifts.

 

Luo Xinyu had nothing. As for her university, she only went to an ordinary local university.

 

Luo Huaishan had received the position, love, and light that had originally belonged to Luo Xinyu.

 

Because of this, Luo Xinyu was unable to accept it. She began to compete with Luo Huaishan out of jealousy, and began to take aim at Luo Huaishan no matter what she did. Luo Huaishan was very magnanimous, never disputing with her, and avoided her. Later, when Luo Huaishan went to the capital to go to university, Luo Xinyu thought that she’d be able to go back to the past again.

 

But Luo Xinyu found out that she couldn’t go back.

 

Even if Luo Huaishan was not at home,  Luo Huaishan was always in the Luo family’s heart—be it her grandma or her parents.

 

In such an environment, Luo Xinyu’s heart became darker day by day.

 

During the summer vacation of her sophomore year, Luo Huaishan brought a boyfriend home. He was Ji Rufeng, who was said to have graduated from the same high school as Luo Huaishan, and he was both handsome and talented. The whole Luo family liked him very much. He loved Luo Huaishan very much, and his parents also liked Luo Huaishan very much. When he came back this time, he’d come to meet her elders and discuss the matter of engagement.

 

Luo Xinyu guessed from the Luo family’s attitude that Ji Rufeng’s identity was unusual. She vowed to snatch him back from Luo Huaishan. To get him.

 

So, intentionally or not, Luo Xinyu began to seduce Ji Rufeng, but he was unmoved.

 

Luo Xinyu simply knocked on his door in the middle of the night while wearing sexy pajamas. But her brother angrily came over a minute later and dragged Luo Xinyu to her own room, warning her that if she came again, she’d have to move out to live.

 

Luo Xinyu didn’t back down, instead growing firm. She had to get Ji Rufeng.

 

Later, it was their eldest aunt’s birthday, and the Luo family exuberantly threw a birthday party for her.

 

Luo Xinyu took the opportunity to put drugs in Ji Rufeng’s wine, chase him into the bathroom and take advantage of the drug’s effect. She became entwined with Ji Rufeng, and she even used Ji Rufeng’s cell phone to call Luo Huaishan.

 

The next thing would become a matter of course. Luo Huaishan and her cousin, Luo Xinhe, found out about her and Ji Rufeng.

 

And then, everyone knew.

 

She knelt on the ground with a fearless expression on her face.

 

Madam Luo put her arms around Luo Huaishan and glared at her.

 

Ji Rufeng came to his senses. He didn’t look at her, going straight to Luo Huaishan and begging for her forgiveness.

 

Luo Huaishan didn’t speak. She simply came out from Madam Luo’s arms, turned around, and went back to her room.

 

Madam Luo was so angry that she slapped her youngest son’s face. “This is the daughter you should keep at home!”

 

Luo Huaishan and Ji Rufeng broke up. Luo Huaishan turned around and went aboard. Ji Rufeng had originally wanted to chase her abroad, but Luo Xinyu found him and said that she was pregnant. If they didn’t get married, she would make the incident known to everyone.

 

Ji Rufeng looked at her blankly and said that marriage was fine, but he needed to make sure that Luo Xinyu was really pregnant.

 

    Luo Xinyu smiled and took out a B-ultrasound sheet. Ji Rufeng didn’t look at it. He said that he didn’t believe it and asked Luo Xinyu to do another examination.

 

    Fearless, Luo Xinyu followed Ji Rufeng to a private clinic.

 

    But, after entering, Luo Xinyu realized that something was wrong. Several nurses pinned her to the ground and gave her an anesthesia injection. After that, she quickly lost consciousness.

 

When she woke up, the child was gone, and she was locked in a room with no windows. The door was locked from the outside. There was a hole in the door, and three meals a day were brought in through that hole.

 

Luo Xinyu was imprisoned for three years. By the time she was released, she’d already gone insane.

 

It was the Li family who’d found Luo Huaishan, who had returned from studying abroad. Luo Huaishan knew that Luo Xinyu had disappeared. In the past three years, no one cared about Luo Xinyu’s existence except for the Li family, not even the Luo family. So Luo Huaishan had searched everywhere for Luo Xinyu’s whereabouts. Ji Rufeng was afraid that Luo Huaishan would learn the truth, so he’d sent Luo Xinyu, who’d gone mad, to the Li family.

 

The Li family members didn’t question it or complain. They just brought Luo Xinyu back to their hometown.

 

Luo Huaishan reached a conclusion and felt that Ji Rufeng was too cruel. Her heart, which had still been a little shaken, became firm, and she completely broke it off with Ji Rufeng.

 

After that, there was a chaotic love triangle between Luo Huaishan, her new boyfriend, and Ji Rufeng.

 

Of course, in the end, Luo Huaishan still got together with Ji Rufeng. Their wedding was quite grand. At the wedding, the Luo family looked at the couple with smiles. Everyone was immersed in a happy atmosphere. Everyone forgot that the Luo family had once had a daughter by the name of Luo Xinyu.

 

When Luo Huaishan got married, she’d originally planned to invite her adoptive parents to watch the ceremony, but she couldn’t get in touch with either of them. After the couple returned from their honeymoon, Ji Rufeng went with Luo Huaishan to the Li family’s hometown but ended up missing out on meeting the Li family. After asking around, they found out that the crazy youngest daughter of the Li family was missing, and when the eldest daughter of the family went out to look for her, there was a car accident, and she’d passed away. The old couple of the Li family took care of their elder daughter’s funeral, sold the house, and went all over the world to find their younger daughter.

 

Luo Huaishan was very sad. Ji Rufeng put his arms around her and promised to find them and settle them down. Luo Huaishan originally planned to look by herself, but she presently found out that she was pregnant. She had no choice but to leave this matter to Ji Rufeng.

 

In the end, Ji Rufeng only found the old couple of the Li family and got them into a nursing home with good conditions, asking someone to take care of them. Luo Huaishan would often go to visit them.

 

But until the end of the story, Luo Xinyu’s whereabouts were unknown.

 

Li Huairou drank the rest of her beer in one gulp. Li Xinyu looked at her and said, “Drink slowly.” She still couldn’t call out “sister”.

 

Li Huairou rubbed Li Xinyu’s head. “Don’t worry, you’re still drinking milk when I’ve already drunk!” This was true; the body’s original owner had drunk with her grandfather when she was seven or eight years old. The original owner liked to drink beer.

 

“What’s our hometown look like?” Li Xinyu asked suddenly.

 

“Our hometown, a mountain city, is a very magical and miraculous city. You will know it when you get there?” Although Li Huairou was from the mountain city, they’d moved out since her grandfather’s generation, and she’d never been back. Her understanding of her hometown was limited to the memories of her grandfather, the memories of her father, and introductions on the news.

 

“Are all the people in the mountain city good at eating spicy food? What about you? Can you eat spicy food? I really don’t think you can handle spicy food very well,” Li Xinyu asked.

 

“Both me and mom can’t eat spicy food. Both grandpa and dad can eat spicy food,” Li Huairou said with a smile.

 

Li Xinyu relaxed a little—as long as she wasn’t the only one who was different, it was fine.

 

“It’s getting late. Go wash up and sleep for a while,” Li Huairou said with a smile.

 

Li Xinyu nodded and went to the bathroom.

 

When she came back, she found that Li Huairou had made the bed. Li Xinyu got on the bed and turned over, facing inside, but she couldn’t sleep.

 

Li Xinyu didn’t know what magic was until she arrived in the mountain city. For example, the same building viewed from one side looked like it only had one floor, but, when viewed from the other side, it actually had 18 floors.

 

Li Xinyu was dumbfounded and full of curiosity about everything.

 

Over there, Papa Li, speaking proficiently in the Shancheng dialect, negotiated prices with a cargo motorcycle driver. The family squeezed into the tricycle and continued on their way.

 

The tricycle’s smell was a bit pungent, and Li Xinyu tried hard to endure the discomfort. Suddenly, Li Huairou handed over a piece of orange peel, motioning for her to put it under her nose.

 

Sure enough, she felt much better.

 

The tricycle swayed back and forth and stopped in an alley. “You have to go the rest of the way on your own.”

 

Li Xinyu pulled her suitcase along, staring dumbfoundedly at the seemingly-endless steps in front of her.

 

Papa Li smiled. “Climb up and you’ll be there.” Then he took the suitcase in Li Xinyu’s hands and walked up first.

 

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