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It was still steaming.

So he drove out just to buy me a roasted sweet potato?

Shen Jiayan: !!!

No, he hadn't!

He stiffened his neck. "Don't read too much into it. You gave me a roasted sweet potato yesterday, so I'm paying you back. I've never liked owing anyone."

I knew it. No way he'd be that nice!

Shen Luoluo nodded. "Thanks."

Shen Jiayan: ...

Why couldn't he be nice? She was going to drive him crazy!

He was already annoyed, and his phone kept buzzing like his life depended on it!

Shen Jiayan opened his phone. Duan Yixing and Lu Yanze had flooded the Underground Intelligence Bureau group chat.

[Duan Yixing: Brother Yan, where are you? Are you still playing? How did you disappear halfway through?]

[Lu Yanze: Don't get me started. It was my rank-up match, and Brother Yan went AFK! I want to die.]

[Duan Yixing: You didn't actually go buy roasted sweet potatoes, did you?]

Without batting an eye, Shen Jiayan replied coldly, [No. Something came up.]

As soon as he appeared, Duan Yixing and Lu Yanze messaged even faster.

[Lu Yanze: Brother Yan, you just cost me a star. You owe me one! Are you home? Does your sister play? Please ask her to carry us!]

[Duan Yixing: Yeah, Brother Yan. Your sister must feel awful after what happened today. Ask her to play a couple of matches and take her mind off it.]

Shen Jiayan stared at his phone screen. After hesitating for a few seconds, he asked, "Want to play a game?"

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not the one asking. It's Duan Yixing and the others—the two we played with last time. They want you to help them climb the ranks."

"Sure." Shen Luoluo readily agreed. A couple of matches would be a nice break.

Shen Jiayan started a match and invited Shen Luoluo to the team. The moment he turned on his microphone, Duan Yixing's and Lu Yanze's voices came through.

"Hi, Sis! I'm Duan Yixing, Brother Yan's friend. I played Lu Ban last time!"

"Sis, I'm Lu Yanze, another friend of Brother Yan's. I played Yao last time!"

"What hero do you want to play today, Sis?"

"Lan? Then I'll pick Cai Wenji and support you!"

Things quickly got out of hand. Even Shen Luoluo was startled by their enthusiasm.

Are kids these days all this friendly? Hmm... They're pretty cute.

Shen Jiayan: ???

Cute?

Shen Jiayan objected at once. What was cute about them? They were loud as hell! She actually thought they were cute? She had no taste!

"Sis, let's exchange contact info..."

"Sis..."

They were still calling out when Shen Jiayan finally snapped. "Stop calling her Sis! She's my sister. Don't you have sisters of your own?"

"Come on, Brother Yan, don't be so stingy. We're brothers, so your sister is my sister..."

"Shut up!"

Outside the kitchen, Shen Anya watched the two of them getting along, talking and laughing. Her face darkened further, and she stormed off, slamming the door behind her.

Back in her cramped, shabby room, which didn't even have a walk-in closet, she thought of her beautiful princess bedroom. She couldn't hold back anymore. She collapsed onto the bed and cried.

She also felt a sense of crisis unlike anything she'd felt before. In her dream, Shen Jiayan would never have played games so happily with Shen Luoluo!

Of everyone in the Shen family, he hated Shen Luoluo the most! He thought she was an ugly, dowdy, uncouth country bumpkin who knew nothing, yet still pulled rank as his older sister to lecture him. Shen Jiayan had never once called Shen Luoluo his sister!

But today, he'd risked getting caught to drive out and buy Shen Luoluo a roasted sweet potato just to cheer her up!

What Shen Anya never imagined was that this was only the beginning.

The next morning, she packed her things and opened her door, only to hear Zhao Huizhen's cheerful voice from the dining room.

"Luoluo, your room is finished. You can move in today."

Shen Anya froze.

No way. Are they actually serious? Shen Luoluo was no less shocked than Shen Anya. She'd thought Zhao Huizhen had only been saying it, and that Shen Anya would end up keeping the room. She hadn't expected them to actually let her move in.

Zhao Huizhen naturally heard Shen Luoluo's thoughts. She continued, "I've already contacted the movers. If everything goes smoothly, they can move your things into the room by noon. You can sleep there when you get back tonight."

As she spoke, a figure darted past. "I'm meeting someone, so I'll skip breakfast." Then the figure vanished through the front door.

There was no need to ask who had run out.

Shen Ting'an and Zhao Huizhen looked at each other, neither knowing what to say.

Shen Luoluo continued eating her breakfast at an unhurried pace, completely uninterested in what they thought.

Only after finishing and setting down her bowl did she pick up her schoolbag and say goodbye. "I'm going to school."

"I'm going to school too!" Shen Jiayan grabbed his schoolbag and hurried after Shen Luoluo.

Zhao Huizhen watched them leave and sighed. Her eyes gradually filled with tears.

She had rarely cried since becoming a mother, but now she broke down sobbing. "If we couldn't hear Luoluo's thoughts, I never would've known how much which room they got mattered to the children." Nor would she have imagined that the room had led her daughter to believe they didn't like her.

"I've failed as a mother. She's only just come home and isn't close to the family yet. Of course she's sensitive and reads into things. I didn't think it through, and that's why Luoluo got the wrong idea."

"And we still haven't cleared things up with Luoluo. As for Anya..."

Shen Ting'an put an arm around his wife's shoulders and patted her gently. "At least we can hear Luoluo's thoughts now and correct our mistakes before it's too late. Anya probably just can't accept it right away. Give her some time."

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