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Looking at the thin girl before her and thinking of all the hardship her own daughter had endured over the past decade, Zhao Huizhen's eyes reddened again.

Once they were inside, Zhao Huizhen took a card from her bag and pressed it into Shen Luoluo's hand. "Luoluo, there's two million yuan on this card. It's your spending money from Mom and Dad."

Shen Ting'an put an arm around his wife's shoulders and added, "We'll put another two hundred thousand on it every month. If that's not enough, just tell us."

Two million?! Shen Luoluo stared at the card in her hand for several seconds. So this was what rich people were like?! They handed out millions without batting an eye! In the real world, she could study day and night to get into college, then work hard her whole life, and still might not earn a few million.

And on top of that, she would get another two hundred thousand every month. For that kind of money, forget being the daughter nobody favored—she would happily be invisible in this house!

Nobody turned down money.

Before coming back, she had already decided it didn't matter if this family disliked her. They were strangers to her anyway. Once she had saved enough money and gotten into college, she would move far away and disappear without a trace. She definitely wouldn't get in their way!

"Oh, right, Luoluo. Your room's on the second floor. Want to see it?" Zhao Huizhen asked as she led Shen Luoluo upstairs.

Zhao Huizhen held Shen Luoluo's hand tightly, her eyes red. "We were a little pressed for time, so we could only do some simple decorating. The room's a bit small, but don't worry, Luoluo. Your dad and I have already contacted—"

"Mom, Dad, you're back!" A sweet voice suddenly cut Zhao Huizhen off.

Beside them, a white door carved with delicate patterns swung open, and Shen Anya stepped out.

Shen Anya's smile grew even sweeter when she saw Shen Luoluo. "You're back too, sis!" She wore a pink silk nightgown, her long, slightly curled hair falling over her shoulders, with a LinaBell clip tucked into it.

Shen Luoluo remembered how the book had described her: beautiful, sweet-voiced, kind, and sensible, like a little princess who had stepped out of a castle. One look at her, and anyone could tell she had grown up adored.

Behind her was a room decorated in pink and white, with a pink-and-white princess bed and an elegant dressing table crowded with all kinds of bottles and jars. LinaBell dolls filled an entire wall, and a huge walk-in closet stood to one side.

[So this is the room that was supposed to be mine?]

Shen Luoluo remembered this part of the plot too. In the book, the original Shen Luoluo had come home with her parents. Shen Anya had also returned early because she had class the next day, and as luck would have it, they had run into each other on the second floor. It was almost exactly like this.

Seeing Shen Anya's beautiful princess room beside her own small, plain white room had left the original Shen Luoluo feeling bitter.

She had believed that the lovely princess room should have been hers, but Shen Anya, the impostor daughter, had taken it over! Worse, even after she came home, her parents hadn't made Shen Anya give it back. Instead, they had put her in the small room at the very end of the hall. To her, that meant her parents liked Shen Anya more than they liked her!

Of course, that was only one small incident. Many more followed, piling up until the original Shen Luoluo finally snapped and began targeting Shen Anya at every turn, bringing disaster on herself.

But that was the original Shen Luoluo. She herself genuinely didn't care.

[Any room is fine. Whether this family likes me doesn't matter either. I'll move out and leave this place eventually anyway.]

With that thought, she nodded to Shen Anya in greeting, then said, "I'm going to my room to rest."

She walked into the last room without looking back.

Zhao Huizhen watched Shen Luoluo go, her eyes turning even redder. Her voice caught. "Did you hear that?"

"Yeah." Shen Ting'an's expression had darkened too, his brows drawn tight. "I heard."

"Hear what?" Shen Anya looked between them in confusion, with no idea what they meant.

The couple exchanged a glance before Shen Ting'an spoke. "Anya, there's something Mom and Dad would like to discuss with you."

Meanwhile, Shen Luoluo had reached her room.

It was just as the novel had described: smaller than Shen Anya's room and nowhere near as elaborate. It didn't even have a walk-in closet.

The decorations were simple, but it had everything she needed. The pale colors made it feel clean, fresh, and understated. This was a rich family's house, after all. How bad could any room in it be?

For a place she would only be sleeping in temporarily, Shen Luoluo really wasn't demanding.

After a quick tidy-up and a shower, she fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.

She slept soundly through the night.

The next morning, the rustling sounds of things being moved outside woke her. Just then, Aunt Chen, the nanny, knocked on her door and called her down for breakfast.

It was the day she had to report to school, so Shen Luoluo hurried out of bed. Only when she had gotten ready and stepped into the hall did she realize they were moving things out of Shen Anya's room. Several workers were quietly carrying her belongings downstairs.

Shen Anya herself stood in the doorway, staring at her with reddened eyes.

Shen Luoluo had no interest in what Shen Anya was doing and didn't want much to do with her. She gave her one glance and went downstairs.

Seeing Shen Luoluo pass by with such an innocent expression made Shen Anya's eyes redden even more with anger.

She didn't understand. All she had done was open her door and say hello. They hadn't even exchanged three sentences. So why? Why were Mom and Dad making her give her room to Shen Luoluo?!

This wasn't how it was supposed to go. It was nothing like the dream she had been having lately!

For the past month, Shen Anya had been having the same dream over and over. In it, she was the daughter the Shen Family had brought home by mistake. Their biological daughter was someone else, and Shen Anya had become a daughter of the Shen Family only because of her Koi Luck.

With Koi Luck on her side, good fortune always smiled on her. Not only had she become a daughter of the Shen Family, but plenty of people liked her too. Even after the Shen Family learned she wasn't their biological daughter, they hadn't sent her away. They had treated her as their own. After all, the bond they had built over more than a decade wasn't something they could simply throw away!