No wonder yesterday Uncle said he was going out to work, but never left. Was it for this plan?
Zhou Siyu knew her role was to be the bad cop, but it was a role she was more than willing to play.
"Uncle, I know that everything you do is for my sister and me. She’s still young and doesn’t understand your painstaking efforts. If she finds out, she will hate you. Just let me do it. Let only me be the object of my sister’s hatred."
"Siyu, you have it hard."
Shen Jianhua patted Zhou Siyu’s hair.
In fact, having Zhou Siyu do this task was more suitable than having Zhou Lanfang do it. At the very least, his daughter wouldn’t blame her mother in the future, and their relationship wouldn’t have to reach a breaking point.
"Uncle, I’m going now."
Zhou Siyu was afraid that any further delay, and Shen Mianmian would head straight to school.
Shen Jianhua waved his hand, signaling her to go ahead.
The moment Zhou Siyu stepped out, Shen Jianhua felt an urge to stop her, but he ultimately restrained himself.
Mianmian can’t go to school, otherwise, when his wife and he grow old, they would truly have no one to depend on. After raising her for so many years, he allowed himself to be selfish this one time.
Shutting the door, Shen Jianhua listened intently to the sounds outside.
Returning to the room, Zhou Siyu didn’t find Shen Mianmian. She panicked, thinking Mianmian might have gone to school, grabbed her school bag and ran outside, only to bump into Shen Mianmian who was just coming in.
"Why the hurry?" Shen Mianmian frowned, her chin hurt from the collision with Zhou Siyu, and it was starting to go numb.
Seeing that Shen Mianmian had not yet left, Zhou Siyu breathed a sigh of relief, "Sister, Uncle has gone to work, Auntie has not woken up yet, quickly take your school bag, I’ll take you to your exam. We can buy a couple of buns to eat on the street later. I have ten cents on me."
Shen Mianmian didn’t speak and stared doubtfully at Zhou Siyu for a moment before she turned her gaze towards Shen Jianhua’s room.
If he were not at home, Zhou Siyu wouldn’t have used that tone and attitude to talk to her.
A bad premonition surged in Shen Mianmian’s heart. She turned around and started walking slowly toward the house, intending to grab her school bag, but her eyes landed on the door lock.
She hadn’t paid attention to it before, but this lock was one-way, meaning it could be locked from the outside, but not from the inside.
It was normal for rural homes to have such doors, which wasn’t strange. However, when Shen Jianhua fixed the door, he had said it was for their safety to have a lock. According to that, shouldn’t there be a lock on the inside too?
Piecing together all the previous signs, Shen Mianmian shuddered.
Suddenly, Zhou Siyu’s voice came from behind her, followed by a pair of hands that forcefully pushed her from the back. Shen Mianmian, unprepared, fell to the ground. In the next instant, the door was slammed shut by Zhou Siyu and the sound of locking followed.
Shen Mianmian didn’t have time to think too much; she scrambled up and rushed to the window, but the moment she touched the window, it was closed from the outside. The room plunged into darkness, and the newly fixed window wouldn’t budge despite her pushing.
No matter how much she guarded herself, she couldn’t guard against this.
In the past life, she had always believed that Zhou Lanfang was the one who didn’t want her to go to school. Being reborn, she also saw that Shen Jianhua favored Zhou Siyu, but she naively thought that Shen Jianhua still had some fatherly affection for her.
So she always guarded against Zhou Lanfang. Even the suspicions she had about Shen Jianhua, she didn’t want to believe, couldn’t believe, that he could be so heartless. Dıscover more novels at 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢•𝕟𝕖𝕥