Apart from her slightly darker skin, the woman in front of her looked remarkably like her mother and older sister. Then, remembering that she didn't resemble any of the Xue family members, a vague thought suddenly popped into her mind, and she couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.

She stammered to Sheng Yuwan, "I... I'm not buying anything, I'm just looking around."

After saying that, she hurried away as if fleeing.

Sheng Yuwan thought she was a bit strange, but she didn't think much of it. She often sold vegetables here and had seen many customers who wanted to buy but didn't. It was only natural. She continued selling her vegetables.

Xue Ningnan ran out of the market in one breath, and even after walking a long way, the woman's face kept lingering in her mind.

Her heart was pounding. She was terrified, and she felt like she was about to lose something she had owned for a long time.

She stood by the roadside, taking deep breaths of fresh air, but she still couldn't calm down.

Just now, when she realized that the woman looked like her mother and sister, she inexplicably wondered if the woman had switched places with her when they were little.

Logically speaking, few people would have such thoughts based solely on appearance. What child would doubt that they are not their parents' biological child?

But that's exactly what she felt just now.

"No, no."

She tried to convince and comfort herself that the woman had nothing to do with her family, that she was definitely her parents' biological daughter, and that the resemblance was nothing to worry about, just a coincidence.

After comforting myself in this way, the fear I felt earlier seemed to lessen, and my heartbeat gradually slowed down.

She was preparing to go home and wouldn't be coming to this market again for a long time.

However, despite her attempts to convince herself otherwise, the incident had left a mark on her subconscious. Even if she didn't consciously try to think about it, Sheng Yuwan's image would still unconsciously linger in her mind.

She forced herself not to care, but she was still restless when she got home.

When she was about to cook, she realized that she had only bought rice and not vegetables.

She looked at her neighbor's house next door and thought, "I'll go ask them for some."

But as soon as she stepped into her neighbor's house, the military wife's expression turned sour, though she didn't dare to kick her out.

"Ning Nan, is something the matter?"

Xue Ningnan looked at the bok choy growing in her yard and said, "Sister-in-law, we're out of vegetables. I went to the market earlier but forgot to buy any. Could I pick some from your yard first?"

The military wife said coldly, "Ning Nan, I'm so sorry, we don't even have enough food for ourselves, so we can't give it to you."

Seeing that the other party had said that, Xue Ningnan's face also darkened. "I saw you delivering vegetables to Sister Zhang yesterday. Did you not have enough to eat?"

She muttered something casually and prepared to leave, which displeased the military wife.

"Xue Ningnan, it's my own food, I can let whoever wants to eat it, what's it to you? It's none of your business, I just won't let you eat it, just to make you angry."

Xue Ningnan was furious at her scolding: "Fine, I won't eat your food, and you shouldn't use our things in the future either. Don't ask me for help if you need anything."

"Oh, my husband is just a company commander, not very capable. How could I afford your things? You're so noble, would you even look up to me? I wouldn't need your help if I needed anything. You're so nice to those leaders' wives, go to their houses and ask for food, ask them for help when you need it."

The army wife's sarcastic remarks infuriated Xue Ningnan.

She gritted her teeth and said, "Fine, I won't stoop to your level."

"I'm not going to argue with you. You'd better get out of my house."

Xue Ningnan was rebuffed and slunk back home.

When Song Qingsong returned, she hadn't finished cooking. Since there were no side dishes, she could only fry some soybean paste as a side dish to eat with rice.

Song Qingsong didn't say anything, and went back to work after finishing his meal.

After he left, Xue Ningnan went for a nap. She fell asleep shortly after lying down on the bed.

"No, no, she's not your biological daughter, I am."

Suddenly, she woke up from a nightmare, covered in sweat.

She dreamt that Sheng Yuwan went to the Xue family and said that she was the real second daughter of the Xue family, while she was just an imposter. Her parents actually recognized that woman and kicked her out of the house, leaving her to wander the streets.

After having this dream, she felt even more panicked.

It was as if something was destined to happen, and she desperately didn't want it to.

She lay on the bed for a while, her mind a jumble, and involuntarily recalled every little detail of her childhood in the Xue family.

From the time she could remember, her parents and grandmother doted on her. But as she grew older, they began to criticize her, saying that she was bad at this and wrong at that, and that she was not as good as Xue Ningyu at anything. They kept telling her to learn from Xue Ningyu.

Her parents and grandmother all favored Xue Ningyu, constantly criticizing her. Her grandmother would always berate her, saying, "How could the Xue family produce such a child?!"

Is she really not a member of the Xue family?

She then dismissed the idea, but given her appearance and personality being so different from the Xue family, coupled with the woman she saw at the market today, she felt it wasn't impossible.

Feeling anxious and uneasy.

Originally, it wasn't a big deal for her to have doubts, since that woman couldn't take anything away from her anyway.

She was afraid that Xue Yanchen and Old Madam Xue might discover the existence of that woman one day. If she really was switched with that woman, she would really be kicked out of the Xue family.

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