Su Tiantian just rolled her eyes at her wishful thinking and silently tilted the umbrella toward herself.

"I think there's something wrong with your head. Don't use an umbrella, get soaked in the rain to clear your head."

After Su Tiantian finished expressing her disdain, Fang Yuan started screaming.

"Ah—Su Tiantian!!!"

The two fought over an umbrella and chased each other playfully in the rain.

Mu Xuelian walked in the crowd unnoticed. She smiled as she touched her umbrella.

This is the third item.

In a few days, she will become Fang Yuan, and she will no longer have to envy Fang Yuan.

When the time comes, she will be the one playfully fighting with Su Tiantian.

She is the one who feels this joy.

Mu Xuelian returned home with an umbrella, where the house was piled high with fabric and unfinished clothes.

Her parents were tailors, unlike Fang Yuan's mother who ran a noodle shop, and Fang Yuan's father who was a doctor who could save lives.

It's already nine o'clock, and my parents are still awake.

"Xuelian is back. Your mother has made lean pork and walnut soup. Come and have some."

Mu Xujiang looked up from beside the sewing machine and smiled at Mu Xuelian.

Meanwhile, Li Qiao, having heard her daughter's voice coming home, had already gone to fetch the soup.

While operating the sewing machine, Mu Xujiang asked, "Did you drop your umbrella?"

He noticed that the umbrella Mu Xuelian brought home wasn't from her own family, so he asked her about it out of concern.

Mu Xujiang's gentle smile held a hint of anticipation.

My daughter has never had any friends since she was little. She is introverted and doesn't talk much. She has never brought friends home or used other people's things. This time, she took someone else's umbrella, which means she may have made a friend.

"My umbrella was broken, I picked up another one on the road, but nobody wanted it."

Mu Xuelian closed her umbrella and answered calmly.

She went into the inner room and sat down at the table.

Li Qiao slowly walked out carrying the soup and placed it in front of Mu Xuelian.

Mu Xuelian took a spoon and ate slowly.

Li Qiao's gaze was gentle as she watched her eat her soup and then go out to help her husband.

Mu Xuelian felt annoyed by the clattering sound of the sewing machine outside.

She went upstairs to her room before finishing her soup.

She closed the door, took a headband from the hook and pushed her hair up, then sat in front of the vanity mirror and looked at herself in the mirror.

Tears streamed down her face.

She opened the drawer and took out a storybook with a yellowed old book inside, which described how to exchange bodies with someone.

She found it two months ago, and only today did she finally decide to take action.

She chose Fang Yuan; she wanted to switch places with her.

Closing the storybook, Mu Xuelian wiped away her tears, got up, and went to the bathroom to take a shower and go to bed.

downstairs.

Li Qiao noticed that Mu Xuelian hadn't finished her soup, and brought it to Mu Xujiang with a worried look: "Xuelian seems to have something on her mind. She's been eating less and less lately, and she doesn't drink the things she used to love anymore."

Mu Xujiang sighed: "Take your second sister to school another day and ask the teacher how her grades are doing lately, and whether she's getting along well with her classmates."

Mu Xujiang was worried that Mu Xuelian was being bullied at school.

The couple, one hunchbacked and the other disabled, didn't want to embarrass their daughter by sending her to school.

Li Qiao sighed and nodded.

The couple both seemed preoccupied.

Looking at the piles of fabric, Li Qiao said, "Xuelian has grown up, but she doesn't have any friends. I'm really worried about her."

Mu Xujiang was also worried, but he didn't have any good solutions.

Only when he quickened his movements as he sorted through the fabric did he say after a moment's thought, "After we finish delivering this batch of goods and get paid, let's take Xue Lian to buy some nice clothes and shoes. The styles we make ourselves are a bit outdated."

Their own circumstances are an unchangeable fact, and this is all they can do for their daughter.

If a daughter's hair is washed clean, her clothes are well-dressed, and her shoes are nice, she won't be laughed at.

"Um."

Li Qiao nodded; she had no other good options and this was the only way.

...

Morning.

Fang Yuan came to the classroom and handed Su Tiantian a cup of soy milk. Then, he yawned and whispered to Su Tiantian, "I thought something would be different last night, but nothing happened..."

She stayed up all night, feeling both excited and scared. She even got up at midnight to look in the mirror, but nothing happened. She didn't even have any nightmares when she fell asleep that night.

Su Tiantian rolled her eyes, took a sip of soy milk through a straw, and exclaimed, "Auntie's soy milk is the best, so fragrant and rich. Auntie's braised tea eggs are also super delicious. Can you ask Auntie to make roasted pork chops this weekend? I'll come to your house for dinner this weekend."

Su Tiantian had already learned about Fang Yuan's self-destructive tendencies when she was a child.

Fang Yuan was only nine years old at that time.

While collecting duck eggs at the reservoir at night, I was haunted by a ghost. I was so possessed that I sleepwalked out of the water, crying and cursing as I walked towards it.

After Su Tiantian saved her, she cried and shouted that she wanted to fight the ghost.

Later, after getting to know him better and growing up and becoming more sensible, he still retained this stubborn nature.

So Su Tiantian rolled her eyes as usual.

Fang Yuan shrank back and looked towards the classroom door.

Mu Xuelian arrived. She walked to Fang Yuan's table with her head down and whispered, "Fang Yuan, I'm sorry, I broke the umbrella. Can I get you a new one?"

Mu Xuelian handed over a new umbrella.

Fang Yuan glanced at Su Tiantian, who nodded almost imperceptibly.

Fang Yuan took the umbrella, smiled generously, and said, "It's alright, it's alright. My umbrella just happened to be old, so you giving me a new one is a bargain for me."

After giving it to her, Mu Xuelian went back to her seat behind her.

She would sit inside and only come out to use the restroom when get out of class was over.

Fang Yuan folded the umbrella, Su Tiantian finished her soy milk, and the teacher entered the classroom.

The two stopped talking and took out their books to study seriously.

Playing around is fine, but don't joke about studying. How much you learn is up to fate, but you must have the right attitude towards learning.

Over the next two days, Mu Xuelian borrowed pens, rulers, erasers, rubber bands, and other items from Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan has lent her everything.

Before she knew it, it was the weekend, and Su Tiantian went to Fang Yuan's house for dinner.

Sun Meijuan is an excellent cook; she roasted pork chops and braised pig's trotters. She is slightly chubby and has dimples like Fang Yuan, and her smile is very gentle.

"Auntie, you're a culinary genius! This is so delicious!"

Su Tiantian gave a thumbs-up while eating, making Sun Meijuan laugh heartily.

“Sweetie loves to come here every weekend. Whatever you want to eat, Auntie will make it for you. Your mom is the best at making seafood, and I'm the best at making these things too.”

Sun Meijuan always had a smile on her face. She was overjoyed every time she saw Su Tiantian, and she would even wake up laughing in her dreams.

Su Tiantian would eat all the food she made, which made her extremely satisfied.

What's more, Su Tiantian is my daughter's best friend.

Su Tiantian nodded with a smile, but when she looked down, she suddenly became anxious: "Fang Yuan, leave some for me."

While she was talking to Sun Meijuan, Fang Yuan finished another pig's trotter.

Sun Meijuan went to wash the fruit with a smile.

Fang Yuan said to Su Tiantian, "Tiantian, Mu Xuelian hasn't made any moves these past few days, but I always feel like I get hungry faster. Do you think it's because the evil magic she used is working?"