Shen Yuqin saw the warning in Shen Jingyan's eyes and felt that his gaze was cold and deep, like two sharp swords piercing her heart.

She witnessed Chen Feng being beaten so badly by Shen Jingyan that she cried out in pain, so now she is genuinely afraid of Shen Jingyan and dares not provoke her easily.

Shen Yuqin reluctantly withdrew her hand, only daring to stare at Shen Jingyan's coat with jealous eyes.

Shen Jingyan brushed the wrinkles off Shen Yuqin's sleeve with her fingers and said sarcastically, "Do you think a crow can become a phoenix just by putting on some colorful feathers?"

"You're the crow!"

Enraged, Shen Yuqin reached out and scratched Shen Jingyan's fair face.

Just then, the sound of a car horn came from the village entrance.

A jeep was parked at the entrance of the village. Its black body gleamed in the white snow and sunlight, exuding an extraordinary air of grandeur.

The car door opened, and three people got out.

Leading the group was a couple in their forties. The man wore a neatly pressed Zhongshan suit with a navy blue cashmere overcoat, while the woman had fair skin, an elegant updo, and wore a light gray wool coat that was clearly expensive.

Behind them followed a tall boy in his early twenties, who looked to be about 1.8 meters tall. He had a pair of bright, piercing eyes under his thick, dark eyebrows and was quite handsome.

Shen Yuqin and Chen Feng were as if they had seen a living deity, touching her hair and straightening her clothes, their faces beaming with smiles as they went to greet her.

Shen Yuqin, in particular, was like a mouse seeing rice or a weasel seeing a chicken when she saw the handsome Chu Chaoyang; her eagerness was almost overflowing.

"Sister-in-law, it's freezing cold, why did you come all the way to the village entrance to wait?"

Chu Jincai and his wife Tong Huijuan greeted Chen Feng warmly and politely.

"It's not cold at all. When Gangzi said you were coming, our whole family was overjoyed. Especially Yuqin."

Just as Chen Feng was about to pull Shen Yuqin in front of Chu Jincai and his wife, Tong Huijuan's eyes went over Chen Feng's shoulder and landed on Shen Jingyan.

"Oh my, is this Yuqin? She's so pretty! Look at those big, bright eyes!"

Chen Feng's hand, which was gripping Shen Yuqin's arm, froze. Shen Yuqin's face looked as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her, and her smile instantly froze.

Chu Chaoyang's eyes lit up when he saw Shen Jingyan standing tall and graceful, and a smile appeared on his previously expressionless face.

Tong Huijuan held Shen Jingyan's hand and looked her up and down, both surprised and satisfied.

Shen Jingyan smiled helplessly, and was about to speak to clear up the misunderstanding when Shen Yuqin rudely shoved her aside and shouted at Tong Huijuan, "I am Shen Yuqin!"

Pointing at Shen Jingyan, he said with a fierce look, "She, she's just a burden who has no parents and has been eating for free in my house for seventeen years!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Jincai's family looked both embarrassed and surprised.

Looking at Shen Yuqin, who was burly, with a round face and sesame-like eyes, Tong Huijuan felt a chill in her heart.

The smile on Chu Chaoyang's lips vanished quickly, and his expression turned much colder than when he got out of the car.

Seeing that Chu Jincai's family was reacting strangely, Chen Feng quickly stepped forward to speak up for her daughter.

“Sister-in-law, this is my Yuqin. There’s no one in the surrounding villages who doesn’t say my daughter is beautiful. Even when a wealthy family from the neighboring village offered five hundred taels of silver as a dowry to propose marriage, I couldn’t bear to part with it.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Jingyan clicked his tongue in astonishment.

"A shameless person is invincible," Chen Feng truly put this into practice.

Tong Huijuan gave a dry laugh, her eyes still unwilling to leave Shen Jingyan.

"Then...who is this little girl?"

"Hello, Auntie, my name is Jingya, and Shen Honggang is my uncle."

He introduced it calmly and concisely.

Chu Jincai looked at Shen Jingyan, a complex emotion flashing across his eyes.

Shen Honggang's niece, isn't that Shen Qiuye's daughter?

Back then, Chu Jincai and Shen Honggang worked together at the forest farm, and Shen Qiuye often brought them meals.

The young girl was slender and graceful, with big eyes like two pools of autumn water. She was quiet and beautiful, and she made a group of young men in the forest farm fall in love with her.

Chu Jincai was also one of the boys who had feelings for Shen Qiuye.

Shen Qiuye had excellent academic performance and was admitted to a university in the south. After graduation, she was assigned a job.

For a girl to move to the city and settle down was unprecedented in Dalin Village, and Shen Honggang was once very proud of his younger sister.

Who would have thought that Shen Qiuye, who had only been in the city for less than two years, would return to her hometown with a baby girl who was less than a year old.

She refused to reveal who the girl's father was, only saying that the two had a bad relationship and divorced in less than a year, and the child took the Shen family surname.

She said she was too busy with work in the city to take care of her daughter, so she sent her to live with Shen Honggang.

For the first few months, Shen Qiuye would send money on time. Although Chen Feng was very unwilling, she reluctantly agreed to let the family have another person for the sake of the money.

But one day, Shen Qiuye suddenly stopped sending money home and disappeared without a trace.

Shen Honggang went into the city several times to search, but all his efforts were in vain.

After hearing about it, Chu Jincai even helped Shen Honggang by asking people in the city to inquire about Shen Qiuye's whereabouts, but all his efforts were in vain.

A perfectly healthy person just vanished into thin air.

Seeing Shen Yuqin now, Chu Jincai was momentarily stunned, as if he were seeing Shen Qiuye from twenty years ago.

The mother and daughter are practically identical!

Chu Jincai felt a pang of sadness.

After the initial sigh, a spark of hope rekindled in my heart.

Back then, I couldn't marry Shen Qiuye, but wouldn't it be better if my son could be a couple with the daughter of my dream girl?

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