“It should be!” Huo Junyu said gently. “There was a girl with her, but it was too dark to see her face clearly… Heh, but the last time she came to me for treatment, she looked exactly like Aunt Niu.”
“Absolutely!” Jiang Xiaowei laughed. “We all have the same persimmon-shaped face! Brother Door God, the genes are really strong. When my dad and I go out, everyone says I’m a mini-Jiang Youcai…”
"Eat your food!" Su Ai tapped his head with her chopsticks, looking somewhat uneasy.
In this family, you can talk about anything except appearances.
Because she felt guilty.
Because she is deceiving herself.
She thought that as long as she didn't talk about it at home, it wouldn't exist.
But everyone in the neighborhood knows that ducks and swans are two different species, and you can't raise a golden phoenix from a free-range chicken.
“Auntie,” Huo Junyu smiled, “I think Auntie Niu is definitely jealous of you, jealous that your daughter is prettier and more outstanding than her daughter, so she’s been talking badly about you everywhere.”
"What...what did she say?" Su Aiqian asked nervously. "What did she say about me?!"
Huo Junyu said in a deep voice, "Just say that Mianmian is someone you adopted, not your biological daughter."
"She's sick!"
Su Ai reacted violently, almost smashing the bowl, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Niu Meili! You can't say anything nice with that mouth of yours! Mianmian is clearly my daughter, she is!"
"Mom..." Jiang Mianmian quickly pulled her back and winked at Huo Junyu.
She had heard these rumors since she was a child and was already immune to them.
But she also found it strange. Were these people just bored? Just because she was a little prettier, they spread such rumors?
"Alright, stop talking!" She pushed Huo Junyu, then got up and walked behind Su Ai, hugging her affectionately.
"Of course I'm my mother's daughter. Who else in the world loves me as much as my mother? Right?"
Hearing this, Su Ai managed a weak smile, patted Jiang Mianmian's hand, and whispered a single word: "Good girl."
However, the darkness in Huo Junyu's eyes grew even deeper.
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