Chapter 1 Green Tea

A noisy voice came.

"Ranran, don't be afraid, mom will take you to the hospital now!"

"No need, mom, although my brother's dog is very fierce and the wound is very painful, but my brother definitely didn't bring the dog back on purpose."

Lu Ran was originally drowsy, and when he heard the voice full of tea flavor, he was immediately refreshed.

However, his mind seemed to be covered with fog, and he couldn't wake up completely.

At this time, the female voice that sounded at the beginning spoke again:

"Why do you bring everything home? That stray dog ​​should have been thrown away long ago."

These words were obviously said to Lu Ran.

At the end, the female voice lowered her voice and added with full disgust: "Don't bring your old habits in."

Lu Ran heard his own voice explaining: "Da Huang is not a stray dog. I brought it back with your consent. It is very old and has no teeth. It doesn't bite people..."

Before she finished speaking, the female voice suddenly rose: "You dare to talk back? The wound on your brother's hand is fake?"

Lu Ran heard himself continue to explain: "Da Huang has no canine teeth and can't bite such a wound."

"What do you mean? Your brother is pretending?"

"Lu Ran, I've said it many times, don't try to drive your brother away, right?"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the person called "Ran Ran" followed with an obvious sob.

This dream again!

Lu Ran was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Furious, his consciousness seemed to have broken through something, and gradually became a little clearer.

There was a dazzling light in front of him, not natural sunlight, but magnificent lighting.

The crystal ceiling lights refracted tiny rays of light, reflecting on the matte milky white tiles.

It was clearly night, but it was as bright as the dark night.

The entire villa lobby smelled of money, with a dreamy gleam.

Lu Ran took a deep breath.

He hadn't dreamed of the Shen family's decoration so clearly in a long time.

His body was still a little out of control.

Lu Ran raised his eyes and looked at the two people sitting on the sofa.

First, the lady with a stern tone.

The lady was very young and looked very elegant. Although she was at the age of menopause, she looked well-fed and did not look like an ordinary woman who was tortured by life and hormone disorders to the point of hysteria.

She gave people the illusion that she was very good at communication.

The lady was carefully holding the wrist of the person next to her.

Next to her sat a young man who looked like he had just entered college.

The young man had smooth black hair and fair skin. He was wearing an ordinary light-colored plaid shirt. At first glance, the brand and material could not be seen, but the stitching of the cufflinks and the details of the decoration all revealed exquisiteness and dignity.

Lu Ran's chest rose and fell again.

These two people.

One is Lu Ran's biological mother.

The other is the adopted son who occupied Lu Ran's identity.

At the age of four, Lu Ran was lost in a small mountain flood.

When he was rescued, he had a fever and forgot all the information about his family. He was sent to an orphanage.

Although he didn't remember the identity of his family, Lu Ran firmly believed that his family loved him and would find him.

When he was finally admitted to university, he finally met his family.

Lu Ran then discovered that his family had adopted an adopted son in the first year he was lost.

The adopted son was about the same age as him, with a cheerful personality and innocence.

No one wanted to immerse themselves in the pain of losing a child, and no one was willing to spend time and energy to find an orphan like picking up a needle in a haystack.

Since the position in the family was filled, the Shen family soon forgot about his lost son.

And gave his name - "Shen Xingran", to the adopted son.

The adopted son not only took his place, but also took over the name that originally belonged to him.

So, the person closest to Lu Ran in this world gave up on him so easily.

Only Lu Ran himself still stubbornly kept this name.

When he was lost, he couldn't write. He

vaguely remembered that his name was "ranran", but the recorder wrote it as "ran".

It was not until he was found that Lu Ran realized that he suddenly became a fake Shen Xingran.

At first, Lu Ran was very happy and willing to accept Shen Xingran.

He had no relatives since he was a child, and he wished he had more relatives. He never rejected the adopted son of the Shen family.

However, the Shen family's discriminatory treatment made Lu Ran confused.

Because they felt that he grew up in poverty and were afraid that he would get into trouble if he took the money, the Shen family not only did not give him pocket money, but even for his college tuition, he had to use student loans.

But Shen Xingran's pocket money started at hundreds of thousands a month.

Because they were afraid that Shen Xingran would feel excluded and sad, his household registration was not transferred back to the Shen family, and his identity was not made public.

Shen Xingran is still the beloved young master of the Shen family, and Lu Ran is nothing.

Lu Ran, who had been missing for fifteen years, returned to the home that should have belonged to him.

As a result, everyone in the family, father, mother, eldest brother, and second brother, were all worried whether Shen Xingran would be sad because of his return.

Lu Ran even felt that if he made Shen Xingran frown, he would be a sinner.

Since he returned to the Shen family, many inexplicable things happened to Shen Xingran.

Either she tripped accidentally or was scalded by hot water.

It was obviously nothing to do with Lu Ran.

But when the family rushed to comfort her, Shen Xingran didn't need to do anything, just look at Lu Ran and show a cautious look, and Lu Ran would be accused of various things.

Lu Ran went from being confused at the beginning to gradually becoming angry and stubborn in the end.

He explained to his family again and again, but was ignored.

But because he noticed how much his family valued Shen Xingran, Lu Ran never targeted Shen Xingran until the end.

After witnessing his family's unreasonable preference for him, he began to imitate Shen Xingran subconsciously.

He imitated Shen Xingran's dressing style.

But Shen Xingran's clothes were made of roe deer wool, which could be called soft gold, and Lu Ran couldn't even afford ordinary cashmere.

He imitated Shen Xingran's gentle personality and upbringing.

But Shen Xingran's personality was built up with money over more than a decade, and he was just an orphan who grew up in an orphanage.

The end result was that Lu Ran became more and more like a low-quality counterfeit. Finally

, during a conflict, Lu Ran was pushed into the swimming pool by Shen Xingran in the middle of winter.

This scene was seen by everyone.

But in the end, his closest family members just casually said to him: "Why aren't you more careful? Fortunately, Ranran is not involved."

Lu Ran, who was desperately fighting for his family's favor, suddenly woke up.

He realized that everything was in vain.

He would never be able to compete with Shen Xingran.

Lu Ran gave up completely and left the Shen family to live alone.

He continued his previous peaceful and lonely life.

But the good times only lasted for half a year.

Before Lu Ran graduated from school, the Shen family suddenly came to his door and used the most tough means to coerce and lure him to return to the Shen family.

Lu Ran was fighting for his breath and refused.

It was also in the process of struggle that Lu Ran first realized the power of the Shen family.

As he was about to graduate, he was inexplicably expelled from school.

He moved to several cities and found several jobs, but the Shen family ruined them all.

The last time, the eldest son of the Shen family, Lu Ran's eldest brother, personally brought people to stop him.

When Lu Ran fled in a hurry, he was hit by a car that ran a red light.

The car accident was serious. Lu Ran was paralyzed from the neck down and his vocal cords were also damaged.

The truly painful moment came.

Lu Ran, who was only in his early twenties, lay on the hospital bed, conscious, looking at himself with tubes inserted all over his body.

Perhaps it was Shen Xingran's "kindness" that made the Shen family take good care of him, a cripple.

Lu Ran lay in bed for a full ten years.

The ward was closed, there were no windows, no birds, and no people.

He lay there alone, with only the buzzing instruments for company.

Even the caregivers would only come in after he fell asleep.

Occasionally, Shen Xingran would bring her family to see him.

Let him see his family living happily and beautifully with the person who had taken over his identity.

But Lu Ran didn't even have the energy to curse.

In these ten years of absolute loneliness, Lu Ran first collapsed.

He felt that his experience was so tragic and outrageous that it was completely unacceptable.

Then, Lu Ran could only keep ruminating on every bit of the past in his mind.

He recalled the pain of the car accident.

Recalling the biting cold of falling into the swimming pool in winter.

Recalling every futile explanation in the past, every collapse of not being trusted.

Lu Ran kept asking why.

Why did he have to go through all this?

Why did he end up like this?

He had obviously given up, and he no longer competed with Shen Xingran. If he couldn't afford to offend him, couldn't he just hide from him?

But God told him that it was not possible.

Until just now, Lu Ran suddenly had something else in his mind.

It turned out that all his outrageous experiences were just a book.

Shen Xingran was the protagonist of this book about the pampering of a wealthy family, and he, Lu Ran, was just a low-quality imitation cannon fodder fabricated by the author to set off the protagonist.

The author even explained with a solemn oath that the purpose of creating his character was to tell everyone that blood relationship was not important!

Lu Ran: ...

After reading this information, Lu Ran had only one thought:

Let them all die!

He looked at the two people in front of him again.

Lu Ran, who knew all his memories before paralysis, quickly judged the current situation.

It was not long since he returned to the Shen family.

Out of his longing for a family, he once secretly raised a puppy in an orphanage named Dahuang.

After returning to the Shen family, Lu Ran asked Shen's mother for permission and brought Dahuang back.

But this time when he came back from school, he saw this scene.

Shen Xingran sat on the sofa with two shallow red marks on her hands.

Shen's mother questioned him, saying that Dahuang had bitten Shen Xingran, and threw Dahuang out.

Ridiculous.

Not to mention that Dahuang was a nine-year-old dog with all his teeth lost, and he couldn't bite such a wound at all.

Lu Ran knew that Da Huang was not a cute breed dog, and was afraid of causing trouble to his family, so he either took Da Huang out or locked Da Huang in his room.

How capable was Da Huang to open the locked security door and rush out to bite Shen Xingran?

Lu Ran was speechless for his whole life.

No matter how he explained, Shen's mother would not listen.

Lu Ran finally gave up the dog that had been with him for nine years for the sake of his family.

Watching the Shen family throw Da Huang out.

At first, Lu Ran would choose to swallow his anger.

Later, when he faced the reality, Lu Ran would just run away silently.

But now, the Lu Ran in this body is the Lu Ran who has been locked up in a small dark room with tubes all over his body for ten years.

He was already on the verge of going crazy.

"Mom, please forgive my brother. The wound on his hand just hurts a little."

Shen Xingran lowered her head to hide the smile on her lips.

Of course the wounds were not caused by the dog.

He opened Lu Ran's door, and the useless dog only hid in the corner without any aggression.

He had to trouble himself to fake some wounds.

But it was enough.

After saying this, Shen Xingran thought that Lu Ran would explain more strongly, or even insult him.

This would make the impression of Lu Ran in the Shen family worse.

But who would have thought that Lu Ran didn't explain a word.

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Shen Xingran's hair.

Without saying a word, he slapped him with two slaps on his left and right.

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

Two crisp sounds echoed in the huge living room, one louder than the other.