I've made great progress, sister. Please praise me.
"..." Zhen Hongbo was silent for a moment, as if helpless about his daughter's ignorance, and sighed and said: "Zhu'er..."
Her nails dug into her palms, she took a deep breath and exhaled, avoiding her father's gaze and opening her lips.
"I'm sorry, father. I was impulsive."
"Daughter, I thought you liked it..."
"Okay."
Zhen Zhu interrupted her father before he finished speaking and turned her head to look at the books on the bookshelf: "That's all in the past. If you want to help me, then you just need to tell me how I can cancel the engagement."
"If Zhu'er wants to cancel the engagement..."
"Yes, I think. There is no if."
Before Zhen Hongbo could finish explaining the other possibilities, Zhen Zhu looked back at her father, her clear eyes full of seriousness.
Zhen Hongbo was silent for a moment: "We can just replace her. The Zhen family agreed to replace her with their daughter, but Zhen Min'er can't be too bad."
"At least one of them must have an international award."
International award? Zhen Zhu looked at her father, who was clearly giving her a hard time, and snorted coldly, "No problem."
Even though my stepsister didn't have much training, she was able to get into University A, which means she must be smart...
And she is the heroine...
International award? Zhen Zhu suddenly remembered a picture Zhen Min'er had drawn for her when she was a child to please her.
maybe…
"Zhu'er." Zhen Hongbo suddenly spoke.
"Have you really thought it through? This engagement was made before your mother passed away."
“…”
Zhen Zhu was silent.
How could she have thought it through? She had simply been restraining herself from thinking about it, which was why she had believed she was in a fictional world.
Because, if she hadn't had that dream, she would never give up this engagement.
At worst, he and Jining Lan will become tired of each other.
But... when she realized that she was the vicious female supporting role, Zhen Zhu suddenly realized that she was now like a character casually defined by the author.
Her personality is such that she can't let go of this engagement.
Zhen Zhu wants to cancel the engagement, and she also wants to know...
Is she someone who can be separated from the plot?
Was the system in her head really here to help her, or was it trying to control her? She wanted to give it a try. Perhaps this would also be a turning point in her peaceful life.
She seemed to have been...looking forward to such a change.
[Ding Dong—The heroine's happiness index has dropped by 1! ! ! The happiness index has dropped to 29%. Host, go help! It's still dropping!]
Before Zhen Zhu could figure it out, she was startled by the system's sudden voice.
What happened to this stepsister? Zhen Zhu had no choice but to say to her father: "I will let Zhen Miner fulfill this request."
Get up and leave quickly.
Zhen Hongbo put down the teacup in his hand and tapped the cup twice: "My daughter, you are different from before?"
"That's not good."
*
"Mother." Zhen Min'er looked at the noble lady not far away, her mother Sang Xiaohua.
"How was your outing with Dad?"
Zhen Min'er took two steps towards her mother. Seeing her mother retreat, her eyes flashed slightly and her steps slowed down.
"Mother...don't you want to see me?"
"Just now, wasn't it my mother who called me?"
Zhen Min'er slowly tilted her head, staring straight at her mother, and her habitual smile appeared on the corners of her mouth.
"Mother, if you are not happy to see me, why did you call me just now?"
Zhen Miner's expression made Sang Xiaohua not want to get closer, but thinking of her husband's reminder, she stopped walking and tried hard to suppress the urge to retreat further. Sang Xiaohua looked at her daughter.
"...I heard that you've been very close to the young master of the Ji family recently."
"Could you please..."
"oh?"
Zhen Min'er took two quick steps and immediately shortened the distance between them.
Sang Xiaohua was frightened and stepped back out of habit, but Zhen Min'er grabbed her arm and she couldn't step back.
"Mom, don't fall." Zhen Min'er grabbed Sang Xiaohua's arm with concern, but she exerted a little force on her hand and pulled Sang Xiaohua over.
While pulling her mother back, Zhen Min'er leaned over and whispered in her mother's ear, "Mom, please don't make arrangements for me~"
"After all, my mother is the one who knows me best."
"Where have all the people who wanted to arrange for me gone?"
Zhen Miner's smile became even sweeter, her round eyes curved into crescents, and there was a small dimple on the left side of her face when she smiled, and her voice was very soft.
"Mother must know."
Sang Xiaohua's legs trembled and she almost sat on the ground, but because of Zhen Min'er's strength, she stood firmly in place.
"you..."
"Mom...I'm sorry, it's my fault. I won't go to see Brother Ning Lan again. Please don't ignore me..."
Zhen Min'er's voice suddenly became weak and tearful. Sang Xiaohua shuddered all over and looked at Zhen Min'er with wide eyes.
"you…"
"Okay, Aunt Sang, I'm not interested in Jininglan. Zhen Min'er likes to let her do whatever she wants."
After Zhen Zhu went down the stairs, she saw the mother and daughter at the door. She took two quick steps and heard what they were arguing about.
...So she was sad because her mother didn't let her get close to Jininglan?
Zhen Zhu paused slightly. She really didn't want to get close to this extremely weak stepsister, but she had a mission to accomplish.
Zhen Zhu quickened her pace and joined the argument between mother and daughter. After she finished speaking, she took her stepsister's arm and left.
She was too lazy to talk to her stepmother, and there was no point in doing so.
After all, her stepmother was also a dodder, dependent on her father for life. When she was a child, she would deliberately target her and her stepsister.
But when I grow up.
She didn't have that intention and didn't want to target anyone, but she also didn't bother to care about her stepmother... and the stepsister she once loved very much.
"It's not...Zhu'er." Seeing the eldest lady taking her daughter away, Sang Xiaohua realized something was wrong and shouted repeatedly: "It's..."
Before she could finish her words, her eyes met Zhen Min'er's gaze, which curled her lips and looked back at her. She instinctively took two steps back and did not dare to speak again.
Sang Xiaohua covered her stomach, her face pale, and shook her head, telling her horrified daughter that she would stop talking.
Zhen Min'er withdrew her gaze and looked at her beloved sister's hand on her arm. The corners of her lips curled deeper and her eyes sparkled.
*
[Ding Dong—The heroine's happiness index increased by 1, and her happiness index has been restored to 30%! ]
Just as she pulled her stepsister back to the room, she heard a notification from the system. Zhen Zhu curled her lips for a moment, then felt something was wrong...
Why does it feel like, after working so hard for so long, the results are still the same?
[So, the host is too slow! The engagement hasn't been cancelled yet, so how can the heroine's happiness index increase?]
...If this system had a physical body, Zhen Zhu felt that she would most likely not be able to resist hammering it.
That's all.
Zhen Zhu let go of her stepsister's hand and turned back: "Tomorrow, you will go to a place with me."
"Don't worry, Jininglan, your mother can't control you."
"If your mother says anything about you again..."
Zhen Zhu thought about it, and with her stepmother's delicate appearance, her cold eyes flashed with impatience, "Just say it was me who said it."
Thinking of Sang Xiaohua's appearance, Zhen Zhu was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but said coldly to her stepsister who was looking at her with a gleam in her eye: "You'd better not learn from your mother!"
【Host! 】
The system screamed in Zhen Zhu's mind: [It's over, it's over, my happiness index is going to drop again...]
"..." Seeing her stepsister's eyes flashing even more, Zhen Zhu pursed her red lips, "You..."
[Huh? It seems it didn't fall off?]
The surprised voice of the system in her mind interrupted Zhen Zhu's desire to give in.
"You've made great progress."
Zhen Zhu was a little surprised, and the corners of her eyes slightly raised, making her fox eyes look more gorgeous.
"Hmm? What did sister say?" Zhen Min'er narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing a harmless look of bewilderment: "Sister...are you praising me?!"
Speaking of this, Zhen Min'er's whole body seemed to be shining, and her eyes sparkled even more: "Sister? Are you praising me?!"
"I'm not complimenting you."
Zhen Zhu responded reflexively, but her sparkling eyes dimmed instantly...
"Neither am I. I don't mean to compliment you at all."
Zhen Zhu spoke again reflexively.
What is she talking about!
Zhen Zhu realized something was wrong and said repeatedly: "Okay! Anyway, come over early tomorrow and I'll pick out a set of clothes for you. Then we can go out together and I'll take you to meet someone."
After saying that, he didn't want to see his stepsister's expression, so he pushed her out the door.
Zhen Zhu closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief...
Then he snorted coldly: "I don't want to praise her."
Zhen Zhu comforted herself: "I am just doing this for the numbers, not for anything else..."
[Host, why do I feel like... you don't look like a vicious female supporting character~]
The system in my head spoke again.
[I feel like the host really cares about the heroine! ]
The system seemed to have discovered some shocking secret, and cried out in Zhen Zhu's mind...
"I didn't! I don't care about her!" Zhen Zhu immediately emphasized, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Not wanting to listen to the system's nonsense, Zhen Zhu quickly continued, "Don't bother me. I'm going to create skills for your heroine."
"By the time your heroine has grown up, I can also cancel the engagement."
[Hello~ Thank you for your hard work~]
Hearing the sweet response from the baby voice, Zhen Zhu was glad to finally have some peace and quiet, so she called her good friend Bai Xueyue—
*
Zhen Min'er stood at the door. Although she didn't know why, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips when she thought of her sister's compliments.
"Sister, you praised me." When Zhen Miner thought of this, her eyes were filled with joy. She had been waiting for such praise for a long time.
Zhen Min'er still remembers that before her mother married into the Zhen family, her sister treated her very well, spending every day with her, praising her and being affectionate with her...
"Min'er..."
A slight trembling sound from behind interrupted Zhen Miner's beautiful memories.
And this voice.
This was a sound that Zhen Min'er was not very happy to hear.
Without even straightening the corners of her lips to look aggrieved, Zhen Min'er turned around to look at her mother with a sweet and lovely smile.
"What's wrong, mother?"
"Didn't I tell you that?"
"Please don't mind my business."
The sweet honey voice was unlike the trembling, pitiful little voice that everyone usually heard.
Zhen Min'er maintained a sweet voice and looked from her biological mother Sang Xiaohua's chest down to her abdomen.
"Mom, please be careful with your belly~"
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