Chapter 227

Shu Chen snorted, "Then move back in to live, and I'll let you call me Second Brother."

"My foster mother is in poor health and needs me to take care of her recently. I also want to move back, but she raised me, so I cannot be unfilial." Lin Miao struggled to maintain her composure.

Had she really thought it through? Shu Chen stared at Lin Miao suspiciously.

Shu Hong walked over and said coldly, "Putting on an act."

Such a fake!

Lin Miao really wanted to slap her across the face.

"Little brother, it was a misunderstanding before. Everyone has moments of impulse and times when they can't think straight. I just didn't adapt as quickly as Shu Xia did; I just hadn't adjusted well to my real identity before," Lin Miao explained.

Although Shu Chen was young, he wasn't that easy to fool. "Trying to subtly make us doubt my sister and hate my sister again, huh?"

He wasn't that stupid.

"No matter how you tricked my mom, if I find out you dare to make my mom sad, I'll kill you," Shu Chen threatened, narrowing his eyes.

Shu Hong also said in a cold voice, "If you dare to bring up my sister in your speech again, I'll beat you to death."

Looking at the two people in front of her who were full of hostility toward her, Lin Miao gripped her bag tightly. Fine! She would just wait and see how they would try to curry favor with her in the future, and then repent to her for defending Shu Xia today!

"Is that Miaomiao? Why are you standing outside the door instead of coming in? Come in quickly," Jiang Ye said as she walked over immediately upon seeing her two sons standing at the doorway.

"Yes, Mom, I'm here," Lin Miao immediately replied obediently.

Shu Chen and Shu Hong exchanged a glance and stepped aside to clear the way.

After Lin Miao walked in, she was shocked by the scene in the room.

It was too shabby!

It was way, way, way too shabby!

The furniture in the house looked like it had been there for many years; although it wasn't broken, it was just old, exuding a cheap air.

Fortunately, it wasn't dirty; it was cleaned very thoroughly, otherwise she wouldn't even have wanted to walk in.

Shu Chen and Shu Hong saw the disdain in Lin Miao's eyes.

Sure enough, everything just now was an act!

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Huo Zhai.

Shu Xia met the somewhat haggard Jiang Nannan.

"Insomnia?"

"I heard about my cousin from my mom last night, and then I went to chat with my cousin for half the night," Jiang Nannan said, yawning.

Her eyes were red and swollen; one look and it was obvious she had cried last night.

"Your cousin?" Shu Xia seemed to have heard Jiang Nannan mention her cousin before.

It seemed that two years ago, she got pregnant before marriage, and after getting married with a big belly, she had been a housewife ever since. Before she got married, she seemed to have been the campus belle of the Dance Department at Jingbei Daxue, and just before she got pregnant, she was about to join the National Dance Troupe.

Jiang Nannan had felt particularly sorry for her cousin at the time.

If it weren't for the premarital pregnancy, she would have been a principal dancer by now.

"That's her. Didn't she give birth to a daughter last year? Then this year she wanted to go back to realizing her dream, but her parents-in-law stopped her, saying they couldn't take care of the child and didn't trust a nanny, so they told her to stay home full-time to raise the child and, incidentally, take care of the two of them. Then my cousin's husband, he also felt that my cousin couldn't be so selfish, leaving when the child is so young," Jiang Nannan said, her eyes turning a bit red.

Shu Xia's expression was grave as she took Jiang Nannan's arm and walked over to the sofa to sit down.

After sitting down, Jiang Nannan continued, "Although my cousin was very disappointed, under the opposition of her family, she could only wrong herself. As it turned out, two days ago, when she was scrolling through her phone, she saw a livestream. This livestream was specifically for street-snapping beautiful women and handsome men, and she saw her cousin's husband entering a hotel with a woman on it!"