Chapter 123: Is Si Rong Still Trying to Seduce Shen Lan?

It's just that that girl is no longer their daughter.

A sharp pain pierced his heart.

Shen Lan walked over and sat down beside Shen Yuan, but his gaze remained fixed in the direction of Si Rong.

He once thought he was a highly talented actor, capable of making Si Rong believe him implicitly.

But looking at it now, he was the one who had become more deeply immersed in the act.

From the moment she learned of his and Li Xuan's betrayal, to her decisive divorce and remarriage, leaving him and the two children behind, Si Rong had been utterly resolute.

He had always thought it was Si Rong who couldn't live without him, but now he realized it was they who couldn't live without Si Rong.

Also staring blankly at Si Rong just like him was Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan even felt that her own mental state was beginning to become unstable.

Was Si Rong doing this on purpose?

How could she attend a parent-teacher meeting for Jiang Zhi?

Had she not once thought about how he would feel seeing this scene?

She had abandoned the child she raised with her own hands, only to go and be a stepmother to someone else's?

Shen Yuan suspected that Si Rong was mentally ill.

The one who should be seeing a psychiatrist was Si Rong.

"Shen Yuan?"

"Shen Yuan?"

The teacher called out several times, but the father and daughter acted as if they hadn't heard a thing.

It wasn't until another parent reminded him that Shen Lan came back to his senses.

He pulled his gaze away from Si Rong, "Teacher, please go on."

"Shen Yuan's father, actually, student Shen Yuan's grades were very good before, but since returning from her leave of absence, her grades in every subject have declined, especially since she often dozes off in class. You parents really need to pay more attention to the child."

"Alright, teacher, I understand."

The one holding the class meeting today was a newly transferred young head teacher, and the meeting mainly revolved around grades.

Several children with outstanding progress were specifically praised.

Among them was Jiang Zhi.

Shen Lan felt it was embarrassing that his daughter couldn't compare to Jiang Cheng's daughter.

He couldn't help but whisper to Shen Yuan, "You need to put more effort into your studies. How are your grades so much worse than others now? You are not allowed to doze off in class from now on!"

These few words of his caused the emotions Shen Yuan had just suppressed to collapse somewhat; she gripped the page of her book tightly and glared at him.

"I never asked you to compare me to other people's parents, did I? I doze off in class because my nose is stuffed when I sleep at night. Has any of you ever cared about my health?"

Shen Lan:...

However, he seemed to have suddenly discovered a good excuse to strike up a conversation with Si Rong.

"I'll have your mother properly treat your rhinitis later."

Shen Lan sat restlessly until the class meeting ended, then immediately stood up and chased after Si Rong, who was about to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

Si Rong and Jiang Zhi stood still.

"Si Rong, Xiao Yuan's rhinitis has flared up. I wanted to ask, what was that tea you used to always brew for her?"

Shen Lan smiled with a fawning expression.

For some reason, being closer, he felt that Si Rong was even more beautiful than before.

Under her light makeup, her face was like a peach blossom.

In truth, Shen Lan really wanted to ask her if Jiang Cheng treated her as well as he used to.

Although it was an act, he had indeed been gentle and attentive to Si Rong.

They had also had a very beautiful past.

He wondered if Si Rong would also, like him, occasionally remember those times with nostalgia.

"Snow Pear Soup."

Si Rong was concise and to the point; saying it would also save this thick-skinned family from pestering her again.

But the pear soup was no ordinary pear soup; it was a dietary therapy formula she had created based on Shen Yuan's health after self-studying traditional Chinese medicine books for several years, containing not just pears, but also white fungus, yellow rock sugar, and several other ingredients.

However, there was no need to tell them that.

Shen Lan was deeply convinced; Si Rong was right, it was just pear soup.

In the past, every time he came home from work, he could always smell the sweet, refreshing scent of pears.

"Thank you."

The fact that Si Rong was still willing to speak to him made Shen Lan feel a surge of sweetness in his heart.

Upon returning home, Shen Lan instructed Li Xuan to boil Snow Pear Soup for Shen Yuan to drink every day from now on.

Alarm bells immediately rang in Li Xuan's mind.

"You saw Si Rong again?"

She had previously heard Shen Yuan say that Si Rong used to always brew Snow Pear Soup for her.

Could it be that Si Rong was still restless after marrying Jiang Cheng, and was harboring delusions of seducing Shen Lan?

It wasn't impossible.

Perhaps Si Rong was just deliberately pretending not to care about anything, only to snatch Shen Lan away when she wasn't paying attention!

To get revenge on her!

"Why boil pear water?" Li Xuan didn't like boiling Snow Pear Soup; she disliked anything related to Si Rong, "If you have the time for that, wouldn't it be better to just eat the pears?"

"Xiao Yuan's rhinitis is acting up, and she can't sleep well at night, which affects her studies!" Shen Lan rubbed his temples, feeling deeply that communicating with her was very strenuous. "If I tell you to boil it, then boil it! Why waste so many words?"

Li Xuan:...

Men cannot be relied upon.

Li Xuan knew that she must live with value, so as to prove to Shen Lan that she was not inferior to Si Rong!

The pear soup was boiled in the end, but Shen Yuan only tasted one mouthful before saying it didn't taste the same as the one Si Rong had boiled before.

"What does it matter if it's different? As long as it can cure the rhinitis, that's enough."

Li Xuan made Shen Yuan drink a large bowl; it was all pear soup, so it surely could cure rhinitis.

Si Rong took Wang Ma to the flower and bird market to buy a few pots of orchids, as well as some vegetable seedlings and rose flowers.

A small pavilion for shade was set up in the courtyard.

In her spare time, Si Rong would sit in a rattan chair and watch Xiao Bai pouncing on butterflies in the courtyard.

The time for them to host the guests was set very quickly.

Early in the morning, Si Rong and Wang Ma were already busy in the kitchen.

The people coming today were mainly a few comrades who had a good relationship with Jiang Cheng, as well as neighbors.

Fang Ting and Jiang Dacheng were the first to arrive because they lived just one wall away from Si Rong.

Upon entering the small courtyard, Fang Ting rolled up her sleeves and wanted to go into the kitchen to help.

"Can you cook?"

Si Rong felt that she herself was already hindering Wang Ma enough by adding to the chaos in the kitchen, and looking at Fang Ting, she really didn't seem like someone who could cook either.

"Isn't cooking simple?"

Fang Ting rolled her eyes at her, took the eggs from Wang Ma's hands, and cracked the eggshells into the bowl, letting the egg flow onto the stove.

Si Rong:...

"You all go play! No need to help." Wang Ma hurriedly pushed both of them out of the kitchen.

If she let them continue helping, there was no telling when they would be able to eat lunch today.

"I'll come help the auntie!" Jiang Dacheng said to Fang Ting, "You go to the courtyard and play with the kitten!"

After saying this, he nimbly entered the kitchen to help Wang Ma.

Si Rong brought Fang Ting to the small pavilion and poured her flower tea.

"I'm getting married."

Fang Ting looked smilingly at the man's figure busy in the kitchen and said to Si Rong, "You are welcome to come visit our wedding in a week; we won't be romantic rivals anymore after that."

Si Rong:...

She felt that they never were.