Chapter 15 I Also Caught a Cold

"Achoo..."

Before Shen Mianmian could speak, she had already sneezed twice in succession, tears brimming as she looked at Shen Jianhua, "Dad, I've caught a cold too."

Shen Jianhua: "..."

Mianmian had caught a cold too, and it seemed worse than Siyu's. He couldn't ask for the military coat anymore.

"You two go back to the room and sit there, it's warm inside. Come out when the meal is ready."

Zhou Lanfang's face turned blue with anger, thinking that little bastard was just faking it.

Shen Mianmian had so easily shattered her scheme; this was the first time it had happened. Zhou Siyu sensitively felt that Shen Mianmian had truly changed, and she started to feel a sense of crisis.

Back in their room, she couldn't wait to probe, "Sister, you don't have a runny nose or a cough, you're not really sick, are you?"

Shen Mianmian's cold face shot back a question, "Don't you also lack these symptoms?"

Zhou Siyu was at a loss for words, but after a while, she tried again, "He Nan always seems so standoffish. How did you manage to get on his good side?"

It was a military coat he gave as a gift, something even some families wouldn't be so generous to offer their brides.

Even though the military coat was only 80% new, it did not fall short in warmth. Wearing it, Shen Mianmian's face flushed with heat, which made her exceedingly envious.

"What's it to you?" In her past life, Shen Mianmian thought highly of Zhou Siyu, who would speak up for her when she was scolded. She shared all her inner thoughts with Zhou Siyu, but having seen Zhou Siyu's true colors, how could she be foolish again?

Not getting the information she wanted, Zhou Siyu grew displeased, "It's just some castoff that nobody wanted. What's there to fancy about it?"

She would regularly wear her hand-me-downs. Thinking of this, Zhou Siyu felt somewhat pacified.

Shen Mianmian had also thought about these things. Due to malnutrition and excessive physical work, she was a lot shorter than Zhou Siyu, which Zhou Lanfang used as an excuse to make her wear Siyu's hand-me-downs.

The family's circumstances were quite modest, so of course, there wasn't much money to buy new clothes often. By the time each article of clothing got to her, they were already faded, holey, and covered in countless pills.

Even so, in her previous life, she had never complained.

Suppressing the anger within her, she gave a faint smile, "The things others don't want are not even given to you."

"You..."

Zhou Siyu was infuriated but also wary of Shen Jianhua's presence in the house, not daring to really start an argument with Shen Mianmian.

She suppressed her anger, "Sister, did you get some kind of shock?"

How could someone change so suddenly?

Shen Mianmian saw all the changes in Zhou Siyu's expression. A girl in her teens already had such deep schemes, knew how to read the room, understood when to back down, and when to bide her time.

Previously, she thought it was after Zhou Siyu met Gu Jianbin that she developed all those bad intentions. Now, it seemed she might have started scheming from the day she moved into the Shen family's home.

With these thoughts, Shen Mianmian felt a chill run down her spine.

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