Chapter 4 The Stepmother Who Was Jealous

  Yunshui's home is in the county town of Shanwei, while Jasmine's home is in Baiyun Town nearby. There are direct buses from home to school, which takes about 40 minutes. Although it's already spring, the days are still short, and Jasmine needs to head back home, otherwise it will be dark by the time she gets there.

  Jasmine had just become friends with Yunshui, and they were reluctant to part ways. She wanted to see Yunshui home, but Yunshui's house was too far from the bus station that led to her own home. Yunshui told her to hurry back home, and in the end, the two girls parted ways at the bus stop.

  Yun Shui watched as Jasmine got on the bus, and looking at the window where Jasmine was continuously waving at her, she also waved back.

  When the bus turned a corner and disappeared from view, Yunshui stood still for a while before seeing another bus that could take her home, so she quickly got on.

  It takes about twenty minutes from the hospital to home, Yunshui sits by the window and looks at the scenery outside.

  The current season is the same as when she died in her previous life, both are spring. However, at that time, it was early spring and still cold, not much different from winter. But now, this spring has already warmed up and flowers have bloomed. The tall and lush camphor trees on both sides of the road are still as green as they were in memory, and after a few more days, the leaves will fall and the branches will be filled with red leaves.

  The two sides of the road have been planted with many winter jasmine flowers, which are now in bloom. The bright green and tender yellow colors complement each other, forming a particularly fresh and charming color scheme.

  The icy heart that had been frozen by the vicissitudes of her past life finally began to melt under the warm and colorful scenery of spring. She gazed at those familiar yet strange landscapes, thinking she had finally returned home, finally back to her hometown. After dying in a foreign land, she was able to be reborn and return, which was also heaven's pity for her.

  Twenty minutes passed easily and Yunshui got off the bus.

  Yunshui's home is located on the east side of the county town. As the old saying goes, "East is rich and West is noble", the east side is indeed a gathering place for good houses in Shanwei County. Yunshui's home is a relatively well-known community called Qing Shi Road Community, where all the houses were built ten years ago, and it was a small Western-style house that Yunshui's family spent a lot of money to buy at that time, with three floors, white, and an independent front and back yard. If this house were to be sold now, its price would have increased several times. Moreover, the price will continue to rise in the future.

  Yunshui arrived at the entrance of the residential area and greeted the security guard, who was a bit dazed and responded with a dull "good" as he watched Yunshui hurry in.

  "Is that the daughter of the Yun family? Why is she greeting me proactively today, usually she doesn't even make a sound, with an air of a little princess! Did I look particularly handsome today?"

  The security guard asked a colleague standing beside him.

  Colleagues took a look at him and said: "You are still the same, I think it's because that little princess is in a good mood today, so she condescends to give you a smile."

  Yun Shui didn't know that a single greeting from her would shock the two security guards so much, and now she was getting more and more agitated in her heart. Her feet moved even faster because she was about to arrive home, at the home she had left for such a long time!

  In her previous life, she grew up in that house, but ultimately had to leave because it was discovered that she wasn't the biological daughter of the family. The real daughter, Shen Zhenzhen, returned and her own parents strongly demanded that she return to them, so she could only leave.

  From then on, she couldn't even come here because her biological parents would be extremely angry if she did. Her stepmother didn't want to see her either, because she had let her own daughter grow up in someone else's home and blamed everything on her. The bond between mother and daughter over the years was not as strong as blood ties, and Shen Zhenzhen was her heart's treasure. Although her father and brother liked her, her mother wouldn't stop her from coming in, but she was lukewarm towards her, being overly affectionate with Shen Zhenzhen in front of her, making her feel very uncomfortable.

  Later, many things happened and Yunshui's reputation wasn't very good. Her mother didn't allow her to come over anymore, saying that she wouldn't have such a daughter. In order not to make her father and brother uncomfortable, and also to avoid being hurt by her mother's words, Yunshui stopped coming over. However, she would often stand beside the entrance of this neighborhood, imagining what it was like inside that home.

  Now she can finally return with her head held high!

  Yunshui's emotions were extremely excited, her eyes were red, and her hands trembled slightly as she pressed the doorbell.

  The gate opened and Yunshui walked in with a hint of awkwardness.

  "You're back, why so late today? Your dad just called and said he's taking us out to dinner together, go change your clothes."

  As soon as Yunshui entered, the woman sitting on the sofa in the living room said to Yunshui, then continued watching her TV, which was playing a soap opera, and she watched very intently.

  This woman is Yunshui's adoptive mother, of course she still doesn't know that Yunshui isn't her daughter. Her name is Xiang Fang, a full-time housewife, with a beautiful appearance, although she is almost forty years old, she has maintained it well. She usually just stays at home doing household chores, cooking, beauty treatments and watching TV, without any special hobbies, her temperament is still good, but she is a bit stubborn. Otherwise, after knowing that Shen Zhenzhen was her biological daughter, she wouldn't have turned a cold shoulder to Yunshui, the girl she had raised for sixteen years, completely disregarding their years of affection!

  Actually, Xiang Fang has never been very enthusiastic about Yun Shui, this daughter of hers. Just like now, when her daughter came back from school, she was talking to her but her eyes didn't leave the TV at all, with a distracted look on her face.

  Yun Shui had never thought much of it, thinking that her mother just didn't like daughters and wouldn't love her as much as she loved her brother. With the love from her father and brother, she didn't mind that her mother wasn't as affectionate towards her, as long as she didn't beat or scold her. She had even seen other parents hitting their kids, so her own mother was considered good. But after Shen Zhenzhen returned to the Yun household, she saw with her own eyes how Xiang Fang doted on Shen Zhenzhen like a precious treasure, and only then did she realize that her mother wasn't just not fond of daughters, but specifically didn't like her.

  In a quarrel with Xiang Fang, she discovered that Xiang Fang had been harboring a knot in her heart. It turned out that because Yun Shui was too favored by her father and brother, Xiang Fang felt somewhat jealous. She thought she was the one who should receive the most love in this family, as her husband and son were hers to care for. She had devoted more to this family, sacrificed more for them, and spent more time with them, so she deserved more love. However, her husband and son actually loved Yun Shui more.

  Yunshui has been close to her father and brother since childhood, but is distant from her mother, so Xiangfang dislikes Yunshui even more.

  Now that he has seen Xiang Fang again, Yun Shui thinks that maybe he should improve his relationship with his mother. This way, even if in this life he is still discovered to be an adopted son like in the previous life, his mother will not hate him so much.

  Yún Shuǐ doesn't want anyone in the Yún family to dislike her, she doesn't want to lose this home, and she can't bear to see it fall apart. But when disaster strikes, she's powerless, not even qualified to intervene!

  Perhaps Yunshui had been standing there for too long, and Xiangfang finally felt that someone was watching her, and she finally moved her gaze away from the TV to look at Yunshui.

  "What are you still standing here for? Hurry up and go get changed, even if this outfit looks good, it's had a whole day of wear and must smell by now! Today we're having dinner with one of your father's important clients!"

  "Yes, mom, you watch TV, I'll go up now."

  Yun Shui listened to Xiang Fang's words, pursed her lips and said this sentence, then turned around and went upstairs.

  It's indeed impossible to change the mother-daughter relationship that has been formed over the years in just one day. Which mom would say her daughter smells after wearing clothes for a day? It's not even the sweltering summer now, but spring. If it were the old Yunshui, she wouldn't have noticed too much. But the reborn Yunshui, after knowing about her mom's dissatisfaction with her, understood that her mom was intentionally trying to strike her down, not wanting her to be too comfortable.

  There is such a mother, Yunshui also feels some helplessness, wanting to change her mother, is it that easy?

  Xiang Fang turned her head back to the TV, Yun Shui walked towards the stairs, but then the doorbell rang again. Yun Shui stopped in his tracks and turned around to look at the entrance, wondering if it was Dad coming back?!

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