Su Luowan arrived at the entrance of her home. Looking at the black wooden door, she hesitated for a moment before finally mustering the courage to push it open.
The moment she opened the door, she saw a boy about her height running toward her.
“Sister, you’re back! Mom and I were just about to go look for you!”
As he spoke, his gaze fell on Su Luowan’s drenched clothes and hair, and he couldn’t help but ask worriedly:
“Sister… what happened to you?”
From the memories she had inherited, Su Luowan knew that this was Su Luonian, her younger brother, three years younger than the original owner of this body. Just as she was about to reply, she heard an anxious voice from inside the house.
“Xiao Nian, what’s wrong with your sister?”
As soon as the words fell, a figure hurried out from inside.
When Su Luowan saw the person, she froze for a moment. Although she had already learned from the original owner’s memories that this body’s mother looked exactly like her own mother, seeing her in person still stunned her.
The resemblance—in both appearance and demeanor—was uncanny.
“Mom!”
Whether it was the body’s instinct or her own emotions at the thought of her mother, Su Luowan couldn’t stop herself from calling out.
Lin Yuzhen looked at her slightly dazed daughter and her bedraggled state.
Her eyes were full of concern as she quickened her steps.
“Wanwan, what happened to you? Tell Mom—did someone bully you?”
Looking at Lin Yuzhen’s worried expression, Su Luowan suddenly felt a deep sense of envy for the original owner.
Beside them, Su Luonian also urged anxiously:
“Sister, who bullied you? Tell me—I’ll go find them!”
Looking at the two people who cared about her so much, Su Luowan finally felt it clearly—these were her family now, the people she would protect from now on.
She looked at them and said:
“Mom, Xiao Nian, I’m fine.”
It hadn’t been easy for this family to survive all these years. In this era, it had been even harder for Lin Yuzhen to raise three children alone. She didn’t want to say more and make them worry.
After a brief pause, seeing the lingering concern in Lin Yuzhen’s eyes, she smiled and added:
“Mom, I’m really fine. I’ll go change first—there’s something I want to talk to you about later.”
Lin Yuzhen knew her daughter was sensible and often kept her worries to herself.
Suppressing her concern, she said gently:
“Go on, hurry and change your clothes. Don’t catch a cold!”
Su Luowan responded and gently patted Su Luonian, who was still looking at her worriedly.
But when she looked at his face, she suddenly froze.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuzhen kept urging her to hurry.
Suppressing the doubt in her heart, Su Luowan headed toward her room.
The original owner’s father had disappeared when she was just over two years old, after going out on a work trip, never to return.
At that time, her older brother Su Luochen had just turned five, and her younger brother Su Luonian hadn’t even been born yet.
Back then, their mother, Lin Yuzhen, worked at a textile factory in the county. But after their father’s disappearance, their family became the subject of gossip in the factory’s residential compound.
With childbirth approaching, two children to care for, and little money on hand, Lin Yuzhen had no choice but to sell her job at the factory. While pregnant, she brought her children back to her hometown, Linjiawan.
More than a decade ago, the country had been in turmoil. Most people believed the father had likely met with an accident.
Even Lin Yuzhen thought he was probably no longer alive. After all, how could a man who loved his wife and children so deeply just disappear without a word?
Thinking of this, Su Luowan recalled what she had just seen on Su Luonian’s face.
She had been born with the Heavenly Eye. She hadn’t expected that this ability had come with her into this world.
Because this body was related to Su Luonian by blood, she normally shouldn’t have been able to read his face clearly.
Even so, while she couldn’t see detailed future events, she could still observe basic physiognomic traits.
And just now, she had noticed that his “Parents Palace” was intact.
That meant one thing—their father was still alive.
But according to the original owner’s memories, Lin Yuzhen had often spoken about how much their father loved them.
So what could have happened to make such a devoted man stay away for so many years?
Lost in thought, Su Luowan finished changing her clothes. After steadying her emotions, she walked out of her room.
She decided not to tell her family about this for now. The times were unstable, and saying it would only make them worry more.
Besides, even if she did say it, who would believe her? The original owner of this body didn’t know any mystic arts.
With that thought, she opened the door.
Lin Yuzhen and Su Luonian were already sitting in the main room, waiting.
Seeing her still-damp hair, Lin Yuzhen pulled her to sit down.
“Wanwan, sit here. I’ll help you dry your hair.”
She fetched a dry towel and gently began wiping Su Luowan’s hair.
Su Luowan sat there blankly. Ever since her own mother had passed away, this was the first time someone had helped her dry her hair.
…So this was what a mother’s love felt like?
With Lin Yuzhen’s appearance and voice identical to her own mother’s in her memories, it gave her the illusion that this really was her mother.
Just as she was lost in thought, Lin Yuzhen’s voice came again:
“Wanwan, you said you had something to tell me. What is it? Did something happen?”
Lin Yuzhen had a feeling it must be related to her falling into the water earlier.
“Mom, I want to break off my engagement with Qin Chengyi.”
Lin Yuzhen paused for a moment, then walked in front of her and asked gently:
“Wanwan, can you tell Mom why? Did Chengyi bully you?”
She knew very well how deeply her daughter cared for Qin Chengyi.
Although she and her eldest son had never approved of the match, they couldn’t stop her daughter from liking him.
Now that her daughter was bringing up breaking off the engagement, there had to be a reason.
Su Luowan stood up, took the towel from Lin Yuzhen, and wiped the ends of her still-damp hair.
“Mom, today I finally saw his true face…”
She then briefly explained how the original owner had caught Qin Chengyi meeting another female educated youth in the woods.
Hearing this, Lin Yuzhen was immediately furious.
“That Qin Chengyi—how could he do something like this? This is outrageous!”
Her face flushed with anger, her hands trembling slightly as she looked at her daughter with heartache.
Her daughter must be devastated… after all, Wanwan had liked that boy so much.