“Jingyan, Yueyue is just a child. She knows she was wrong. Can I apologize to you on her behalf?”
“It’s all my fault. I failed to keep an eye on the two children, and that’s how Mianmian fell into the water. Hit me, scold me, do whatever you want—just don’t be sad. It breaks my heart.”
Gritting her teeth, the woman held the little girl tightly in her arms. “I don’t care. You must send Su Yueyue away today! The doctor said Mianmian might never wake up. There is no way I’m letting her stay in the Shen family!”
“Wah, wah, wah—” The little girl’s wailing echoed through the entire Shen household. Song Changming quickly scooped her into his arms to coax her.
He acted as though Su Yueyue were his own flesh and blood.
Shen Jingyan felt sick to her stomach, but at a time like this, she had no mind to analyze the look on his face.
She pressed her cheek against the girl’s ice-cold face.
“Good girl, Mianmian. Mommy is terrible; Mommy didn’t protect you properly. My Mianmian will be fine.”
As she spoke, tears pitter-pattered onto the pale little face of the cub in her embrace.
Who is dripping water on Mianmian’s face?
The little girl instinctively raised her hand to wipe it away.
Heartbroken, Shen Jingyan thought she was hallucinating, but in the next second, that chubby little hand moved again.
Trembling, Shen Jingyan called out cautiously, “Mianmian?”
Hearing someone call her name, the little girl opened her dark, grape-like eyes and looked at the woman before her.
Her chubby little face scrunched up into a little ball of dough. “Hurts…”
“Don’t, don’t touch it. Be a good girl, Mianmian. Don’t move. Mommy is holding you.”
A sharp throb pulsed through Mianmian’s head. The woman in front of her was not her Researcher Mommy.
Who was she?
Just then, a man’s voice came from the side.
“Jingyan, Mianmian is awake?”
Jingyan?
Mianmian?
Now Mianmian was completely bewildered.
It was as if a giant question mark were stamped on her forehead.
She looked down at her chubby little hands, her dark, glossy eyes darting around. Where had she ended up?
It took her a long moment to realize the truth.
It seemed she had ended up inside a book her Researcher Mommy had read.
What was it called again? Ah, Empty the Capitalist’s Wealth and Pamper My Childhood Sweetheart to the Heavens.
Mianmian was so shocked that her chubby cheeks puffed up.
The book told the story of a man named Song Changming.
He used his handsome looks to win the favor of Shen Jingyan, a young lady from a capitalist family. To prove his love, he was even willing to marry into the Shen family as a matrilocal husband, letting their daughter take the Shen family’s surname.
Shen Jingyan felt so lucky to be cherished by such a man, truly believing she was living a blissful life.
Yet, it never crossed her mind.
From the very beginning, the whole thing was a scam.
Song Changming’s true love had always been his childhood sweetheart, but she couldn’t give him the life he craved.
To make a name for himself, he set his sights on the naive Shen Jingyan.
After marrying Shen Jingyan, he plotted to pry the location of the Shen family’s hidden treasures out of her mouth on one hand, while carrying on an affair with his childhood sweetheart on the other. What’s more, the two of them had a daughter around the same age as Mianmian.
To give his illegitimate daughter a good life, he coaxed Shen Jingyan into taking the girl into their home as Mianmian’s playmate.
Later, when Shen Mianmian overheard the illegitimate daughter calling Song Changming “Daddy,” she threw a tantrum. In their panic and guilt, the guilty pair pushed her into the river, leaving her in a coma.
While Shen Jingyan was overcome with grief, Song Changming took advantage of the Spatial Dimension he had obtained by chance to completely empty out the Shen family’s wealth.
He then submitted an anonymous report exposing Shen Jingyan as a capitalist’s daughter, leading directly to her being denounced and struggled against until she died.
Song Changming, on the other hand, was promoted and got rich for his “meritorious report.” Armed with his Golden Finger and immense wealth, his life skyrocketed as if playing on cheat mode.
At every stage of his journey, he encountered a powerful woman, and every single one became a stepping stone on his road to success.
In the end, Song Changming became the richest man around, enjoying a harmonious family and a blissful life.
He even published books and went on television to share his secrets to success, adored by countless young people.
As for the comatose cub, she only woke up a year after Shen Jingyan’s death. Half-witted and foolish, she was reduced to eating pig slop and sleeping in a doghouse at the Shen residence, before her wicked stepmother ultimately sold her off into the deep mountains.
The cub’s ending had been utterly miserable.
Hearing the story back then had moved Mianmian to tears; she had wished she could dive straight into the book to beat that Mianmian’s father to death.
She never expected that after a single nap…
She would actually become that pitiful Mianmian cub.
Mianmian blinked, gazing up at Shen Jingyan.
Mommy was so pretty, a true great beauty.
Her dark eyes brimmed with affection.
So pretty, wow~~
Mommy smelled so nice, too; Mianmian liked it very much. She snuggled closer.
This was a scent that didn’t exist in her era—the scent of a real, human mother.
Mianmian was not from this era; she had lived in the Post-apocalyptic era.
During that time, humanity was entirely infected by a virus and turned into Zombies. After over a century of genetic optimization, they came to be known as Neo-Humans.
They possessed longer lifespans, superior intelligence, and enhanced athletic capabilities and reflexes.
However, they were also confronted with a grave crisis.
Infertility.
To resolve this predicament, the researchers of Huaxia pooled the entire nation’s resources to cultivate a single little human.
The researchers drew lots to give the little one a name: Mianmian.
Not only did Mianmian possess a more perfect genetic makeup, but she also bore the burden of a mysterious research subject: National Destiny.
Even though little Mianmian grew day by day without showing any signs of National Destiny on her body, that didn’t stop the clever, adorable little Mianmian from becoming the precious darling of the entire research center.
Sigh, I wonder if Researcher Mommy and Daddy will miss Mianmian.
Well, since I’m already here, I might as well make the best of it. Such a pretty mommy can’t be allowed to die!
Mianmian clenched her chubby little hands into fists.
Researcher Mommy and Daddy, I’ll live a good life here, okay?
Mianmian looked at Song Changming, who was holding Su Yueyue and smiling at her.
So this is the scumbag who preys on heirless families to steal their fortune.
Ptui!
Meeting Mianmian’s gaze, Song Changming couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
“Mianmian, Sister Yueyue didn’t push you on purpose. Don’t be angry anymore, all right?”
“Yueyue, apologize to Mianmian.”
Looking at Shen Mianmian nestled in Shen Jingyan’s arms, Su Yueyue put on an aggrieved expression. “Sister Mianmian, I’m sorry. In the future, Yueyue will be good and let you ride on my back like a horse, and I’ll bark like a dog for you. Please don’t be angry, okay? Don’t chase Yueyue away.”
As she spoke, she clung to Song Changming’s arm, trembling non-stop.
“Mianmian, hurry up and apologize to Yueyue! Look at how you’re acting. Where did a child your age pick up such capitalist habits?”
“Jingyan, Mianmian isn’t that young anymore. We can’t keep indulging her temper like this, or she’ll suffer hardships in the future.”
Seeing the pale face of the little girl in her arms, a flicker of heartache crossed Shen Jingyan’s eyes. “Changming, Mianmian is still young.”
“Yueyue is only two months older than her!”
Seeing that Shen Jingyan’s eyes were slightly red, Mianmian wrapped her short little arms around Shen Jingyan’s neck and rubbed affectionately against her gorgeous mommy.
“Mommy, what is a little bastard?”
Shen Jingyan froze at the question. Looking down at the little girl’s chubby, adorable face, she gently tapped the tip of her little nose.
“Where did you hear that word?”
In a childish, milky voice that sounded adorably huffy, Mianmian pointed at the person opposite them. “Yueyue said it.”
With that, she planted her little hands firmly on her round waist, mimicking the illegitimate daughter with utter seriousness.
“‘Shen Mianmian is just a little bastard!'”
“‘Why can’t I have what the little bastard has?!'”
“‘I’m going to tell Mommy that you’re only good to the little bastard and not to me!'”
Mianmian tilted her head and looked at Shen Jingyan. “Mommy, is Mianmian a little bastard? Then is Daddy a big bastard?”
Shen Jingyan’s expression shifted, and she glanced at Song Changming, whose face had also warped.
“Mianmian, only bad children speak like that. Mianmian must never copy them.”
Mianmian shook her little head, making the little tufts of hair atop her head wobble along. “Mianmian won’t copy.”
Shen Jingyan pulled the dense, chubby cub firmly upward into a tighter embrace.
“Mianmian is not a little bastard. You are Mommy and Daddy’s precious baby.”
Mianmian puffed her chubby cheeks, twitching them as if deeply troubled.
She pointed at Song Changming. “Then why does Yueyue call Daddy ‘Daddy’? Doesn’t she have a daddy of her own?”
Shen Jingyan turned her head to look at Song Changming and Su Yueyue, suspicion creeping into her eyes.
“Yueyue, why do you call Uncle Changming ‘Daddy’?”