CHAPTER 834: CHAPTER 745: DISLOCATED LIVES 33

Fang Zhan sighed with heartache, "Alright, Zhijin, you shouldn’t feel burdened. Your biological parents come from a wealthy family. Even though our family has pampered you, it’s still not as affluent as your parents’. Going to them means you’ll live a good life, and your dad and I are only happy for you, we won’t be upset."

Bai Xiao hugged Fang Zhijin, tears streaming down, "You, this girl, leaving us is like cutting my heart out. How can I bear it? When you go to your biological parents, you must remember Dad and Mom, don’t forget us. You have always been sensible; your biological parents will definitely like you. If you’re not happy there, come back; your dad and I will always be your parents."

"What are you talking about?" Fang Zhan glanced at Bai Xiao with reproach upon hearing her words. "The Wen Family is wealthy; they can certainly afford to raise a daughter. Zhijin is their biological daughter, after all. Which parents wouldn’t treat their biological daughter well?"

Fang Zhijin wiped her tears and continued with worry on her face, "Dad, Mom, I’m really worried. I may enjoy luxuries with my biological parents, but your biological daughter here won’t have the same fortune.

The life of luxury she’s used to there may not be what she finds here, and I fear her return will make things difficult for you."

As she spoke, Fang Zhijin placed a small box in front of Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao, "Dad, Mom, inside this box is the birthday gift I’ve saved up for you. I’ve had it planned for a long time. I wanted to surprise you both since you share the same birthday, but as it turns out, I might as well give it to you now."

Both the Wen Family and the Fang Family left with a heavy heart, but the two daughters each had their own thoughts. Wen Shuangshuang was determined to find out the truth, while also feeling a slight reluctance to part.

Fang Zhijin was excited about entering a circle of wealth and believed, with her past life’s experience in that circle—even though she had been ridiculed and stumbled—she’d ultimately become a qualified high-society lady.

Confident in the experience accumulated from her past life, Fang Zhijin was certain she could navigate this circle without being laughed at or belittled.

On the day they exchanged identities, Wen Jianyun and Liu Yun brought Wen Shuangshuang, while Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao brought Fang Zhijin. Both families, filled with reluctance, arrived at a pre-arranged small park to exchange their daughters.

The process was quite dull. Wen Shuangshuang and Fang Zhijin stood by their biological parents, listening to Wen Jianyun and Fang Zhan, Liu Yun and Bai Xiao, explain their daughters’ various habits, clearly uneasy about entrusting their children to others.

Wen Shuangshuang followed Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao back, but the atmosphere was awkward. Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao didn’t know how to interact with a daughter who felt like a stranger. Moreover, their thoughts were focused on Fang Zhijin, leaving them little room to care about Wen Shuangshuang.

Wen Shuangshuang reminisced about the last life in the Fang Family, where everything she did seemed wrong, subjected to cold shoulder treatment by Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao, who didn’t even try to embrace her, leaving her with no desire to engage intimately with her biological parents.

The only reason she went to the Fang Family for a couple of days was that, in her past life without these memories, Wen Shuangshuang sincerely considered Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao as family, going out of her way to please them in hope of being accepted into the Fang Family. Though she eventually distanced herself due to heartbreak, the Fang Family had once been an obsession in her heart.

Upon entering the Fang household, neither Grandpa nor Grandma Fang was home; only Fang Zhijin’s younger brother, Fang Shaosheng, was waiting.

Twelve-year-old Fang Shaosheng eyed Wen Shuangshuang unfavorably, glancing up and down before giving a cold snort and turning to the living room sofa, completely ignoring her.

Wen Shuangshuang observed indifferently, feeling nothing out of the ordinary—this scenario had played out before, the entering gesture meant to intimidate, before countless complaints were laid against her in front of the grandparents, Fang Zhan, and Bai Xiao.

Fang Shaosheng adored Fang Zhijin as his sister and didn’t acknowledge Wen Shuangshuang, which caused her endless unseen troubles in her previous life’s earnest attempt to accept the Fang Family as her own, blindly enduring the hidden costs of Fang Shaosheng’s machinations. However, now, except for a bit of prior obsession, Wen Shuangshuang felt nothing.

"Shaosheng, what’s with your attitude? Is this how you treat your sister?" Fang Shaosheng’s poor attitude made Fang Zhan somewhat embarrassed, prompting him to scold his son.

Bai Xiao, lost in deep emotion, failed to notice how Fang Shaosheng treated Wen Shuangshuang. Her thoughts lingered on Fang Zhijin, worrying about her daughter’s comfort at an unfamiliar place, forgetting Wen Shuangshuang was in an identical situation.

After being scolded, Fang Shaosheng showed no signs of remorse and sulked instead, "My sister is Fang Zhijin; she’s merely a stranger, not my sister."

"Fang Shaosheng!" shouted Fang Zhan, truly angered this time. Although he felt little connection to his biological daughter, his son’s rejection of her still made him furious.

Wen Shuangshuang chuckled nonchalantly, soothing the irritated Fang Zhan instead, "Mr. Fang, forget it. It’s not Shaosheng’s fault. Suddenly changing the sister he’s known for eighteen years to a stranger is a hard pill to swallow.

Let alone a child; even I find it hard to accept having a brother who feels like a stranger and appearing like the model sister."

Before Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao could respond, Wen Shuangshuang decided to lay her cards on the table. Initially, she thought about settling her past obsession with the Fang Family, but seeing Fang Shaosheng’s attitude changed her mind. Why should she wrong herself like this? She hadn’t done anything wrong, so why!

If she had no memories, the past life Wen Shuangshuang might have persisted in staying with the Fang Family, attempting to be accepted.

However, as the Main God Shuangshuang now, after countless years of cultivation, though differing from other Gods by embracing kindness, she had never been wronged in any instance, neither by man nor God. Seeing Fang Shaosheng’s attitude totally flip. She had no intention of staying with the Fang Family anymore.

Sitting across from Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao, Wen Shuangshuang smiled, saying, "Mr. Fang, Mrs. Bai, I’m sorry; I cannot freely address you as Dad and Mom because, in my heart, my parents are still the ones I know."

Before Wen Shuangshuang could finish, Fang Shaosheng snorted again, jarring out, "Of course you can’t accept us poor people as family; you just love wealth and despise poverty!" His expression was downright nasty, and even Fang Zhan and Bai Xiao looked displeased.