The following days passed as usual, like a calm wave.
But then, Li Wanru received a call. The name "Wan Ni" on the phone almost made her forget who this person was.
After thinking for a moment, she remembered it was the original owner's older sister. Wanru picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Come home, Dad was in a serious car accident!" The female voice on the other end of the line was very low.
"Isn't my dad your dad too?" Wanru asked back.
"I don't care. If you don't come back quickly, you might not get to see Dad one last time, so don't blame my mother and me."
The other person seemed annoyed and hung up after speaking.
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Wanru frowned. It truly had nothing to do with her, but she was now Li Wanru, and she couldn't let others criticize the original owner.
Wanru reluctantly returned.
Wanru called and informed Chen Jiancheng that she would be going back to her hometown for a few days. Chen Jiancheng wanted to drive her, but she refused, saying she would drive herself.
She didn't want the people in that house to know about him.
She felt they didn't deserve it.
After packing a few things, Wanru returned home on her old Vision scooter.
After Wanru informed Chen Jiancheng that she was leaving, about half an hour later, he received a call from her.
Seeing that it was her calling, he felt a little uneasy and quickly picked up.
"What's wrong, dear?" he asked.
"Ah, um... Can you pick me up at the overpass?" Wanru stammered.
"What happened to you? Is something wrong?"
"I...! I got a traffic ticket!"
Chen Jiancheng: "..." He was silent for a long time.
More than 20 minutes later, his car arrived to take her back to her hometown. Wanru was too embarrassed to say anything more to him.
But ever since he picked her up, he had been smiling as if it were harvest season.
He kept grinning in the car. Wanru, feeling annoyed, asked,
"Are you that happy that you keep smiling?"
Chen Jiancheng looked at her, still smiling, and asked,
"How old are you?"
"Twenty...?" Wanru stammered, having forgotten the original owner's age.
"You're twenty years old and you don't have a driver's license yet? Who gave you the confidence to drive on the road?"
Li Wanru: "..."
In the real world, she had gotten her driver's license at 18. Who would have thought the original owner didn't have one?
She only realized it when the traffic police officer asked to check her documents.
"After this, when I get back, I'll definitely take the driver's test for you to see!" Wanru declared with determination.
"Say it, do it!"
"I'll definitely pass. If not, I'm not a Cai!"
"Your surname is Li, isn't it?" Chen Jiancheng asked back.
"..." Oh, I forgot for a moment.
"I can take your surname too."
Chen Jiancheng teased her the entire way.
After driving for a while, they arrived. Wanru said goodbye to him and went inside.
Chen Jiancheng also listened to her and returned to the city.
As soon as she stepped into the house, she came face to face with Li Wanni, who was standing at the door.
Wanni saw her get out of a luxury car and said with a sarcastic tone,
"You're much better than your mother!"
Wanru frowned: "Sister, stop talking nonsense. Where's Dad?"
"Inside, but don't go in. Grandpa is inside, he'll scold you if you go in."
Wanru looked at her sister for a moment, then asked, "Do you have something you want to tell me?"
Wanni looked at her, her expression changing rapidly. Then she turned and wanted to leave: "Follow me!"
The two went around to the back of the house and secretly entered Wanni's room.
She opened her laptop and turned it for Wan Ru to see. On the screen was a residential camera feed. At the eight-second mark, an accident occurred: a motorcyclist crashed directly into the front of a container truck parked by the roadside.
At this moment, Wan Ni spoke up.
"This is the camera footage from the day Dad had his accident."
"What does that mean?" Wan Ru didn't understand.
Wan Ni began to zoom in on a small corner. The image quality was low, so only a blurry black shadow was visible. This black shadow stood still throughout the accident, then suddenly disappeared.
"Originally, this was an accident Dad caused himself, but after watching the camera footage, I find this person a bit strange. I also think that shadow looks a bit like you, so I want to ask you to clarify."
Wan Ni said honestly.
Wan Ru looked down at the time and replied.
"On October 25th, I was in Quy Nhon."
Then both fell silent, neither saying anything.
She didn't know why, but when she looked at the mysterious black shadow on the camera, she suddenly remembered that evening when she saw Pei Lan An standing at Mei Jin's gate, staring intently at her.
But Pei Lan An was undergoing compulsory psychological treatment, and Chen Jian Cheng had also hired people to watch her.
Wan Ru reassured herself.
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After her grandfather left, she went into the room to visit her "father."
He lay weakly on the bed, his neck already immobilized.
With her mother sitting beside him, looking at her with cold eyes, she quickly went outside.
Outside, she said to Wan Ni.
"Tomorrow I'm going back to the city for school. In the future, if your family doesn't need me, don't call looking for me. If you want to say something to me, just call directly."
"Do you think you've become a phoenix now?"
"I don't care what I've become. If your family doesn't need me anymore, why make things difficult for me?"
"But you're the reason my parents' relationship fractured! My parents even had to raise you until now!" Wan Ni scolded in a loud voice.
Wan Ru just smirked and calmly replied.
"The reason your parents' relationship fractured is because of your father. If it weren't for your father, how would I exist? As for raising me, that was his responsibility and duty when he indulged without knowing when to stop. And if you didn't want to raise me, then when I was born, your mother should have just pinched my nose and killed me. Do you think I lived a full and happy life these past few months? Your mother cut off my school money for almost five months already? How do you think I managed to live during those five months? In the future, it's best we have nothing to do with each other."
After speaking in one breath, Wan Ru turned back into the house, grabbed her belongings, and left immediately.
This family was the original owner's obstacle, and it was also her current obstacle.
If it were her, she would choose to cut ties.
Wan Ru took a bus back to the city, looking out the window as she went.
Her heart was extremely troubled at this moment.
She strung together all the events she remembered from the original novel. It seemed that the original owner's father's accident was not in the original novel.
Could it be that because she transmigrated here and didn't follow the original plot, the story's events had changed?
Many new plot points had arisen that were not in the original novel, such as Zhou Lin Kang, Pei Lan An, or the original owner's father.
Although the main character's storyline wasn't greatly affected, it directly impacted her. It seemed these situations all occurred around her.
Could it be because of her?