036 Great-grandfather, you're pouring out your medicine in secret again.

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Anan shook her head. “No, I’m going home. I have to get back early to feed Little狸 and visit Great-Grandpa.”

Shen Zhihan swiped his card, and Anan came out. He lifted her into his arms, his eyes filled with nothing but her. She was his entire world.

Before Shen Zhihan could ask anything, Anan began chattering away like a bamboo tube being emptied, telling him all about what had happened at kindergarten that day.

Xia Kexuan watched enviously as Shen Zhihan picked Anan up.

If only she had known that Shen Zhihan would not die young, she would have clung to him the moment she transmigrated. Then there would have been no place for Anan.

Seeing how gentle Shen Zhihan was with Anan, Xia Kexuan regretted it so bitterly that her guts turned green.

Only then did Wenhan’s mother see Anan’s legendary parent.

Looking at Shen Zhihan’s handsome features, distinguished bearing, and bespoke suit, she suddenly turned toward her own chubby little boy and found everything about him displeasing.

No wonder Anan was so lovable. Her father was so outstanding—not only busy with work, but also personally coming to pick up his child. Where could one find a man like that?

Anan had grown up with a father like him. Her standards in the future were bound to be impossibly high!

No, she had to make her own chubby boy more impressive too. Otherwise, he probably would not even qualify to enter the competition.

Tian Wenhan took his mother’s hand. “Mom, this is my good friend Anan. She’s the new student who transferred here. From now on, I’ll play with Anan.”

“Hello, Wenhan’s mother.”

The little one did not call her Auntie. Instead, she copied the teacher and addressed her as Wenhan’s mother.

Anan’s voice still had that soft, babyish lilt, nearly melting hearts on the spot.

Shen Zhihan gave a slight nod and carried Anan away.

A driver came to pick up Xia Kexuan.

When they passed a park, Xia Kexuan asked the driver to let her out.

Ding Jianhui had instructed them that Xia Kexuan’s wishes were equivalent to those of him and his wife, Huang Liying. No questioning, no disobedience—just do as she said.

“I’ll look at the scenery in the park for a while. I’ll go home later. With Dad and Mom away, I’m afraid I’ll miss them too much if I return.”

The Ding couple had gone abroad in an emergency after a project went wrong.

With her little schoolbag on her back, Xia Kexuan sat down on a stone bench, her expression somewhat gloomy.

People really were ungrateful by nature. Once they got what they wanted, they stopped cherishing it. Before, they had begged her to become their daughter. Now, on her very first day in their family, they were already gone!

What kind of business trip was so important that they had to leave right now?

Xia Kexuan had forgotten that, worried about her while traveling, the couple had offered to take her abroad with them. She had refused because she did not want to miss her encounter with Sui Yu.

Xia Kexuan took the phone hidden inside her schoolbag and turned it on.

Before long, her mother called.

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“Xuanxuan, are you doing all right at the Ding family’s house? Xuanxuan, what are we going to do now? The Xia family has gone bankrupt. The Xie family heard the news, and they want to cancel the engagement between our two families.”

If anyone knew that the person receiving Xia Mother’s plea for help was her four-year-old daughter, they would probably find it absurd. But the Xia family had long since grown accustomed to it.

Xia Kexuan cursed her inwardly for being an idiot.

Back when she had been carried into this world as an unborn child, she had deliberately kept Xia Jing alive so that Xia Jing could serve as a tool and impersonate Ouyang Zhi, Shen Zhihan’s first love.

She had never expected Xia Jing to be so useless. Not only had Shen Zhihan failed to die, but his inheritance had nothing to do with them either. Xia Jing had even offended Shen Zhihan because of it, causing the Xia family to go bankrupt and dragging Xia Kexuan into the mess.

If she had not been so popular, with the Ding family fighting to adopt her, she would have become a sacrificial extra!

Now Xia Kexuan had found herself a new backer. What happened to the Xia family no longer mattered.

Everyone in the Xia family was an idiot. If not for her advice and schemes, did they really think the Xia family could have entered the circle of wealthy elites? They were dreaming!

Now that they were discarded pieces, they had nothing to do with her anymore.

Xia Kexuan put on an astonished expression. “Mom, why are you asking me? I don’t know what to do either. These are grown-up matters. How would I understand them? Mom, I’m going home.”

After saying that, Xia Kexuan hung up. Without changing expression, she removed the SIM card, snapped it into three pieces, and threw them into the trash.

Goodbye, Xia family. From now on, she was Ding Kexuan.

When Xia Mother called Xia Kexuan again, she found that the number could no longer be reached.

Xia Jing knelt outside the Xie family’s gate, pleading desperately. “Please let me see Brother Zheng! It’s me, A-Jing!”

All of a sudden, torrential rain poured from the sky—a summer sun shower.

The rain was so heavy that Xia Jing was soaked through in an instant, chilled to the bone. Yet what felt colder still was her heart.

Confused and anguished, Xia Jing could not understand how things had become like this.

Only three days ago, she had been the eldest daughter of the Xia family, able to obtain anything she desired. Her family had doted on her endlessly. She had a sweet little sister, a devoted fiancé, and the sinister tycoon Shen Zhihan, who would grant her every request.

That was right. Her little sister. It was because she had a little sister that she possessed all of this.

Xia Jing immediately called Xia Kexuan, only to discover that she could no longer reach her.

When Xia Jing went to the Ding family’s house to look for Xia Kexuan, she was told that Mr. and Mrs. Ding were not at home and that no one else could be allowed inside—not even Xia Jing.

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Anan and Shen Zhihan returned home. Old Master Shen had been waiting at the gate, craning his neck in anticipation.

Only after seeing Anan return safe and sound did Old Master Shen finally relax.

But the moment Anan saw him, she drew her little brows together.

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The little girl was young, and even when she tried to look stern, she was unbearably adorable. “Great-Grandpa, did you secretly pour out your medicine again?”

At once, Shen Zhihan turned to look. Father and daughter wore exactly the same stern expression.

“Grandpa!”

Old Master Shen flatly refused to admit it. Good heavens! Anan had gone to kindergarten that day. How could she possibly know?

“Little girl, don’t make things up. Great-Grandpa didn’t pour out his medicine. I want to get better quickly too.”

“I’m not making it up. You did pour it out. Great-Grandpa, you won’t get better if you don’t take your medicine.”

Shen Zhihan called over the servant responsible for caring for Old Master Shen. Old Master Shen desperately tried to signal to him with his eyes, leaving the servant in a difficult position.

Shen Zhihan spoke sharply. “I hired you to take proper care of him. If you cannot tell right from wrong and indulge him whenever he pleases, you no longer need to keep this job.”

The servant shuddered and hurriedly confessed. “Yes, President Shen. The old master finds the traditional medicine too bitter. He pours out nearly two-thirds of every bowl. If he finishes even a quarter of it, that’s already a miracle.”

As for the rest, he would rather die than drink it.

Shen Zhihan said, “Prepare another dose. From now on, I’ll personally supervise him every morning and evening until he finishes it.”

Old Master Shen flushed scarlet and stubbornly stuck out his neck. “I’m your grandfather! What right do you have to control me?”

Old people really did become children again with age. They were no different from little ones.

Shen Zhihan replied, “Because I’m your grandson! If you weren’t my grandfather, I wouldn’t even bother managing you.”

Anan looked at Old Master Shen sympathetically.

After dinner, the medicine had finished simmering over low heat. Shen Zhihan personally carried a bowl of pitch-black medicine over to Old Master Shen.

At the sight of it, Anan felt the bitterness spreading to her own mouth.

What a strong medicinal smell.

Old Master Shen was dumbstruck too.

Shen Zhihan crossed his arms, his face expressionless.

“Drink!”