The Mind-Read Heiress: From Impostor to Family Favorite-Chapter 22 - The Hidden Diary

Chapter 22: Chapter 22 The Hidden Diary

Chapter 22 -22 The Hidden Diary

“Alright, where shall we talk? I was just about to go downstairs for a couple of laps, do you want to join me?”

“No thanks,” Shen Zhirou lifted her hand towards Wenyan, “I’m still holding a juice in my hand. Follow me.”

Speaking of the juice, Wenyan felt it was a bit odd.

Mainly because standing at someone’s door with a glass of juice late at night was a scenario she was all too familiar with.

If she hadn’t seen it wrongly just now, Shen Zhirou should have come from the direction of Shen Jinghe’s room.

Yet, Zhirou and her own room were on the third floor, while the second floor was the domain of the brothers, Shen Jingxiu and Shen Jinghe.

So it was impossible for Shen Zhirou to just be passing by here.

Could it be that she had made a special trip to bring Shen Jinghe the juice?

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But then again, upon reflection, there was nothing particularly strange about it.

After all, although Shen Zhirou was their biological sister, she had been away from home for many years, and the relationship between the siblings wasn’t very close upon her return.

It was understandable for her to want to bridge the gap with her older brother.

With these thoughts in mind, Wenyan had unconsciously followed Shen Zhirou up to the third floor.

Shen Zhirou stopped in front of her own room, so Wenyan naturally stopped as well.

Just as Wenyan was about to speak, Shen Zhirou let out a cold laugh.

“Wenyan, is this funny to you?”

“…” Wenyan looked confused, “What are you talking about? What’s supposed to be funny? I’m really confused right now.”

“Heh, not bad acting there, no wonder you were chosen by the director. Do you think you’re so great because your cake was accepted, and you get to look down on me because my juice was rejected?”

Wenyan: “…” She was still confused, but she thought she might guess what had just happened.

Turns out, her glass of juice was indeed intended for Shen Jinghe.

But Shen Jinghe had rejected her.

–

Three minutes earlier.

Shen Zhirou was holding the juice, knocking on Shen Jinghe’s door.

She smiled sweetly, explaining her purpose to Shen Jinghe, hoping he would accept the juice she offered.

But Shen Jinghe refused her, citing he avoided sugary drinks at night.

Through the half-open door, however, Shen Zhirou clearly saw the nearly finished piece of cake, the one Wenyan had brought over.

Yet when compared with the juice in her hand, it was the cake that clearly had a higher calorie count!

But she couldn’t force Shen Jinghe to take the juice she had prepared with her own hands, so she could only smile and step back two paces.

It was then that she saw Wenyan appear at the stairwell bend, seemingly picking something up from the ground.

Then she looked in her direction and suddenly burst into laughter.

Apart from mockery, Shen Zhirou could think of no other reasons for Wenyan’s laughter.

–

At this moment.

Wenyan had already roughly guessed the cause and effect of the incident.

With hopes for a prosperous family, she began to explain to Shen Zhirou.

“You must have misunderstood me, Zhirou. I had no idea what just happened because I was watching videos with headphones on. The reason I laughed was that I was watching a funny video. If you don’t believe me, you can look at my phone. I haven’t exited the screen, and the video is paused.”

But Shen Zhirou still sneered: “Stop acting. Do you think I don’t know what kind of person you are? Your act today, including giving up the job at the company, was all just to curry favor with our parents, right? It seems Mom and Dad are really buying your act, but Wenyan, I’m not buying it.

You need to be clear about who you are. In this family, I am the real daughter with blood ties to our parents, and you are nothing but an orphan they picked up. So, don’t even dream about taking my place.”

“I heard you even packed your suitcases when you left the other day. Didn’t you also say just now that you want to make a name for yourself in the entertainment industry with your own abilities? If you truly want independence, then get lost and stay away—don’t come back! Otherwise, I won’t let you off easy.”

Wenyan: “……” Shen Zhirou’s about-face was too complete, like two totally different people.

But to say she was like two different people, it didn’t seem like it was the first time she had spewed such venom.

However, the original owner of the body didn’t have any memory of this.

Wenyan felt a bit scrambled for the moment and remained silent.

At that time, Shen Zhirou leaned in closer to her: “You shouldn’t have forgotten the feeling I just gave you. If you’re going to leave, leave far away, got it?”

As Shen Zhirou spoke, she also raised her hand and disdainfully patted Wenyan’s shoulder twice.

This only further scrambled Wenyan’s thoughts.

It wasn’t until Shen Zhirou opened the door, entered the room, and then slammed it shut with a ‘bang’ that Wenyan finally came to her senses.

What the heck? She rubbed her head, wondering why the more she thought about it, the more her mind approached a blank state.

But she still had to run. Perhaps after some exercise, her head would clear up.

After two laps, Wenyan returned to her room, disappointed.

She decided to simply take a bath, lie in bed like a corpse, and tried to sort out the original owner’s memories.

As she was sorting, Wenyan suddenly sat bolt upright from the bed.

After a great deal of effort to lift the mattress, she quickly found a notebook underneath it.

The original owner’s memory told her that this was a diary.

After getting her hands on it, Wenyan couldn’t wait to flip to the last page.

This page was rather shocking to Wenyan.

Because it was filled with the name of Shen Zhirou.

And it wasn’t written in any ordinary manner, but with a red pen and framed within a box.

Those in the know understood that the frame around a person’s name indicated ‘a mark of the deceased’, suggesting that the person had died.

And the page full of ‘death names’ was scored with countless slashes from a blade or something similar.

How deep must the hatred be?

Yet the original owner’s memories left to her didn’t contain any such deep-seated grudge.

With this in mind, Wenyan hurriedly flipped the diary to the first page.

The earliest date in this diary was four years prior.

‘The real daughter of the Shen Family has come back. I am happy for my foster parents; they have given me so much love and a comfortable life. I must repay them well. I want to get along with Zhirou, to become good sisters with her. She has worked hard these years; what I enjoyed belonged to her originally, and it’s time to give it back to her.’

‘Zhirou and I are getting along very well. The weather is clear today—a truly lovely day.’

‘It is the middle of the night now, and I think I’ve discovered a secret. Zhirou is sleepwalking. She almost strangled me to death; I almost couldn’t breathe for a moment, but fortunately, she woke up in the end. However, she asked me not to tell our parents about this. She said that in the future she would lock her door when sleeping. She mentioned that the sleepwalking was due to having nightmares. She has suffered for so many years as a wandering orphan; I promised to keep this little secret for her. This is a small secret between the two of us sisters.’