Zhang Yansheng didn’t go shopping after her training, so she came back earlier than Zhang Huan.

    Zhang Huan’s car only entered the yard and Liang Yingying, who hadn’t dared to go out for a day, hurriedly came down from the third floor to greet him. She had a flattering smile on her face, but Zhang Huan didn’t give her a good face.

    “Explain to me why…” He pointed his finger at Liang Yingying with his finger. But he caught a glimpse of Zhang Heling, who was lying on the railing at the corner of the stairs and peeking, so he became stiff.

    After all, some words are not suitable for speaking in front of children.

    “Come up with me!” He said to Liang Yingying angrily.

    Liang Yingying followed him upstairs with her eyebrows drooping.

    Zhang Heling obediently called “Dad” and said, “You are back.”

    Zhang Huan responded, touched Zhang Heling’s head, and asked, “Where is your sister?”

    “Inside her room.” Zhang Heling obediently said, “My sister is studying in her room every day.”

    Zhang Huan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said, “You have to study hard too.”

    Zhang Heling nodded: “Hmm.”

    In fact, she does her homework seriously every day. She just won’t sell it out in front of adults. Liang Yingying was going to be pissed off by this stupid daughter. As she walked over, she slapped Zhang Heling’s head fiercely with her hand, while thinking that she is so stupid and will not be favored.

    Zhang Huan caught this sight and scolded her: “What are you doing?! Why did you do that to her?!”

    Liang Yingying hurriedly smiled: “Educating her, she needs to know how to study hard.”

    Zhang Huan snorted, ignored it, and went upstairs. Liang Yingying followed closely, but before leaving, she gave Zhang Heling a glance and cursed: “You are so stupid!”

    Zhang Heling bit her lip and lowered her head.

    Zhang Yansheng studied for a while in the evening, and when she was tired of studying, she closed her book and wanted to go downstairs. Just when she walked out of the room, she saw Zhang Heling hanging her head and walking towards her own room, with the action of wiping her eyes…

    It must be tears!

    Zhang Yansheng paused, then walked over to stop her: “What’s the matter? Did Zhang Shuocheng bully you again?”

    She suddenly appeared which startled Zhang Heling.

    “No.” She was embarrassed to let Zhang Yansheng see her wiping away tears, and hurriedly lowered her head, “Shuoshuo is playing in the yard.”

    Zhang Yansheng asked, “Then why are you crying?”

    Zhang Heling said, “I didn’t cry…” If the voice is weak, then there is no momentum as you listen to it.

    This sister is really stupid and weak.

    Later, she would grow into such a personality.

    Zhang Yansheng pinched her rounded jaw, twisted her face up and looked at it, and sneered, “Who are you lying to? You just cried.”

    She removed her hand and Zhang Heling circled the ground with her toes embarrassedly.

    “What’s the matter?” Zhang Yansheng said, “I don’t have much patience, so just say it.”

    Zhang Heling whispered, “My mother slapped my head just now.”

    When she heard that it was Liang Yingying, Zhang Yan became angry and asked, “Why did she do that?”

    Zhang Heling was also confused: “I don’t know…”

    Zhang Yansheng: “…”

    Zhang Yansheng wanted to roll her eyes again.

    “Come to my room.” She said gruffly.

    Zhang Heling obediently followed to Zhang Yansheng’s room.

    Zhang Yansheng took out a bag of potato chips and tore it open, stuffed it to Zhang Heling, and asked her to sit down on the sofa: “Come on, what happened? What did you say or what did you do for her to slap you on the head?”

    Zhang Heling ate two slices of potato chips, and the grievances in her heart were healed, so she talked about the situation on the stairs just now.

    Zhang Yansheng understood it as soon as she heard it.

    “Your mother thinks you can’t fight with her.” she said.

    Zhang Heling squeezed the potato chip bag and lowered her head.

    Pitiful.

    Zhang Yansheng couldn’t bear it again and comforted her stiffly: “Forget it, study hard next semester and get a better score on the exam.”

    Zhang Heling lowered her head and muttered something.

    “What?” Zhang Yansheng became impatient, “Can you speak louder? Let me tell you, if you talk like a mosquito, then no one will pay attention to you and no one will care about you. If you want to say something, then say it out loud.”

    What her sister says always makes sense. Indeed, no one in this family pays attention to her, let alone cares about her.

    Zhang Heling mustered up the courage, raised her voice, and told Zhang Yansheng: “I am… the first in the class and the second in entire grade.”

    Zhang Yansheng: “…”

    “Huh?” Zhang Yansheng let out an upward surprised voice, “What did you just say?”

    Zhang Heling flinched for a moment, but facing her sister was more courageous than facing others. She repeated: “I am the first in the class and the second in the entire grade.”

    Zhang Yansheng blinked.

    How does she remember that this sister… has very ordinary academic performance? It seems that every aspect is very ordinary, and she has never heard anyone praise her in this family.

    Zhang Heling looked at her as if she didn’t believe it, and hurriedly emphasized: “It’s true.”

    “Then why does your mother think you are not good at studying?” Zhang Yansheng asked strangely.

    “She doesn’t know…” Zhang Heling became dejected again.

    When does the mother not know how her child’s grades are? Zhang Yansheng raised his eyebrows.

    “She didn’t go to my parent-teacher meeting. The parent-teacher meeting was on the same day, Shuoshuo and I. She only went to Shuoshuo’s and didn’t go to our class to take a look.” Zhang Heling explained.

    Zhang Yansheng said, “Are you stupid? You won’t tell her because she didn’t go?”

    “I did…” Zhang Heling bit her lip and squeezed the potato chip bag out of the folds, “She was putting on makeup and was annoyed… she just said ‘I know’.”

    Actually, she doesn’t know anything. The little girl on her side said something, but she probably didn’t take it seriously. She was so focused on beautifying herself and hurried out quickly.

    “Did you tell dad?” Zhang Yansheng asked.

    “I also did…” Zhang Heling said, “Dad answered a call at that time and told me to talk about it later, but he went out after answering the call.”

    Her sister didn’t speak for a long time.

    Zhang Heling had a lot to say in her heart, but no one in this family was willing to listen to her.

    Taking this opportunity, she finally found someone to speak to: “I also got the certificate of ‘Learning Star’. This certificate is only given to the top three in the class. There are also ‘Positive Star’ and ‘Friendship Star’, these two certificates are…”

    Zhang Yansheng listened to the younger sister became a chatterbox and started talking endlessly. There was light in her eyes, which was usually invisible.

    She couldn’t help asking: “Where are your award certificates?”

    Zhang Heling said, “They’re in my room.”

    Zhang Yansheng stood up and said, “Let’s go, take me to see them.”

    Zhang Heling’s eyes lit up, flashing like stars in the sky.

    Those are the eyes of a child who longs to be loved. Once upon a time, there must have been such a bright light in her eyes, Zhang Yansheng thought. Later, those bright lights were extinguished in disappointment.

    In Zhang Heling’s room, the little girl took out a paper box full of award certificates from her cherished collection.

    Zhang Yansheng read the thick stack of award certificates, read her transcripts, read her homework books, and finally had to admit that there was a deviation in her memory. Zhang Heling is not ‘ordinary’ at all, she is a very smart girl instead.

    How could such an excellent girl later become such a mediocre, cringing, silent, and cowardly girl?

    Zhang Yansheng held an award certificate and was puzzled. She raised her head and took a look, facing Zhang Heling’s eyes that were eager to be seen, cared for, and praised.

    Zhang Yansheng suddenly remembered another look of these eyes.

    Sister, my mother… is she really a mistress?

    The younger sister asked, standing in the shadow of the wall.

    When she went home that day, she had a big fight with Liang Yingying again. Naturally, what the two women said when they quarreled would not be so nice. None of them cared how Zhang Heling felt on the side.

    She went upstairs to get some things, prepared to leave, and walked out of the room, but her younger sister was waiting for her in the hallway and asked such a question.

    She sneered at that time: “Mistress? Saying that she is a mistress is too much praise for her, right?”

    Her words were like a knife, tearing apart Liang Yingying’s true face before she became ‘Mrs. Zhang’.

    She said: If she hadn’t given birth to you, then she would have been a second wife… one of. To be honest, she has to thank you and Zhang Shuocheng for entering this house, especially you.

    She said this because she had occasionally heard the aunts gossip before.

    Aunt Wang, who followed Liang Yingying into Zhang’s house, couldn’t hold back and told others: “Do you know how she became pregnant with Hehe? Let me tell you, I heard her call someone to show off once, saying that she had pierced a hole in a condom, got pregnant with Hehe, and trapped the golden master. With children, even if a man gets tired of her in the future and won’t have a child, then he will always give her money to spend.

    Anyway, one was born already and Zhang Huan didn’t care about having another one, so Zhang Shuocheng was born again.

    Usually, a man will not divorce his wife for the sake of his mistress, and it is not that the old house is on fire.1 It’s an ideal state for men to have many lovers, and Liang Yingying was so lucky because Zhang Yansheng’s mother passed away.

    So, for the sake of Zhang Heling and Zhang Shuocheng, Zhang Huan finally let this woman in.

    A mistress turned into Mrs. Zhang.

    That day, Zhang Yansheng waved away after saying those words to Zhang Heling. When she reached the top of the stairs, she glanced back.

    The younger sister was still standing in the shadow of the wall, with her head lowered.

    When Zhang Yansheng went downstairs, there was a hidden pleasure in her heart.

    If Liang Yingying will not be ashamed of her past, then let her daughter be ashamed of her.

    In those few years, Zhang Yansheng grew up, was bad in studies, and would simply do whatever she wants to. The war between her and Liang Yingying caused a pandemonium in this family, and the whole house was full of unpleasant atmosphere.

    At this point in time, Zhang Yansheng stared at the little sister who still showed a cute smile in front of her, and she vaguely understood why she would become the kind of character that could not get on the stage.

    In such a family atmosphere, no matter how good the seedlings are, they can’t thrive.

    This time, her sister was silent for a longer time.

    From expectation to disappointment, from disappointment to anxiety, so Zhang Heling began to feel uneasy.

    But suddenly, she heard Zhang Yansheng asking, “Do you have a scotch tape?”

    Zhang Heling hurriedly said, “Yes.”

    “Scissors?”

    “Yes.”

    “Bring them.”

    Zhang Heling brought all the things Zhang Yansheng asked for, but Zhang Yansheng just picked and picked from the stack of award certificates. She picked up all the award certificates Zhang Heling received from school and said, “Come with me.”