An Family Villa, An Qing’s room.
Today was the weekend, and unusually, she had nothing that needed doing.
If it were her previous life, she would surely have had plenty of things to keep her busy, right?
It was worth mentioning that she had already begun investigating the An family.
But most of it was the same as what she had learned in her previous life.
After her—their biological daughter—had gone missing, Jiang Qinghe had gone to adopt An Yu.
Yes, that was it.
There was no baby mix-up or any other melodramatic replacement plot.
From the very beginning, the true and fake heiress situation in the An family had been clear as day.
It was just that, to the An family, they only wanted the one who was valuable.
So after losing their real daughter, Jiang Qinghe, unable to accept it, chose to adopt the prettiest girl from the orphanage.
And that one just happened to be An Yu.
The course of their lives afterward was also very simple.
After adopting An Yu, they never chose to have another child.
Whether it was out of respect for An Yu or to search for An Qing, in any case, they didn’t have any more.
An Yu received the best education.
They spared no effort in cultivating her fully, so that An Yu could…
However, there were still some strange parts.
The information An Qing had gathered showed that the An family parents had once held high hopes for their child to succeed.
They had enrolled An Yu in a great many extracurricular talent classes.
Just the musical instruments alone included several kinds.
And An Yu had never once refused, nor had she ever voiced even the slightest complaint.
No matter what the An family asked her to do, she carried it out without hesitation.
She was like a perfectly obedient robot.
Although as An Qing looked over this record, she felt it was full of oddities.
Yet the An family parents had been extremely satisfied with this.
Not only that, but in other areas besides music, they had never slackened either.
It was said that every time An Yu made progress, they would throw a big celebration banquet.
But for some unknown reason, one day they suddenly canceled all of An Yu’s talent classes and dismissed every private tutor.
They only let An Yu attend the noble school normally and no longer demanded anything else.
An Qing’s brows furrowed tightly.
The previous actions had all fit the An family parents’ style perfectly.
Why had they given up so suddenly?
At least in front of her, An Yu had never performed on any instrument.
And according to An Qing’s impressions, An Yu didn’t know how to play any instruments—not a single one.
If she had to choose between music and sleeping, she would definitely choose sleeping.
This was An Qing’s impression of An Yu.
This point was something An Qing truly found hard to understand.
She could only guess that something must have happened to An Yu—perhaps that incident was connected to An Yu’s sudden change.
An Qing couldn’t be certain; it was purely speculation on her part.
Because it was too strange, she could only guess in a strange direction.
Actually, it was probably… that An Qing was simply out of options.
Other than this, there was nothing odd in An Yu’s record.
She went to school and came home every day, maintaining the same attitude toward everyone, never looking at anyone extra, just like an ordinary girl who preferred to keep her social distance.
It was only after she appeared that An Yu began to interact with Ning Wanciu.
But An Qing had watched this from beginning to end as well.
Looking at all this information together, there was nothing particularly unusual about it.
Instead, she could understand it quite well… Come to think of it, it was probably because she, as the younger sister, had harbored too much hostility, forcing An Yu to seek out Ning Wanciu’s side.
Heh…
An Qing let out a cold laugh, unsure whether she was mocking An Yu or herself.
If after her rebirth she hadn’t chosen this meaningless method of revenge and had instead directly investigated the reason behind An Yu’s actions…
Would everything have turned out differently?
If she had figured it out earlier, would An Yu not have gone to Ning Wanciu?
An Qing let out an irritated sigh.
At this point, thinking about these things was pointless.
At the very least, she knew everyone around An Yu…
At the very least, she could imagine what would happen between An Yu and them.
In a sense, this was truly quite tragic.
But there was nothing she could do about it.
This was something An Qing had brought upon herself.
Rather than dwelling on that, she might as well think about what exactly had caused An Yu’s change.
It was just that…
My head… hurts so much.
No matter what, she couldn’t figure it out.
Unless this world truly possessed some power beyond the natural, she really couldn’t understand it. Perhaps this world really did have such power.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to be reborn.
Even if the memories from her previous life now felt as illusory as a dream, they were still real.
Most of the information she had obtained about the An family was meaningless right now.
It might be useful later when she brought them down, but that was in no way something she should be doing now.
An Qing’s mind was now entirely focused on An Yu; she could only think about matters concerning An Yu.
She sighed once more, then helplessly lay down on the bed, seemingly trying to imitate An Yu’s manner.
Unfortunately, the soft bed could not soothe the young girl’s melancholy. Instead, it made her even more anxious.
An Qing lay on the bed with furrowed brows, subconsciously scrolling on her phone.
But she hadn’t expected that this subconscious action would let her see a scene that made her collapse.
It was just a casual tap, yet it brought her to the trending topics.
“What… is this?”
The hand holding the phone began to tremble, and the girl’s crimson eyes were left hollow.
What had she seen?
It said “We Like You.” She saw a white-haired girl holding a signboard with those exact five large characters.
Although the girl was wearing clothes she had never seen before, An Qing recognized her at a glance—it was An Yu.
It made An Qing feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
An Yu… shouldn’t she be playing at Ning Wanciu’s house right now?
Why had she come to a place like this? Why had she been photographed?
Almost instinctively, An Qing scrolled down on that trending post.
Below… there were even more photos.
She saw with her own eyes that An Yu was taking a photo pressed close together with a black-haired, red-pupiled girl.
They looked very intimate.
“Clearly…”
Clearly, she was also a girl like that, yet she had never been able to get close to An Yu like this.
And… clearly, she was the prettier one, wasn’t she?
An Qing’s eyes grew increasingly hollow, and some terrifying emotion began to burn within them.
If the previous photo had only been saddening, the following photos nearly struck An Qing right in her vital spot.
It made her entire body start trembling.
How can this be?
The girl’s voice trembled continuously, her pupils contracting slightly.
She looked as if she found it very hard to accept.
She tapped open one of the photos and zoomed in with both hands.
Inside was a girl wearing clothes similar to An Yu’s.
The other party was looking at An Yu with an anxious expression on her face, and that gaze was incredibly moving.
She… who is she?l