After entering the ward, Zhou Danhan pulled off her baseball cap and mask, casually tossing them to Fu Weiya, the woman behind her. Then, she crossed her arms and frowned as she looked at the girl on the hospital bed.

The girl's fair face appeared even whiter under the soft autumn sunlight, and her delicate features looked somewhat dreamlike, more like a rag doll than a real person.

Zhou Danhan's beautiful brows furrowed even deeper, but the next moment, the corners of her mouth turned up again, revealing a faint look of smugness on her face.

So what if it looks good?

Wasn't she rejected by her own parents and forced to be their substitute?

Fu Weiya closed the door and, seeing Zhou Danhan frowning as she stared at the girl on the hospital bed, quickly said, "She definitely did it on purpose to scare you." She then strode to the bedside, ignoring the girl's deep sleep, and pinched her waist hard, yelling viciously:

"You still dare to sleep? You idiot, we told you not to go to school for a few days to be a stand-in, and you dare to commit suicide to scare us? Why don't you just die? Wake up right now."

The girl on the hospital bed winced in pain. Before she could even open her eyes, she shrank back, saying, "Don't pinch me... Don't scan me—" as she opened her dazed and frightened eyes.

Those were beautiful eyes, but because their owner was an idiot, their large, round, and black pupils looked dull, which diminished their charm.

"What nonsense are you spouting again!" Fu Weiya pinched the girl on the bed several more times, making her cry in pain, but she still wouldn't stop. "Tell me, will you dare to scare us again next time?"

As for scanning and such, she just took it as nonsense, after all, an idiot will always spout some incomprehensible words.

The girl on the bed, gripped back in fear like a frail little animal, crying, "I didn't commit suicide, don't strangle me..."

"You still say you didn't commit suicide? If you didn't commit suicide, would you have been sent to the hospital?" Fu Weiya was angry and pinched even harder.

Zhou Danhan listened to the cries of pain beside her, but instead of being annoyed, she felt a sense of relief. However, she glanced at her watch and slowly said, "That's enough. Su Jingchen will be here soon." She then raised her chin and looked at the girl on the bed, who was frantically wiping away her tears.

"Ruan Mianmian, until I call a halt, you can only be my stand-in. Stop giving me all that nonsense, understand? This is something your parents have agreed to. Your biological parents and adoptive parents all agree. You have to listen to them, understand?"

Fu Weiya pinched Ruan Mianmian's waist hard and asked coldly, "Did you remember what the young lady said?"

Ruan Mianmian nodded, her voice trembling.

She dared not resist, because if she did, she would be strangled.

Zhou Danhan laughed and reached out to rub Ruan Mianmian's head, who was trying to dodge. "That's more like it. It's good that your head was hit so hard; it's much more obedient than before." As she finished speaking, her fair fingers, which had been moving gently, suddenly tightened and grabbed a handful of hair, pulling it upwards.

"Ah..." Ruan Mianmian cried out in pain, her body trembling from the physical pain.

Zhou Danhan felt that this limp body resembled a dead dog, and she immediately felt refreshed and laughed out loud.

If you were switched at birth, you should behave like an ordinary citizen. Anyone who dares to appear in front of her or try to take her parents away will face the consequences!

Fu Weiya laughed and let go of Ruan Mianmian, looking down at her. "A fool with only one face, just looking at him is bad luck." She turned to Zhou Danhan with a smile. "No wonder not only the master and wife only recognize the eldest daughter, but even this fool's adoptive parents only recognize the eldest daughter. Sigh, I really want to see what kind of faces those people who were waiting to see the real and fake heiress would have."

She knew that Zhou Danhan looked down on her biological parents, who were just ordinary citizens, so she didn't say "biological parents," but only "foolish and weak adoptive parents."

Zhou Danhan scoffed, "If you want to see, just look at those foot-washing maids in the industry like Wang Dandan and Sun Jingya. Didn't they get their faces slapped and their social media feeds flooded with comments from my fans?" She then felt her phone vibrate and turned away, "I'm leaving."

Fu Weiya quickly stopped her: "Dandan, wait a minute, let me take some photos of you first, and then stay a little longer. We've come all this way, we should at least release a press release about you comforting the injured stunt double, to solidify our image as a beautiful, kind-hearted little angel." After saying that, she turned to Ruan Mianmian on the bed, her tone suddenly turning cold, "You lie still, don't move, and keep your eyes on Dandan."

The silly Ruan Mianmian obediently listened, staring blankly at Zhou Danhan with her big, dazed eyes.

Her eyes were slightly red and filled with tears; she looked like she was crying from being moved.

Fu Weiya was very satisfied with the photos.

After the photos were taken, Zhou Danhan stayed to make up for lost time. She took out her phone and made a call, her voice sweet and charming: "Mom, I saw Mianmian. She's alright now. It's...sigh, it's all my fault for making her a stand-in. If I hadn't been so desperate to find someone with a similar figure to me, I wouldn't have bothered Mianmian."

Hearing her sweet voice filled with self-reproach, Zhou's mother felt a pang of heartache and said, "How can I blame you? It's just a small thing between sisters. What's wrong with her helping you? She's gone astray and was spoiled by those Ruan family parents. Besides, you were only trying to help Su Jingchen. If she hadn't insisted on causing trouble for Su Jingchen, you wouldn't have had to do something that would draw criticism from others."

Zhou Danhan laughed, looking at Ruan Mianmian with a smug look in her eyes: "It's good that Mom doesn't blame me. I have a schedule this afternoon, but I'll finish it early and come back to have dinner with you, Dad, and my older brother."

Although she knew that Ruan Mianmian was mentally challenged and couldn't understand, she was still proud because Zhou's mother favored her over Ruan Mianmian.

After exchanging a few words and hanging up the phone, Zhou Danhan played with her phone contentedly. Feeling that the time was enough, she didn't linger for even a second longer and turned to leave.

Not long after Zhou Danhan and Fu Weiya left, Su Jingchen, with a look of deep affection on his face, brought Ruan's parents into the ward.

He hurried to the bedside, looked down at Ruan Mianmian, and asked with concern, "Mianmian, are you alright?" As he spoke, he took Ruan Mianmian's hand to check her.

Ruan Mianmian trembled all over and kept shrinking into the hospital bed.

Although this person wouldn't pinch her, she remembered that he wasn't a good person. In the remaining memories in her mind, there was a scene of this person and Zhou Danhan secretly discussing how to instruct classmates to bully her.

What followed was endless bullying from the entire school.

Seeing how scared Ruan Mianmian was, Su Jingchen sighed, withdrew his hand, took a few steps back, and said softly, "Mianmian, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."

Ruan's mother quickly stepped forward and said to Ruan Mianmian, "Mianmian, Mr. Su is your fiancé, so you don't need to be afraid of him. In two months, when you turn twenty, you can marry him and be together forever. You have to be a good girl and listen to him, okay?"

Ruan Mianmian trembled even more violently, and her body instinctively shrank further into the hospital bed.

Even if she was a fool, she was still afraid when she heard that she had to be with the man in front of her forever.

Seeing that Ruan Mianmian was still resistant to Su Jingchen, Mr. Ruan worried that this wealthy suitor would lose patience and not want his daughter anymore, so he stepped forward and scolded her sternly: "Why are you hiding? It's your good fortune that Mr. Su is willing to marry you. You better behave yourself and get close to Mr. Su, or I'll whip you. Do you understand?"

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