Chapter 534: Chapter 180: The 80s’ Drama Queen is Forced to Become a Top Student (15)

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Yunyun is Sheng Ying’s only child. We can’t just stand by and watch her get bullied. Since her own mother can’t protect her, it would be better for her to just be separated from them."

"Grandma Guo is a kind person, and she’s getting on in years. She could use a young person to keep her company and help care for her."

After some discussion, they turned to look at Sheng Leyun cautiously.

"Yunyun," a woman said, taking Sheng Leyun by the shoulders and earnestly laying out their reasoning, "for the sake of your own health and safety as you grow up, are you willing to sever ties with your mother and stepfather and live with Grandma Guo?"

Sheng Leyun timidly looked around at everyone in the room. Her gaze came to rest on an old woman for whom the crowd had parted.

The old woman was wearing a dark blue, diagonally-fastened cotton jacket, black trousers, and cloth shoes with thick, layered soles.

Her salt-and-pepper hair was meticulously combed back and secured with a simple wooden hairpin, and she wore a pair of small, silver earrings.

The years had carved deep lines into her face, but they had also given her a gentle, benevolent aura, like the glaze on pottery that has weathered countless storms.

She had lost her father in her youth, her husband in middle age, and her son in her later years. Yet, the old woman still had a kind heart. In the original owner’s lifetime, she had offered help countless times.

Sheng Leyun thought, ’Because the original owner had given up on the world, she never received a single hint about the mission.’

’If the original owner had a choice,’ she thought, ’she would definitely want to sever ties with the Xiao family, avenge her father, and repay the kindness of everyone who helped her!’

So, she pressed her lips together, lowered her head slightly, and said in a tiny, frightened voice, "I... I want to, but I’m scared."

"My mom and my stepdad... they want to use my adoption as an excuse to get their hands on Grandma Guo’s life savings and her house."

"I don’t want them to succeed, so I can’t bring harm to Grandma Guo!"

Grandma Guo smiled and shook her head. "How much money could an old woman like me have? My old work unit took pity on me and is just lending me this place to live in for now."

"I have nothing for anyone to covet. Don’t be afraid, my good child."

The neighbors all chimed in to persuade her. "That’s right, Yunyun, you don’t have to worry about any of that. If you’re being adopted out like this, we’ll all act as witnesses to make sure you make a clean break from them."

Sheng Leyun glanced timidly at Xiao Xuezhen.

He had gone numb from the pain, waiting for someone to pry open the gap in the table and pull out the chopstick that was stuck in his hand.

But that didn’t stop him from keeping Sheng Leyun locked in his peripheral vision, all sorts of dark thoughts churning in his mind as he imagined various ways to send the little girl to her grave.

"Then... will my household registration be transferred to Grandma Guo’s name? And... can I not change my name?" Sheng Leyun asked in a small voice.

"Of course," Grandma Guo said with a smiling nod. "I’ll just be your temporary guardian to protect you from being bullied by certain wicked people."

"Your father is still your father. No one is asking you to change your name."

The crowd voiced their support as well:

"Right, right! We’ll write all of this down. Since the Xiao family won’t have you, then all of us will raise you together! Who among us can’t spare a few cents or a couple of steamed buns?"

"Sheng Ying was a great man who did so much for others. How could his only child be left to suffer like this in the end?"

Xiao Xuezhen was so furious he felt he could die on the spot. He was clearly the one who was seriously injured, so how did Sheng Leyun become the victim just by scratching herself a little?

When someone suddenly yanked the chopstick out, the pain made Xiao Xuezhen nearly bite his tongue off.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, but instead of receiving any sympathy from the crowd, he and Ren Xingchen were ordered to sign the disownment papers!

"Old Xiao, just sign it. It’s only been a few days since Yunyun came to the Capital City, and your family has had nonstop trouble."

"That’s right. Since you all can’t get along, it’s better to separate sooner rather than later. Living with Grandma Guo doesn’t mean Yunyun will have a hard life."

"We all live in the same building. If you feel bad about it, you can always help look after her from time to time..."

Their words, one after another, made Xiao Xuezhen’s already aching and muddled head spin even faster until it shut down completely. Annoyed and resentful, he furiously scrawled his name, not even bothering to read what was written on the paper.

Since he had nodded and signed, Ren Xingchen naturally didn’t resist either. She shot Sheng Leyun a resentful glance, biting her lip and putting on a full display of a mother’s heartache and reluctance before writing her own name as tears plopped onto the paper.

"Let’s go, my good girl. Grandma will take you home. First thing tomorrow morning, Grandma will go get your household registration taken care of." Grandma Guo was overjoyed, clutching the disownment papers in one hand and holding Sheng Leyun’s hand with the other.

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