Chapter 1761: Unlucky Heiress (28)

“I just haven’t eaten anything this delicious in an entire week. Plus, studying has been tiring, so I’m a little exhausted.”

“Then hurry up and eat and go back to rest,” Tang Guo said with a smile. “I actually felt like I’d seen you somewhere before. Thinking about it now, I remember—you came here once before.”

Tang Yi’s expression changed slightly before she quickly smiled again. “That’s right. So this shop belongs to your adoptive parents. Auntie and Uncle are really amazing to be able to make food this delicious.”

Especially when she saw how Chen Xian and Zhao Wen doted on Tang Guo, Tang Yi felt a faint bitterness in her heart.

Why was the difference between people so great?

Even after getting lost, Tang Guo had never suffered.

Though her adoptive parents weren’t wealthy, she had still lived such a happy life.

Now they had even given up their original business and spent a large sum of money to open this shop here just for Tang Guo. How deeply must they love her?

Her parents were the same. Even after being separated from Tang Guo for over ten years, they had not forgotten her. Instead, the memory had only become more precious with time.

She, on the other hand, had never been cherished that way, even when her own parents were still alive.

She remembered being three or four years old. Her parents argued constantly, and her mother would hit her over the slightest thing.

Later, both of them died in an accident. Her grandparents despised her for being a girl and refused to acknowledge her.

None of her relatives wanted to take care of her either. No one wanted such a burden, and in the end she was sent to the orphanage.

Yet Tang Guo seemed to have the fate of a rich young lady no matter where she went. There were always so many people who liked her.

“Xiao Yi, who’s that? Your friend or classmate?”

After Tang Guo went inside, one of Tang Yi’s friends finally asked.

Tang Yi couldn’t lie. After all, these friends would see Tang Guo at tomorrow night’s banquet and would learn her identity anyway.

Taking a deep breath, she said, “She’s my parents’ biological daughter. She’s Tang Guo. This snack shop was opened by her adoptive parents.”

“Really?” Her friends were all shocked, and when they looked at Tang Guo again, their gazes became somewhat complicated.

Previously, they had assumed that someone raised outside the family could never compare to proper young ladies like themselves.

Unexpectedly, Tang Guo had a slim and delicate figure, fair skin, cherry lips, and an oval face. She was far prettier than any of them.

Her voice was sweet, and her appearance and voice only enhanced her elegant temperament.

No matter how they looked at her, she resembled a true young miss.

Tang Yi found the meal joyless. After accompanying her friends until they finished eating, she said she wanted to go home.

On the way back, one of her friends quietly reminded her, “Xiao Yi, I don’t think this young miss is simple. You need to be careful. I looked into her before, and her grades are actually pretty good. With her scores, she could have gone to a better school, but she chose this one instead. I suspect she might have known something in advance.”

“Really?” Tang Yi didn’t believe it. If Tang Guo had truly known her background, why hadn’t she gone to find her family herself?

The only reason they had met was because she had been greedy for snacks. Otherwise, they would never have crossed paths.

“Don’t overthink it. With your parents’ character, even if they can’t give you as much, they won’t mistreat you. But they must feel very guilty toward their own daughter. If that young miss wants more, they’ll definitely favor her. That’s why we keep telling you to make plans for yourself.”

Not long after Tang Yi returned to the villa, she looked out from upstairs and saw Tang Guo getting out of Tang Kui’s car. Her expression changed slightly. In the end, she went downstairs to greet them.

Wearing a smile, she asked, “Xiao Guo, did Big Brother bring you back?”

“Mm. Brother probably happened to be passing by,” Tang Guo answered.

Tang Yi felt stifled. “Probably,” she said.

Passing by?

As far as she remembered, the company and Tang Guo’s school weren’t even on the same route.

So Tang Kui had gone to pick her up personally?