NDAFPA Chapter 26
Novi’s Notes: So, I was absolutely confused on what happened in Chapter 25. Basically, a group of people who weren’t part of the Shi family infiltrated the lab and tricked Shi Luo to go to the central lab with them. Later, Shi Luo realized they aren’t part of the Shi family but rather the enemies of the Shi family. These group of people came to blow up the central lab to derail the Shi family’s years of research and happened to recover the ML while doing so in the original plot. So, even if Shi Luo escapes the Shi family, this group of people would also be looking for her too along with her family.
Translated by Novice Translations
Proofread by Nesryn
Chapter 26
When they left, Shi Luo felt a little strange. The group of people disappeared. Logically speaking, they specialized in secrecy. How could they leave without achieving their purpose while Mu Suo and her were left undetected?
“They’re not here?” Shi Luo said in surprise after the two exited safely.
“Maybe they left without finding anyone.” The look in Mu Suo’s eyes was elusive.
It’s true that they couldn’t find someone, but they didn’t leave after not finding that person, instead, they were destroyed. Mu Suo recalled the bomb among that group of people when she arrived. Since they wanted to die so much, she will help them.
"Really?" Shi Luo said, without thinking too much about it. It would be nice if no one was here.
The bone flower obviously knew its master. It drooped its petals and touched its clever brain. It’s really smart. Fortunately, it understood that this person couldn’t make a move. Otherwise, it would be miserable. I’m so smart!
The bone flower thought while being dragged away in Mu Suo’s pants.
Shi Luo realized it when she returned to her apartment that the plot ran away. It wasn’t today?
Compared to Shi Luo's obsession with the plot, Mu Suo’s mindset was much simpler.
Within two minutes of returning to the bedroom, someone came.
Mu Suo opened the door and looked at the big battlefield in front of her. Mu Suo sneered. The Shi family was really declining, their reaction was too slow.
Mu Suo was pressed in the middle.
When the bone flower saw those badly battered people who were silent, it felt really incredulous that no one other than its master would go as far as to beat them.
“Elder Dean, Dean, people have arrived.”
The old man was helped by the middle-aged Dean and stopped in front of Mu Suo.
"How did you find these people?" Elder Dean asked. His eyes were full of doubt.
“I found them when I went to look for Shi Luo.” Mu Suo replied softly.
“Then how did you get in?” It’s known that after the central lab is closed, not even a fly can get in. The old man’s eyes stared fixedly at Mu Suo.
Mu Suo raised her eyes and looked up at the other person, then smiled and said sarcastically, “You should ask yourself this ah! I walked in. I don’t know how the lab system was breached, so how can I know how I got in? Why don’t you ask those guys? Ask them how they got in!” Mu Suo’s tone was extremely sarcastic. As long as she recalled that if she didn’t look for Shi Luo in time, what she would have found was the lab in flames from the bomb with nothing left, including Shi Luo!
Elder Dean choked. He thought this girl knew something.
“Forget it, father, let's ask this group of people. It seems that she really just happened to encounter them when they broke into our lab’s defense system.” The Dean lightly glanced at Mu Suo and said.
“You go back. Don’t talk about today’s events. You did a good job today with your contributions. We will consider your identity.” The Dean said to Mu Suo.
Mu Suo didn’t say anything. She just glanced at those people on the ground with her eyes full of killing intent. Now that their purpose had been achieved, what were the next steps?
Shi Luo was notified early the next morning that her original permit to leave was withdrawn.
Shi Luo frowned, no ah! It stands to reason that the Shi family shouldn’t have found those people yet ah! Otherwise, it was impossible with how small the movements were yesterday, how was her permit withdrawn?
Mu Suo saw Shi Luo frowned and asked, “Luo Luo, what’s wrong? Why are you unhappy?”
Shi Luo shook her head. “Not really. In fact, I thought it might turn out like this a long time ago. It’s just that I still feel lost when I got the news…”
"Lost?" When Mu Suo said this word, she felt that there were countless ants crawling on her and biting her. She said with difficulty, “You…you want to leave…get married and have kids?” Shi Luo could hear the abnormality of her tone when she said the last five words.
Shi Luo smiled. How could she forget that although Mu Suo has changed a lot, she still was insecure? When she heard that she was going to get married and have kids, she would definitely be sad. Just like a single mother who wanted to get married, her children would feel insecure.
Shi Luo touched Mu Suo's head, “I don’t want to get married and have children. I want to leave. And in my heart, you will always be special.” And always be irreplaceable. In the novel, you were written by me word by word. Now, you changed before my eyes, you’re irreplaceable.
When Mu Suo heard this, her heart beat bathumped, thump…recalling these words, all her body temperature rushed to her face.
Shi Luo looked at Mu Suo's flushed face and immediately smiled, “Are you actually so shy?!” Shi Luo pinched Mu Suo’s face. Her delicate and smooth skin made her so lovable. She looked at Shi Luo with such big eyes. Shi Luo’s heart was hot, this kind of Mu Suo is really…too cute!
"You are too cute!" Shi Luo said, touching Mu Suo's face. Her eyes were full of indulgence.
Mu Suo didn’t know why at this moment, her beating heart calmed down, and she had the urge to cry.
Shi Luo always regarded her as a child, even though she was as tall as she is now and her measurements were catching up to her. Yet, she was still regarded as a child.
Mu Suo's heart felt suffocated for a while. Why did she feel unhappy? This was obviously fine, right?
I'm always by Shi Luo’s side as much as I like, right? Then, why do I feel so sad right now when Shi Luo clearly still treats me as a child?
"Mu Suo?" Shi Luo wondered why Mu Suo's face suddenly turned pale. “Are you not feeling well?” Shi Luo asked with concern.
Mu Suo raised her head and looked at Shi Luo, who looked at her with concern. There were a million words in her heart, but she couldn’t say a word.
She wanted to ask, in your heart, can I be more important than your family?
She wanted to say, Shi Luo, we can’t have a family, and we aren’t married, is that okay? Can the both of us live together for a lifetime?
…………
Finally, Mu Suo fled.
The plump bone flower wept silently. Master, I shouldn’t have cursed your public display of affection to quickly die, I was wrong…
Shi Luo was confused by Mu Suo’s reaction. What’s wrong? Is she in the rebellious stage? No, it can’t be! I don’t have experience dealing with children in their rebellious stage. I only taught college students and haven’t seen students in their rebellious stage. Now, I have a headache.
“Teacher Shi Luo, please come with me to see the Dean.” When Shi Luo was about to go find Mu Suo, she was stopped.
Shi Luo was surprised. Didn’t he already send someone over here this morning? Why is he looking for me again?
The bone flower silently became a flower tie on Shi Luo’s hair.
When Shi Luo entered, she was shocked. Didn’t you say that the Dean invited me?
"..." Shi Luo didn't know what to say.
“Did you know? You never met dad since we first met.” The middle-aged man who had been sitting stood up and said.
Shi Luo's eyes widened. The first time we met? She had an ominous premonition.
The middle-aged man came over and said, “I told myself countless times that it was because my family’s little princess was angry with me. I shouldn’t have gone back two years ago…” When the middle-aged man said, ‘my family’s little princess’, he spoke softly, but when he looked at Shi Luo, his eyes suddenly became fierce. “But can you tell me why you don’t know anything about the Shi family? Why do you really believe that we are just a branch of the Shi family?” Father Shi’s eyes became more and more fierce.
Shi Luo just thought that the plot was pulled. She never thought it would be the person in front of her that had a very weak sense of existence at home to pull it…
(TN: She was found out that she isn’t the original Shi Luo but someone who transmigrated into that body. So, the plot can’t proceed since the other extra characters realize she isn’t the true Shi Luo…)
“My daughter has been a little princess since she was a little girl. It is absolutely impossible for my daughter to go to school on a bike! What’s more, it’s absolutely impossible for my daughter to lead such an ordinary life and be content! But the most important thing is that my daughter doesn’t touch spring water with her fingers*! Who the hell are you?!”
(TN: It means that someone who is wealthy doesn’t need to do menial chores since the servants can do it. For the reference in this verse, spring water is used to wash the clothes so a wealthy person doesn’t need to touch spring water since they don’t need to wash their clothes.)
Shi Luo was crying silently. She was exposed like this…can she say that she rides a bike to school because she gets carsick? Poverty is a disease!
“What’s your relationship with those groups of people from last night?!”
Shi Luo was silent, now there was nothing to say. Gauge visually.
She doesn’t know if she’s the first person to transmigrate or not. If not, then she must be the first person to be discovered!
Chapter 27
Author’s Executive Summary: Life is like a play, which depends on acting. Obviously, the dean gets full marks! – Shi Luo
“Where is my daughter?” Shi Father looked at Shi Luo with eyes blazing in anger.
Shi Luo shook her head. She did not know what to tell him. What could she say? That she woke up one day in this body that belonged to his daughter?
Shi Luo felt that if she said that, he would definitely not believe it.
What’s more, Shi Luo knew that there existed a special family who had the ability to change their appearance into whoever they pleased. They were related to those people who had broken into the laboratory yesterday.
It looked like now he believed that she was one of those people.
Father Shi sat down in agitation and stopped looking at Shi Luo.
He had been searching for his daughter for so many years, but he still hadn’t found any signs of her. There was no news at all, it was as if the person who was in front of him did not belong to this world and no one knew that she had suddenly replaced his daughter.
But he knew that this girl was not his daughter. Everything could be changed, but there was one thing that was absolutely impossible to change, and that was, temperament. It was absolutely impossible for his daughter to have this kind of temperament that had experienced vicissitudes of life and seen through the world. Adding on the small details which were exposed from time to time, he was even more sure that this girl was not his daughter.
Most importantly, his ‘daughter’ did not even know the most basic thing about the Shi family. From the moment he asked his second brother to test her, she began to expose the flaws.
But the strangest thing was that the blood of the Shi family flowed within her body. He did not know what method she used but according to the skills of that family, this was not entirely impossible.
Just where was his daughter? If it was not because of the fact that those people had started to act, he would not dare to act so rashly and place his hands on other people’s subordinates.
“As long as you tell where my daughter is, I can consider letting you live.” Shi father said as he stood up and looked at Shi Luo.
Shi Luo looked into his eyes. It was not that she didn’t want to answer, it was that she really did not know.
Unexpectedly, this father was so concerned about his daughter. No wonder he hardly said a word at home. Perhaps, at that time he probably wished that he could find ways to bring his daughter back.
She just didn’t know if Mother Shi felt the same way.
Shi Luo inexplicably felt uncomfortable.
It was probably because she never had a loved one missing her so much.
She closed her eyes and said, “I am indeed not your daughter.”
“I know, what I want to know is where is my daughter?!” Shi Luo’s father viciously grabbed her hand.
“You’re being…” Shi Luo frowned as she endured the pain on her wrist.
But before she could speak anything else, she heard a commotion from outside.
“Mrs. Dean, you can’t go in.”
“I can’t go in?” Then there was the familiar voice of her mother.
When Shi father heard his wife’s voice, he squeezed Shi Luo’s wrist fiercely. When he saw the pain in Shi Luo’s eyes, he let go of her hand and warned ruthlessly, “Don’t expose yourself!”
Shi Luo was confused when she heard this. What did he mean by ‘don’t expose yourself’? Now in their eyes, wasn’t she already exposed?
Before Shi Luo had time to ask what he meant, her mother walked in with her arms wide open as she said, “Luo Luo, mother is back!”
Shi Luo was even more confused. What was happening? Did they mean that her mother did not know the truth yet?
“Why have you lost so much weight?” Her mother let go of her and touched her face.
Shi Luo has not seen her mother for several years. Ever since Shi Luo entered the research institute, she had not seen her mother again. Unexpectedly, her mother has not changed at all. In contrast, Shi’s father was getting old.
“I’m back.” Her mother turned around to look at her husband.
“Is it going well this time?” Shi’s father gave Shi’s mother a hug and asked her gently.
Shi’s mother nodded, “It’s relatively smooth. But the final result is still not ideal.”
Shi’s father touched Shi’s mother’s head, “It’s okay, we still have a chance. You have just come back, let’s go to rest . I will say a few words to the child.”
“No, you can rest. I want to see my baby girl first.” Shi’s mother took Shi Luo’s hand.
Father Shi smiled and said, “Okay then you can catch up with her first.” But from an angle from which Mother Shi could not see, he gave a warning look to Shi Luo.
When the little flower came back to her senses, she saw this scene of Mother Shi touching Shi Luo’s head lovingly.
The little flower furled and unfurled its petals in confusion. There was no mistake. Was he in the wrong room?
Little flower felt that the world was changing too fast. He looked like he wanted to kill her right now. How did it turn into a loving scene between a mother and daughter!
Did the couple discuss it in advance? The little flower tucked away its petals, wrapped them up, and then climbed out. It was necessary for the little flower to inform its owner that the alarm was removed. Otherwise, the owner would pull out all its petals. Well, although it didn’t matter since they would grow again anyway, but it hurts ah!
Life was like a play! Shi Luo only had this thought at that moment, but when she saw her mother’s gentle and loving eyes, Shi Luo unexpectedly felt warm.
“Luo Luo, your father wasn’t too harsh on you, right?” Mother Shi asked. She had no way to come back for so many years due to physical reasons. She could only listen to her husband giving her updates on Shi Luo’s situation.
Shi Luo thought for a moment, apart from the half an hour before Mother Shi came back, everything was easy-going, so she shook her head.
“Cough cough cough cough” Mother Shi laughed so hard, she started coughing.
Shi Luo patted Mother Shi’s back lightly.
“He is really strange. When he was young, he used to pamper you a lot. But now that you have grown up, he has become strict.”
Shi Luo thought in her heart, obviously he would pamper his real daughter. Now that a counterfeit had appeared, of course there would be a big gap in behavior.
Shi Luo did not pay attention to what she said afterwards. Shi Luo’s mind drifted to father Shi’s behavior and wondered why he wanted to hide the truth. But now it seemed that the reason why he kept it to himself was because he wanted to protect his wife’s feelings.
Shi Luo was still in a trance even when the three people sat down together for a meal.
Shi Luo’s mother touched her head in distress and asked her, “What’s wrong? Why do I feel that Luo Luo is not feeling very good today…”
Father Shi raised his eyes and looked at Shi Luo. The warning in his eyes was clearly visible.
Shi Luo smiled at her mother and said, “I’m fine. Maybe it was because I slept a little late last night, so I am not feeling very energetic.”
“Girls should not go to bed late. It is not good for your skin and body.” Mother Luo looked at her lovingly.
Shi Luo nodded and said, “It won’t happen again.”
“By the way, husband, I heard a while ago that you were looking for someone for Luo Luo?” Mother Shi suddenly remembered an important event.
Shi Luo almost choked upon hearing this, “Looking for someone?” She almost forgot.
“Oh something happened and we decided to delay it.” Shi Luo explained quickly.
Originally she wanted to leave. But this accident had not happened then. Now she doesn’t even dare to think about leaving now. The Dean will tear her apart if there was someone not keeping an eye on her.
She did not know what the Dean was thinking but his eyes were lost in a deep thought. Shi Luo had an ominous premonition.
“Don’t worry about it. Think about it more carefully.” Dean Shi said.
Shi Luo sighed.
She did not breathe a sigh of relief. She didn’t think that Dean Shi would let her go, especially now that he knew that she had replaced his Shi Luo.
When Shi Luo said that she wanted to go back to her apartment, Shi Luo’s mother immediately turned her face to look at Dean Shi, “Can Luo Luo live here?”
Dean laughed helplessly, “She was crying and clamoring to move out and be free. I can’t hold her down, right?”
Shi Luo heard what Dean Shi said, and quickly followed up, “Yes, it’s close to where I work.”
Mother Shi glanced at Shi Luo bitterly, “My daughter has grown up now…”
Shi Luo felt her chest clench, but she was really innocent.
“Well, it’s too late now. Let Luo Luo go back first, and you should also take your medicine too.” Dean Shi said.
Mother Shi sent Shi Luo off.
Shi Luo was escorted to the door of his apartment by several of the Dean’s men. After that they stood outside the door, refusing to leave the place.
Shi Luo did not say anything. She simply opened the door and walked in.
The room was completely dark.
Shi Luo wondered, “Why is it pitch black? Is there something wrong with the lighting system?”
In the next second, she was embraced by a pair of warm arms.
