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The car door opened, and a middle-aged man stepped out. He walked around the front of the car to Shen Man's side and said anxiously, "Manman, Daddy's late today. Were you waiting long?"

"No, Dad, I just came out."

Shen Man turned to look at Linlin, her face beaming with smiles, "Come visit me again tomorrow, and I'll buy you candy."

Linlin secretly glanced at her brother and nodded vigorously.

Shen Changshan's eyes lit up at the sight. "Has Manman made a good friend?"

Shen Man hummed in agreement, offered no further explanation, and bent down to get into the car.

Shen Changshan smiled at Linlin, then nodded to Jiang Chengzhou and Yan Yuan before walking back to the driver's seat and starting the car.

Jiang Chengzhou stood there, watching the car disappear around the street corner, frowning. "Who is that person? Is it okay for Linlin to play with her?"

In this day and age, not many people can afford to drive a car; you could count them on one hand in their area.

Even if you have money, you can't necessarily buy a car; the key is that you have to be eligible.

Yan Yuan said softly, "It's alright. What she said before was right. She can protect Linlin even better than we can."

"Whose daughter is she?" Jiang Chengzhou asked.

Linlin looked over curiously as well.

Yan Yuan shook his head. "There used to be a very famous old pharmacy in Guangzhou, the largest pharmacy in the entire southern province. They also had a large pharmaceutical factory, which was later nationalized."

Now that the case has been overturned, the pharmaceutical factory can't be taken back, but most of the original land deeds and property have been returned.

Jiang Chengzhou was still puzzled. "What kind of job was assigned to him? Was he made a high-ranking leader?"

Yan Yuan seemed to have inquired carefully beforehand, "No, the land for that building in the municipal government was donated by the Shen family."

Jiang Chengzhou: "..."

Linlin whispered, "Wow."

Yan Yuan seemed to think the siblings hadn't been shocked enough, so he added, "By the way, the land for this department store also belongs to the Shen family, as does the hotel across the street. To be precise, this whole street belongs to the Shen family."

Shen Changshan is not short of money, nor does he intend to show off now that he has turned his life around.

Shen Man is the only child in the Shen family, and she is like their precious darling. Because she has difficulty walking, Shen Changshan tries his best to buy a car so that he can pick her up and drop her off easily.

However, Yan Yuan did not expect that the eldest daughter of the Shen family would open a shop across the street and personally guard it.

If Shen Changshan hadn't come to pick her up today, he wouldn't have known about Shen Man's background.

"Miss Shen is the only child in the Shen family, and all the family fortune will go to her. Many people are eyeing her family's inheritance. However, Linlin is a girl. If you want to play with her, go ahead, but there's no need to fawn over her, understand?"

"it is good."

Yan Yuan's lips curled into a smile. "Alright, go home and have dinner."

Just as Linlin was about to agree, she saw Jiang Chengzhou staring blankly at the street corner.

"Brother, what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing," Jiang Chengzhou said, coming back to his senses.

No wonder Shen Man said he didn't deserve sympathy for her; Jiang Chengzhou felt that he was the one who should be pitied more now.

He's so rich, I want to marry him.

The thought flashed through their minds, but Jiang Chengzhou and Yan Yuan still had to go to the dock to collect the goods after dinner.

When he has money, he'll buy a whole street and buy Linlin a car and a big house.

After that day, Linlin made friends, and Shen Man also made friends.

However, Shen Man refused to acknowledge Linlin as her friend, always calling her "little sister," and her greatest joy every day was teasing her and dressing her up.

Jiang Chengzhou sometimes felt that she treated her younger sister like a doll.

Linlin herself was enjoying it, and he, as her older brother, couldn't say anything about it.

On the other hand, what they didn't know was that Shen Changshan had already investigated almost everything about the three of them.

If Yan Yuan or Jiang Chengzhou deliberately tried to get close to Shen Man, Shen Changsan would definitely have driven them away. However, the two brothers just stayed at that stall all day long, and every few days they would secretly go to the mainland to buy goods. They didn't seem to have any intention of getting close to Shen Man.

That girl was living a life just as hard as his own Manman had been. Shen Changshan didn't know if his daughter had transferred her feelings to her, but he would support whatever his daughter liked.

A few days later, Linlin received many gifts from the Shen family, including watches, jewelry, clothes, cosmetics, and more.

She dared not accept it and quickly took it to return to Shen Man.

Shen Man held up the headband to her head and said, "What are you afraid of? My dad has more money than he can spend. You can help him spend some."

Linlin was both amused and exasperated. "Sister, I really don't want to. It feels weird."

"What's strange about it?"

"If I'm close to you, I can't take anything from you, otherwise it wouldn't be pure."

Shen Man was amused by her words. Then she said seriously, "Then what should I do? The more you don't want to accept it, the more I want to give it to you."

The Shen family suddenly became wealthy, and many people wanted to curry favor with them.

Over the years, this family has seen all sorts of cold shoulders; they can tell at a glance whether someone is sincere or not.

Shen Manyan disliked those who tried to curry favor with them and extract money from their pockets.

On the contrary, the more someone like Linlin doesn't want something, the more Shen Man wants to give it to her.

"Little sister, why don't you come with me? From now on, you'll be my little sister. You can do whatever you want, and you can have whatever you want. You won't have to sell fish anymore."

Linlin quickly shook her head, "No, we're good friends."

Shen Man poked her forehead in annoyance, "Idiot, don't you know right from wrong?"

Linlin's eyes crinkled into a smile. "Sister Manman, the book says, 'Wealth and honor cannot corrupt, poverty and hardship cannot sway, and power and force cannot subdue.'"

Shen Man finally understood why some rich young ladies on stage would fall in love with poor scholars.

She would like poor scholars to be like Linlin.

Linlin took her arm, excitedly saying, "Sister Manman, I'm going to night school!"

Shen Man paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, at your age, you should still be in school."

"Once I get into university, I'll become a leader."

Shen Man laughed and said, "So you studied just to become a leader? Your ideals aren't exactly pure."

"No, that's not it," Linlin nuzzled against her shoulder, "I'll be a good leader."

Shen Man chuckled, then suddenly asked her, "Your brother definitely wants you to go to school, right? What about that Yan Yuan? Did he try to stop you from going to school?"

Linlin looked puzzled. "No, why would Brother Yuan stop me from going to school?"

Shen Man scoffed, "That's more like it. If he stops you, I'll go to his door and kill him!"

Shen Man simply tends to assume the worst about human nature.

Yan Yuan may be able to earn some money now, but in the eyes of the public, he is still a self-employed individual who is looked down upon.

Without stable employment, their livelihoods are precarious.

If Linlin gets into university and has a better future, the gap between the two of them will widen.

By then, what will Yan Yuan have to offer that makes him worthy of her?

Liking and loving can sometimes be selfish, and Shen Man has seen too many examples of that.