Afterword 1 [The Reverse Deduction of the Braided Ponytail]_2

Noticing this, Tian Cao swallowed the words that had reached her lips and took out her phone to answer the call.

"Little Cao, are you coming back for lunch?" As the call connected, Aunt Tian's voice came through the receiver.

"No, Mom, Sister Shanshan and I will just grab something near the school." Tian Cao replied.

"Alright, then I won't cook lunch for you. In the afternoon, I'll go to the supermarket to buy some groceries and make a nice dinner to celebrate your first day of school and your eighteenth birthday as well." Aunt Tian's face beamed with joy on the other end of the line.

Ever since Tian Cao was a child, Aunt Tian would buy groceries and cook a nice meal every time it was her birthday. Today was Tian Cao's eighteenth birthday, so Aunt Tian naturally wanted to give her a proper celebration.

But—