“Sigh, this child really is something. If she wasn’t feeling well, why didn’t she say so? She told us she was fine when we called this morning, and by evening she had already fainted.”
Lu Xiao stroked her daughter’s head and kept muttering.
“Zhuo Yi must have bullied little sister. No, I’m going to find him!”
Second Brother said angrily.
“Find him for what? Can you even beat him?”
Eldest Brother rolled his eyes.
“Then what are we supposed to do? We can’t just let little sister get sick for nothing.”
Second Brother glared back unhappily.
“You idiot. We obviously can’t confront him directly, but we can do it indirectly.”
Eldest Brother’s eyes darted around as he spoke.
“Indirectly? How?”
Second Brother immediately leaned closer with interest.
“Make him compensate us with food and Fire Crystals.”
Eldest Brother glanced around to make sure nobody else was listening before continuing.
“How does that work?”
Second Brother became even more interested.
“Cold exposure compensation, illness compensation, emotional distress compensation, lost work compensation, and so on. Asking for five hundred pounds of beast meat and fifty pounds of Fire Crystals isn’t excessive, right?”
“Not excessive at all! That’s a great idea!”
“Shut up!”
Huang Xiaoxiao was completely stunned by their shamelessness.
Seriously?
Scamming other people was one thing.
But Zhuo Yi was basically family now.
Was it really okay to scam your own family?
“What did you say? You were the one who said it, so why are you—”
“Ah, Xiaoxiao’s awake! Hurry over here!”
Seeing the eyelids of the person on the bed fluttering, Lu Xiao quickly called out.
The two brothers, who had been whispering in the corner, immediately rushed over.
“Little Sister is finally awake! That’s great!”
“Little Sister, open your eyes and look at me. I’m your second brother!”
“I’m your eldest brother!”
“And I’m your mother!”
Everyone rushed to speak first.
“So noisy.”
Huang Xiaoxiao opened her eyes and looked at them unhappily.
Her gaze swept around the room.
Not seeing Zhuo Yi, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If he had heard what they were saying earlier, how hurt would he have been?
Anyone listening would think they were trying to extort him.
“Where’s Zhuo Yi?”
Still, she asked.
She had fainted, so why wasn’t he here?
“Oh, he just went home to cook for you.”
Second Brother answered casually.
Cooking?
Huang Xiaoxiao rubbed her stomach.
Now that she thought about it, she really was hungry.
Lu Xiao pressed the call button beside the hospital bed.
The doctor arrived quickly.
After another examination, he informed them that the patient was fine.
She had simply skipped meals and been exposed to the cold wind for too long, causing her body to temporarily give out.
Only then did Huang Xiaoxiao remember that she had indeed forgotten to eat yesterday.
All her attention had been focused on reforging the bracelet.
Wait.
Her bracelet.
“Mom, have you seen a bracelet? The bracelet I forged?”
Huang Xiaoxiao hurriedly asked.
“What bracelet? Since when do you know how to forge bracelets?”
Lu Xiao reached over and touched Huang Xiaoxiao’s forehead.
Was her daughter still sick?
Maybe they should call the doctor back.
“It’s real! I forged a bracelet yesterday. A storage bracelet. The space inside is huge!”
Huang Xiaoxiao became anxious.
“Where’s Zhuo Yi? When is he coming?”
“What is it?”
Just as she finished speaking, a deep voice sounded from the doorway.
Huang Xiaoxiao looked up and saw the man whose scar stretched across his entire face.
When she first met him, she had been too frightened to even look directly at him.
Now she wasn’t nearly as afraid.
Perhaps because she already knew that the owner of that scar was actually a gentle person.
“Zhuo Yi, have you seen my storage bracelet?”
The first thing she asked about was the bracelet.
That thing was a treasure.
It might even be the largest storage bracelet in the world.
“Eat first. We can talk after you’ve eaten.”
Zhuo Yi’s voice was gentle, but his tone left no room for refusal.
Huang Xiaoxiao didn’t dare argue with him.
She was afraid that if she refused to eat, he wouldn’t give it to her.
“Give it to me.”
She grabbed the lunchbox from his hands.
Her movements were incredibly swift.
She didn’t look like a sick person at all.
And the speed at which she ate—
It was as if she hadn’t eaten in eight hundred years.
Fuu, fuu, fuu.
The sounds were loud and unpleasant.
Not ladylike in the slightest.
Lu Xiao covered her face and turned away awkwardly.
This was too embarrassing.
Who taught her to eat like that?
Both brothers looked a little embarrassed as well.
They glanced at their sister, then at Zhuo Yi.
Fortunately, they didn’t see any disgust on his face.
This had to be true love.
He didn’t even dislike a sister this rough and uncultured.
Maybe they should forget about the five hundred pounds of meat and fifty pounds of Fire Crystals.
All they hoped now was that he would treat her well.
“Done!”
Huang Xiaoxiao swallowed the last bite and held out her hand.
“My bracelet.”
Faced with such a woman, Zhuo Yi could only sigh helplessly.
He took out the bracelet, which emitted a faint glow.
“You really forged it!”
The moment they saw the bracelet, Lu Xiao and the two brothers stared in disbelief.
They had never seen Huang Xiaoxiao successfully create anything before.
Yet on the very first day after marrying Zhuo Yi, she had successfully forged something.
This…
“Of course!”
Huang Xiaoxiao looked extremely proud.
She had never doubted her own abilities.
Putting the bracelet on her wrist, she sent her consciousness inside to check the storage space.
“So? How big is it?”
Lu Xiao was genuinely curious.
How large was the storage space inside the first item her supposedly useless daughter had ever successfully forged?
The two brothers were equally curious.
Only Zhuo Yi remained calm.
He already knew how large the space was, so he wasn’t curious at all.
“It’s nothing special. Just a few hundred thousand square meters.”
Huang Xiaoxiao spoke casually, as if discussing something completely ordinary.
Cough!
Hearing that, Zhuo Yi immediately turned his face away.
Two square meters had somehow become several hundred thousand in her description…
This…
“Wow, little sister is amazing!”
After staring blankly for several seconds, Second Brother exaggeratedly praised her.
“Little sister really is impressive.”
Eldest Brother smiled and gave her a thumbs-up.
“Not bad. You’ve got talent.”
Lu Xiao patted her on the back.
This bragging had practically reached the heavens.
That alone was impressive.
Even the three of them combined couldn’t boast at her level.
Huang Xiaoxiao happily accepted all the compliments.
She knew they were only being polite.
Not one of them actually believed her.
But whether they believed it or not didn’t matter.
They would find out eventually.
One day she would leave them completely shocked.
Then they would see whether they believed her or not.
Her eyes darted around mischievously.
Suddenly, she felt an urge to prank them.
…
After returning home from the hospital—
Zhuo Yi had work to do and couldn’t stay with her.
Huang Xiaoxiao told him to focus on his own business and not worry about her.
“Alright. Call me if anything happens. And since you just got back today, don’t do any forging.”
Before leaving, Zhuo Yi specifically reminded her.
“Mhm, mhm. I know.”
Huang Xiaoxiao nodded obediently.
Zhuo Yi stared at her carefully for a moment before finally turning and leaving.
The moment his figure disappeared—
Huang Xiaoxiao ran straight to the cauldron.
Not forge anything?
How was that possible?
After finally discovering her heaven-defying ability, she wished she could work on it twenty-four hours a day without resting.
She took out the forging materials.
Then tossed the materials for creating a storage space into the cauldron.
This time, she deliberately did not control the fire.
She wanted to see whether she could still successfully forge something without regulating the flames.