Inside the Xie family villa, the lights were on.

"Just to stand up for Xie Li, you made the servants spend the whole afternoon catching sweet potatoes?"

Jiang Baili was incredulous. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. "Pharmacist Chen, what's going on? How does Xie Li know Pharmacist Chen?"

Xie Yunqiu's expression also turned somewhat unpleasant: "Isn't it all because of Xie Ziyuan?"

Pharmacist Chen was a proud man. Although he worked for the Xie family, he was not someone they could easily please. Only Xie Ziyuan could earn his respect.

Xie Yunqiu: "I really don't understand what Xie Ziyuan is thinking. She's going to so much trouble to pave the way for the real heiress. Will this fake heiress still have any standing in the Xie family?"

Her tone was full of sarcasm, "Ding Huizhu is really good at brainwashing people. She says she genuinely loves Xie Ziyuan, but it seems she's just using her."

Jiang Baili pursed her lips, clenched her fingers, and remained silent.

She kept thinking about that fleeting glimpse of Xie Li when he returned.

Xie Yunqiu had always been too lazy to even glance at Xie Li, feeling that a country girl was not worth her attention.

But Jiang Baili was different. She had noticed long ago that Xie Li's skin had become better and better after he stopped applying that green paste to his face.

After just two days apart over the weekend, Xie Li had completely changed. Not only had her hair grown longer, but her skin was also glowing with a radiant, jade-like whiteness.

If she weren't still rational, she would have suspected that Xie Li had secretly gone for plastic surgery!

“Mom,” Jiang Baili said slowly, “Have you noticed Xie Li’s appearance? She… seems to have become more beautiful.”

She looked up at Xie Yunqiu and asked, "Do you think she underwent such a transformation because she took that intermediate-level muscle-regenerating pill?"

She still couldn't forget the intermediate-level muscle-regenerating pill that Xie Ziyuan had sent her. Such a good thing was usually given to her, but now it was just given to a bumpkin for nothing.

Her fingers twisted and contorted, her eyes reddening with jealousy.

It's only been a short time, and Xie Li has changed so much. If she eats it, she will definitely become more beautiful, and more importantly, she will also have a head of thick, black hair!

Xie Yunqiu certainly remembered this incident. Didn't she feel envious and jealous?

She is an elder, and Xie Ziyuan, a fake heiress, should try to please her first if she wants to win over the Xie family.

She was upset. "Ziyuan is really getting more and more stingy as she gets older."

He used to be considerate of everyone, never showing favoritism, and he was very respectful to his aunt.

Xie Yunqiu glanced at Jiang Baili and said, "In the end, it's your own fault for being so useless. I made you memorize the Xie Family Herbal Manual since you were little, did you even memorize it?"

Jiang Baili looked somewhat embarrassed: "Mom! You know that the Xie Family Herbal Manual cannot be taken out. I can only sneak a peek when I come to the Xie family to pay respects to our ancestors every year. How could I possibly memorize it!"

"The sentences on it are profound and difficult to understand. Many of the words are not even modern Chinese or traditional characters. I can't understand them at all!"

Xie Yunqiu: "...What's the rush? I was just making a casual complaint."

She knew, of course, that Jiang Baili shouldn't be blamed for this; she was just upset.

Why is Xie Ziyuan entitled to preferential treatment, such as following the Xie family's alchemist to the TCM base to learn TCM?

Although Xie Ziyuan was not qualified to read "Xie's Herbal Compendium," she started as an apprentice and gradually achieved her current success.

But she was still unhappy, feeling that Ding Huizhu was too cunning, having the foresight to send Xie Ziyuan to be a traditional Chinese medicine apprentice from a young age, leaving Jiang Baili far behind.