Huo Yunshu had only intended to pay back five or ten yuan, but he never expected Gu Yun to take sixty yuan from him—sixty yuan! All his savings from the past few years were gone! Heavens above! Earth below! Someone's robbing me!

Gu Yun wasn't satisfied yet. She carried away a small bag of flour and a large piece of cured meat from Huo Yun's study, and warned Huo Yun, "Stay away from my sister-in-law in the future, or next time she'll take your dog's head!"

Huo Yunshu: "..." ...Grass, a type of plant.

He finally managed to get rid of Gu Yun, that big shot, and quickly boiled water to wash off the filth all over himself.

Not long after, Ruan Xiaodie arrived. Seeing him like this, she was heartbroken and said, "Yunshu, how could they treat you like this? They really went too far!"

"I think my cousin orchestrated all of this. She hates you because of her love for you, so she wants you to be more pitiful in order to highlight her own superiority... She even had Gu Yun humiliate me in public. You have no idea how outrageous she was..."

Ruan Xiaodie chattered on and on for a long time, and actually wanted to say more, but when she smelled Huo Yunshu's scent, she just couldn't continue.

Ugh, she felt like throwing up.

Huo Yunshu found her words quite agreeable, so he said, "Yes, that's why I'm determined to make Ruan Jiaojiao fall in love with me again, then marry her and torment her every day!"

"Hmm..." Even though it was the result Ruan Xiaodie wanted, she still felt a little unwilling.

Why is it that Ruan Jiaojiao was so outrageous, yet Huo Yunshu still wanted to marry her, while she could only be Huo Yunshu's mistress?

Ruan Xiaodie bit her lip tightly.

A moment later, Huo Yunshu said to her, "Xiaodie, come and help me wash the clothes. I need to take a shower, I don't have time."

Ruan Xiaodie: "???" He actually made her do the laundry? She couldn't have heard wrong!

Ruan Xiaodie had no choice but to say, "Yunshu... I didn't wash it clean enough, why don't you wash it yourself..."

"No, I don't know how to do laundry."

"So how did you wash your clothes before?"

"Before I came here, my mom washed my clothes. After I came here, Ruan Jiaojiao washed them for me. I'm a man, and a sent-down youth at that. My hands are for writing, how can I wash clothes?"

Ruan Xiaodie: "..." Her temples throbbed.

Oh my god, could Huo Yunshu be mistaking her for a maid?

Huo Yunshu was quite the strategist, so he said to Ruan Xiaodie, "Xiaodie, you're so capable. You've endured hardship since you were little, so you must be exceptionally competent. Whoever marries you is incredibly lucky, because you're elegant in public and skilled in the kitchen, able to fight off mistresses and outmaneuver thugs, isn't that right?"

Ruan Xiaodie: "Yes!"

She loves it when people praise her for being smart!

Because my looks are only considered average, I have to use my intelligence to crush others!

"Okay, then you can wash it."

Ruan Xiaodie obediently washed Huo Yunshu's clothes, but as she washed, she realized something was wrong. Why should she wash Huo Yunshu's clothes?

But she couldn't give up halfway through washing it, after all, Huo Yunshu was someone she had gone to great lengths to snatch from Ruan Jiaojiao, and she would never give him back.

So, Ruan Xiaodie continued washing clothes with a lot of resentment.

Even so, Huo Yunshu was still dissatisfied with her—"The clothes you washed weren't even half as clean as Ruan Jiaojiao's."

Of course! Ruan Jiaojiao used to treat him so well, using expensive soaps like they were free, ensuring that every piece of Huo Yunshu's clothing was clean and smelled wonderful.