In the mountains, a slender, white-clad figure was searching for something. After searching for a while, the figure flew to a cliff, plucked a spiritual herb, and stored it in her storage bag. Then she continued searching for other herbs.
Amidst the misty clouds, two streaks of light emerged from the sea of clouds—two handsome men.
Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing passed by and saw Ayao gathering spiritual herbs in the valley. Curious, they came over to take a look. As Ayao squatted down, preparing to dig up a Heavenly Glow Grass, Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing descended from the sky and landed there. Ayao saw them, stood up, and after thinking for a moment, cupped her hands in greeting: "Third Young Master, Fourth Young Master."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing both changed color. Lu Yunxing said angrily, "What did you call us?"
Seeing Lu Yunxing's anger, Ayao shrank back and asked softly, "Isn't that wrong?"
"Xiao Qi, why do you call us that?" Lu Yunshen asked.
“I am not my father’s child, I am a bastard, I shouldn’t call you brothers,” Ayao said.
Lu Yunxing and Lu Yunshen looked at A Yao, who was speaking with her head down, and remembered the rumors outside. Lu Yunxing was so angry that her chest felt like it was going to explode: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could you be a bastard? You are your father and mother's biological child."
"Xiao Qi, don't listen to the nonsense from outsiders. Can't we, the Lu family, even distinguish our own bloodline?" Lu Yun Shen said anxiously.
Ayao stared at the two of them with her big eyes and asked, "Then why do you hate me so much? You wish I would die sooner?"
These words pierced Lu Yun Shen and Lu Yun Xing's hearts like sharp thorns. Lu Yun Shen felt a sharp pain in his heart, and a wave of guilt washed over him; he didn't know how to defend himself. As for Lu Yun Xing, after the initial sting, the pain transformed into anger. Looking at the thin, frail A Yao before him, he felt an urge to immediately kill her. He shouted:
"Isn't it because you're always targeting Xiao Ba that we're angry? It's clearly your own problem. You're the one who makes others dislike you, and yet you're trying to shift the blame onto others?"
After hearing this, Ayao asked, "How did I target Lu Xuening?"
"Have you forgotten so quickly what happened five years ago when you sparred with Xiao Ba and injured him?" Lu Yunxing roared.
"Anything else?"
"You killed Xiao Ba's spirit pet."
"Wasn't it her spirit pet that attacked me first? Okay, even if it was my fault, what else?" Ayao asked.
Lu Yunxing opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. He thought about it carefully and realized that everything else was trivial. She had spoken rudely, so they punished her by whipping her and locking her in the water dungeon.
Lu Yunxing thought of how she was beaten and covered in bruises every time, and how she looked covered in blood. He felt guilty and uncomfortable, but he wanted to beat A Yao up again. For some reason, he got angry just looking at her.
"Fourth Young Master, you just want to hit me, don't you? You want to hit me right now. If you really considered me your sister, would you lock me in the water dungeon so easily?" A Yao said.
"you……"
Lu Yunxing almost couldn't resist taking action.
Ayao added, "If it were the other way around, if Lu Xuening had injured me, if Lu Xuening had killed my spirit pet, would you have treated her the same way you treated me?"
Lu Yunxing and Lu Yunshen were stunned by what they heard, as if struck by lightning.
Ayao murmured, "Am I really my father's child? If I really am my father's child, why am I always being beaten? When I had a high fever, when I was about to die, no one came to see me."
Hearing her say that, Lu Yunshen felt very uncomfortable.
After saying this, she ignored Lu Yunxing and Lu Yunshen, turned around, dug up the Heavenly Glow Grass, and went to collect more from other places. Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing followed behind her, and after watching her dig up several Heavenly Glow Grasses, Lu Yunxing couldn't help but say:
Why don't you go to Buquan Palace to ask for the Heavenly Glow Grass?
Without looking up, Ayao said, "I'm not like you. Even if I went, they wouldn't give it to me."
"What?" Lu Yunxing asked in surprise, "They won't give it to us? Why won't they give it to us?"
Ayao turned to look at him, a mocking smile on her face: "It's probably because nobody treats me like Miss Seven."
Lu Yunshen stepped forward and asked, "Did they mistreat you?"
Ayao looked at him, silent, and found it utterly ridiculous. Why did they think the Lu family wouldn't dare to slight her? They treated her like that; how could the servants possibly respect her? Seeing Ayao's silence, Lu Yunxing grew angry again: "Say something!"
"Anyway, since seven years ago, I haven't been able to get anything I want from Buquan Palace." After saying this, Ayao flew away on her sword.
Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing looked at each other, disbelieving what Ayao had just said. So the two brothers immediately went to Buquan Palace to demand an explanation. Upon seeing Lu Yunxing and Lu Yunshen, the palace steward immediately came over, fawning and obsequious.
"Greetings, Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master."
Lu Yunxing said angrily, "Manager Ming, I'm asking you, every time Seventh Sister comes here to ask for something, do you always make excuses and delays?"
Steward Ming's face turned ashen. He knelt down with a thud and actually shifted the blame onto A Yao: "I'm innocent, Fourth Young Master. How could I dare to neglect Seventh Miss? It's just that once, when Seventh Miss needed something, we were short of it, and she got angry and hasn't come to Buquan Palace since."
Lu Yunxing believed it and looked at Lu Yunshen: "I knew that brat was lying."
Lu Yunxing's body flashed with light, and he flew towards Yingxiu Peak.
"Fourth brother!"
Lu Yun was afraid that Lu Yunxing would make things difficult for A Yao again, so he immediately chased after Lu Yunxing.
Steward Ming got up from the ground, drenched in a cold sweat. He'd gotten away with it! What a close call! His heart was pounding. That Seventh Miss, what a troublesome woman!
Lu Yunxing and Lu Yunshen arrived at A Yao's Yingxiu Peak. When they stepped onto the peak, they suddenly realized that they hadn't been there for a long time. Was it seven or eight years ago? Lu Yunxing went to the main hall of Yingxiu Peak, angrily wanting to settle scores with A Yao. However, when he entered, he was shocked to find that the magnificent main hall was empty. The furnishings were nowhere to be found, and what remained was very simple.
Inside the simple hall, there were no maids in sight, only A Yao alone at a table, arranging the spiritual herbs she had just collected.
Lu Yunxing, who had come to confront her, was startled and looked at A Yao, saying, "Where are the things in your main hall?"
"It's sold," Ayao said.
"Sold it? Are you that short of spirit stones?" Lu Yunxing asked.
Ayao thought he was talking nonsense.
"Where is your maid?" Lu Yunshen asked.
Ayao said, "I don't know."
"What do you mean by not knowing?" Lu Yunxing asked.
Ayao said, "Where they go is none of my business."
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