Tong Su: "..."
Tong Su coldly asked, "Have you been infected with a virus?"
【QAQ *sobs*】
"Stop whining, give me the Master Chef card I got from the beginner pack, I need to use it."
[Master Chef Card? Miss, what are you going to do with that? We should hurry up and figure out how to get back to the Xiao Manor to do our quest!]
"Don't panic. If I'm not mistaken, I won't stay here for long. There are people who are more anxious and worried than I am about to take me back to the Grand Tutor's residence."
Tong Su leisurely sat down on the stone again and chose to use the Divine Chef Card. The palm-sized card transformed into a beam of clear light and flowed into her Yintang acupoint.
Suddenly, recipes appeared in her mind, and her hands seemed to become light and strong, naturally mastering exquisite knife skills.
[Master Chef Card: This card encapsulates the master chef's life's work. Upon use, it grants access to the chef's private recipes and knife skills, valid for one world.]
Tong Su couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had drawn such a perfect card.
Xiao Baishu is a skilled cook. If she didn't have this card, she would most likely be exposed once she entered the kitchen.
The biological mother of Xiao Qingwan and Xiao Baishu, Madam Ji, was a cook in a restaurant. She had been widowed for many years and raised her two daughters with great hardship.
She met Xiao Lingchen's father by chance, and the two quickly fell in love. For the sake of her daughter's future, Ji finally agreed to marry into the Xiao family.
Xiao Lingchen's father was a powerful regional official. His first wife had passed away many years ago. Xiao Lingchen had no objection to his stepmother entering the family. So, Lord Xiao took it upon himself to include the Qingwan and Baishu sisters in the Xiao family genealogy and change their surname to Xiao.
Xiao Qingwan disliked cooking, so Madam Ji passed on her culinary skills to Xiao Baishu. They would cook delicious meals in their small kitchen and enjoy them happily as a family of five.
All this happiness and bliss came to an end with the unexpected deaths of Lord Xiao and Lady Ji.
The unexpected death of a powerful regional official shocked the court and the public. The emperor urgently ordered Xiao Lingchen to return to the capital and keep him in office.
Xiao Lingchen was ambitious and entered the court, climbing the ranks step by step. With the help of his late father's old connections, he quickly gained the old emperor's trust and rose through the ranks.
Before his death, the old emperor appointed him as the youngest regent to assist the young emperor.
Xiao Lingchen is only twenty-six years old, but he has already been appointed as Grand Tutor and wields great power in the court. Along with his stepsister, he has also become a noble lady from a prestigious family.
—It was just Xiao Qingwan.
The unknown Bai Shu was confined to the mansion and never went out under Xiao Qingwan's so-called "protection." Even the noble ladies in the capital didn't know she existed.
Xiao Lingchen developed anorexia in the year his parents passed away.
Perhaps because Bai Shu learned her cooking skills from Ji's mother, Xiao Lingchen, who couldn't eat any delicacies, could only barely swallow the dishes made by Bai Shu herself. Therefore, he was very protective of Xiao Bai Shu.
Xiao Qingwan, after her rebirth, understood this and was eager to take advantage of it. However, she was lazy and had no talent, so she couldn't learn cooking.
After much thought, Xiao Qingwan came up with a brilliant idea.
Let Xiao Baishu cook in her place!
Wearing kitchen clothes and headscarves, the two looked exactly alike, so who would know who was working hard in the kitchen preparing meals?
In the end, she was the one carrying the food box out of the kitchen, so who would doubt that she wasn't the real cook?
Xiao Qingwan thus stole Bai Shu's credit, and with the power of the Grand Tutor's mansion, she rose to fame among the noble ladies of the capital, enjoying a life of pleasure and wealth.
Bai Shu, who was bullied by her, was deliberately made timid and gentle by her, so much so that she couldn't even muster the thought of resisting.
Xiao Qingwan is now planning to squeeze every last drop of blood out of Bai Shu before killing her to silence her and leaving her with a tragic end where she dies with her eyes wide open in disbelief!
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