Tick-tock!
Tick-tock!
Blood flowed down her snow-white wrist. Zhong Yan awoke from the pain and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
She thought she was going to die...
I remember receiving news that Zhong Zhixuan had clues about my grandmother's death, so I recklessly rushed over there!
Then--
"Oh, my dear sister, you're finally awake." Zhong Zhixuan clapped her hands, making a crisp sound: "How was it? This feeling wasn't pleasant, was it?"
"Zhong Zhixuan, it's you." Zhong Yan's gaze shot over, carrying a hint of coldness: "I treated you like a younger sister, yet you drugged me and imprisoned me. Why?"
"My own sister?" Zhong Zhixuan said with a sneer, "I don't have a sister like you! Zhong Yan, look at yourself, where is there any trace of the Zhong family bloodline? You're nothing but a good-for-nothing!"
“We are from the same clan, but we are half-sisters. Why is it that you were born into the Zhong family and have everything, while I am just an illegitimate child? Over the years, you have nominally treated me as a sister, but in reality, you have looked down on me.”
"I don't……"
"Enough! I don't want to hear your nonsense. I called you here only to ask you where the Five-Colored Stone is." Zhong Zhixuan said coldly, "Tell me, and I might spare your life."
"What five-colored stone?" Zhong Yan's expression changed slightly. That was the Zhong family's most precious treasure, the symbol of the Zhong family's successor. It could uphold the heavens and earth, ward off evil and bring good fortune, and should not belong to her in the first place.
Although Zhong Zhixuan is her younger sister, she is not her biological half-sister. The Zhong family's ghost-catching technique is passed down only to daughters, not sons. Back then, her mother, Zhong Jing, was the 186th generation descendant of the Zhong family. According to the rules, she could not marry outside the family and could only take a son-in-law into the family.
Therefore, I can only take my mother's surname.
For this reason, the mother always felt indebted to the father. In addition, she focused on exorcising ghosts and helping the Zhong family business every day, and the relationship between the couple became increasingly distant. In the end, the father had an affair.
A car accident killed her father and his mistress. They arranged for Zhong Zhixuan to be sent to the Zhong family. Her mother adopted her because she was her father's bloodline.
But unexpectedly...
"Bai Zhixuan, you should have been surnamed Bai..."
"So what if I should have been surnamed Bai!" Zhong Zhixuan sneered. "Now, who remembers that I'm surnamed Bai? Outside, everyone calls me Miss Zhong. Zhong Yan, you don't want to learn because you're stupid! Do you know how many people outside are eyeing the Zhong family's ghost-catching techniques but can't learn them? Yes, what you discard like trash, I have to be like a dog, pleasing you and the old woman in every way, just to learn it."
"So that's what you think." Zhong Yan smiled bitterly, feeling embarrassed that she had always treated her like a younger sister because of her mother's instructions, but she didn't know that in her eyes, she had always seen her in a completely different light.
"Enough with the nonsense! Hand over the five-colored stone."
"Don't even think about it, Bai Zhixuan. Even if I die, you won't get it..."
"Don't even think about it, Zhong Yan, don't be in such a hurry." Zhong Zhixuan slightly raised her sleeve, revealing a small porcelain bottle in her hand: "Look, what's this?"
“Grandma, Grandma…” Zhong Yan frowned, unable to remain calm any longer. She rolled over and struggled to crawl toward her. That was her grandma, the person who had watched her grow up.
Instead of retreating, Zhong Zhixuan stepped forward so that Zhong Yan could see the thing in her hand more clearly: "Calm down, Zhong Yan. If you get so agitated, I might accidentally drop Grandma, and that wouldn't be good."
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