"Isn't deep affection supposed to overcome all difficulties? How come you caught a cold?" Xia Xiang handed her a bowl of dark, murky medicine, her tone dripping with sarcasm.
"Auntie, could you please stop laughing at me?" Sun Shangxiang said with difficulty, touching her throat.
"No, I don't know you," Xia Xiang said coldly.
"I..." Sun Shangxiang wanted to say something, but Xia Xiang interrupted her.
"Someone's coming. Stay here and don't make a sound." Xia Xiang put down the medicine and went downstairs.
As soon as she went downstairs, she saw Sun Quan leading a troop of fully armed guards from the Zhongwang Army, looking at her with his hands on his hips, looking incredibly arrogant.
"What? Is the Second Young Master going to confiscate our property?" Xia Xiang raised an eyebrow and said.
"Thank you, and I was just passing by to find out your identity," Sun Quan said arrogantly.
"What did you find out?" Xia Xiang asked, amused. "To thank me, you didn't burn incense on the graves of my ancestors for eighteen generations, did you?"
“I was planning to do that, but I couldn’t find the graves of your ancestors for eighteen generations,” Sun Quan calmly replied. “I have the right to take you back and interrogate you properly, since you are an unregistered person of unknown origin.”
"No need, we can just talk here." Xia Xiang was excessively calm. "My ancestral grave is under the hibiscus tree you cut down that day. If you want to worship, be sincere."
Sun Quan was now in a bad mood and glared at her fiercely.
"Let's go!" Sun Quan immediately led his men in retreat.
"Tch~ You little punk, trying to mess with me?!" Xia Xiang rolled her eyes and scoffed, then spotted Sun Shangxiang sneaking around in the corner of the stairs.
"What hibiscus tree? It even made my stinky second brother compromise?" Sun Shangxiang sniffed and asked.
"Is this the second question?" Xia Xiang looked at her.
"No, no!" Sun Shangxiang shook her head like a rattle-drum, almost collapsing to the ground.
Xia Xiang: ......
Sun Shangxiang was helped by Xia Xiang and placed into a bathtub filled with medicinal liquid.
"Isn't this going too far?" Sun Shangxiang asked.
"No," Xia Xiang said.
"Alright," Sun Shangxiang obediently buried herself in the warm medicinal liquid. "Can I ask my second question now? Who exactly are you?"
"Yes!" Xia Xiang nodded solemnly, and then said nothing more.
"Ah! Ye Siwu! You've really gone too far!" After realizing what had happened, Sun Shangxiang picked up a bath sponge and threw it at Xia Xiang.
"Hehehe—" Xia Xiang made a face and left the bathroom, leaving Sun Shangxiang alone inside, feeling depressed.
A moment later, Xia Xiang poked her head out again and said, "Because your second brother was afraid that someone would find out that he ordered the attack on Liu Bei, so he had someone cut down that patch of fragrant roselle flowers."
"Was it really my second brother who did it?" Sun Shangxiang said with a sad expression. "Then you're in big trouble. He won't let you get away with it."
Xia Xiang felt she had no way to comfort her, so she decided to wait until she recovered and let her practice her skills more so she wouldn't think about it anymore.
—Sun Family Mansion—
"Zhongmou, you've disappointed me greatly," Ye Siti said with a dark face.
“Father, you know me. I don’t like others touching my things,” Sun Quan said.
"Is it really yours?" Ye Siti asked with a sneer. "Then you'd better protect it well. If you disappoint me again, I can't guarantee whether it's alive or dead."
"Thank you for your teachings, Father," Sun Quan said respectfully.
“I don’t want to see those scum from Donghan Academy still running around like that. You know what to do, right?” Ye Siti said sternly.
Sun Quan's expression remained unchanged, but his heart sank.
His father still wouldn't let Da Qiao go. Why? Was it just because she was his older brother's girlfriend?
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