A Sudden Realization

A-Qi slowly loosened his collar, but still didn't dare take off his clothes.

"A man should act like a man. Why are you being so coy?"

Shi Lan yanked A-Qi over to the tub, swiftly tugged off his tattered clothes, leaving him in only his underpants, and tossed him into the tub.

In Shi Lan's eyes, A-Qi was just a child. Besides, she knew what a man's body looked like, so naturally, she didn't feel uncomfortable.

As he sank into the tub, enveloped by the warm medicinal liquid, A-Qi felt his face burning as blood rushed to his head.

A pair of hands settled on his shoulders. Before A-Qi could react, a pain that bored into his very heart shot through him. Unable to endure it, he let out a scream.

Crack!

Hearing the scream, Shi Lan's fingers trembled, as if a mirror had shattered in her heart. Her thoughts suddenly sprang to life.

What... was she doing?

Shi Lan took a step back and raised a hand to her forehead, confusion clouding her eyes.

Just because of some inheritance left behind by someone who had died an unknown number of years ago, because of some incomprehensible test, she had meddled in another person's life and dragged a child into it?

From beginning to end, she had never asked what A-Qi wanted. She had simply made decisions for him, arrogantly imposing her own will.

More frighteningly, she had even thought of starting a war herself?

When had she become this kind of person?

Cold sweat seeped down her back. Shi Lan's gaze flickered uncertainly, and her breathing gradually slowed.

Ever since entering this world, she had never thought of refusing the test. Instead, she had immediately started planning how to complete it, led around by the nose by a strand