Volume Two, Chapter 12

A tender and captivating male voice let out a high-pitched moan beside her ear, the trembling tail-end stopping on an unfamiliar name, freezing the blood in her entire body into ice.

"...Furu, Ru, Xiaoru."

"Achoo!"

Before she even stepped into the front door of her home, Zhu Bafu sneezed so hard that her chest felt stuffed and short of breath.

"Who is gossiping about me behind my back?"

"Zhu Furu!" Xiaojiu waved at her from the kitchen while holding a spatula.

She pouted in dissatisfaction. "Don't call me that name! I'll get exposed!" It turned out Xiaojiu was the one calling her!

Zhu Furu, the name she had when she was an official's daughter and unwed. When her father gave her that name, he hoped she would be filled with blessings and have smooth, wish-fulfilling fortunes for the rest of her life. Yet who could have expected that in the end, she would become criminal number eight of the Zhu Household.

"Chances are you were exposed long ago, and everyone was just being kind enough not to call you out."

"Hey, you stinky little brat! How can you have the heart to badmouth your own biological sister every day? Can't you feel how good I am to you?" Compared to that, at least she hadn't pushed him into the water to clear away his and Nian Youyu's memories! Every time she saw the Ministry of Revenue seal exposed at the collar of her own younger brother's neck, she felt completely unwell. The incense smoke of the great Zhu Household was in precarious danger!

"...Or else you can cook?"

"Uh, I still have homework to write. Over forty times for the homework, it's going to work me to death!"

"Zhu Furu, no wonder you suffered a crushing defeat back when the