That night, the moon shone clear and bright.
Moonlight streamed through the window, casting a rectangular patch across the pale wooden floor. White as frost, it showed the outlines of the window frame and the stickers on the glass. Beneath it lay a slender young leg and a delicate pink foot.
The young girl had a bed but insisted on lying on the floor instead, sprawled like a starfish, eyes open and staring blankly at the ceiling.
For one thing, she had barely slept these past six months. She was used to it and couldn't fall asleep right away.
For another, she was angry. So angry.
She had no idea what she'd done to upset that woman. These days, she'd been busy with research and had still made time to care for that woman's flowers. Only four, five, maybe six plants had died in over half a year. She was exhausted! Yet instead of thanking her, that woman had come home and beaten her for no apparent reason.
Besides, she'd already graduated from university and started working. She was Doctor Ning of the National Secret Research Institute. Why did she still get beaten by her older sister when she came home?
And she was a Fifth Tier Cultivator, no less...
The young girl couldn't understand it. No matter how she tried, she couldn't understand it.
This problem was harder than her research on Green Mountain Ridge.
In the end, she could only put it down to one thing—
That woman had a rotten personality.
She felt so sorry for her brother-in-law, who would have to live with a woman like that. And she felt so sorry for Peach, who saw that woman as the star in her world.
"Wait!"
Her eyes flickered as she kept staring at the ceiling. A