Moxiaoji admitted he was even more beautiful and evil than her brother Yu, but was he an immortal? Really? At most, he looked like a kept pretty boy. These words could only be mumbled in her stomach – she would never dare to say them out loud, or her grandmother would devour her.
She didn’t know how much her grandmother treasured this painting, constantly wiping it. Just for once having a moment of infatuation and wanting to observe him closely to see if he had an immortal’s essence, she was locked in the house for two days. If her brother Yu hadn’t brought her food, she would have been close to starving.
After cursing him several times in her heart, she heard her grandmother’s aged voice: “Time to eat.”
Moxiaoji stood up, grimacing and rubbing her sore knees.
Lifting her head and meeting her grandmother’s cold gaze, Moxiaoji immediately forced an obedient smile. Her grandmother just glanced at her and turned to walk into the western room.
Moxiaoji obediently followed her grandmother, inwardly complaining.
This was her grandmother’s bedroom and their dining area, simply furnished. Besides a wooden bed with white curtains, there was a black-patterned wooden chest in the corner and a small square wooden table in the center of the room.
From the moment she entered, Moxiaoji’s eyes were fixed on the wooden chest – her old witch grandmother’s treasure. Moxiaoji couldn’t even dream of touching it. It was difficult to even see inside, as she was forbidden from entering this room except during mealtimes.
Since childhood, Moxiaoji had imagined countless times that it might contain a witch’s broom or precious treasures, but her grandmother always kept it locked with an enormous padlock. Only once, when Moxiaoji was fifteen, her grandmother forgot to lock it.
Moxiaoji remembered clearly that something seemed to have happened in the forest that day, and her grandmother and all the village uncles had gone there, leaving only her and Brother Yu at home. In her panic, her grandmother actually forgot to lock the chest, and Moxiaoji seized the opportunity to sneak into her grandmother’s room and open the mysterious box.
Hao Lianyu
