"Aaaah!"
After a moment of stunned silence, Wan Shuo let out a earth-shattering scream.
He was, after all, only an eight-year-old child.
He had only dared to suddenly attack Xiao Asui because he was the older child.
But he never expected that he would be lifted up by a little girl who was much shorter than him!
The feeling of weightlessness as his feet left the ground, coupled with the panic of being held aloft, made him scream.
Monster!
This younger sister was a monster!
"Ah! Mom! Mom, save me!"
The boy's voice was shrill, which Xiao Asui found annoying.
Carrying the person down two steps of stairs, she looked around. Soon, she spotted a half-human-tall, fat-mouthed vase nearby.
With her small face tensed, Xiao Asui took a few quick steps and, unbelievably, carried the person and stuffed him into the vase's mouth!
Wan Shuo only felt the world spin. When he came to his senses, he was folded up and stuffed into a large vase.
His butt was facing down, perfectly stuck at the mouth of the vase.
He screamed, instinctively trying to pull himself out, but found that half his body was stuck at the mouth and he couldn't exert any strength.
Panic and humiliation washed over him, and Wan Shuo couldn't hold back, wailing loudly.
"Mom! Mommy, save me!"
Nan Zhizhi finally snapped out of her daze and was about to pull Wan Jiaojiao from her embrace when a deep, angry male voice suddenly rang out from the doorway.
"What's going on here?!"
The newcomer was tall and imposing. Anyone could tell at a glance, from his age and appearance, that he was Xiao Asui's biological father, and the only male master of this household: Wan Yuntao.
Beside him stood a tall, beautiful woman dressed to the nines.
The two of them were stunned by the scene as soon as they entered the room.
After all, under normal circumstances, a little girl less than a meter tall couldn't possibly lift a boy twice her height.
Was this child a monster?
Wan Yuntao thought to himself, and immediately went forward with Little Wang to rescue Wan Shuo, who had been stuffed into the vase.
After making sure the child was okay, he looked at the child who had just been brought back, his eyes carrying a hint of cold anger.
"You just got back, how dare you attack your brother?!"
Xiao Asui met his stern gaze, but spoke with righteous indignation,
"Asui is, Self-Defense!"
Second Master taught her that Self-Defense didn't count as fighting.
Wan Yuntao looked at the pink and adorable little girl in front of him, but who had a stubborn look on her face. The guilt he had felt in his heart because she had been wandering outside for the past few years disappeared instantly, and he inexplicably disliked her.
"You still dare to quibble! You're so vicious at such a young age! You're simply uncultured..."
But before he could finish, Nan Zhizhi cut him off sharply.
"Yuntao!!"
Nan Zhizhi couldn't believe it. Her husband would use such words to describe the child they had finally found, the child they had met for the first time today.
That was his own child!
Even if Xiao Asui had been a bit excessive, it was because Wan Shuo had attacked her first!
Bearing the pain in her back, she got up and instinctively pulled Xiao Asui into her arms, covering her ears with both hands. She didn't want Xiao Asui to hear anything bad from her father.
Being pulled into a warm embrace again, Xiao Asui was clearly stunned.
Feeling Mama's back tremble slightly from the pain, Xiao Asui suddenly reached out, making a hugging gesture, and gently stroked Mama's injured back.
Xiao Asui's tiny fingers seemed to quickly draw a pattern on the air.
No one saw that as her fingers moved, a faint spiritual light flowed from her fingertips.
That spiritual light seeped into Nan Zhizhi's back along her fingertips.
Whether it was an illusion or not, Nan Zhizhi only felt that where Xiao Asui's hand had brushed, a warm current seemed to have passed, and her back, which had been in excruciating pain, suddenly didn't hurt anymore.
Before she could think more about it, she saw Wan Jiaojiao, who had just been pulled away by her, staggering towards Wan Yuntao and the woman.
"Daddy! Aunt Xuetong, wuwuwu~ Sister is so scary, I don't want to live with her wuwuwu..."
The person who came was none other than Aunt Xuetong, whom Wan Jiaojiao had been calling out to be her mother.
She was also Wan Yuntao's close friend for many years.
Because of her time in the entertainment industry when she was younger, the woman remained unmarried, and thus still looked very young.
She instinctively crouched down, cradling Wan Jiaojiao in her arms, murmuring comforting words. Then, she turned to Nan Zhizhi.
"Sister Zhizhi, I know you're happy to have found your biological child, but Jiaojiao is also a child you raised. How could you bear to let her suffer such a great injustice?"
Her voice was very gentle, and even her words of disapproval didn't sound too accusatory, yet they caused Nan Zhizhi to unconsciously frown.
Before she could respond, Wan Yuntao, who was standing beside her, spoke in a low voice,
"I've said before, even if she returns, Jiaojiao is still our child. But now, you're letting her bully Jiaojiao and Wan Shuo. Zhizhi, you're truly disappointing me."
Nan Zhizhi saw the dissatisfaction and impatience her husband was showing her as he spoke, and her heart tightened slightly.
She didn't know when it had started, but her husband, who once loved her dearly, had become increasingly impatient with her.
It seemed that ever since their company started to take off and he began making more and more money...
He became increasingly busy, occasionally coming home, and most of the time, he would only spend time with the children.
Only when he needed her to attend media events with him would he show the tenderness and consideration he once had.
Nan Zhizhi didn't know where things had gone wrong.
But she was very clear that it wasn't her fault now.
"Why don't you ask what Jiaojiao and Wan Shuo have done?"
Just because of Jiaojiao's cry and Lu Xuetong's insinuating accusations, he chose to believe them without asking why?
Xiao Asui was clearly his own biological daughter!
"Whatever they did, it's no reason for her to lay a hand on her older siblings!"
Wan Yuntao said, glancing at the child Nan Zhizhi was protecting in her arms. His eyes were filled with undisguised condemnation and dissatisfaction.
Before Nan Zhizhi could retort, he continued,
"I was still hesitant, but now it seems this child really clashes with Jiaojiao... How about this, let her go live outside for a couple of days. We'll bring her back when Jiaojiao accepts her..."
Wan Yuntao spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world, but Nan Zhizhi couldn't believe her ears.
What was he saying?
Make Suisui move out temporarily?
Even though Suisui was their own biological child, he was now preventing their own daughter from coming home for the sake of this adopted daughter, Jiaojiao?
"Why?!"
"Impossible!"
Nan Zhizhi rarely spoke in such a stern tone, her usually gentle face now displaying unwavering determination and strength.
It was already a debt to the child that she couldn't personally bring Xiao Asui home. Nan Zhizhi absolutely would not allow her daughter to be driven out of her own home for a fake young miss!
Even if, for the sake of argument, Xiao Asui and Wan Jiaojiao truly clashed, it definitely wouldn't be her Xiao Asui who should leave!