Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 416

Over there, the two were almost fighting over Chen Muxue’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, Chen Muxue led her three children through the grand gates of the Huo Family, warmly welcomed inside.

Chen Muxue couldn’t stop sneezing for unknown reasons. Each sneeze caused an aching twitch in her abdomen. During the first sneeze, tears were just welling up in her eyes, but by the second sneeze onward, she couldn’t hold them back any longer. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Still, this kind of soreness, although painful, didn’t seem as intimidating as a bloody wound. An outsider might even think she was being melodramatic.

But fortunately, the three children she raised weren’t bad. When Xiaohua saw Chen Muxue’s tears falling, she hurried forward and said, "Sect Leader, be good, don’t cry."

It might have been better if she hadn’t spoken, because her words drew everyone’s attention to Chen Muxue, including the Huo Family’s servants.

Chen Muxue immediately wiped her tears and said, "I’m just feeling sentimental. The family is poor. Changgui studying at the Huo Family Academy must have good food and clothes. I’ve risked my life to buy him nice clothes, but seeing everyone else’s clothes here, I realize what I bought was nothing special. He must have endured a lot of ridicule, though with his character, he wouldn’t tell me about it."

The person leading Chen Muxue inside was a servant of the great master of the Huo Family. Huo Lian’s mother had long passed away, and the master himself was rather mediocre, relying on his son for support. Upon hearing Huo Lian had taken an interest in a girl and even cared for the children she brought, he became intrigued, instructing the servant to bring her to him if she visited again, so he could assess her.

The main concern was whether, if things did progress, this girl would be easy to get along with, and whether she might sway his precious Huo Lian’s attention away from his father.

Upon hearing Chen Muxue’s words, the servant felt some disdain, but silently noted her reasons for tears.

Xiaohua, a bit confused, tugged at Chen Muxue’s sleeve. Chen Muxue saw the servant’s expression but remained unaffected, thinking to herself, "Rejecting delivered fortune is foolish." Ahem, any money that lands on her doorstep, she surely won’t refuse. As for others’ scorn, does it affect her enjoyment of life’s luxuries? Probably not.

Furthermore, despite their disdain, when her masters send the silver, the servant might just be wide-eyed with envy.

Although Huo Lian chose to remain neutral during the Eastern Palace upheaval by siding with the Second Prince, Chen Muxue wasn’t psychologically troubled. After all, Huo Lian was a businessman; without profit, he wouldn’t be so pleasant to others.

Outwardly carefree and unrestrained, Chen Muxue was already aware the day after the Huo Family began selling Qi Smoothing Pills, which she had read about at Qian Ding Sect. Under the guise of shopping, she obtained the news and listened closely to the gossiping old women discussing the differences between the new pills and the old ones.

To be fair, although the ladies didn’t cultivate, their discussion of recent news was quite organized, deviating slightly from her knowledge but not by continents apart.

Thus, Chen Muxue figured out why Huo Lian was so insistent on getting Changgui into the Huo Family Academy. She found a way to earn some interest, feeling utterly unburdened.

Looking as if she were simply wandering the streets, Chen Muxue followed the servant into a hall, surprised to find a middle-aged man sitting there formally sipping tea, which she hadn’t quite expected.