Chapter 999: Asking but Not Receiving

Eventually, Su Xiaowan had no choice but to compromise. Compared to the dark, bitter medicinal concoction, drinking ginger soup seemed better, and adding some brown sugar was just fine since getting medicine during New Year was not auspicious.

As for being unlucky, Su Xiaowan really took the cake. Just as she recovered from illness, she got her period, so she ended up drinking this ginger soup for half a month.

Now that it was almost the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month, she looked at the bowl of dark red brown sugar ginger water with an expression that could only be described as full of grievances. She didn't even know where her aunt found this brown sugar, which was supposedly better than regular sugar. It was boiled for over three hours just for one bowl. Her aunt didn't mind the hassle, but she found it annoying.