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Chapter 4593: 5.0345 Scar

Hongyi looked at her with amusement, curling her thin lips. "Alright, stop acting. It doesn't look like deep sisterly affection at all. Just now, I asked you to step forward and take a few lashes for your sister, but you refused. Can we please be a little more authentic as people?"

It's truly ugly to watch, nothing like that stoic face.

That stoic face is a truly genuine girl. If she likes something, she likes it; if she doesn't, she doesn't.

For people she dislikes, she can't even be bothered to waste a single word, let alone put on an act. She wouldn't even cast a glance at them.

After you deceive her...

Then there truly isn't even a sliver of a chance for friendship.

Hongyi boredly tossed the whip in her hand, turned, and gracefully walked towards Fan Meng and Fan You, who were standing by. "Let's go drink."

"Sister, does it hurt?" Mu Xiaoxue sat at Mu Rouhuan's bedside, occasionally wiping away tears with a handkerchief.

"Oh, you child," Mu Qingya looked at Mu Rouhuan with a loving expression, then turned and instructed two maids, "Carefully clean up Young Miss's injuries. Use the best medicine; if you run out, come ask me for more."

"Yes, Hall Master."

"Sister, are you angry with Xiaoxue?" Mu Xiaoxue mumbled, trembling.

Zhao Yi, standing nearby, couldn't bear to watch and quickly interjected, "How could she be? Young Miss Mu is your junior sister's elder sister; naturally, she will act like an elder sister and protect you, junior sister."

"But sister hasn't opened her eyes to look at Xiaoxue since earlier," Mu Xiaoxue twisted the handkerchief in her hands, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz. "Th-this time, Xiaoxue... dr-dragged sister down."

"I, I won't be so reckless again, okay, sister? Please don't be angry with Xiaoxue."

"Alright, Xue'er, your sister is tired. Let's go out first and let her rest properly." Seeing that Mu Rouhuan had no intention of speaking the entire time, Mu Qingya herself felt deeply awkward, realizing this one-woman show couldn't continue.

The mother and daughter exchanged a few more soft, tender words, then turned to leave the room.

Only then did Mu Rouhuan's hoarse voice drift from the bedside. "Mother, your kindness in raising me, this life... I have repaid it."

Mu Qingya's heart tightened slightly. She abruptly turned and looked back.

But she saw that Mu Rouhuan had already turned her face away, revealing the old scar on her cheek, stained with blood.

Perhaps due to the severe whipping, the old scar on her face seemed to have reopened.

Only Mu Rouhuan herself knew that any physical scar was not a true scar.

Only the one in her heart, deep and vicious, weighed her down so heavily she could barely breathe.

The Crown Prince in Seclusion

"Today, I've gathered everyone here to assign an urgent mission!"

"Today, we will set sail and search along the coast for the nearest fishing villages."

"Our objective this time is to find Heaven's Will's underground base located nearby."

"The target is extremely dangerous; it could be a new type of medicine-human with extremely potent corpse poison."

"Everyone fears death, but from the day we joined the Heaven's Will Slaying Battle Group, we must face death squarely."

"In the future, countless difficulties await us. Today is merely the beginning!"

As Qiao Mu and Duan Yue's group arrived at the grand training ground, Young Master Rong had just finished his passionate speech.

Minerva was leading a group of people, distributing life-saving pills and some weapons to the soldiers under his command.