48: Shen Miao's Anger

Most jarring was his right arm, encased in a thick plaster cast, hanging limply by the bed.

Hearing the movement, Shen Lin woke up, saw Shen Miao at the door, and was first startled, then a huge panic flashed across his face.

He subconsciously tried to hide his plastered hand under the covers.

“Xiao Miao? Why… why are you back? Didn’t you say the school had extra classes?”

His voice was hoarse, tinged with weakness.

This act of concealment, like a needle, pierced deeply into Shen Miao’s heart.

She didn't answer, walking step by step to the bedside, her gaze fixed on the pale white cast.

The air in the room was suffocatingly oppressive.

“Who did it?”

Shen Miao spoke, her voice very soft, yet chillingly cold.

Shen Lin turned his head away, not daring to look at his sister’s face.

“No… nothing, I just fell accidentally a few days ago while delivering food, and fractured it, that’s all.”

“Fell?”

Shen Miao repeated, then extended a finger and lightly touched a few dark red stains on the living room floor.

“Brother, at least find a better reason to lie to me. When do you ever get a nosebleed on the living room floor?”

Shen Lin’s body stiffened.

He hadn't expected his sister to become so perceptive.

“Tell me, who is it?” Shen Miao pressed again, her tone carrying an undeniable command.

Shen Lin was silent for a long time, finally letting out a long sigh, his whole body slumping.

“Xiao Miao, don’t ask anymore, this matter… it’s over.”

“Over?” Shen Miao’s tone suddenly rose, “Your hand is broken! What about work? Weren’t you doing well at that company?”

At the mention of work, an expression of humiliation and pain appeared on Shen Lin’s face.

“…I was fired.”

He uttered these words in a mosquito-like voice.

After Chen Cong broke his hand, that rich second-generation heir made a single phone call, and the company he worked for fired him, citing “damaging the company’s image.”

They didn’t even pay him this month’s salary.

Shen Miao’s breathing became rapid.

The spiritual Qi in her body, due to the intense emotional fluctuations, began to surge uncontrollably.

A cold Killing Intent emanated from her.

Although Shen Lin couldn’t feel the spiritual Qi, he instinctively shivered, looking at his sister in surprise.

He felt that in just one month, Xiao Miao… seemed like a different person.

“Brother, tell me his name.”

Shen Miao’s voice returned to calm, but this calmness was more terrifying than her previous questions.

Shen Lin looked at his sister’s clear, black-and-white eyes, which held emotions he couldn’t understand.

He was scared.

He was afraid that his only relative would do something foolish out of impulse.

That Chen Cong had money and power, backed by an influence he couldn’t even imagine.

Call the police?

He had tried; what was the result? The person was bailed out the same day and immediately came back to break his hand.

This was reality.

After realizing this insurmountable gap, all of Shen Lin’s edges and backbone were completely crushed.

“Xiao Miao, listen to me, let this matter go.”

He grabbed Shen Miao’s hand, his eyes full of pleading.

“We… we can’t fight him.”

These words, like a heavy hammer, struck Shen Miao’s heart.

Her eyes instantly reddened.

Her brother, Shen Lin, who had never lost a fight since childhood, who never bowed his head even when life pressed him to the point of suffocation, the Shen Lin who always told her, “Brother’s here, don’t be afraid”… now, he actually said the words “can’t fight him” to her.

She couldn’t imagine what kind of terrifying despair and humiliation her brother had experienced in the past month that she didn’t know about.

Tears welled up in her eyes, but Shen Miao forced them back.

She sniffled, pulled out the small jade bottle containing the Body Strengthening Medicinal Pill from her pocket, and poured out the Medicinal Pill that emitted a faint medicinal aroma.

“Brother, eat this.”

Shen Lin looked at the dark Medicinal Pill, a little confused: “What is this?”

“A roommate gave it to me. Her family runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, and this is their ancestral recipe, especially good for treating bruises and sprains.” Shen Miao quickly fabricated a reason.

Shen Lin didn’t suspect anything.

He just thought it was his sister’s kindness and didn’t want to disappoint her.

“Okay, Brother will eat it.”

He opened his mouth and swallowed the Medicinal Pill.

The Medicinal Pill melted upon entering his mouth, a warm current slid down his throat into his abdomen, and then, this warm current exploded, turning into countless tiny hot currents, surging towards his limbs and bones!

“Hmm?”

Shen Lin let out a muffled groan.

He felt an unbearable itch coming from inside the cast on his broken right arm!

It was as if countless ants were gnawing at his bones.

Immediately after, a burning sensation came from deep within his bone marrow, and he could even “hear” his fractured bones reconnecting and healing at an incredible speed!

“Ah—”

He couldn't help but cry out.

“Brother! What’s wrong?” Shen Miao asked nervously.

“My hand… my hand is so itchy! So hot!”

Shen Lin looked at his right arm in horror, only to see that the thick plaster cast was actually cracking with fine lines due to the changes happening inside!

Crack!

Crack, crack, crack!

Under the shocked gaze of the siblings, the hard plaster shattered inch by inch, peeling off like an eggshell.

A perfectly intact arm with smooth skin reappeared before Shen Lin.

He tentatively wiggled his fingers, then made a fist.

The sense of strength was back!

No, it was even more full of strength than before!

He suddenly sat up from the bed, looking at his hands in disbelief, then at Shen Miao.

“Xiao Miao… what… what kind of divine Medicinal Pill is this?”

He was incoherent, his worldview impacted like never before.

Shen Miao’s suspended heart finally settled; she patted her chest and continued with her previous explanation.

“I told you my roommate gave it to me. It’s her family’s ancestral secret recipe, isn’t it amazing?”

“Amazing… truly amazing…”

Shen Lin was still adapting to his fully recovered body; the immense surprise made him temporarily forget all the previous pain and humiliation.

He even felt that his whole body was filled with inexhaustible strength, and the days of exhaustion and weakness were swept away.

Shen Miao looked at her revitalized brother, a gentle smile appearing on her face.

But in her heart, there was already a cold calculation.

She silently opened her phone and sent a message in a group chat named [Kunlun Cultivation Academy - First Freshmen Exchange Group].

“Shen Miao: @All members, is anyone in Shancheng? Help me look up someone.”