With Grandpa and Mo Chengfu busy working at the production team, the family's apothecary was left entirely in Xiao Man's care. She dried and processed the herbs, then sorted and stored them properly. Sometimes, when Shaolian insisted, she would go out with her brothers and have a great time. But whenever she asked about Gu Shaojun, Shaolian would no longer discuss his older cousin's well-being with undivided attention as he used to. Instead, he would say gloomily:
"He's plenty tough, he'll be fine! He called me twice again a few days ago, asking about you... I was annoyed and upset, so I didn't tell him that you're Hao Hao's real older sister, that you were swapped at birth. Why should I tell him? I traveled all this way to find a sister, you think that was easy? I wanted to look after you myself, but then he goes and steals you away... I'm so pissed!"
