Li Qiao activated a talisman.
Li Jue immediately fell to his knees on the ground, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth and dripping onto the floor. As for Li Qiao, she effortlessly left Li Jue’s residence.
Damn it!
He’s insane. Li Qiao never expected things to turn out like this—this world had already become independent.
So—
Even if someone handed her the original novel now, the plot had long since twisted beyond recognition.
Damn it all.
Suppressing her boiling anger, Li Qiao returned to the Xiao residence. She used an invisibility talisman to get back. Just as she reached the outside of her room, she removed the talisman, when suddenly a startled exclamation came from behind her.
The person behind her was Xiao Qingbei, his face full of astonishment.
Li Qiao instantly understood.
She must have startled him by appearing out of nowhere. “Sorry, Fifth Brother,” she apologized. “I didn’t mean to scare you.”
Xiao Qingbei’s lips trembled slightly.
A tall, sturdy guy like him—he really had been frightened. When Qiaoqiao suddenly appeared, he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.
But the person standing in front of him was indeed Li Qiao.
“Qiaoqiao, you…” He didn’t know how to phrase it.
Li Qiao understood. “Fifth Brother, this is an invisibility talisman.”
She showed him the talisman. Under his puzzled gaze, she stuck it onto herself and instantly vanished before his eyes.
“Qiao… Qiaoqiao?”
When she removed it and reappeared, Xiao Qingbei was utterly stunned. This kind of magical item, something you only read about in novels, actually existed in real life.
He stared intently at Li Qiao.
Since he had already seen this much, Li Qiao pulled out a peach wood sword from her pocket. Xiao Qingbei felt his entire worldview shattering.
“Fifth Brother, this is an expansion talisman…”
She demonstrated several fascinating items in front of him. Xiao Qingbei’s expression grew increasingly complex.
My little sister… is actually a Taoist master!
Li Qiao knew he needed time to process everything.
Before she left, Xiao Qingbei hesitated for a moment and asked, “Qiaoqiao, could you give me an invisibility talisman?”
“This is the last one, and it only has about five minutes left.”
“That’s fine.”
A spark of curiosity lit up inside Xiao Qingbei.
Once he had the talisman, he stuck it on himself and decided to sneak into his five brothers’ rooms for a little fun!
He seemed to have thought of something that made him unusually happy. Li Qiao didn’t pry.
She returned to her room and fell fast asleep.
The next day,
Li Qiao was eating breakfast downstairs with the older members of the Xiao family when Xiao Qinglu came down the stairs, yawning. When he saw Li Qiao, his eyes brightened. “Morning, Qiaoqiao.”
“Morning, Sixth Brother.”
Li Qiao noticed the dark circles under his eyes—clear signs of a poor night’s sleep.
He kept yawning even after sitting down.
Lady Xiao, his mother, asked, “Qinglu… what’s going on with you? Were you secretly playing games last night?”
“No, Mom, I wasn’t. I don’t know if it was a dream or what, but I kept feeling like someone was kicking me in the butt. But there was no one there.”
“You’ve probably been acting so much you’ve lost your grip on reality,” Lady Xiao said dismissively.
Xiao Qinglu wasn’t sure what had happened either. Maybe he really had been too tired lately.
When the other brothers came down, each of them was in a similar state—except for Xiao Qingbei, who was full of energy.
He exchanged a subtle glance with Li Qiao, a faint smile playing on his lips.
Li Qiao secretly gave him a thumbs-up.
Fifth Brother was something else. If the other five brothers found out he was the one behind all this… oh, the mental image was too hilarious to bear.
Even the usually unflappable eldest brother, Xiao Qingzhi, cast a suspicious glance between Xiao Qingbei and Li Qiao.
Second brother Xiao Qingyan also had his doubts.
But they had no proof!
