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"Mom, please let go, it hurts so much..."

Qin Su frowned, showing a pained expression, which instantly made Aunt Xu furious:

"What pain? Do you feel as much pain as I do? It's all your fault, you good-for-nothing! If you were a son, how dare they bully me?"

In the original novel, Qin Sangsang was born only three days apart from her elder sister, but her elder sister was weak and almost did not survive.

The stepmother, Zhang, said, "Sangsang and Qionghua are about the same age. It is said that sisters are of one mind and share honor and disgrace. Let Sangsang pray for her sister's well-being." With one sentence, she dismissed the maids and servants serving Xu, almost causing her to die in her postpartum period.

From then on, Xu hated the original owner of the body, believing that the original owner was a daughter who had caused her so much suffering.

"It's all your fault! Why did you even come into this world!"

As Aunt Xu spoke, she tried to grab someone, but Qin Su fell to the ground, revealing a look of fear and apprehension, yet she dared not resist.

"You slut! You worthless thing! It's all your fault for ruining me!" Aunt Xu cursed and punched Qin Su a few more times before leaving, grumbling and leaving her alone, looking like a pitiful little thing who had been abandoned and abused.

Only when he was alone in the yard did the poor little thing struggle to get up from the ground, making a sound of pain with every movement, as if he was injured somewhere.

Even so, she could only wipe away her tears while trying to comfort herself in a voice that no one could hear:
"It's okay, I'm not in pain. Mother is just in a bad mood, she didn't mean it. I have to go cook, otherwise Mother will get hungry and won't have anything to eat, and she'll get angry again..."

In the shadows, Liu Ying witnessed this scene, his brows furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly.

He knew that the original owner of this body, the third young lady, was not living a good life, but he did not expect her to be so miserable, even being abused by her own mother.

Even so, she didn't blame her and even worried that she was hungry and had nothing to eat. It's really... so pitiful!
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After Qin Su got up, she actually went into the kitchen and then stared blankly at the stove.

The system assumed she was hungry and said, "[Host, the system also has free snacks for you to eat; you don't need to cook.]"

Qin Su: "It's not for me to eat."

System: [Who is that? Is it... for the male lead?]

Seeing that Qin Su remained silent and tacitly agreed, the system was both happy and conflicted.

The good thing is that this host is really responsible, always keeping her mission in mind and working hard. The bad thing is that she doesn't know whether she should tell her that food is useless to the male protagonist.

The system had previously considered the saying, "To win a man's heart, first win his stomach," so it directly invited a master chef with top-notch culinary skills to help with the romance.

Those tables of dishes, each comparable to a Manchu Han Imperial Feast, were so fragrant they made even a bodyless creature like myself drool.

But what about the result?
The tyrant barely even glanced at her. After the culinary connoisseur sneaked up on him three times, attempting to win him over with her food, she was mercilessly stabbed to death by his bodyguard...

The system said sadly, "[Host, no matter how delicious the food is, it won't work on the male lead; he simply won't eat it.]"

Qin Su was browsing the system shop and had selected several items that caught her eye. The prices weren't too high, but she... didn't have any points.

Just as he was thinking about whether he could talk to the system and ask it for some credit, he heard this and replied casually, "Yeah, I know. DID can cause anorexia, that's why he's so thin."

Just after I finished speaking, a notification sound suddenly rang in my mind:

[Ding—System notification: The favorability of the character [Chu Jiang] has reached 1%, points +100! Please keep up the good work.]

Qin Su paused in all her movements: "Hmm?"
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Liu Ying felt sympathy for the poor girl next door, and her report unconsciously carried a hint of emotion:

"Your Highness, it was a message from next door that said Prime Minister Qin's concubine is pregnant, and the entire household must eat vegetarian food and no meat is allowed."

The man who had been resting with his eyes closed on the couch opened them for the first time: "?" How could a human being say something so morbid?
Seeing Chu Jiang's disbelief, Liu Ying explained, "That's exactly what they said. The messenger was the head maidservant of the Prime Minister's wife, so it's probably not a joke."

Chu Jiang only had four words to say about this: "He has a brain ailment!"

Liu Ying wholeheartedly agreed and couldn't help but add, "It's not just that they have illnesses, their whole family is sick! The little girl next door is also quite pitiful; she even got beaten by her mother because of this..."

I don't know which of Liu Ying's words touched the man's heart, but his success rate increased so unexpectedly!
The system explained the situation to Qin Su. After all, the tyrant was genuinely ill, and the system couldn't analyze how his favorability rating had increased.

The host took care of him diligently all night without receiving a single kind word, but today, after being "bullied" a little, he actually gained more favor.

It's totally incomprehensible!

He can't possibly like it more when others are in a miserable state, can he?
"I know how to get him to take his medicine."

Qin Su suddenly spoke, and the system wondered if it had missed something.

Wasn't the point that we were talking about increasing favorability with the tyrant?
Why should the host give him medicine?

Qin Su opened the system shop and selected the item she wanted—

[Beginner Cooking Skill: 10 points, redeem now?]

Qin Su chose "yes," and the next moment, her mind was filled with images related to chopping and stir-frying vegetables, like a slideshow.

She stood there with her eyes closed, processing what she had just learned for a while, before slowly opening them.

Her beautiful fingers twitched, and a flood of cooking memories instantly rushed into her mind.

She took a deep breath and began preparing to start a fire and cook.

Qin Su started living alone at the age of 13. Her cooking skills weren't great, but she had some experience. With the help of the original owner's memories, she quickly went from being unfamiliar to becoming proficient and mastered the new cooking skills she had exchanged.

In old novels, the female protagonist is always encouraged to be a virtuous wife and loving mother, to cook well, to win a man's heart through his stomach.

The original owner of this body did indeed "do it." Even in the last few days before she died, she was still cooking for the male lead every day, and even so, she never received a kind word from him.

It was as if she was taking it for granted that she would cook for him, and he didn't care at all whether she felt wronged or sad.

Qin Su had only two words for this: disgusting.
Chu Jiang was sleeping with his eyes closed when he was suddenly awakened by an enticing and delicious aroma.

Or rather, it wasn't him who woke up first, but his stomach, which hadn't eaten for a long time, that suddenly felt hungry.

He couldn't help but swallow, and slowly opened his eyes.
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System: [Is this useful?]

Qin Su almost laughed: "You're the system, why are you asking me?"

As she spoke, her eyes remained fixed on the tyrant's health monitoring screen.

The image clearly shows the man's stomach throbbing faster and his saliva production increasing; he... is hungry.

Meanwhile, Qin Su had already spent 30 of the 100 points she received as a reward for her progress in the strategy.

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