Chapter 104: Is She Going to Anger Her Brother to Death?

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The Qi family’s Western-style villa stood by the sea in Haicheng, and from the top floor one could see the vast, tranquil ocean.

Qi Yue held the medicated eye mask in both hands, her small face filled with hesitation.

After being soaked in the herbal mixture, the eye mask had turned pale yellow and carried a faint scent of traditional medicine.

Was she really supposed to wear this thing to bed for an entire night? Would it damage her eyes?

Qi Yue suddenly felt like giving up. It had cost only a little over two thousand yuan. She could throw it away and consider the money a lesson learned.

With a sigh, Qi Yue decided she would simply have to learn from her mistake.

She was carrying the eye mask back to her room when she happened to notice that the study door was half open, with light spilling through the gap. After knocking, she stepped inside and saw a tall, slender figure searching back and forth in front of the bookshelves, accompanied by a low cough.

Qi Yue’s heart gave a jolt. She hurried forward and confessed, “Brother… um, are you looking for the ginseng?”

“Yes. The gift I prepared for the Old Ancestor has gone missing.” The tall young man frowned.

Qi Mo was exceptionally handsome, though his style was entirely different from Duan Feihan’s. His features were gentle and lacked any trace of aggression. Elegant and gentlemanly, he looked like the very model of a pleasant, respectable man.

Of course, none of the business rivals who had crossed swords with him would have agreed.

Looking at Qi Mo’s tense, handsome face, Qi Yue began to regret what she had done. She had grabbed the wild ginseng at random and had no idea how old it was. Who could have known Bai Chuwei would claim it was two hundred years old?

Would her brother be furious enough to kill her?

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Qi Yue swallowed and said cautiously, “Brother… big brother, I took your ginseng. I… I gave it to someone.”

Her voice grew softer and softer. Qi Mo paused, then clasped his hands behind his back and asked calmly, “Who did you give it to? Do you know how valuable that wild ginseng is?”

It was worth several million on the open market, but that was not the point. Such a miraculous herb was practically impossible to find. Even having money did not guarantee one could buy it.

This was exactly how Qi Mo spoke when he was angry, and Qi Yue trembled from head to toe. She quickly said, “I gave it to a senior from school who treated me. I… I’ll ask her to return it right away. I won’t use the medicine either.”

Bai Chuwei looked like an unlicensed physician no matter how one looked at her. In ancient times, she would have been nothing more than a quack wandering the world.

Qi Mo’s thick, dark lashes trembled slightly. He stopped her. “Her surname is Bai?”

Qi Yue froze, then nodded like a chick pecking at grain.

Qi Mo lowered his eyes and chuckled softly. After giving a quiet cough, he said, “Then it’s fine. If you gave it to her, let her keep it. As for the medicine she gave you… use it. Good night.”

Qi Mo left the study on his own, no longer bothering to search for the wild ginseng.

Qi Yue stared after him in confusion.

She had thought her brother would fly into a rage. Had he really just let her off that easily?

Looking at the pale-yellow eye mask in her hands, Qi Yue thought that her own brother surely would not harm her. Gritting her teeth, she returned to her room, washed up, and went to bed.

She lay down on the little bed and put on the eye mask. The faint scent of traditional medicine filled her nose as the gentle sound of the waves drifted in from outside.

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She had expected that she might have trouble falling asleep, unused to wearing the eye mask, but she had no idea when she actually drifted off.

Perhaps the eye mask really did have a hypnotic effect. When Qi Yue woke the next morning, she was already on the verge of being late for school.

She washed up as quickly as she could, slung her schoolbag over her shoulder, grabbed a piece of bread, and hurried into the car for school.

By the time she rushed into the classroom, panting as she dropped into her seat, she discovered that the homeroom teacher had already arrived.

And it was the subject she hated most: mathematics.

Qi Yue was severely nearsighted, with vision close to minus five hundred degrees. She had to wear glasses in every class. Since she had woken up late, she had not even had time to put in her contact lenses and could only resign herself to wearing her ugly black-framed glasses.

With the air of someone accepting her fate, Qi Yue took out her glasses case and placed the frames on the bridge of her nose…

Wait.

Why was everything in front of her so dizzy?