Reborn as the Weakest Heiress, I Gave My Inheritance to the Enemy's Daughter novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: Return of the List

Mo Zhenhai found Zhaoxue alone on the east terrace the next morning.

He lowered himself onto the low wall with a grunt and rubbed his bad knee.

"Sit," he said. "I don't bite, whatever my daughter told you."

Zhaoxue sat.

"She hasn't told me anything about you," she said.

"Good. She never does. She tells the guards, and they tell me."

He looked out over the courtyard and the shut black gate.

"When she was thirteen, she knocked down four grown men in my training yard," he said. "They were drunk and they had called her mother names."

"Her mother?"

"Dead eleven years. The men were lucky. She was holding a sword."

"What happened to them?"

"They apologized to a girl half their size and left the coast."

Zhaoxue almost smiled.

"After that, nobody sat next to her at dinner," he said. "They weren't unkind. They were afraid."

"She said she's used to it."

"She says that."

His voice roughened.

"She cried over a dead sparrow the next morning. I found her behind the stables, burying it with her hands. She was thirteen and she'd just beaten four men, and she cried over a sparrow."

He turned his big face toward Zhaoxue.

"I have never seen her sit as close to anyone as she sits to you."

Zhaoxue's face went hot.

"Mo Zhenhai," she said. "I stabbed her."

"You swung a sword at a guard and missed. She told me. She also told me she would do it again."

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