It's excellent to be healthy. I thought I might crawl out of my own skin, those months I was healing," Ling Qi chuckled.
"That would be quiet a feat, I would surely be under suspicion for releasing clan secrets if you had, so let us be glad it did not come to that," Bai Meizhen replied dryly.
"I am told the greater danger was the stoking of the embers in her dantian back to flame after the third time she attempted to 'have just a bit of cultivation'. I was sorely tempted to grant her physicians even more authority, but Madam Ling's scolding was sufficient," Cai Renxiang said cooly, adding a careful few dripss of milk to her tea.
"A mother's scolding can be more effective than any number of other voices I suppose. Even for one so reckless," Bai Meizhen sniffed.
"Foolish indeed." Xiao Fen agreed haughtily, managing to look down her nose in a way few could manage against Ling Qi.
"I recovered more quickly than any of the doctors anticipated, so who was really wrong here?" Ling Qi said, tilting her chin back defiantly.
"You."
"You."
She sagged under her friends withering glares, why was she under attack here!
Bad girl get scolded? Ling Qi bad. Get scolded. Be good! Let Qiyi make more pretty. They will forgive!
Even Qiyi had turned on her!
