Cuicui and I hadn't finished talking when my mother and the clan chief came over.

As soon as my mother saw Cuicui, her eyes widened in anger and she exclaimed, "Clan chief, this wretched girl wants to steal Xiuer!"

The clan chief got furious and grabbed a broom, launching a series of violent beatings on Cuicui:

"You wretched girl! Haven't you had enough beating at noon? I'll skin you alive and let you cause trouble again!"

Cuicui endured the pain and fed me two small jujubes. She spat at the clan chief and cursed him:

"You'll face retribution for treating your own flesh and blood like this! It's only a matter of time!"

After cursing, Cuicui quickly ran away.

After the incident with Cuicui, the clan chief never allowed any girls from the village to come near me.

He also forbade anyone in the clan from feeding me.

He said that if I consumed earthly food, I would lose my power, and if the daughter fragrance I produced wasn't fragrant, it would be useless.

Everyone wanted to rely on the daughter fragrance I created to seek wealth, children, and fortune.

So, whatever the clan chief said, they believed.

No one in the clan dared to feed me anything, not even a sip of water.

Without food, I could survive for several days.

But without water, they burned me with fire, and I endured for four days.

I couldn't cry anymore, and I couldn't make daughter fragrance.

The clan chief collected money from outsiders, and the time for offering the fragrance was approaching.

But I didn't shed a single tear, which drove him crazy.

First, he had my mother, father, and brother beat me.

Then he brought the entire clan to torture me with wolf-toothed clubs, embroidery needles, and every method of tormenting a person.

But I still couldn't produce tears to make the fragrance.

Watching them go from extreme cruelty to the point of wanting to cry, I just found it laughable.

My mother, seeing me like this, suddenly pointed at me and started scolding:

"You wicked creature! I'm your mother, and you treat me like this! You heartless thing!"

"If I had known you were such an ungrateful wretch, I wouldn't have given birth to you!"

"I fed and took care of you for thirteen years, and you can't repay me?"

My mother's words were filled with tears, and she kept saying that I owed her.

But she forgot.

She had always favored my younger siblings and gave them the food that should have been mine.

All these years, I never had a single full meal from her.

I had to work like a slave.

In truth, I had long since repaid her debts.

...

Despite all their efforts, they couldn't make me shed a single tear.

The fragrance on my body also disappeared.

The clan chief was so angry that he wanted to kill my mother, but then someone approached him and whispered something in his ear.

He suddenly laughed, nodded, and said, "Good! Good! Good!"

Then, in the evening, they actually brought Cuicui over!