Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Losers who cannot win only know how to tattle
Jiang Yi Zhu’s skin split under the grinding. The pain was sharp and burning. She could not fight back at all and could only spit out harsh words: “Jiang Tea Tea, how dare you treat me like this. I will not let you go. I will definitely tell Dad, Mother, and older brother and have them punish you!”
Jiang Tea Tea had secretly come home from the Academy and happened to run into Jiang Yi Zhu. Jiang Yi Zhu had secretly placed a firelight blade on her flying device and had also destroyed the energy stone inside it.
While the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea was piloting the flying device, the damaged energy stone would burn out. Then the flying device would start to fall. The crash would create sparks, the sparks would naturally form firelight blades, and those blades would cut her, or even kill her.
Jiang Yi Zhu had been at home waiting for news that Jiang Tea Tea was seriously hurt or dead, when her parents came over and told her that they were working on a big business deal.
As long as they secured this big deal, their family would become the Military District’s purchasing officer. Their assets would not only double, they would also be directly linked to the Imperial Military Headquarters and become one of the top families in the upper levels of the Empire.
To make sure nothing went wrong, they had found out that the person in charge of this big deal liked to play with humans who had weak bodies and who had not awakened any supernatural abilities.
Jiang Tea Tea fit all the traits that this person in charge liked to toy with. To win this person over, her parents had told Jiang Yi Zhu to go find Jiang Tea Tea.
To make Jiang Tea Tea’s life worse than death and take revenge for the years she had occupied her place, Jiang Yi Zhu had come to find her. She planned that if Jiang Tea Tea was not dead yet, she would drag her into a healing clinic, wait for her to heal, and then send her to that person in charge.
She never expected Jiang Tea Tea to be completely unharmed and to act like she had awakened supernatural abilities, able to slap her face, step on her face, and break her hand.
Jiang Tea Tea used Jiang Yi Zhu’s face to clean both of her shoe soles. As she did, she could feel the leftover consciousness of the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea become pleased.
She slowly moved her foot away and looked down at Jiang Yi Zhu’s sorry, messy state from above. With clear disdain, she said: “Younger sister, are you still a baby who drinks milk? You get hit outside and only know how to run home crying to Dad and Mother to tattle?”
[Humans and demons really are a bit alike. They like to bully others by leaning on their backers, and when they lose a fight, they run back to complain to their lord.]
Jiang Yi Zhu’s face had been slapped and stepped on. She did not dare touch it at all.
Her face hurt, but her mouth stayed tough. She snapped: “Wretch, are you afraid I will complain to Dad and Mother? If you are scared, then kneel down and beg me for mercy.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a soft “oh,” then reached out, grabbed her hair, lifted her up, and pushed her down so that she knelt on the ground in front of her. She said: “If you wanted to kneel and beg me for mercy, you should have said so earlier. Elder sister is not someone who cannot forgive you.”
While she was forced to kneel, Jiang Yi Zhu launched her water element supernatural ability at Jiang Tea Tea and screamed: “Wretch, I am going to kill you. Go die!”
There was a loud splash.
The column of water she controlled seemed to grow eyes. Before it could touch Jiang Tea Tea, it rose back up along the same path and poured from the top of Jiang Yi Zhu’s own head down to her feet.
Jiang Tea Tea laughed loudly without mercy and said: “Hahaha! Younger sister, are you tired of being a person and want to be a chicken now, a drenched chicken?”
“Soaked from head to toe, Jiang Yi Zhu let out a sharp, explosive scream and lunged at her as she yelled: “Jiang Tea Tea, you wretch, I will fight you to the death!”
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her tongue, lifted her hand, wrapped it in monster spiritual power and magic spells, and slapped Jiang Yi Zhu across the face.
With a loud crack, Jiang Yi Zhu was slapped flat on the ground. She spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva along with two teeth.
Jiang Tea Tea shook her hand as if something dirty were stuck to it and said: “Younger sister, you were found and brought back from Trash Star as an elegant true young lady. You should not keep saying ‘wretch’ all the time. It is too vulgar.”
“You…” Jiang Yi Zhu trembled and could not say anything more.
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand and said cheerfully: “Alright, you stay here and reflect on yourself. Elder sister will go home and wait for you. See you later, mwah!”
After saying this, Jiang Tea Tea turned around, opened the door of the red flying device, and sat inside.
When Jiang Yi Zhu came back to her senses, she scrambled to her feet, using both hands and feet, and rushed toward the flying device.
The flying device took off with a roar and left its exhaust all over her face.
Enduring the sharp pain, she jumped around in rage and shouted: “Jiang Tea Tea, you wretch, I am going to butcher you. I will cut your body into pieces and grind your bones to dust!”
Sitting in the cockpit of the flying device, Jiang Tea Tea could not hear her threats at all. She only thought that this thing that shot into the sky in a whoosh was still not as fast as the Great Demon Stage magic spell Shrinking Ground Three Thousand Li.
[But it will do for now.]
Jiang Tea Tea worked with it as best she could and piloted the flying device toward the Jiang Family.
The Jiang Family ran a second-hand energy stone business. On the Zhen Lin Empire’s Capital Planet, their family fortune did not even reach top tier second-rate. At best, they could be counted as third-tier. Including the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea and the true young lady Jiang Yi Zhu, they had one son and three daughters.
The youngest daughter was not yet old enough to take the entrance exam for the Imperial Academies. The eldest son, the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea, and the true young lady Jiang Yi Zhu were all students at the Royal Military Imperial Academies. Two were first years and one was a third year, and they were in different departments.
Their whole family had water element supernatural abilities. The eldest son was Level S. The youngest daughter was A level. Jiang Yi Zhu was B grade, and the parents were also B grade. Only the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea had no supernatural abilities.
In less than an hour, the flying device landed at the front gate of the Jiang Family.
The Jiang Family parents, Jiang Zong Shen and Mu Mei Xi, rushed out angrily. They yanked open the door of the flying device and began to scold Jiang Tea Tea, who was sitting in the cockpit.
Jiang Zong Shen shouted: “Jiang Tea Tea, your younger sister went to find you. How could you hurt her, throw her out in the wilderness, and come back by yourself?”
Mu Mei Xi added, “Jiang Tea Tea, even though you are not my biological daughter, I have raised you for eighteen years. Even after we found our real daughter, we have not treated you badly.”
Jiang Zong Shen continued, “How can you be so vicious, beating and kicking your younger sister and even breaking her hand?”
Jiang Tea Tea pressed down the leftover longing and hatred the fake young miss Jiang Tea Tea felt toward the Jiang Family parents. She looked up at them. Her dark eyes were filled with tears, and her small, palm-sized face was full of grievance.
Jiang Zong Shen and Mu Mei Xi were startled when they saw her like this. They could not help but wonder if they had been too harsh on her.
Playing innocent and acting like a delicate tea girl, Jiang Tea Tea caught that flash of guilt in their eyes. She raised the hand she had cut to sign the self-sacrificial contract with the fake young miss and, in a weak, pitiful, and innocent voice, asked: “Dad, Mother, I have not awakened any supernatural abilities. I am just an ordinary, fragile human. How could I possibly beat a younger sister with B grade water element ability?”
When Jiang Zong Shen and Mu Mei Xi saw the big cut on her palm, still oozing drops of blood, their expressions turned stiff. Jiang Zong Shen asked: “If you did not hurt your younger sister, how are you flying your younger sister’s flying device?”
Right. She had no supernatural abilities. There was no way she could beat Yi Zhu.
[Could it be that Yi Zhu is framing her again and dumping dirty water on her?]
Jiang Tea Tea spoke in a wronged tone and said: “Dad, Mother, I was at my part-time job when younger sister found me and told me to drive her flying device back.”
She went on and added, “She went to see my fiancé, older brother Chu Ming. You say she was hurt by me, but when I left her, she was not injured at all!”
Jiang Zong Shen and Mu Mei Xi felt their hearts sink. They were sure that their biological daughter Jiang Yi Zhu had lied again to frame Jiang Tea Tea and wanted them to vent their anger on her and press her down.
“Dad, Mother, you have to believe me.” Jiang Tea Tea climbed out of the flying device and reached out to grab Jiang Zong Shen and Mu Mei Xi’s sleeves, looking pitiful as she said: “Younger sister has B grade water element supernatural abilities. I am a human who has not awakened any supernatural abilities. She could control water energy and beat ten or a hundred of me. I cannot even get near her. How could I possibly hurt her?”
She lifted her teary eyes and pleaded: “Please, Dad, Mother, stand up for me. Call younger sister back and ask her clearly how she got hurt after going to see older brother Chu Ming, and why she chose to blame it on me, someone with no supernatural abilities at all!”