Chapter 173: It's Just a Dream After All

Ji Xinhe blinked innocently, "What recipe? Did I ever tell you any recipe? How did it come to be that getting your money stolen and beaten can be blamed on me? Is it because I'm not your real daughter that you can abuse me at will?"

"You! You know exactly what you did!" Lady Ding wanted so badly to curse Ji Xinhe, but she realized she had no reason to do so. The recipe was something she stole by overhearing, not something acquired honorably. Ji Xinhe intentionally leaked the false recipe to fool her, but what could she say about it?

So she had to rack her brain, only to squeeze out these few words, "You know exactly what you did."

Ji Xinhe was too lazy to argue, and sneered, "I still don't get it. You should really get rid of this habit of blaming me for everything, I clearly have nothing to do with you, nor do I have anything to do with your beatings. Why does it all get blamed on me? Did I also make you steal the silver?"

"You!"