Her father was soaking in a medicinal bath with a strong repulsive scent of herbs and various concoctions wafting in the air. Her mother was sitting cross-legged in the chair dishing out a range of insults toward him. The words useless and stupid were thrown around but they were abruptly stopped when Zhao Huangzhi walked in without permission.
"Huangzhi!" roared the sect leader covering up the only exposed part of his body which was his chest.
"Why are you yelling at her. Shut the hell up. Is it her fault you are wasting precious medicine because you are weak?" she scolded him before turning to her daughter with a sweet smile. "Ah-Huan, your father is busy right now. Go, go wait outside and have nanny wang get you something to eat," she coaxed her daughter who was covering her eyes in shame.
