Chapter 21: She Is the True Wild Child Queen

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Fu Xiaoxiao spotted the treasure and stepped forward to pick all the pointed ones.
“Good stuff, tonight I’ll make you a soup with these, it’ll be so fresh,” she said, plucking a few before stopping and gently turning over the damp soil nearby to give them more room to grow.
“There are still plenty left. Aren’t you going to pick them all?” Lu Chen pointed to the many more beside Fu Xiaoxiao.
“We’ll pick more when we’re ready to eat. This is enough for one meal. Let them grow a bit more,” Fu Xiaoxiao said, tugging at Lu Chen’s nose playfully. “Let’s leave these here for now, and come back when they’re bigger.”
Both Lu Chen and Lu Lin nodded in agreement.
“How did you do it before?” Fu Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
“We dried them and gave them to Grandpa. He would store them,” Lu Lin replied.
“So you came to the back mountain every day just to pick medicinal herbs?” Fu Xiaoxiao watched Lu Lin skillfully rummaging for herbs. Lu Chen, who wasn’t as knowledgeable as his brother, would ask Lu Lin about similar herbs, and only dig them up after Lu Lin nodded.
“Yeah,” Lu Chen nodded, then bent down to continue searching.
Fu Xiaoxiao didn’t disturb them and quietly wandered around the back mountain by herself.
The dense mountain was indeed rich in resources. As she strolled through the forest, Fu Xiaoxiao spotted many fruit trees—no wonder the two kids survived on wild fruits from the back mountain.
Standing beneath a pear tree, Fu Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up as she looked at the ripe wild pears above.
Seeing no one around, she grabbed a nearby branch and, with a strong push, performed a graceful flip to stand on the branch.
Relaxing on the branch, Fu Xiaoxiao swung her legs leisurely and casually picked a wild pear from the tree, wiping its skin before taking a bite.
“So sweet.”
The familiar surroundings reminded Fu Xiaoxiao of her previous life. As a child, she was sent to the countryside by her parents at age five and raised by her grandmother, who was too old to work. To prevent starvation for both of them, the young Fu Xiaoxiao would run to the back mountain every day, burdening herself with the responsibility of supporting her grandmother.
The villagers called her a wild monkey, but she never minded because she knew survival depended only on herself.
She cared for her grandmother for five years until her grandmother died at home from illness due to lack of money for treatment. That was when Fu Xiaoxiao finally saw her heartless parents.
It was then she learned her parents had long divorced and each remarried, seeing her as a burden and abandoning her to the countryside.
After burying her grandmother, she took the card her grandmother had given her on her deathbed, refused her parents’ plan to send her to a boarding school, and chose to live on her own.
Knowing education was her only way out, she rented a small room near the school and succeeded—always ranking first in her grade, earning guaranteed admission.

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Thanks to her top grades, she received various scholarships and prize money from competitions. During university, she took excellent care of herself and, by excelling in written tests, landed offers from prestigious companies. In three years, her annual salary had reached seven figures.
She endured hardships and enjoyed happiness, holding no grudges against anyone.
The only regret was that she never found someone to spend her life with before an accident involving a drunk driver took her life.
When she woke up, she found herself in this world.
Fu Xiaoxiao was an optimist—she accepted whatever came. Like a wild grass, she could thrive anywhere.
Only now, she had two wolf cubs to care for. The experience was new to her—though she never gave birth, she had two children.
Watching the two little cubs work so hard reminded her of her childhood, so Fu Xiaoxiao understood their wariness.
“Aunt Fu... where are you?” As Fu Xiaoxiao happily munched on a pear and gazed into the distance, a desperate call came from below.
“What do we do, brother? We can’t find Aunt Fu,” Lu Chen shouted after calling several times with no response, unsure where she had gone.
“Keep looking,” Lu Lin said with a serious expression. After gathering herbs, they had noticed Fu Xiaoxiao was missing.
They searched everywhere with no sign of her. They thought she might have gone home, but she was nowhere to be found there either.
Now the two were anxious.
“Should we look deeper into the mountain?” Lu Chen urged, eager to venture further into the back mountain.
“No, there are bears in there. I’ll go find an adult,” Lu Lin bit his lip and decided it was better to get help.
“Hi!” Fu Xiaoxiao heard their conversation, smirked, then flipped backward until she hung upside down from the branch, greeting the two kids below.
“Ah!!!” Lu Chen screamed in fright.
Lu Lin didn’t scream but his face instantly turned pale, clearly shaken.
“Sorry, sorry, I scared you,” Fu Xiaoxiao said, seeing their white faces, quickly flipping down from the tree.
“Waaah...” Lu Chen pouted and burst into tears.
“Uh, don’t cry! I’m sorry, okay? Please don’t cry, little ancestor,” Fu Xiaoxiao panicked and wiped his tears with her sleeve.
After coaxing for a long time, Lu Chen still wouldn’t stop crying, so Fu Xiaoxiao helplessly looked to Lu Lin for help.

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Lu Lin glared at her and turned away without a word.
“...Sniff,” Fu Xiaoxiao deeply regretted scaring them—she hadn’t expected them to be so easily frightened!
“Ancestor, I’m sorry. I really know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have scared you. What can I do to stop you from crying?” Fu Xiaoxiao clasped her hands together, pleading for him to stop crying.
“Well... then... teach me... to climb trees,” Lu Chen sobbed, pointing at the tree Fu Xiaoxiao had just climbed down from, feeling wronged.
“...Teach you to climb trees?” Fu Xiaoxiao blinked. Isn’t that just using your hands?
“I can’t climb up. Brother almost fell last time,” Lu Chen said, still shaken by Lu Lin’s near fall. He wanted to learn to climb so he could help his brother pick fruit.
Seeing Fu Xiaoxiao hesitate, Lu Chen pouted, ready to wail.
“Ancestor, I’ll teach you, okay? Stop crying,” Fu Xiaoxiao finally agreed reluctantly. You really can’t do bad things.
“Pinky promise,” Lu Chen extended his little finger.
Fu Xiaoxiao had no choice but to “sign” the pact.
“Teach me too,” Lu Lin suddenly said, glancing at Fu Xiaoxiao.
“Fine, fine, I’ll teach both of you,” Fu Xiaoxiao gave up. Teaching one was teaching two, no difference.
“How did you just get up there?” Lu Chen wiped tears from his eyes, his gaze sparkling. He wanted to see how Fu Xiaoxiao climbed.
“Watch closely. This is how I did it!” Fu Xiaoxiao smiled lightly, leapt to grab a sturdy branch, swung her body midair, used the momentum to flip, and landed steadily on the branch.
“Wow!!!” Lu Chen clapped excitedly.
Fu Xiaoxiao picked two wild pears from the tree and tossed them to the boys, then sat on the branch, grabbed it behind her back, and rolled down the tree.
“You’re amazing! I want to learn, I want to learn!” Lu Chen exclaimed, inspired by her demonstration.