Chapter 72

When Cyrus returned home, he found Phoebe and Mabel sitting on the sofa with an air of arrogance. Zoey was preparing herbal medicine for Mira. She struggled to accurately cut two grams of White Herb, measuring it multiple times but failing to meet Cyrus's standards. He insisted on exactly two grams, no more, no less. Zoey couldn't understand why Cyrus was so particular. Whenever he said two grams, it was precisely two grams; when he said five grams, it was five grams. Cyrus ignored Phoebe and Mabel, not even greeting them. Zoey was just five or six years old when her mother passed away. From a young age, she had endured both physical and verbal abuse from her stepmother. As she grew up, Zoey also had to weather her siblings' relentless bullying, fueled by jealousy of her inherent beauty. Her family had no love or care, so she sympathized with Mira. Of course, it was also one of the reasons Cyrus liked her. Despite enduring hardships, she remained kind, gentle, and morally uprig