Ruan Chanchan sensed that there was something wrong with the gaze of the mer. However, when she took a closer look, she realised that the mer had returned to normal and was now licking the soup from the bowl.
There was nothing wrong with him or the look in his eyes.
Maybe it was she who was thinking too much?
Dismissing the thought, Ruan Chanchan cleaned up and turned to look at Xie Daiyu. She said to him, "Since you brought me here, I think you have no problem taking me back to my cave?"
"Yeah, don't worry," Xie Daiyu said to Ruan Chanchan as he hid the stone bowl underneath a bunch of boulders that were piled up on the shore. Once he was done stuffing the bowl, he walked up to Ruan Chanchan and reached out to carry her.
"Wait!" Ruan Chanchan stopped him when she saw him crouch down and pick her up like a sack again. Though she was weaker than this mer, Ruan Chanchan also had her pride. She didn't want to be carried like a sack of potatoes.
"What's wrong?" Xie Daiyu asked with a frown. Didn't she ask him to carry her back to the cave? Why was she refusing now?
"Don't carry me like that," Ruan Chanchan said with a pout. "My head will feel dizzy and I will throw up the food that I have eaten." She finally filled her stomach somehow; even though the meal was far from satisfactory, she didn't want to throw it up.
If this went on, then it wouldn't take long for her to faint due to hunger; if that happened, then Ruan Zeqiu might stuff her mouth with raw meat.
"Then how will I carry you back?" Xie Daiyu hesitated and asked with a little frown on his face.
Ruan Chanchan was also thinking about this; she didn't want to be carried like a sack but she couldn't ask the mer to carry her like a princess; she was—ahem—one of the dominant genders of this world. How could she ask a mer to carry her in a princess hold?
Even if she was born without a beast core, Ruan Chanchan had her own pride. After a long and hard pondering, her eyes lit up and she turned to look at Xie Daiyu before saying to him, "Squat down."
"What?" Xie Daiyu looked at the woman with a confused look.
"Hurry," Ruan Chanchan pulled him down as she said, "You need to squat down quickly if Zeqiu wakes up and doesn't find me... I am afraid that he will wake the entire tribe up."
Xie Daiyu was confused by her actions, but he still squatted down as she asked him to. As soon as he squatted down, he felt Ruan Chanchan crouch down and press her body against his. Her arms curled around his neck while her long legs were tied around his strong waist.
For a second, the mer stopped breathing altogether. It wasn't as if he hadn't been close with women before; not only had he seen women naked in the tribe, but he was also quite close with Shao Xia when they were preparing for their mating ceremony.
But he never felt as stimulated as he did at this moment. Ruan Chanchan was not like other women. She was soft and delicate, maybe because she stayed inside the cave most of the time. Her arms were tender and soft, which made Xie Daiyu gulp, but what made him stiffen was her body pressing against his.
This—what was going on?
As a mer who was wanted by almost half of the tribe, he was no novice when it came to mer and women matters, but he had never felt excited before, even when a few women roamed naked in front of him. On the other hand, something about Ruan Chanchan made his entire body burn with heat.
The places that she was touching felt scorching hot. Even the mark of the lotus on his forehead was burning as if reacting to her touches.
Oh dear.
Xie Daiyu cursed in his heart before getting up and rushing towards Ruan Chanchan's cave. The sooner he gets rid of this woman, the better.
With Xie Daiyu running as if he were on stimulants, Ruan Chanchan found herself standing in front of the cave in a matter of seconds. She turned around to thank the mer, but as soon as she turned around, she found that the mer was already gone!
"That mer –he really knows how to dine and dash," she remarked sourly. When he wanted to eat a meal, he dragged her out of the cave. Now that he was done filling up his stomach, he was gone. Even though he was a mer, his actions were like those of a man. No wonder they were cut from the same cloth!
[Darling, just pay attention to our tasks. Men and mers, they are all distractions. You can't trust them.]
"Then I can trust you?" Ruan Chanchan asked as she tugged her lips upwards.
[That's right. Xiao Xi is really trustworthy.]
"Are you sure?" Ruan Chanchan sneered. "Have you forgotten how you gave me my own supermarket with limitations attached?"
[But Xiao Xi also added special features.]
"That's what I deserved." Ruan Chanchan rolled her eyes as she went inside the cave to sleep. "I died for no reason after all."
Xiao Xi turned silent. He wanted to quibble, but he couldn't because Ruan Chanchan was right. So frustrating that he was sent here with the order that he needed to suppress Ruan Chanchan and make her listen to him. However, the reality was considerably different from what he had planned!
Xiao Xi was not the only one who was frustrated. Xie Daiyu, who returned home, was just as frustrated; he touched the mark of purple flowers on his forehead and hissed when he realised that the mark was still burning.
A clear sign that his body was in heat!
Something that had never happened in all his life finally happened because he touched a fool! How pathetic. If someone found out that he went into heat because of Ruan Chanchan, they would mock him until he would never be able to raise his head.
So frustrating! AHHHH!