"Dad!"
"Don't shout; I can hear you just fine." Wu Long rolled his eyes. He said to his daughter, "It's no wonder you couldn't make her accept you. You are such a foolish woman; I cannot believe that I gave birth to you."
"How am I foolish?" Ye Qian Qian roared. She straightened her neck and stated, "I am one of the strongest warriors of the tribe, and I know all about the weak points of many beasts. I can bring meat and animal skin back home, and even Leader Xie praised me. How can I be foolish?"
Wu Long sighed. He knew that his daughter was doomed. Not only did she inherit the boorish looks of her mother, but she even inherited her dumb mind. He exhaled heavily and said, "I never said that you were foolish when it came to hunting. I meant to say that you are foolish when it comes to coaxing?"
"If not?"
"Silly child." seeing the confused look in his daughter's eyes, Wu Long was really amused. She had grown so tall, but her mind was still like a child's. "He is not angry because you glared at Chachan. The reason he is angry is that you broke his trust. Zeqiu told you that his sister was important to him, right? And yet you went behind his back and did the same thing as others in the tribe. Then what is the difference between those bullies and you?"
"Have you forgotten? Zeqiu befriended you because you were the only child in the tribe who was willing to play with his sister. Now that you have done such a thing, you are just like the rest of the bullies in his eyes."
"I—" Ye Qian Qian was stunned. Now that she thought it through clearly, what her dad said was indeed right. Ruan Zeqiu started playing with her when she started to play with Ruan Chanchan. But then they all slowly grew up, and Ye Qian Qian no longer wanted to be friends with Ruan Chanchan, the idiot of the tribe.
She wanted popular friends; thus, she chased off Ruan Chanchan and started turning a blind eye when others bullied her, and soon it didn't take long for her to bully Ruan Chanchan as well when Ruan Zeqiu was not watching or was on a hunt.
Now that she thought about it, her dad was right.
Ruan Zeqiu became her friend because she was different from the rest. Now that she had done what others did, why would he stay friends with her?
"You didn't mean it?" Wu Long shook his head and said to his daughter, "Qian Qian, I know that you want to be liked by others in the tribe, and I am not blaming you for that. But you cannot have everything. You cannot possibly think that Zeqiu will still like you when you are bullying his sister behind his back, right?"
"Since you have made your choice, you might as well abide by it."
"No–" Ye Qian Qian didn't want to break her friendship with Ruan Zeqiu. She had liked him since they were ten, and she had no desire to change her mind either. She wanted to hold a mating ceremony with him and give birth to many pups!
Wu Long saw the look of reluctance on the face of his daughter and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Naturally, he liked Ruan Zeqiu as well. The mer was polite and a powerful warrior; if his daughter could woo him over, their lives would naturally get better.
Even he would be able to straighten his spine in front of those mers who married his wife after him and swayed their butts in front of him every day.
It could be said that, other than having a sick sister, Ruan Zeqiu had no problem at all.
Thus, Wu Long never stopped his daughter from chasing after Ruan Zeqiu either. Since he liked that mer, he would naturally help his daughter win Ruan Zeqiu over.
"Since you don't want that to happen, then you need to learn how to be nice to Chanchan." Wu Long grinned and said to his daughter, "That's the only way to win Zeqiu's heart. What's more, I heard from priestess Yuan that Chanchan is getting better. So you don't need to worry about that girl dragging Zeqiu down for long."
"Really?" Ye Qian Qian was surprised when she heard her father say that Ruan Chanchan was getting better. However, when she thought about how Ruan Chanchan had complained to Ruan Zeqiu earlier, she understood that it was because that woman had slowly started to gain wisdom!
Her expression turned colourful as she turned to look at her dad and said to him, "Dad! Why didn't you tell me? If you had told me this earlier, would I have teased Ruan Chanchan? I and Zeqiu will still be friends!"
Ye Qian Qian was feeling upset. Her father obviously knew that Ruan Chanchan was getting better, but he didn't tell her; this was too much.
When Wu Long heard Ye Qian Qian's complaint, he was so amused that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He rolled his eyes and said, "Would you have believed me if I had told you? You look down on Chanchan so much that you would have treated my words as gossip. Is it because I didn't want to tell you? It's because you wouldn't have believed me even if I told you!"
Ye Qian Qian had nothing to say against this. Because she knew that her father was right, she could only stomp her feet and head out of the cave; even if she fought with Rn Zeqiu, she still had to go to hunt!
If she had known that this was going to happen, she would have refused to join the evening hunt like Ruan Zeqiu!
When Mother Ye saw her daughter sulking, she couldn't help but enter the cave that belonged to Wu Long and asked, "What happened?"
"What else? Your daughter is following in your footsteps. I am sure she will suffer in the future! Humph!"
Madam Ye, who was kicked when she was lying down: "..."