Yun Fu's face turned red after hearing his rejection. She parted her lips to speak, but Xie Daiyu didn't give her the opportunity. He turned around on his feet and then headed up the rocky trail. Behind him, Yun Fu's green eyes turned red. She looked at Xie Daiyu with a hint of reluctance.
Even though she was rejected, Yun Fu didn't want to give up on Xie Daiyu. Her frustration with the hurt of being rejected reached its peak, and she ended up bursting into tears.
"Yun Fu, there is no need to cry." A sturdy woman walked over. She patted Yun Fu on the shoulder and said to her, "I told you. Did I not? It's stupid to propose to someone like Xie Daiyu. His head is in the sky, and his nose is so high up that you cannot even see it. If it were any higher, then the Beast Goddess would be the one wiping it."
"Shut up. You are not allowed to say anything wrong about him." Yun Fu wiped her eyes hurriedly. She then said to the sturdy woman, "It's my fault. I should have been careful; I knew that he had just been rejected by Shao Xia, and still, I foolishly went ahead and proposed to him. It's only right that he will reject me."
Yun Fu glared at her friend and then said to her, "You are not allowed to say anything wrong about him. Do you understand?"
The sturdy woman raised her hands in surrender without saying anything further. "I got the message. I will not say a word about your precious Xie Daiyu anymore."
"Won't I tear your tongue out of your mouth if you dare to?" Yun Fu snarled at the woman before marching away.
"Not the tongue! My mers will have your head if you touch my tongue. It's magical, as they like to tell me."
The woman watched her friend walk away without looking at her. Even though the woman knew that Yun Fu said those words angrily, she knew that Yun Fu was not lying. If she made the mistake of bad-mouthing Xie Daiyu once again, she would surely lose her tongue.
And given that her tongue was useful in more than one way, the woman had no intention of losing it.
Yun Fu let out a snort as she continued walking away.
Far away from the two women, Ruan Chanchan was peering out through the leaves that were large enough to cover her entire body. With Xiao Xi by her side, she stared at Yun Fu, who was crying, sobbing and walking. How the hell she was seeing the path in front of her with all the snot and tears that were flowing down her eyes and nose, Ruan Chanchan had no idea.
"It's a good thing you didn't go down and propose to that mer," muttered Xiao Xi. His emoticon face showed the right amount of horror.
"You are right—" Ruan Chanchan paused. She then turned to look at her system before saying in a disbelieving voice, "What do you mean by that? I didn't go ahead and propose to him? I never wanted to propose to him!"
"Asking for meat in exchange for a pack of instant noodles… wasn't that a proposal that you were going to propose to him?" Xiao Xi asked with a frown.
Ruan Chanchan choked upon hearing his remark. She said to him, "That's two different things. How can you make such a mistake?"
Xie Daiyu, who was walking past the trail, paused when he heard Ruan Chanchan's voice. He frowned and turned to look at the woman who was half hiding behind the large Aruacarioxylon leaves. He frowned when he saw her talking to herself and wondered if this was because the woman was not doing well.
'Is she having another attack?' he questioned and walked over.
Ruan Chanchan was completely unaware. She was still quarrelling with her system when suddenly, there was a crunch. Startled, she turned around and looked at the large red spider that was hovering over her head. Startled, she let out a screech before bolting straight out of the spot where she was hiding.
Then, without looking where she was going, she jumped on the first thing that came in front of her.
"Oh. How horrible—" Ruan Chanchan cried, but then her hand touched something hard and warm. She let out a hiss and opened her eyes just enough, only to see washboard abs in front of her. Her eyes widened, and her heartbeat started to skitter. Before she knew it, she had poked the muscles once and then twice and then thrice.
Don't blame her. In her past life, she was too busy making money, as no one was there to take care of her. As punishment for taking his family for granted in her previous life as Mo Qiang, she never got another chance to live a life where she would get the love of her family.
So, as an orphan, how could she have the time to play with men?
This feeling — how should she say it? — It was quite nice.
"Are you done touching?"
A familiar voice spoke to her, and Ruan Chanchan flinched away. No, she hopped backwards, taking three hops at one time. Her eyes widened as she looked at the mer in front of her.
How did this mer pop up here?
"What are you doing here?" she asked in a squeaky voice.
Xie Daiyu's golden eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at her and stated in a cold voice, "I should be the one asking you this question. What were you doing here? Why were you talking to yourself?"
"You—you saw that?" Ruan Chanchan laughed lightly.
Seeing her act like a little fool, Xie Daiyu thought that he was the fool. Why did he come here and bother himself with this fool? But then again, the Beast Goddess blessed this fool. Then he was not that big of a fool.
Thinking about this, he turned around and was about to head back to his cave —
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