"Why would I lie to you? If you don’t believe me, just ask Brother Chi. You always trust what Brother Chi says, right?" Lin Murong was a bit huffy.
"Hey, I’m not saying I don’t believe you. It’s just that I’m not quite clear," Su Yinhe said, looking towards Chi Yan, who nodded.
"Fine, I’ll begrudgingly forgive you," Lin Murong grudgingly nodded.
He even had to catch his breath.
"There, there, thank you, our Lin Murong, Lin Murong the Magnanimous, please forgive me," Su Yinhe said insincerely, but Lin Murong didn’t notice and was even more delighted.
"Hehehe, okay. I am magnanimous indeed, I forgive you." Lin Murong was happy, happy like a fool.
Giggling foolishly for a good while.
Oh god, how can someone actually be this silly and adorable.
Although she had been around Lin Murong for a while, she would still occasionally want to laugh at his silliness.
And now, she wanted to laugh again.
But she tried hard to hold it in and not laugh too loudly.
Laughing too loudly wouldn’t be good.
Lin Murong, who was busy being happy, was too focused to notice Su Yinhe laughing.
Only Chi Yan noticed.
Seeing her laugh, Chi Yan’s mouth also curved into a smile.
But back to the matter at hand, they were here to look for animals, so Su Yinhe still wanted to find the animals.
"Alright, don’t be in such a rush, we’ll definitely find them if we want to," but they weren’t the kind of people who needed to find the animals urgently to eat their meat; taking their time was also okay.
Lin Murong was very laid back.
"I just want to, you know, have a look," Su Yinhe said. Having walked for so long without a glimpse, she was starting to wonder if there really were any.
"Don’t worry, we’ll see them. What we should be worried about now is what we’re going to eat later," Lin Murong rubbed his hands together, clearly excited.
"What are we going to eat later... Wait, didn’t you just finish two hand-grabbing pancakes? You’re hungry again?" Sometimes Su Yinhe really suspected Lin Murong was a reincarnated starving ghost.
Eating so much and getting hungry so quickly.
"Just two servings, how much can that be? That’s not nearly enough for me. Besides, it’s been two hours already," Lin Murong patted his stomach, which had caved in.
My, what a digestive system.
Indeed, someone without some wealth simply couldn’t afford to keep him.
"Okay, okay, let’s wait a bit longer. I’ll let you eat more later," she said. Her own food hadn’t digested yet, and if they ate now, she wouldn’t be able to eat and would just have to watch Lin Murong eat.
Faced with the choice of watching Lin Murong eat or letting him go hungry for a while, Su Yinhe chose the latter.
It’s not like Lin Murong would starve to death from waiting a bit.
But she couldn’t bear the idea of watching him eat while she couldn’t.
"You said it. You can’t fool me."
"Sure sure sure, I won’t fool you," Su Yinhe genuinely felt like she was coddling a child.
Lin Murong, charmed by her, beamed and began bouncing around again.
Chi Yan came over, "Don’t indulge him like that."
"It’s fine. When dealing with a fool, one should always be indulgent."
Chi Yan patted her head, "Okay, I’ll listen to you."
Wait, why is he listening to her again?
Listening to her about everything will only harm him.
Su Yinhe really felt the pressure.
She really, had taken on too much trust from others.
Oh god, why do they all listen to her?
Don’t they have their own opinions?
That doesn’t seem right, Chi Yan doesn’t seem like someone without his own opinions.
Su Yinhe carefully sized up Chi Yan.
The moment Chi Yan felt Su Yinhe’s gaze on him, his face immediately broke into a smile.
So well-behaved and cute.
It was totally unfair, really unfair—how could he look at her with such an expression? It made her want to commit a crime.
She was clearly a good person, so why did she always feel like committing a crime whenever she saw Chi Yan?
He was leading her astray.
After some contemplation, Su Yinhe comfortably shifted the blame onto Chi Yan.
They wandered around, playing and stopping intermittently, and Su Yinhe waited until she was hungry before planning to start the meal.
Lin Murong looked at her with a woeful expression, "Galaxy, do you have a bad digestive system or something? Why does it take you so long to get hungry after eating? I’m starving to death here."
"Isn’t it possible that you digest too quickly?" Su Yinhe said with a slight smile.
Wasn’t her pace of eating quite normal?
It was Lin Murong who was not normal, okay?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Lin Murong shook his head.
"Whatever. Let’s eat, my ears are about to grow calluses from listening to you," Su Yinhe touched her ears; Lin Murong really could be quite noisy.
So noisy it made her head buzz.
"Hehehe." When Lin Murong saw food, he couldn’t move an inch further.
He stopped arguing about who was abnormal. Su Yinhe had prepared a lot of food, and Lin Murong began to eat voraciously, his stomach unhindered.
"Ah." Su Yinhe watched him, shaking her head with a sigh.
"Galaxy, aren’t you eating? Why the sigh?" Lin Murong asked, his mouth stuffed with food, yet he still found time to show concern for Su Yinhe.
"Me?" Su Yinhe pointed at herself.
"Yeah. Why aren’t you eating? Could it be that you’re still not hungry?!" When Lin Murong said this, he was genuinely alarmed.
He couldn’t understand how someone could go so long without eating and not be hungry.
"Hehehe." Su Yinhe chuckled without a word, but it wasn’t that she wasn’t hungry.
She just didn’t start eating right away; she preferred to take her time.
She wanted to watch Lin Murong eat first to whet her appetite.
Watching him eat made her feel hungrier.
It didn’t take long for Su Yinhe to begin eating, but she ate slowly.
Chewing thoroughly and savoring each bite.
"Galaxy, let me tell you, with the way you eat, you’ll never win against others at mealtime," Lin Murong advised her as he ate.
"When eating, you should take big bites to really enjoy the flavor. With such tiny bites, you’ll get tired before you’re full."
"Thank you so much for worrying about my mouth, but my mouth isn’t tired yet."
"You’re not your mouth, how would you know if your mouth isn’t tired?"
"What the heck, where’s your brain?" Su Yinhe was totally befuddled.
"Cough cough cough, sorry, I’m eating, I didn’t think before speaking." After saying this, Lin Murong finally realized how absurd his words had been.
"Forget it, forget it, just eat your meal. Stop nagging," she was tired of listening.
"Okay." Knowing he misspoke, Lin Murong didn’t dare to continue and simply bowed his head to focus on his food.
"Chi Yan, don’t just watch. You eat too." After a few more bites, Su Yinhe noticed that Chi Yan had been watching her the whole time without beginning to eat himself.
"Okay." Chi Yan looked at her and nodded.
Su Yinhe glanced at him and then at Lin Murong, exhaling a long sigh—she had the feeling that both of them were not quite right.
She couldn’t have caught something from Lin Murong, could she?
It really scared her.
The thought of Chi Yan potentially becoming like Lin Murong made Su Yinhe’s hands begin to tremble.