Ruan Chanchan looked at the mer who was acting like a baby. For a few seconds, her heart indeed softened, and she wanted to cook another pack of porridge for Ruan Zeqiu, but then she recalled how many cans of beef and salmon this mer had eaten. She toughened her heart and said to him, "No. You have eaten enough. If you eat any more, your stomach will explode... go out and exercise a little."
She shooed the mer with her hand, ignoring the pout of her little brother, who was eyeing the package in her hand, but no matter how pitifully he stared at her.
"Sister—"
"No!" Ruan Chanchan glared at the mer.
After hearing the rejection of his sister, the light in Ruan Zeqiu’s eyes dimmed, but he didn’t dare to quibble for more. He knew that his sister was only doing this to protect him. He sighed and then went out of the cave to digest the food that he had eaten. However, as soon as he stepped out, he ran into Ye Qian Qian, who flatteringly smiled at him.
When Ruan Zeqiu saw her, he rolled his eyes and then walked in the opposite direction. He didn’t want to listen to someone who had backstabbed him.
The light in Ye Qian Qian’s eyes went out when she saw Ruan Zeqiu walking away. Her father was right; by bullying Ruan Chanchan, she had broken Ruan Zeqiu’s heart. She had been apologising for so long, but Ruan Zeqiu had not once forgiven her.
"What’s wrong, Qian Qian?" Guoguo saw that her friend was looking at someone and sighing heavily. She peered in the direction in which Ye Qian Qian was looking, but didn’t find anyone. "Who are you looking at?"
"Zeqiu." Ye Qian Qian sighed. Turning her head around, she started walking down the thin trail again. "I was going to ask him if he wanted to join my team for the evening hunt, but it seems like he is still angry." She especially came here because she wanted to talk with Ruan Zeqiu and apologise to him again. But the mer didn’t want to see her.
Ye Qian Qian knew that if she went to look for Ruan Zeqiu now, she would only become a bother, so she decided against chasing him.
"Ah, Zeqiu is still angry with you?" Guo Guo exclaimed.
Ye Qian Qian wilted upon hearing her question, and Guo Guo smacked her mouth with her hand. With an apologetic look, she said to Ye Qian Qian, "I am sorry about that. But you should quickly make up with Zeqiu, I heard from others. It seems like after the rumours of Ruan Chanchan getting possessed by the evil witch have started to spread, many of the women of the tribe are eyeing Ruan Zeqiu. Lang is one of them; they think that they can make Zeqiu submit to them as long as they try enough."
Guo Guo was disgusted by the train of thought of these women. Many of them were rescued by Ruan Zeqiu in the past, and yet they were coming up with ways to ruin him. If not for maintaining superficial relationships with the other hunting teams, Guo Guo would have beaten these women up for Ruan Zeqiu and Ye Qian Qian. how dare they dig into the corner of her friend!
Ye Qian Qian’s eyes darkened. "So Lang has been eyeing Zeqiu all along?"
"That’s right, Qian Qian." Guo Guo nodded. Her chubby face bobbed up and down as she stated in a calm voice, " I heard it with my own two ears; Lang was talking about how she is going to restrain and suppress Zeqiu once she imprints on him. It was really nasty to hear."
Guo Guo bared her teeth and spat three times on the ground while Ye Qian Qian’s face turned dark. She knew Lang right. That woman was truly hateful, as she had what one would call a collection of mers, and she would often bully those weak mers who couldn’t awaken as a warrior-kind beast mers. Because of this, that woman had what one would call an obsession to get mers who were powerful.
Ye Qian Qian also knew that many women were eyeing Ruan Zeqiu, but she never expected Lang, after all; that woman was her half-sister. To eye the mer of her own sister, how despicable that woman had to be.
Ye Qian Qian was angry, but she didn’t rush to question Lang. The reason was simple: the woman’s father was no longer living with her mother and was living with another woman. As the two of them had not imprinted on one another, neither her mother nor that mer was entangled with one another, except for casually greeting one another every now and then.
"Are you not going to deal with that woman?" Guo Guo asked innocently.
"If I fight with Lang, then my mother will be in an awkward position." Ye Qian Qian glanced at Guo Guo and reminded her that Mother Ye was also Lang’s mother.
"Then are we going to let Lang do whatever she wants?"
Ye Qian Qian peeled her upper lip backwards. She sneered and said, "Who says that I will let go of her? Ruan Chanchan cannot protect Zeqiu because she is too weak, but that doesn’t mean that I am not going to protect him. Lang can forget about even touching a strand of Zeqiu’s hair as long as I am here."
"You are great, Qian Qian."
Once the two women went down the trail, Ruan Chanchan walked out of the cave; her brows were furrowed. She too knew that rumours were circulating around the tribe, all because the elders wanted to target her, but she never thought that it would give others the opportunity to bully her brother.
Darling, is something the matter? As a system, Xiao Xi couldn’t understand what Ruan Chanchan was worried about, but he could see that something was bothering her. He bobbed over to where Ruan Chanchan was standing and questioned, "Who made you upset?"