As soon as those words were said, Wen Xian paused and her expression became increasingly subtle.
Frowning tightly and remaining silent until she finished disinfecting the wound and applying an adhesive bandage, she finally spoke without much emotion:
"I’m a woman, don’t use the tactics you apply to men on me, they won’t work."
Upon saying this, she paused again:
"Don’t think that because you helped me, I owe you anything. You helped me of your own free will, I didn’t ask for it."
Wen Xian wasn’t a fool, she had already begun to feel that something was off but couldn’t put her finger on it, so she could only create distance between them based on her instincts.
She couldn’t make Lu Xiao angry.
Words from Lu Xiao often turned out to be right.
As Ruan Yiyi listened to this, her body stiffened.
With her eyes slightly downcast, staring at her wound, her expression turned colder by the moment.
In the end, she said word for word:
"I never expected you to owe me any favors, just take care of yourself."
Wen Xian heard the added chill in her voice, suddenly let out a light laugh, shook her head and stood up to leave.
Sitting there by herself, she couldn’t quite say if she felt humiliated or something else.
A vague and indefinable chill permeated her being.
After a moment, her phone buzzed.
She took it out of the vacuum bag, looked at the stream of messages that had arrived, and a subtle depth appeared in her eyes.
Then she replied with a sentence:
［Proceed with your plan whenever, I really want to see how that person will decide.］
As she put down the phone, she bowed her head, her lips curling lightly.
The smile was somewhat cold.
Aboard the vessel, Wen Xian was watching a mother seal give birth, sprawled out there, pushing continuously at the spot, her tail lifted.
"Ah, it’s coming out, it’s coming out...!"
Seeing the baby seal’s head poke out from below the mother’s tail, Wen Xian was ecstatic.
She was recording with her phone, feeling that this moment was incredibly memorable.
Although the mother seal had nearly bitten her, Wen Xian was sympathetic because it was reacting out of self-defense and the emotional instability of giving birth; hence, she didn’t hold a grudge against the seal mother.
The mother seal gave birth relatively smoothly, and not long after, the baby seal slid out of its mother’s body.
The little thing was dark and glossy, lying on the deck.
After giving birth, the mother seal immediately turned its ponderous body and nuzzled the newborn.
Watching this scene, Wen Xian was overwhelmed with complicated feelings.
Maternal love might be the natural instinct of every mother, one’s own flesh and blood is more important than anything else.
The mother seal rested on the deck after the rescue and birth; it truly believed that they were there to help.
Lu Xiao took out some fish from a bucket and placed them beside her to help her regain strength.
This time, the mother seal moved closer to Lu Xiao, who did not retreat. When its small head rubbed against Lu Xiao’s leg, it seemed to be expressing gratitude.
Wen Xian looked at the scene, her heart instantly softened.
"Wen Xian, let’s apply some medicine to its wound."
This would allow the mother seal’s lips to heal faster, enabling it to hunt properly.
This time, Lu Xiao held its mouth while it fully trusted him, and Wen Xian carefully wiped it with disinfectant.
After everything was done, the mother seal nuzzled her palm with its head.
This time, it was finally ready to leave with its child——