His body trembled slightly, regret surged in his eyes, and his expression became blank.
Seeing Mu Bai move mechanically toward the bedroom as if his soul had been ripped away, Su Ruanruan noticed that Mu Bai seemed to have no soul left.
Seeing Mu Bai leave, Bai Ruan wagged her tail and followed.
Su Ruanruan: ……
His reaction was far too extreme; he looked utterly hopeless.
What does he mean?
After a while, Mu Bai did not come out. Only Bai Ruan ran over, humming a few times, her round black eyes fixed on the direction of the bedroom.
Then it raised its little paw and scratched Su Ruanruan's embroidered shoes.
Su Ruanruan reached out and hugged it in her arms.
Lifting her skirt, a hint of displeasure in her eyes, she said, "You know I already have a bad reputation in the village."
"Even if we have been intimate, I will not force you to marry me. I will treat it as a fleeting affair. In the future, I will not bother you, nor will I ruin your future. Why are you reacting so strongly?"
Su Ruanruan walked and shouted as she went, heading towards the bedroom.
She didn't know why she got so angry after seeing his reaction.
When he could see the situation inside, his expression suddenly turned grim, and a cold light flashed in his clear, moon-like eyes.
Su Ruanruan looked at the papers scattered all over the room, raised her eyes, gritted her teeth, and glared resentfully at Mu Bai, who was blankly banging his forehead against the wall.
"Mu... Bai!"
“If you feel that I have tainted your purity, you may simply drive me away. Your life-or-death behavior makes me feel that I am just mud in the lotus pond, defiling your pure lotus flower.”
Su Ruanruan suppressed her anger and turned to leave.
"Since you don't want to see me again, then I'm leaving!"
Mu Bai suddenly realized what was happening and quickly chased after him.
He firmly encircled Su Ruanruan from behind.
"Ruan Ruan, don't go. How could I despise you? I just hate myself for doing such a thing."
"What have I actually learned all these years? I've wasted my time reading these classic texts."
Su Ruanruan could sense his deep frustration.
Emotions and desires are human nature; what does that have to do with reading the classics?!
It's just an excuse, a pretext.
Su Ruanruan struggled for a long time before she finally broke free from his grasp.
For someone with such a frail body to be able to control her for so long, he must have used a great deal of strength.
Su Ruanruan turned around and found that his forehead was covered in bruises.
"What are you doing? Aren't you afraid of playing dumb? Even if we've been intimate, you don't need to hurt yourself like this!"
Su Ruanruan's suppressed anger suddenly flared up again. What on earth was he thinking?
Even Bai Ruan, who had been placed on the ground by Su Ruanruan, looked up at Mu Bai with a demure and bewildered expression.
Mu Bai's throat tightened, and his voice was dry and he could hardly speak.
"I……"
"You...you...what...you..."
Su Ruanruan frowned, her face turned cold, and her expression grew increasingly unpleasant.
If you keep stammering like this, I'm never talking to you again!
Su Ruanruan made a move to leave, and Mu Bai quickly spoke up.
"But...you haven't reached the age of marriage yet!"
Su Ruanruan froze on the spot, her eyelashes trembling, her mind racing.
Yes, yes, the original owner's birthday was on the eighth day of the seventh lunar month.
This year marks her coming-of-age ceremony.
When the original owner's parents were still alive, the family was poor but happy.
Back then, even eating coarse food and wild vegetables felt incredibly warm.
A particular image keeps lingering in my mind.
The mother was coaxing the original owner to sleep. The orange light was soft and dappled, and the mother, with a serene smile, gently stroked her eyebrows and eyes.
"Ruanruan is only nine years old this year, but she has grown up to be more beautiful than the peach blossoms at the foot of the mountain. In a few years, our family will be so popular with suitors that they will break down the threshold."
At that time, Su Ruanruan didn't know what a marriage proposal meant. She just asked her mother curiously, "Mother, if I'm pretty, does that mean no one will like me?"
"Silly child, how could that be?"
Little Su's soft, bright eyes kept looking at her mother. "But...but Mother is so beautiful, so why don't the aunties and uncles in the village like you? Why don't Grandma and Second Aunt like you either?"
The smile on her mother's face froze for a moment, then she forced a smile.
"When Ruanruan comes of age, her parents will go to a neighboring village with simple and honest customs to find her a good marriage."
"Mother will never let you follow in my footsteps. Mother wants to see Ruan Ruan get married, have children, and live a long and loving life with her husband..."
Su Ruanruan saw the faint light in the eyes of the original owner's mother, and only now did she understand that it was a kind of expectation.
She also said that she would give the original owner a birthday gift when she came of age.
But now, everything has changed, and she no longer knows what that grand gift is.
Su Ruanruan turned around and sat back down at the table.
Feeling that he had gone too far, Mu Bai, who was originally restrained, gentle and polite, was frightened into this state by her.
"Don't be afraid. You were sick last night, nothing happened between us. I was just kidding you."
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