I dutifully poured Lin Huan a cup of tea and placed it before him.
Lin Huan's eyebrows tightened, and he adopted a serious expression to back me up as he asked Zhang Shuying, "Taoist Friend Zhang, what's going on here?"
Although Zhang Shuying had a perverse temper, he was incredibly straightforward and never told lies.
He immediately recounted our past grudges in detail, swirling his teacup nostalgically, "Initially, I was provoked by Lin Gang and thought that Yun Hao coveted the relics left by my deceased father, which led me to overreact and caused Su Wan to suffer quite a few grievances."
To my surprise, instead of getting angry, Lin Huan indulged in the notion that we were 'happy enemies, who wouldn't have met if we didn't fight,' and he was quite optimistic about it.
"Taoist Friend Zhang, you've known my granddaughter for a long time. You're a loner by nature, and if she didn't suit your temperament, you wouldn't possibly be so familiar with her."
Lin Huan began to chat up Zhang Shuying, a satisfied expression on his face.
Zhang Shuying, with his eyes half-closed, seemed enveloped in a strange, enchanting mist, nonchalant and bewitching, "Indeed, it's not that she suits my temperament. It's just that she looked so pitiful when she cried. I took pity on her, that's all. Women, indeed, are made of water; they cry at the drop of a hat..."
I was at a loss for words, struck dumb by Zhang Shuying's teasing. I didn't cry all the time, did I?
Only that time he forcibly took me away did I cry miserably.
Any normal person being rudely kidnapped by a thug would cry out of desperation, right?
"Sister, I've finally seen you again, Xiao Yuanyuan missed you so much." A chubby golden Silkworm Gu clumsily burrowed out from the neckline of Zhang Shuying's robe and plunged onto my cheek.
I took the chilly and squishy Xiao Yuanyuan off my face, "I missed you too, Xiao Yuanyuan. Did you gain another round lately? You're so round and cute~"
"I'm trying hard to make myself stronger, so I eat a lot, which makes me look a bit fat. When I become really strong, I'll be able to protect you, sister." Xiao Yuanyuan frolicked in the palm of my hand, its chubby body tumbling about.
Looking at its carefree, adorable antics, I felt my mood lifting.
At that moment, Xiao Yuanyuan suddenly paused, its beady eyes looking at me warily, "Wait, I can smell another bug. Sister, have you... gotten close to another bug behind my back?"
"Uh..." I was in disarray.
At one moment, I wondered how it found out I kept Xiao Honghong.
And at another, I pondered... was Xiao Yuanyuan feeling jealous?
Then Xiao Honghong flew over cold and stern, asking me aloofly, "Woman, what is this? Why is it in your hand?"
"Xiao Honghong, this is Xiao Yuanyuan, the Gu King Golden Silkworm! It's also a good friend of mine." Why did I feel the atmosphere chilling?
Xiao Yuanyuan sadly said, "Sister is naughty, you really have another bug, sob sob sob..."
"Besides me, you need other bugs for friends? You fancy it for its Golden Silkworm Gu strength?" Xiao Honghong was arrogantly disdainful, "I think it's nothing but a whiny weakling."
Xiao Yuanyuan: "You're the whiny weakling! I'm going to clean your clock!"
Xiao Honghong: "Come at me, I'm not afraid of you."
I had a splitting headache and hurriedly tried to break them up, grabbing one in each hand, "No fighting, good bugs don't fight."
Seeing the two bugs at odds, I knew a fight would surely leave one of them hurt.
Zhang Shuying was nonchalantly propping up his feet, completely unconcerned.
I wracked my brain for a way to mediate, "Er, can't you two be friends? Just do it for me."