Mercenary Princess - Chapter 156
I can't believe it! After all these years, my skills haven't gotten rusty at all!
Looking at the lifelike little snowman, Rongyue stood proudly with her shovel in hand, examining it from head to toe, feeling a growing sense of accomplishment with each look.
"Wow—" With her two short arms gently hugging the snowman who was several times her height, she tilted her little face up to look at the snowman's bright smile, her almond-shaped eyes wide open in wonder: "This is a snowman! Mom, is this a snowman sister or a snowman brother?"
"Sister, can a snowman turn into a person?"
"Silly! Of course a snowman isn't a person!" Pouting her pink lips and shaking her head in disapproval, Gouwa pointed at the snowman with her gloved fingers and said confidently, "A snowman is a fairy! Just like Mommy said, a fairy who can fly away in a flash! Mommy, isn't Gouwa right?"
"No way!" Dongfang Yao twisted her neck, unconvinced. "Sister was talking about the Snow Fairy, not the Snowman Fairy!"
"No, no! It's the Snowman Fairy! The Snowman Fairy! You're so silly, so silly!"
"It's the Snow Fairy! Sister, isn't it?" Dongfang Yao stammered, tugging at Rongyue's left sleeve.
"No, it's the Snow Fairy! Mother, you said it was Gouwa who said it, right?" Gouwa grabbed Rongyue's right sleeve, looking like a sycophant.
"snowflake!"
"snowman!"
"Naive!" A cold, mocking remark silenced the two who had been arguing, and they stared at each other, wide-eyed.
Why do I feel like an outsider? Our family, so lively and full of life, is bustling and cheerful, but he's the only one missing. Wherever I go, I'm always ignored, just like now, watching others' joy alone, unable to join in. The only thing I can do is use indifference to mask my loneliness and vulnerability, and use sharp words to attack and gain attention…
Attention? His heart skipped a beat. When did he start craving her attention, her gaze, even if it was one of disgust? He didn't want her to ignore him...
*Thud!* A snowball hit me, leaving a cold patch on my neck.
He looked up in annoyance, only to be surprised to see her provocative face.
"Hehe, baby, come and hit your mom if you dare!" As she spoke, Rongyue rolled a loose snowball out of the snow and threw it at him again.
Damn woman!
He grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, rolled it into a ball, and was about to throw it at him with all his might when he suddenly remembered that he was only four years old. He couldn't vent his anger, so he could only weakly throw it like a four-year-old child.
Ahead came the woman's provocative laughter. Before he knew it, a snow hat was on his head.
This is intolerable! Grabbing a snowball, I kicked my legs and, crunching through the snow, went off to 'take revenge'...
Gouwa and Dongfang Yao exchanged a glance, then simultaneously grabbed some snowflakes from the ground and shouted, "I want to play too!"
...
"Father, look! There's a sika deer! Oh dear, it's run into the jungle again!"
"Don't worry, Hao'er. He may run away now, but he can't run away later! This little deer will definitely be mine!"
"Father, I want to live! Please don't shoot me dead!"
"Okay, I know, stop nagging."
Following the deer's tracks, they chased after it all the way, passing by crooked branches, and finally spotted the deer at the village entrance...
He revealed a confident smile, drew his arrow, nocked it, and drew the bowstring taut...
"Ugh, you silly goose, you're a bad person, a bad person... Uh? Ah! A horse with flowers, a horse with flowers—don't run, don't run! Horse, don't run—" With all four limbs moving, Gouwa's mouth stretched to the back of her head. Seeing the strange thing in her eyes, she forgot herself and ran towards the sika deer with a thud...
The arrow has been shot...
The chubby dog ran right into the path of the sika deer...
Once the arrow is released, there's no turning back...
But at the critical moment, Gouwa's body was nimbly turned around...
"Oh no!" With a grim expression, Tuoba Chen thought to himself, "This is bad." He threw down his longbow, leaped off his horse, and rushed forward.
Kneeling in the snow, Rongyue's face was as white as paper, her slender body trembling, her arms shaking uncontrollably, yet as firm as steel, she held the puppy tightly in her arms, as if a moment's loosening of her grip would mean losing it forever...
The fear still lingered in her eyes; no one could comprehend the horrifying nightmare she had just experienced…
Doggy, you scared your mother to death! Do you know that?
Doggy, Mommy is actually very fragile and can't take jokes like this. Do you understand?
So close, just a tiny bit more...
"Are you alright... Oh, it's you?"
The shocked Tuoba Chen was swept aside by Rong Yue's cold glance.
Holding the puppy, she stood up from the snow, straightened her back, and brushed past Tuoba Chen, as if she had never known him before, stubbornly and resolutely walking forward without looking back...
Her scent, her very own scent!
Is that her mother? Has she come back?
No, we can't trust her so easily. There's someone behind the scenes guiding her, and 'she' is imitating her perfectly!
Yet, with aloofness and disdain for the world, who can imitate her so perfectly?
Think of the consequences of being deceived by her time and time again! Not only did she steal their sacred herb that could heal the dead and restore flesh to bones, but she also repeatedly tried to assassinate him. What angered him even more was that she was so vicious as to try to harm such a young child! If he hadn't discovered it early, his sister-in-law and Hao'er would probably have already perished in the fire she deliberately caused!
But this time the feeling was really different, it really seemed like his girlfriend...
Is it her? Could it be her...?