NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8
Chapter 8: Shuang Yun
Lin Huanhuan fled quickly.
Unfortunately, she was too slow compared to Shuang Yun.
She’d barely taken two steps, when he grabbed her hair from behind.
“Let’s see where else you can run to!”
Lin Huanhuan’s hair was soft and smooth, feeling like seaweed in his hand. It made Shuang Yun slightly startled.
The females he’d met were lazy. They rarely washed their bodies and so their hair was always matted and dirty, like a dried-up haystack.
But the female in front of him had very clean hair.
More than that, she was clean and her fair skin was free of dirt.
Shuang Yun involuntarily softened a little, but he still said forcefully, “Seeing that this is your first offense, I’ll give you a chance to turn over a new leaf. As long as you admit your mistake and apologize to the witch doctor, I’ll spare you.”
Lin Huanhuan’s scalp hurt, but she refused to admit defeat.
She hadn’t stolen anything. Why should she say that she was wrong?!
“You pest! Let me go!”
Seeing that she had refused to admit her mistake, Shuang Yun felt a little angry again.
“Try cursing again and I’ll beat you up!”
Lin Huanhuan glared at him angrily. “Beat me up, then! Beat me to death if you dare!”
Shuang Yun raised his fist, but he couldn’t bring himself to hit her pretty face.
But he wasn’t willing to let her go either.
He tried to get a hold of himself, but in the end, he still couldn’t bring himself to hit her. He could only spit out the words stiffly. “Apologize now!”
As long as she admitted her mistake, he would let her go.
Lin Huanhuan looked stubborn. “I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Cut the crap and admit your mistake!”
“I won’t admit it! I won’t admit it even if you beat me to death!”
…
Just as the two of them were at a stalemate, Dr. Lang Zhu finally returned.
He had just gone to look for Shuang Yun and wanted to introduce Lin Huanhuan to him but unfortunately, he had missed him. By the time he arrived at Shuang Yun’s house, he had already gone out.
Helpless, Lang Zhu could only return empty-handed.
To his utter surprise, he saw Shuang Yun as soon as he returned home.
At this moment, Shuang Yun was grabbing Lin Huanhuan’s hair with one hand and raising his fist with the other. His face was fierce as though he wanted to beat up the female in front of him.
Lang Zhu was so shocked by this scene that he almost knelt down.
He rushed forward and pulled them apart.
The witch doctor glared at him with a pained expression. “What’s wrong with you? How can you be so ruthless to such a cute female? Is your heart made of stone?!”
Shuang Yun frowned and said, “This female was stealing things in your house. I’ll teach her a lesson for you.”
“What’s there to steal? What do I have that’s worthy of being stolen in this lousy house?!” Lang Zhu was so angry that his beard was quivering. “This female is injured. I told her to stay here and recuperate, but you hit her without distinguishing right from wrong! You’re really infuriating me!”
Shuang Yun froze.
“I-Isn’t she a thief? I thought she was here to steal something. I didn’t think—”
“Get out of here! Get out!” Lang Zhu waved his cane and shooed him away. “Don’t ever show your face in front of me again. It annoys me to see you!”
Shuang Yun stood in the doorway, looking at the door that had been slammed shut in his face.
He raised his hand to his nose, looking resentful.
He stood at the door for a while longer but Lang Zhu did not have any intention of opening the door. Shuang Yun could only leave dejectedly.
…
Lang Zhu said to Lin Huanhuan, “Don’t lower yourself to Shuang Yun’s level. That kid has a bad temper. He’s impulsive, but he’s not a bad person. Moreover, he’s very strong. He’s the youngest clan leader in the history of our Wolf Tribe!”
Lin Huanhuan tied her hair behind her head with a seemingly sturdy blade of grass.
She shook her head, her ponytail swaying gently.
“It doesn’t matter. I’m not angry anymore. I won’t see him again anyway.”
Lang Zhu coughed lightly. “Shuang Yun was in the wrong this time. I’ll get him to apologize to you later. If you’re still angry, you can beat him up! You don’t have to show mercy. This kid is tough. He’ll be fine even if you hit him!”
Lin Huanhuan was speechless.
She was really not angry anymore,
She didn’t want to punch anyone either. She just wanted to wait for Bai Di so they could get out of here together.
Why wasn’t Bai Di back yet, anyway?
Lin Huanhuan looked at the door in a daze.
Lang Zhu said many things about Shuang Yun and tried his best to matchmake these two young beasts. However, Lin Huanhuan was neither cold nor enthusiastic. It seemed that she was really not interested in Shuang Yun.
Lang Zhu cursed in his heart. That brat was too much of a bastard. He even dared to hit a female. Now that he couldn’t even find a wife, what was he going to do for the rest of his life?!
…
Bai Di finally returned.
Lin Huanhuan jumped off the bed excitedly and threw herself into his arms. She smiled happily and said, “You’re finally back!”
He picked her up and carried her to the bed. He handed her the cloth bag. “I got your things.”
Lin Huanhuan slowly took the cloth bag. “Why did you take so long to come back?”
“I went to wash the hides we got yesterday.” He set down the hides in front of her. “I know you like to collect hides, so I brought them back for you.”
Lin Huanhuan was a little embarrassed. “I don’t have the hobby of collecting animal hides. You don’t have to especially help me collect animal hides in the future.”
He smiled, but didn’t press her on why she had asked him to collect the hides yesterday if that was the case.
“Since you don’t like them anymore, then you can just toss them aside.”
He tossed the hides aside. Then, as if by magic, he produced a bouquet of flowers from behind him.
They were red flowers with sparkling dewdrops on the petals. They gave off a faint fragrance.
“Is this for me?” Lin Huanhuan was pleasantly surprised. “It’s beautiful!”
He put the bouquet in her hands. “I’m glad you like it.”
“Thank you!”
He was exasperated. “I already told you. We’re family. We don’t need to thank each other.”
Lin Huanhuan stuck out her tongue at him and smiled mischievously.
…
Shuang Yun stood in the doorway. He was looking into the house through the crack in the door.
The little female held the flowers and smiled extremely sweetly.
He’d thought of her as a wild cat. Despite her beauty, she tended to make threatening gestures.
But now, he knew he was wrong. She only bared her fangs and claws to people she found annoying. She was painfully docile when it came to people she liked.
Shuang Yun felt sour inside.
If he’d known she wasn’t a thief, he certainly wouldn’t have treated her so roughly.
‘Surely she hates me now, right?’
Shuang Yun looked down at the hide pouch in his hand that was filled with red berries.
He’d picked them earlier and even washed each one. He wanted to give them to the female as an apology.
But now, his heart was pierced by the little female’s smile. He dared not appear in front of her again.
Shuang Yun placed the hide pouch gently in front of the door and knocked.
By the time the door was pulled open, there was no one there. There was just a hide pouch on the floor.
Bai Di picked up the hide pouch and looked puzzled when he saw the red berries inside.
“Who delivered this?”