Before dawn, I got up.
I didn't wake Yangyang, and simply let her stay in Ye Qingxian's cave abode. Ye Qingxian knew the girl was her daughter now, after all, so she should be able to take good care of her.
I returned to my own cave abode, fired up the stove, and started making myself some flatbreads.
Life had to go on.
Ye Qingxian's baffling behavior couldn't stop me in my tracks.
I thought of what she'd said before.
Since I hadn't rejected Ye Qingxian in the end yesterday, she probably wouldn't keep going crazy afterward.
I forced down the fear in my heart.
When it came to a Female Protagonist gone mad, my terror came from deep inside.
Part of it was the ending the plot seemed to hint at.
The other part was her true nature, which was honestly a little hair-raising...
Although yesterday's plan had gone slightly awry, the outcome was good, at least. The Female Protagonist hadn't taken my life, which was proof enough that my plan to muddle through had worked.
Just as I was busy making flatbreads,
a tiny figure appeared in the courtyard, with a silent girl standing beside her.
"Mom, are you making flatbreads again?" Yangyang came over, holding Ye Qingxian's hand.
I looked at the wild grass clenched in my hand, then at the hands they were holding. A strange ache stabbed through me, and I instinctively hid the grass behind my back. "Yeah. If you've got nothing to do, go play inside. Don't bother me while I'm cooking."
Perhaps I'd been born with an inferiority complex. Seeing Yangyang in her brand-new clothes and the girl in her dazzling Immortal Skirt made a dark thought rise in my heart: maybe I should just give Yangyang to Ye Qingxian.
With Ye