After Storms Come Rainbows

"Aren't you worried they might hurt Bing'er?" Gu Yuena asked.

Ao Zhan shook his head. "If I were worried they might hurt Bing'er, I wouldn't have allowed her to go up in the first place. People always have to grow up. I don't want Bing'er to keep standing behind me forever, and Bing'er doesn't want that either. She has her own pride and doesn't want to remain under my protection forever."

"Besides, this is just a competition, not some life-or-death battlefield. How could there be any danger to their lives? Even if Huo Linfei and the others accidentally seriously injured someone, I could save them with a wave of my hand. How can one see a rainbow without weathering storms? If you want to grow, you have to endure hardship."

"But tonight, I still need to give them a good scolding. Why were they being so timid? They fought Skywater Team like this—if they faced Golden Team and Qiu'er, wouldn't they be completely helpless? Golden Team is much harder to deal with than Skywater Team!"

The corner of Gu Yuena's mouth twitched. So this was why Ao Zhan was angry.

Still, it made sense. Shui Bing'er was also a proud daughter of heaven, and the pride in her heart was no weaker than anyone else's. Yet when Super Beast Team fought her, they held back at every turn and restrained themselves so much.

Under normal circumstances, Shui Bing'er would not have been angry even if she had been defeated cleanly and decisively. But Super Beast Team's actions had completely treated her as a helpless little girl.

If Shui Bing'er took things more extremely, she might even interpret Super Beast Team's behavior as them thinking she was useless trash who could only rely on Ao Zhan.

If that happened, things would