"Why didn't Xiao Chuan call for help?" Little Tangerine asked, her eyes brimming with tears. She couldn't understand why Xiao Chuan hadn't found someone to help or shouted for everyone to come rescue them and fight Mountain-Ripping Wolf together.
With a complicated expression, Fu Yao stroked Little Tangerine's head. "It would've been pointless. No one would've come to save them. Even this raid had the city lord's tacit approval.
If he'd called for help, he wouldn't have saved Yi Yi's parents, and even Yiyi would've died."
Little Tangerine still didn't understand. New humans always helped one another, so why were old humans unwilling to help others?
"Then why didn't he just run away? Why lock Sister Yiyi up instead?"
Bai Ye said calmly, "A boy covered in wounds, taking a girl who couldn't even defend herself along with him-it would've been hard for them to leave the city. Even if they managed it, they'd only meet their deaths in the wilderness.
As for locking her up...
How do you think he should've faced Yi Yi?"
Little Tangerine froze, then said as if it were obvious, "He should've told Sister Yiyi the truth, of course. Lying is wrong."
Bai Ye glanced at Little Tangerine. He was guiding her, helping her develop her understanding.
"Tell Yiyi that Xiao Chuan's dad killed her parents, and that the person who saved her was actually the adopted son of her father's murderer?"
"His dad is his dad, and Xiao Chuan is Xiao Chuan. How can you blame Xiao Chuan for what his dad did?"
Bai Ye shook his head slightly. "New humans wouldn't blame him, but old humans would. Relationships between people are complicated.
Besides, Xiao Chuan has been blaming himself all along. He thinks that if he hadn't killed the Vase Person and deprived