Xiao Yu'er

Xiao Yu'er had not expected someone to freeze her feet. She fell flat on her face, and if not for her quick reflexes and catching herself with her hands, her face might have been smashed flat as a pancake.

Seeing that this tiny rabbit spirit had played a trick on them and still wanted to leave, Bing Ling stepped in and taught her a lesson.

"You tricked us and still want to leave? Where in the world is there such a good deal?"

Xiao Yu'er could tell that his bloodline was powerful, but she was not afraid. Besides, although she had tricked them, that person had tricked her right back. That meant they were even.

"I disguised myself as an ordinary rabbit and tricked you, but didn't that person trick me too? He even kicked me just now! I didn't hold it against you, yet you're the ones making a mountain out of a molehill!"

Xiao Yu'er glared at Feng Wuhen as though fire might shoot from her eyes. In all her long years of life, she had never encountered anyone more hateful than Feng Wuhen.

Seeing that she was still glaring at Feng Wuhen, Bing Ling shifted his feet to stand in front of him. He raised a hand as if to slap her and looked at her. "Keep glaring at my junior brother, and see if I don't smack you."

Xiao Yu'er finally understood why he had frozen her feet. So it was to vent his anger on behalf of his junior brother.

But did this person even know that she was the one being bullied?

Feeling that she could not reason with him, she could only turn to the sole person among them who knew her and plead pitifully for help. "You're Xiaoran's junior brother, so we're family. You can't just stand by and watch them bully me like this, can you?"

Feng Wuhen also looked at Shen Ziheng, curious to see what he would do. Would he help this little rabbit, or help him?

Without even a moment's hesitation, Shen Ziheng turned neatly around and presented his back to Xiao Yu'er. Seeing him abandon her so decisively, Xiao Yu'er was so shocked that her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"How can you pretend not to see it? We're the ones on the same side! How can you help outsiders?"

Seeing how furious the little rabbit was, Feng Wuhen deliberately provoked her. He lifted an arm around Shen Ziheng's shoulders and raised his brows at her challengingly.

"We're the ones on the same side. He and I are the closest."

Xiao Yu'er was so angry she wanted to stomp her feet, but they were frozen in place, so she could only flush red from face to neck.

Qin Xiaoran had been hiding nearby, watching the entire affair from beginning to end.

He had waited for them at Peaceful Residence for a long time, but when they did not arrive, he came out to look for them. He happened to run into Xiao Yu'er trying to prank Feng Wuhen and the others. Before he could warn them, Feng Wuhen had already noticed.

So he did not show himself, intending to let Feng Wuhen and the others teach Xiao Yu'er a lesson. Xiao Yu'er often played tricks on the senior and junior disciples of their main peak.

Those disciples were not incapable of dealing with her. They simply spared her because she was Ruan Siyao's friend. They only came to complain to him and asked him to rein her in.

He had warned Xiao Yu'er several times. She always agreed readily in front of him, but in truth, none of his words had gone into her ears.

Well, this was good. This time, she had kicked an iron plate while trying to prank someone. Let's see if she would dare play tricks on people so casually again.

Feng Wuhen had long noticed him standing nearby, which was why he had not bullied Xiao Yu'er too severely. Otherwise, with his temperament, he would definitely have given this prank-loving little rabbit a ruthless lesson!

Feeling that it was about enough, Qin Xiaoran revealed himself. When Xiao Yu'er saw him arrive, she thought her backer had come and immediately complained to Qin Xiaoran about Feng Wuhen and the others.

"Xiaoran, you finally came! Your friends are bullying me. Look at my feet—they froze them so badly they're about to swell up! And that person said he was going to skin me and roast my meat to eat.

"And that little girl is awful too. I was peacefully eating grass in the bushes when a stone fell from the sky and hit a bump onto my head. She was the one who kicked that stone.

"And your junior brother is hateful too! He sided with outsiders instead of me!"

Qin Xiaoran first shattered the ice around her feet, then reached up and grabbed her long ears. He put some strength into it, tugging her until she jumped.

"Qin Xiaoran! Let go of me right now! If you keep pulling my ears, I'll tell your mother.

"You heartless thing! I watched you grow up. When you were little, I even held you and changed your diapers.

"And today, you're actually siding with outsiders and teaching me a lesson for their sake."

Hearing Xiao Yu'er bring up how she had changed his diapers in front of Feng Wuhen and the others, Qin Xiaoran was so embarrassed that even his ears turned red.

Seeing this, Shen Ziheng came to his senior brother's aid. "That's not right. As the chief senior brother of all Mount Grand Mystery, of course Senior Brother must uphold reason rather than favor family.

"You were the one who deceived us first. You disguised yourself as an ordinary rabbit and let Hongying take you away. What were you planning to do to her?"

When Meng Hongying heard herself mentioned, she too looked curiously at Xiao Yu'er. If Feng Wuhen had not noticed something was wrong and thrown the rabbit away just then, who knew what this rabbit might have wanted to do after going back with her.

Thinking about how she had misunderstood Feng Wuhen earlier and even pushed him, Meng Hongying felt deeply guilty.

"Junior Brother Feng, I'm sorry. You were clearly helping me, but not only did I misunderstand you, I even pushed you."

Seeing her apologize, Feng Wuhen shook his head. "It's all right. You didn't know it was Xiao Yu'er in disguise. But don't casually bring animals home in the future."

Even without his reminder, Meng Hongying had remembered it.

Later, whenever she went out to train, whether she encountered spirit beasts or ordinary animals, she was exceedingly cautious. And that caution saved her life once.

Hearing Shen Ziheng's words, Xiao Yu'er gave Meng Hongying a very guilty glance. She had wanted to go back with the girl so that she could turn back into human form in the middle of the night and secretly draw whiskers on her face.

Qin Xiaoran saw the guilty look in her eyes and knew that she had certainly intended to prank Meng Hongying.

And whenever she pranked girls, she only ever did one thing: draw strange and bizarre patterns on their faces. Sometimes it was a mole the size of a fingernail; sometimes it was whiskers...

"Xiao Yu'er, I'm telling you this one last time today. You are not allowed to prank people casually again. If you dare do it again, I'll make Mother never buy you new clothes again, and never give you snacks again!"

Hearing this, Xiao Yu'er huffed before saying awkwardly, "I-I understand. I won't casually prank people anymore. You can't let Yaoyao take away my new clothes and snacks!"

Seeing that she had agreed, Qin Xiaoran rubbed her ears. "As long as you don't prank people, I'll buy you new clothes too."

Xiao Yu'er's eyes immediately lit up. If there was one more person to buy her new clothes, then she simply would not prank people casually anymore.

"I definitely won't prank people again! If I do, then I'll never get new clothes for the rest of my life and can only wear tattered rags!"

Since she had said that much, Qin Xiaoran knew she was sincere this time. Smiling, he invited her, "Then I'll believe you this once. I invited Wuhen and the others over today and prepared quite a lot of food. Come along too!"

Hearing that, Xiao Yu'er happily transformed back into her original form and hopped toward Peaceful Residence.

Watching that little patch of white hop away, Qin Xiaoran shook his head helplessly. He then looked at Feng Wuhen and the others. "Let's hurry over too. If we're late, I'm afraid that greedy rabbit will eat everything I prepared."

At those words, Bing Ling also transformed into his original form. A streak of blue light shot off with a whoosh, vanishing without a trace.

Seeing the two of them run so quickly, Meng Hongying looked a little anxious. Dragging Shen Ziheng beside her, she called to Feng Wuhen, "Let's go! Don't let them finish all the good food!"

Feng Wuhen and Shen Ziheng hurried after them. Watching their backs, Qin Xiaoran's eyes held a trace of regret. It would have been wonderful if Qin Leyan were here too.