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 the hand she used to brace herself, she might have smashed her face as flat as a pancake.

Seeing that this little rabbit spirit wanted to leave after playing a trick on them, Bing Ling 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 Bing Ling's 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 pretended to be an ordinary rabbit and fooled 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 getting all petty!"

The way Xiao Yu'er looked at Feng Wuhen practically spat fire. She considered herself to have lived for a very long time, yet she had never encountered anyone more hateful than Feng Wuhen.

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

Xiao Yu'er finally understood why Bing Ling had frozen her feet. So it was to vent her anger for her junior brother.

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

Feeling that she could not reason with Bing Ling, 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 watch them bully me like this, can you?"

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

Without even the slightest hesitation, Shen Ziheng turned neatly around and faced away from Xiao Yu'er. Seeing him give up on her without so much as a moment's hesitation, Xiao Yu'er was so shocked that her eyes nearly popped out.

"How could 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 in challenge.

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

Xiao Yu'er was so angry that she wanted to stomp her feet, but they were frozen in place, leaving her only able to turn 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 they had not arrived, so 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 had not shown 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 brothers of their main peak.

It was not that those senior and junior brothers could not deal with her. They simply refrained from doing so because Xiao Yu'er was Ruan Siyao's friend. They only came to complain to him, asking him to keep her in line.

He had warned Xiao Yu'er several times. She always agreed readily in front of him, but in truth, she had never taken his words to heart.

This time, she had finally kicked an iron plate while trying to prank someone. He wanted to see whether she would still dare to toy with people so casually in the future.

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

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

"Xiaoran, you finally came! Your friends are bullying me. Look, they froze my feet so badly they're almost swollen! And that person said he was going to skin me and roast my meat.

"And that little girl too. I was honestly eating grass in the bushes when a stone suddenly fell from the sky and gave me a bump on the head. She was the one who kicked that stone.

"And your junior brother is awful too. He took outsiders' side instead of mine!"

Qin Xiaoran first shattered the ice around her feet, then grabbed her long ears and tugged with some force, pulling her right up onto her feet.

"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 now you're taking outsiders' side and teaching me a lesson for them."

Hearing Xiao Yu'er bring up how she had changed his diapers in front of Feng Wuhen and the others, Qin Xiaoran's ears reddened in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Shen Ziheng helped his senior brother out. "That's not right. As the senior brother of all Mount Grand Mystery, Senior Brother naturally has to uphold reason over personal ties.

"You were the one who deceived us first. You pretended to be an ordinary rabbit so Hongying would take you away. What were you planning to do to her?"

Hearing herself mentioned, Meng Hongying looked at Xiao Yu'er curiously as well. If Feng Wuhen had not noticed something wrong and thrown the rabbit away, who knew what the rabbit would have planned to do after following her back?

Thinking of how she had misunderstood Feng Wuhen and even pushed him just now, 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 to him, Feng Wuhen shook his head. "It's all right. You didn't know Xiao Yu'er had transformed into that rabbit. Just don't casually take animals home in the future."

Even without his reminder, Meng Hongying remembered it.

Later, whenever she went out to gain experience, she would be extremely cautious around both spirit beasts and ordinary animals. That caution would even save her life once.

Hearing Shen Ziheng's words, Xiao Yu'er cast Meng Hongying a very guilty glance. Earlier, 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.

Seeing the guilty look in her eyes, Qin Xiaoran knew she must have intended to prank Meng Hongying.

And when 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'll tell you one last time today: you are not allowed to prank people whenever you please anymore. If you dare prank anyone again, I'll have Mother never buy you new clothes again, and never give you snacks again!"

Upon hearing that, Xiao Yu'er snorted, then said awkwardly, "I-I understand. I won't casually prank people again. You can't let Siyao withhold my new clothes and snacks!"

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

Xiao Yu'er's eyes lit up. If there could be one more person to buy her new clothes, then she would simply stop pranking people so casually.

"I definitely won't prank people in the future! If I do it again, I'll go my whole life without new clothes and can only wear tattered rags!"

Seeing that she had even said such words, 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 plenty of food. Come with us 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 turned to 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."

The moment Bing Ling heard that, she transformed into her original form as well. A streak of blue light shot off with a whoosh and vanished from sight.

Seeing the two of them run so fast, Meng Hongying looked slightly anxious. She dragged Shen Ziheng beside her and called to Feng Wuhen, "Let's hurry! Don't let them finish all the delicious 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 nice if Qin Leyan were here too.