Everyone: ...
Xia Wanwan: That made sense!
Perfect sense!
"That young lady must have prepared herself thoroughly before agreeing to let you be with her cat!"
"Of course! She dragged it out for three whole days. She came to persuade me every day, saying, 'A human and a tomcat can't be together!'"
Yuanbao curled his lips into a rather proud smile.
"A tom-a tomcat!!!" Liu Wan was so shocked that her chopsticks fell from her hand.
She stared at Yuanbao in disbelief.
Everyone else wore strange expressions, too.
Yuanbao brushed back the loose strands beside his temples and explained with a smile,
"That's why Brother Jing Wu wronged me! He insisted I was using his grilled fish to woo a young lady, but I wasn't wooing a young lady. I was wooing a sweet, adorable tomcat!"
Everyone present dropped their melon rinds all over the floor.
This-this revelation was far too explosive!
"Yuanbao, come here!"
Liu Wan beckoned to him.
Yuanbao immediately crouched obediently beside Liu Wan and tugged at her sleeve.
"Yuanbao, do you like boys?" Liu Wan asked.
"I used to like little female cats, but then..." Yuanbao frowned.
His expression held more than a little pain and regret!
His hand involuntarily tightened. Suddenly, he stood up. "There are some things you're better off not knowing. That damned old bastard! Once I find him and cut him down, I'll tell you!"
"I'm leaving!"
Yuanbao's face darkened, and he stormed off with an angry sweep of his sleeves.
Jing Wu sighed and silently followed him.
Liu Wan looked at Xia Siheng. "Did I ask something wrong?"
Xia Wanwan looked up at Mother and said in her clear little voice,
"Yuanbao might have been normal before. Logically, after becoming human, he should have been a normal man, too."
"But back