Liu Wan felt rather sorry for him when she saw what a state he had been tormented into.
"All right, all right, I was only playing with him. I'll let him go right now." Xia Wanwan knew Mother was kindhearted and could not bear to see a child bullied.
Giggling, she untied Jiyan's ropes and let him down.
Jiyan immediately understood: the lady before him was Xia Wanwan's nemesis.
So he pretended to be frightened, hurried over to hug Liu Wan's leg, and hid behind her.
This lady was pretty, too. He was quite willing to stay close to her.
"Stay away from my mother..."
Xia Wanwan pointed at him and roared through gritted teeth.
"Please save me. I have nowhere to go, and she still wants to hit me..."
Jiyan trembled. As he said those words, he thoroughly disgusted himself.
But that was not enough. He forced out some tears as well, looking pitiful enough to make anyone's heart ache.
[Aaaah! This damned two-faced little faker actually dared to tattle on me to Mother!]
[Fine, fine! Let's see who can outplay whom!]
Xia Wanwan struggled to squeeze out a tear and cried aggrievedly, "Mother, I saved him out of kindness, but he insulted me! I asked his name, and he wouldn't tell me. He even insulted me, boohoo!"
"I'm never doing a good deed again! I even got falsely accused, boohoo!"
As she cried, she sat down on the ground.
Liu Wan glanced at the little boy, then went over and picked Wanwan up. Holding her in her arms, she soothed her and wiped her tears. "Of course Mother believes you. Don't cry, baby."
Jiyan sneered.
So being a child meant he could use tricks like this, too.
He thought of sorrowful things, then pouted aggrievedly and sat on