"These two brothers really are interesting. I remember that old Snake Demon went to watch the Lin Family's drama plenty of times. Didn't he say Lin Mu spent all day thinking about how to kill his brother?"
After watching Lin Mu get beaten up and then seeing the two cousins chat in private, Long Heng curiously sidled up to Ye Fei to ask what exactly was going on.
He didn't think Feng An would deliberately mix falsehoods into the amusing stories he shared, so...
Wasn't it far too strange for someone who thought about tormenting his own brother every day to care so much about a younger cousin?
"He doesn't have a brother by blood... but I'm curious too."
Ye Fei jumped straight into the water to soak. The longer he watched those two sitting under the tree, bonding as cousins while each pressed the other about why he didn't look human, the more he wanted to laugh...
The purple sweet potato spirit and the birdman monster really did get along well!
"Hey, Lin Mu, let me ask you something. Why are you so good to Lin Xian? I heard you tormented your own older brother until he ran for his life. Why is he different?"
Long Heng was curious, and Ye Fei didn't know either, so he simply ran over. All he had to do was ask.
"My dear nephew... you're not human, so you don't understand. When people, especially when they're lost or in despair, happen to receive a little kindness, they might remember it for the rest of their lives. And it makes them see even more clearly how loathsome the false faces around them are..."
Lin Mu looked at the little dragon boy before him, suddenly reached out to hug the nonhuman child, and began explaining