Ruo Ruo had never been so scared.
The swamp at the bottom was something that would swallow her clean in a minute if she fell in.
But when she had come, she had obviously prepared herself, after inquiring about this Blackwater Forest, she had done her homework both against the miasma and for these swamps that dotted the forest.
It was all homework done.
As a result, something like this had actually happened.
Ruo Ruo’s mind was completely blank.
Until, that out-of-character hiss sounded above her head, and she opened her eyes in horror to see a very bright pale golden figure, as if it had fallen from the sky, rolling towards her like a gale.
Ruo Ruo: “……”
The first thing that happened was that the person grabbed her and pulled her into his arms, but her mind was still blank and her thoughts stopped.
How could he have come?
“How are you? Are you all right?”
The teenager couldn’t care less, he finally saved her, and when he landed, he couldn’t wait to survey her body, his voice even trembling slightly.
It was fear.
What would have happened to her if he had been a step later just now?
Would he never have seen her again?
He gripped the slender wrist in his palm hard, no longer able to hide his emotions in this moment, after the backward fear that filled his eyes appeared on his pretty face.
At one point even his body was shaking.
Ruo Ruo was dumbfounded again.
She watched as the teenager looked down and checked himself over and over again, he was completely devoid of his previous cold detachment, instead his hands were so frazzled that even she could feel his panic.
Ruoruo: “……”
“I’m fine ……”
She finally spoke up, her eyes red and calm after the initial shock and fear, she saw this teenager so concerned about her that she didn’t fall apart at once.
Didn’t he ignore her?
And didn’t remember her, was cold every day, so why come to her rescue at this time? And cared so much about her?
The little girl peeked at him.
Finding that he was indeed no more than before, but had been carefully examining her body for injuries? The worry and concern on his face didn’t look like he was faking it either.
Suddenly, her heart skipped hard as well.
“Sixteen?”
“……”
The teenager lifted his head.
Only to find that the little girl had suddenly lifted that hand of hers, and she slowly touched his head.
There was silence all around.
The air, too, seemed to freeze at this moment.
The young man just stared at her blankly and dropped that hand to his cheek.
This was actually something this little girl would often do before. When he was a child, when he was first brought to the Sea View Terrace, the little girl, who had always been a nymphomaniac, would always drool when she saw him.
Then, she liked to touch his little face.
Although at that time, her mummy always reminded her that it was impolite behaviour.
But it didn’t work, she agreed and continued to do it until they went to Y. Maybe by that time she was old enough to know the difference between men and women.
That’s when she stopped touching him.
Until now ……
“You still care about me don’t you? You simply remember me right? Sixteen.”
She asked with resignation as she looked at the pretty face in her palm, as if she too was back in their childhood, as she held back the hazy moisture in her eyes in this foggy forest.
Teenager: “……”
For just a moment, in his head, finally, as if after being hammered hard by something, hindsight, he finally came to his senses.
He kept his head down and maintained that pose, but if one looked closely, one would find that his fingers were whitening little by little, and a face that was deeply and furiously surging with something like a storm before it came.
He had lost his temper!
He closed his eyes fiercely for a moment, but when he opened them again, they were cold.
He slowly loosened his grip, pulling away little by little from the little girl’s eyes, which were covered with hope and excitement, and swung himself back into his original position.
“What are you talking about? This is my duty.”
“…… what?”
The young girl froze.
Duty?
She looked down at her other hand, which had lost its warmth, and raised her eyes in a bit of disbelief to the teenager who had stood up and was quickly moving away from her.
“Don’t you understand, little princess? You are a member of the God’s family, and if something were to happen to me here, your father, would raze this place to the ground, wouldn’t he?”
His two cold beams of eyes fell back on her face.
In the blink of an eye, he was back to that cold attitude of rejecting people, making people look at him and wonder if it was a different person who had just come to her rescue in such a panic.
Ruo Ruo’s face went white again.
She looked at this person, and as disappointment and sadness spread to every corner of her body, she forgot how to express it, just the tears, rolling down like broken beads.
“Ruoruo–”
It was just at this time that her brother Mo Bao finally found his way here too.
After he saw the two here, he shouted out loud and then ran over towards this way.
When she heard this, she immediately turned around and when she saw that it was her brother running towards her, she couldn’t hold back any longer and burst into tears with a loud “wha–“.
“Brother Mo, I want to go home, woo~~~”