Why Are You So Kind to Me?

Huya's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the direction in which the two of them had left. His fists clenched, and his chest heaved heavily with resentment towards the chief's decision.

Why did that waste, that waste of a creature, deserve this?

Even if he died, it wouldn't be a great loss!

Hu Lie pulled him to his feet, not showing any concern for his injuries. He coldly interrogated, “What happened? You let that waste of Jin do this to you? Useless, utterly embarrassing.”

Hu Lie's voice was biting and filled with disdain. Huya lowered his head in shame and guilt. “Brother, I'm sorry. I had planned to bring the wild boar to Yaoyao, but I wasn't vigilant enough and got ambushed by that guy...”

The fact that Hu Lie had brought back a stunning female from the forest, hiding her away in his stone hut, was known to all in the tribe.

Rumor had it that she was incredibly beautiful, with skin as white as snow, more enchanting than any other female in the world.

Any male who laid eyes on her was entranced by her, and Huya was no exception. He wanted to impress her by offering her food.

Hu Lie frowned at his words. His handsome face turned cold, “If Yaoyao wants meat, I will catch it for her.”

The implication was that they didn't need outsiders interfering.

Huya naturally heard the displeasure in his brother's words. Anxiously, he continued, “Brother, you know... Yaoyao is so beautiful. I also want to be her mate.”

“Each female has several male mates. She's so beautiful that she will definitely take on other male mates in the future. Instead of competing against each other, why don't we both become her mates? This way, we can prevent her from being attracted to other males in the future...”

“Go back and find the tribe's elder for treatment!”

Hu Lie's voice turned harsh, cutting off Huya's pleading. He left without looking back.

“Are you okay, Huya?”

Two male beastmen next to him extended their hands to help him up.

“I'm fine.”

Huya stared at the direction Hu Lie had left, a dark shade flashing in his eyes. Without saying anything, he lowered his head and followed.

As the door opened and they entered the room, a faint aroma wafted through the air. It dispelled the usual damp and gloomy atmosphere in the stone hut, and it smelled oddly pleasant.

Jin stood there, momentarily stunned by the sight of the immaculately cleaned stone hut. He almost thought he had entered the wrong place.

The familiar fragrance in the air caught his attention. He saw a bundle of woven mugwort leaves burning on the wall and a stone basin placed below it, containing the ashes of a burnt mugwort bundle.

“This is mugwort. Shana told me that burning mugwort can repel insects, so I went with her to the forest to gather some. It should last for about half a month.” An Yao helped him to the neatly arranged stone bed.

The damp and moldy straw on the bed had been replaced with soft animal hides she had exchanged for food with Shana. The bed was much more comfortable now.

An Yao then brought a basin of water and a piece of animal hide to clean his wounds.

Jin felt somewhat overwhelmed by the treatment, stiffening initially. But as her gentle hands worked on him, he gradually relaxed, lying back on the bed and staring absentmindedly at the ceiling.

As An Yao stood up to fetch a fresh basin of water, he softly spoke, “Why did you help me earlier?”

Helping him with his injuries once before, then withdrawing the punishment she had imposed on him, and even personally cooking for him.

This venomous female seemed like a completely different person, and her kindness towards him left him both puzzled and drawn to her.

But Jin could only admonish himself in his heart over and over again, it's fake, it's all fake. She was just deliberately putting on a show when Hu Lie was present, trying to catch his attention, right?

Jin grew up being beaten and insulted by the original host, he simply couldn't believe in this sudden kindness; he only felt that she must have ulterior motives.

Thinking about the fervor this malicious female showed towards Hu Lie, and the disdain and disgust she directed at him, Jin's hand fell on his throbbing chest.

For some reason, he felt uncomfortable...

This strange feeling was something he had never experienced before.

“Ah, um, the other day, didn't I hit my head against the wall? After waking up, I forgot a lot of things...”

An Yao carefully chose her words, continuing to clean his wounds, applying hemostatic powder. She pondered how to phrase it to make him completely let go of his guard.

“I think that no matter how cruel I was to you before, people can change, right? So, don't always dwell on how I was before!”

“And also, I've thought a lot during this time. The two of us have grown up as childhood friends. We don't have to live every day like enemies, that would be so tiring.”

Jin slightly paused, seemingly seeing her in a new light. He lowered his gaze, watching her gentle and focused movements, and after a moment, couldn't help but softly ask, “Do you really mean that?”

“Mhmm!” Wasn't it obvious?

“So... just now, you weren't trying to catch Hu Lie's attention on purpose?”

“Hu Lie?” An Yao looked up, her face filled with confusion.

“Of course not. Why would I want his attention? He doesn't even spare me a glance. Would I be that shameless to go over and seek attention?”

While reading the novel, she didn't like Hu Lie among the male leads. She always felt he was too chauvinistic and stubborn, somewhat like the main male character in “普信男,” or “Pu Xin Nan”(ordinary but overconfident man).

But unexpectedly, this person in real life made her dislike him even more.

The stone in her heart suddenly dropped, and Jin couldn't control the unexplainable excitement and jump in his usually lifeless heart.

An Yao caught sight of the little gray heart on his head trembling with excitement, becoming pure white.

But she hadn't even had time to feel happy when she heard him softly ask, with his voice low as if whispering, “So, are you willing to accept me?”

“Ah...” An Yao was momentarily stunned.

Accept? Accept what?

She suddenly remembered that Jin was the child raised by the main family's parents.

If it weren't for the original host disliking him, and treating him with disdain and abuse every day, they would have become partners a long time ago.

Thinking of this, An Yao's face turned pale, and she quickly waved her hands.

She cleared her throat and said, “We grew up together, just like family. After I woke up from that coma, I thought about it carefully. Our relationship before was pretty good, and we don't need to make any other changes!”

“And besides, you don't like me, right? I've thought it through. Since neither of us likes each other, why force us to be together?”

“So I think the contract that the foster parents signed when I was a child and didn't know any better can just be ignored, okay?”

“...”

If he had heard this a few days earlier, Jin would have been really happy. But now, he only felt like she wanted to distance herself from him.

“I don't want the contract, you can keep holding on to it.”

After saying that, the teenager turned over and stopped looking at her, his tone hinting at his annoyance.

An Yao saw the little black heart above his head start emitting dark aura again, and thought, his heart is truly like a dog's heart at the bottom of the ocean.

Jin was seriously injured. To catch that fierce and ferocious wild boar, he had tracked it for three days and nights, during which he hardly closed his eyes, ate, or drank. He was weak to the extreme.

An Yao had made a pot of frozen fish ball and wild vegetable soup for him, and it was quickly cooked.

The scent of the meat filled the air, and Jin's throat gulped as he opened his long, deep eyes, looking towards the sound coming from the stove.