Xiao Jinsheng and the other five had just returned home when the doorbell rang. Su Ye, parking the car in the yard, opened the gate to see Bai Yan outside. He turned and called into the house, "Xiao Jinsheng, someone's looking for you."
"No, no, no," Bai Yan quickly interjected. Receiving Su Ye's suspicious gaze, she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, revealing her fair profile. She looked up and smiled sweetly, "I'm here to see you."
"Our car accidentally collided with yours just now; I apologize on behalf of Jin Ao," Bai Yan said softly. "He didn't do it on purpose; the car had problems, and the brakes failed."
"Ms. Bai, aren't you mistaken about something?" Su Ye's golden eyes turned cold. "Your car didn't collide with me, but with my family."
"If we hadn't dodged in time, we could have been directly overturned and wiped out."
"My apologies, my wording was improper," Bai Yan said, full of regret. She offered the basket she was carrying to Su Ye. "These are some specialties I brought back from nearby Cuibai City. I wanted to give them to you… all to try."
Seeing that Su Ye didn't reach for the basket, Bai Yan's gaze swept over the bloodstains on Su Ye's clothes. She gasped in horror, then looked at Su Ye with concern. "Are you injured? Did Jinsheng hit you again?" With that, she put down the basket and anxiously started to go home. "Wait for me, I'll go back and get you some medicine."
Su Ye only felt that this person in front of him was inexplicable. He made a move to close the gate. "Are we very familiar?"
"I understand Jinsheng; if she hit you, she wouldn't let you use medicine," Bai Yan said with an understanding smile. "Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret from Jinsheng that I'm giving you medicine for your injury."
Su Ye looked at the bloodstains on his clothes, all from killing fog corpses. His clothes weren't even torn. He truly didn't understand why Bai Yan was so convinced he was injured. Su Ye felt this was a challenge and an insult to his ability to kill fog corpses. He began to suspect Bai Yan had a problem with her brain and quickly closed the gate.
No sooner had the gate closed than it was pulled open again by someone beside him. Bai Yan thought Su Ye had changed his mind and was going to accept her concern. She chose the best angle, slowly turned back, her gaze lingering, but she met Xiao Jinsheng's mocking, sarcastic smile, her face looking at her provocatively.
"Oh, what a surprise, look how deeply affectionate I can be," Xiao Jinsheng said coldly.
"It's Jinsheng," Bai Yan's face stiffened.
"What, are you disappointed to see me? Just a second ago, you didn't have that look like I owed you eight million," Xiao Jinsheng questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"I hit him? When did I hit him? How come I don't know?"
"Jinsheng, you really need to be kinder to your beast-husbands," Bai Yan said, shaking her head, her eyes full of condemnation. "They were forcibly assigned to you by the terminal to protect your safety."
"No matter how much you dislike them, you're family now. Even for my sake, please don't insult or abuse them anymore. That's not what a kind female should do."
Xiao Jinsheng's eyes widened, utterly disgusted by Bai Yan's words. Day after day, who had she offended? Bai Yan's family almost crashed her car, and then they came back to accuse her. She hadn't even had time to go to their house to settle scores yet!
"Jinsheng, I don't understand," Bai Yan said, full of confusion, her gaze at Xiao Jinsheng filled with disappointment.
"Why have you always been so unreasonable since you were little? In the Misty Continent, females and their beast-husbands are supposed to help each other."
"Even if you don't like your beast-husbands, you shouldn't hit or scold them, and you don't even give them tasks to level up."
"If it were me, and I couldn't get along with my beast-husbands, I wouldn't bully them and make them hate each other. I would choose to set them free."
"Jinsheng, you've been married for half a year now. You really can't keep making these mistakes. Your beast-husbands are all very good."
Xiao Jinsheng was directly infuriated by her long, rambling speech. Where did this 'tea master' come from, brewing Longjing in front of her? She gave Bai Yan a thumbs up. "You're amazing, you know. You're kind, you're noble, and you spend all day staring at other people's men."
"Whether I'm good or bad to them, that's my family matter."
"Are they your men, that you keep babbling on and on here?"
"With this energy, you should first deal with the relationship between your six beast-husbands who fight amongst themselves every day."
"Anyway, my beast-husbands never fight amongst themselves."
Because the five of them always had her as a common enemy before, of course, Xiao Jinsheng would never say such self-deprecating words. She sneered, "Bai Yan, don't you think you're meddling too much? I don't want to say anything too nasty, but you've brewed your tea all the way to my house, and I'm genuinely curious about you."
"Are you truly harboring ulterior motives?"
"Or do you just have a unique taste, loving to meddle in other people's affairs? Do you even have to grab a spoon and chase after a passing manure truck to taste it and see if it's salty or bland?"
Bai Yan recoiled in horror, her eyes instantly reddening, full of grievance. "Jinsheng, I'm doing all this for your own good. How can you say such nasty things?"
"There's worse to come. I don't want to argue with you. If you dare to babble nonsense in front of me again, don't blame me for cordially greeting your whole family," Xiao Jinsheng snorted.
"You female, you're so petty and vicious!" Jin Ao rushed over, fuming. He pulled the tearful Bai Yan into his embrace and glared at Xiao Jinsheng. "My Xiao Yan kindly brought gifts to see you and apologize for the car crash, and you dare to insult her when you don't appreciate her kindness!"
"Why are you yelling? Do you think you look like a hero coming over now?" Xiao Jinsheng retorted angrily. "You were the one who drove and crashed into us, but Bai Yan is the one apologizing to us."
"What kind of man are you, making your wife take the blame for your mistakes?"
"And now you have the nerve to accuse me? Shouldn't you be the one coming to apologize to us?"
"Didn't you have a GPS when you were driving? Do you know your place?"
"You started the trouble by crashing into us first, and you've forgotten it so quickly?"
"Your brain capacity is so low, go home and plug in a 4G USB drive."
Jin Ao paused for a moment before he understood what Xiao Jinsheng meant. The apocalypse had lasted too long, and he had seen few people, so most people's language abilities had somewhat declined. He said angrily, "You're cursing me!"
Xiao Jinsheng shook her head with an innocent expression. "Don't slander me, I didn't curse you."
"I never curse people," she said, then winked at Su Ye with a smile. "Right?"
"Jin Ao, you were the one who drove and caused trouble by crashing into us today," Su Ye said, shielding Xiao Jinsheng behind him, his expression cold. "We don't accept your apology, and you'd best stop causing trouble."
"Su Ye, you've changed!" Jin Ao frowned at Su Ye. "This vicious female has humiliated you for half a year, and you're still protecting her."
"Your talent is no less than mine. If it weren't for this vicious female dragging you down, you would have been 8-star in abilities by now."
"For the sake of our childhood friendship, as brothers, I kindly advise you to quickly divorce this vicious female. Being dragged down in star levels is a small matter; be careful not to lose your life because of her later."
"A divorced transformed being won't be supported by the terminal. If he wants to take on tasks, he'll have to find another female to marry," Xiao Jinsheng mused from the side.
"You just move your lips and expect your good brother to divorce me. Have you arranged a fallback for him?" With that, Xiao Jinsheng's gaze swept over Bai Yan, then returned to Jin Ao. "Oh~ I understand."