Chapter 100: You’re a scumbag, Rabbit

She was like a child just come of age, curious about everything in the human world. Yesterday had been her first mistake—her first time forgetting Jiang Chengyan’s warning because she had been swept up in all the excitement. But the price of that mistake was more than she could bear.

A rabbit’s stress response was fierce; in serious cases, it could even be fatal.

Rather than twist herself into knots like this, perhaps it would be better to spend another five hundred years quietly as an ordinary rabbit.

Jiang Chengyan’s gaze on Bai Yan grew steadily more terrifying.

Bai Yan began to stammer again, though her eyes remained stubbornly firm. “I... I’d never seen anything so lively before. I wasn’t being good. You... you can teach me. Why... why did you let them catch me?”

As she spoke, she held out her hand.

Red welts marked her wrists, left there when Madam Hua had changed her clothes. Then she opened those little hands of hers, and the palms were covered in nail marks. Yesterday, when she had seen that greasy Mr. Jin, she had completely fallen apart and started scratching at her own hands.

“I’m leaving. You should go too,” Bai Yan said. Seeing Jiang Chengyan staring darkly at her hands without a word, she thought for a moment and still turned to go.

She would keep the clothes for now. Once she bought new ones, she would bring these back to him.

“I spent all the silver at home buying you clothes and shoes.”

“If you leave, those clothes and shoes won’t be worn by anyone, and even if I sell them, they won’t fetch much.”

“Little one, you’ve made me go broke and now you want to clap your hands and walk away? Doesn’t that seem a little unfair?”

Jiang Chengyan did not chase after Bai Yan. He only stood there and spoke in a quiet voice.

Bai Yan nearly collapsed to the ground at those words.

She had already put back the gold chain and everything else, so why were the clothes and shoes still tying her down?

If the knowledge in a rabbit’s head could be a little greater, she would understand that there was only one word for Jiang Chengyan at this moment: shameless.

Jiang Chengyan was utterly merciless when it came to taking advantage of a rabbit.

The innocent rabbit’s brows nearly knotted together.

She ate his food, wore his clothes, and even used his money to buy a gold chain...

“I’m planning to go back today and make radish cakes with chicken filling. Do you want some?”

Just then, a wolf’s howl suddenly rang out from the woods. Bai Yan jumped in fright and instinctively darted forward.

But she had not run very far before a figure carrying a shoulder pole swept into view.

“Girl, what are you doing in the mountains so early in the morning?” Mrs. Zhao asked in surprise, looking at Bai Yan’s frightened face.

Bai Yan was barefoot. Red rash still showed on her wrists, and her palms were full of wounds.

The instant Mrs. Zhao saw that, fury began to surge in her eyes.

As for Jiang Chengyan, who had chased after them from behind, he had clearly run straight into the wrong moment.

Mrs. Zhao yanked the shoulder pole from her shoulder and swung it at Jiang Chengyan’s back. “You think you’re so capable, do you? Is this how you take care of her first thing in the morning? I gave birth to you just so you could mistreat people like this?”

Having said that, Mrs. Zhao flung the pole aside, then hoisted the dazed Bai Yan onto her back.

After taking only a few steps, Mrs. Zhao suddenly said to Bai Yan, “Girl, can you curse? Go on, curse him a couple of times and feel better.”

Bai Yan mumbled and muttered for a long while, but not a single word came out.

“Did you forget what your mother taught you before?” Mrs. Zhao said indignantly.

“You little brat, I... I’m not talking to you anymore.”

Jiang Chengyan: “...”