"Awoo!" Youāre the ugly one!
Meatball howled at Ruan Lei. Although it also thought that gray little cub was ugly, hearing others call it ugly made it uncomfortable. After all, it was the familyās picked mate for him, ugly as it might be, but it couldnāt stand others saying that!
"Meatball, are you crazy?" Ruan Lei jumped straight onto the couch, scolding it while pointing: "Meatball, Iām telling you, donāt push it too far, or else I..."
He didnāt finish his sentence because Meatball had pinned him to the sofa, rendering him immobile.
Ruan Jiaojiao watched and laughed, smoothing the fur of the Little Snow Wolf in her hand, and said, "Lei brother, Little Snow Wolf isnāt ugly. Itāll change its fur, and itāll look nice afterward." Then she held up the Little Snow Wolf, scratched its little chin, and asked, "Isnāt that right, Xiaoxue?"
Little Snow liked Ruan Jiaojiao; when she scratched its chin, it squinted its eyes in comfort. But the comfort didnāt last long, as Duan Xi came down the stairs, took Little Snow from her hand, and sat beside her without a word, just sitting close and tucking her little hand into his big palm.
Ruan Jiaojiao leaned into his arms like she was boneless and asked, "Brother Xi, are you really taking advanced courses next semester?"
"Advanced courses? What advanced courses?" Ruan Lei, still trying to fight off Meatballās suppression, immediately lifted his head in disbelief, "Donāt tell me, even in college, youāre planning to skip ahead?"
"Iām not planning to, but Brother Xi aims to finish college courses in two years," Ruan Jiaojiao replied proudly.
She herself didnāt have big ambitions; she just wanted to be a pampered rich girl under her familyās shelter and live a happy life. A scholarās lifestyle was definitely not for her.
"Oh my goodness, do you guys even let people live!" Ruan Lei pushed Meatball off with effort, pounding on the sofa emphatically.
Ruan Jiaojiao was amused by his exaggerated act. Lu Zishu walked in, carrying several large pomelos, and chuckled at the three of them in the living room: "Everyoneās here, huh? Here, your godmother asked me to bring these pomelos over; she said you wanted to eat them."
"Godmother is so nice." Ruan Jiaojiao stretched her hand from behind the sofa and hugged the large pomelos, sniffing them.
These days, Beiduās weather was getting colder. The classroom windows and doors were always closed, which made her feel dizzy after staying inside too long. Later, Zhao Li called, asking what she wanted to eat, and she casually mentioned wanting to eat pomelos, mainly to smell their peel. She didnāt expect thereād actually be some waiting for her when she got back.
She watched as Duan Xi peeled a pomelo with a fruit knife and asked Lu Zishu, who was curiously looking at Little Snow, "Is Godmother at home?"
"No, she went to my grandmaās house. Grandmaās not doing well, so sheās often there," Lu Zishu replied, pointing at Little Snow, "Where did this little guy come from? Itās cute. We donāt have a pet at home, why not let me take it home?"
Before he could finish saying this, before his hand could touch Little Snow, Meatball grabbed it by the scruff and ran off. When passing by, it looked at him vigilantly.
"You should just shut up!" Ruan Lei grumbled, covering his stomach which was almost pressed to the point of vomiting by Meatball, and rolled his eyes. He couldnāt take another round of its crushing.