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Chapter 50
Shang Xi looked at Blue Tail, who was talking to her one second and running out the next, puzzled: "What's going on?"
She stood up and walked towards the door.
Then, she saw two tall men walking towards her - Gu Wen and that Qin Ming.
Both men were tall and had slender legs, with an outstanding temperament like models. Passersby were attracted by them and frequently looked back.
Blue Tail ran to Qin Ming with red eyes, staring at him resentfully and aggrievedly: "You haven't come to see me for so long."
She looked completely aggrieved, stomping her feet, but didn't throw herself into the tall male werewolf's arms. They were not mates, so physical contact would be inappropriate. She was afraid he would be unhappy.
Qin Ming looked down at her solemnly: "I heard you found a job. Congratulations."
Mentioning this, Blue Tail's eyes lit up: "Yeah, I can earn money now. I've improved a lot, right? I won't drag you down."
Her last sentence made Qin Ming frown: "Don't talk nonsense again."
"I'm not talking nonsense!"
Listening to their conversation, Shang Xi understood.
But why did Gu Wen come too?
Gu Wen stared at Shang Xi, breathing in the scent from the woman's body. There was no Rong Wen's smell, so they didn't have lunch together?
"Mr. Gu, you came...was there something?"
"Just passing by."
"Oh."
Gu Wen took the initiative to ask: "How's business today?"
"Not bad."
Their dry conversation contrasted with Blue Tail's coquettish complaints and Qin Ming's low consolations nearby.
Shang Xi felt awkward even to herself.
She was going to turn around and go back to work, or politely invite them into the store to sit down. But just then, Qin Ming walked over to her.
"Hello," Qin Ming nodded at her: "Thank you for giving her a job."
Looking at this popular online detective, Shang Xi shook her head: "No need to thank me. Blue Tail is very capable and has helped me a lot."
Qin Ming and Gu Wen stayed briefly before leaving.
Blue Tail cried directly, her eyes full of reluctance as she held the roses. She looked pitiful with her red eyes.
"I knew you came to Qingcheng last time when the Fallen Werewolf appeared, but you didn't come to see me. I was so scared then, you know? And now you're leaving again."
Seeing her cry, Qin Ming sighed helplessly: "Don't cry, I'll come see you next time."
"When is next time? I miss you, I like you."
Qin Ming pursed his lips seriously: "I'm sorry."
Blue Tail stopped crying, staring at the werewolf's three-dimensional features with eyes full of love and grievance: "Go on, I know you're busy."
He was so outstanding and dazzling. No matter if they were pure humans or female werewolves, many admired him. She was just one of the objects he had saved. He didn't want a mate now and probably didn't like her either.
Thinking this, Blue Tail didn't want him to feel she was useless. She tried her best to restrain her desire to keep him here and said reluctantly: "Goodbye."
Then she turned around and went back into the store.
After her figure disappeared, Qin Ming looked at the werewolf boy in his early twenties who was helping by the door. He could smell this werewolf's scent on Blue Tail.
With this thought, he left.
At that time, he had underestimated the very young werewolf.
Today was not very busy for Shang Xi. She didn't need to work overtime.
After picking up the cubs and having dinner with Gu Wen, the sky gradually darkened. She took a storybook and went to the lawn with the werewolves again.
Holding the book at the top of the stairs, she bumped into Gu Wen coming up. He glanced at the book in her hand and paused without saying anything.
At that moment, she inexplicably asked: "Would you like to listen together?"
Because in her eyes, that's what his gaze meant.
But she thought too much.
Gu Wen rejected.
So...
All the excitement of Nanfeng Courtyard converged on the lawn.
The werewolves happily listened to a story. Suddenly, no one knew who, but someone mentioned: "There's half a month before the Master's birthday! I wonder if he'll return to Snow Mountain or stay in Qingcheng?"
"The Master is turning thirty?"
Shang Xi was a little surprised to hear. There was still more than half a month before her twenty-sixth birthday too.
"Must the Master return to Snow Mountain right? I heard he likes it a lot there. Unfortunately, his grandmother chose him to inherit the werewolf clan."
"That's right, I've been to Nanfeng Courtyard for so long but haven't seen the Master have any pure human friends."
"He basically grew up in the human world right? But it seems he hasn't integrated in. He doesn't like human electronic entertainment and games, fun activities..."
Green Tail lowered his voice and said softly: "I heard he was only brought to the human world when he was eight years old. He was in a human school for a few years but never fit in, always alone. Later the Master's grandmother simply had him return home to study with tutors."
"So does he want to go down the mountain because he wants to return to Snow Mountain? Why not choose another heir? The Master's family has about fifty werewolves right?"
"Are you silly? Of course the Master is the most excellent! He has made himself look completely like a pure human. If I had to deal with those pure humans, I wouldn't last a day before my wolf features were exposed."
"Just thinking about that pressure makes me uncomfortable. The Master really is amazing. For so many years he hasn't made a single mistake as a human. You've been at Nanfeng Courtyard for years, have you ever seen his ears or tail?"
"What about the Master's wolf parents?"
"His wolf mother isn't in good health. His wolf father has always accompanied her in Snow Mountain."
Shang Xi was hearing this for the first time. She pressed her lips silently and listened.
"Oh, he only came to the human world when he was eight. No wonder he couldn't integrate in. Look at the cubs, born in the human world from a young age, and raised by a pure human mother. He has completely blended in."
Hearing this, Shang Xi deeply relaxed.
She was afraid her son wouldn't be able to fit in, like Gu Wen, lonely.
The eight-year-old little Gu Wen came to the unfamiliar human world. In the noisy school, he was clearly aware that he was not the same as the others.
He had no interest in pure humans' hobbies and activities. He only felt they were noisy. He had to be tense and vigilant about the risk of exposure at all times.
But in Snow Mountain, he could freely reveal his ears and tail or run around in his pure wolf form. He didn't like school and didn't want to deal with pure humans.
The eight years of experience in Snow Mountain made him prefer having his ears and tail out. That way he could relax. From time to time he would run to uninhabited suburbs and deserted parks to freely reveal his ears and tail without worry. But once he was seen by a pure human who hurt him with rocks.
It was also then that he briefly made friends with a pure human cub and played with her for ten days.
But later, his only human friend suddenly disappeared. Following her scent, he turned into his pure wolf form, wearing the butterfly knot necklace she had given him. He ran around the busy streets and alleys of the human world but couldn't find her. The human world was too noisy and the scents too heavy. When he finally found her, she was already happily playing with new friends.
Her scent had changed a lot. In a werewolf's nose, a pure human's scent doesn't settle until after the age of eighteen.
Little Gu Wen, unable to fit into the human world and unfamiliar with human thoughts and emotions from his minimal interactions, became arrogant, aloof, stubborn, rigid, contradictory, and a loner.
Just like now, the excitement on the lawn didn't belong to him. In the pitch dark room, having lowered his hearing sensitivity so he couldn't hear anything, he sat on the sofa as if disconnected from the world.
The rest of the werewolves were enjoying the novel contraptions invented by humans, but he was like a lone wolf that had accidentally stumbled into the human world from the depths of the dense forest.
He stood outside the bustling entrance.