CHAPTER 125: CHAPTER 125: THE LITTLE ANCESTOR’S SHIP

"I’m too young to understand?"

The young boy’s handsome face was cold as ice, like the gloom before a winter’s snowfall.

Tang Xiaobai was also a bit annoyed: "Master Yuan just got here, and he came to teach you martial arts. Why are you—why are you giving him a hard time?"

"Why does the Second Miss say I’m too young to understand?" the boy asked stubbornly, a cold and heavy tone in his voice.

"Do you think you acted mature today?"

Li Mu looked at her quietly for a moment, then suddenly cupped her face and squeezed it hard, giving a cold smile, "I usually call you sister just to tease you. Do you really think of yourself as my sister? I’m older than you!"

"Let go! Let go!" Tang Xiaobai struggled to pry his hands off, but they wouldn’t budge, and it hurt so much.

This brat! Too childish!

"Call me brother, or I won’t let go!" Li Mu was angry just thinking about her calling Li Xingyuan "Brother Yuan."

This little girl is usually so reserved, so why is she so eager around Li Xingyuan?

"Call me!" Even though Li Mu usually couldn’t bear to see her suffer the slightest grievance, today he inexplicably found some reckless courage. Watching her struggle and fail to break free, he felt a subtle warmth and tenderness, almost like happiness, or perhaps like a bittersweet sensation.

"Let go! Let go!" Tang Xiaobai refused to call him that.

Why should I? It’s disgusting!

"If you don’t let go, I’m going to call for help!"

Li Mu remained calm: "If you call for help now and let people see me bullying you, they’ll surely beat me up and sell me off."

Tang Xiaobai sneered: "You’ve already been freed from servitude; our family can’t sell you, at most, just beat you and kick you out!"

Li Mu looked down at her, his eyes flickering: "Is Second Miss willing to kick me out?"

Tang Xiaobai suddenly stopped struggling, looking at him helplessly.

The child has grown up and knows how to act spoiled.

Seeing her stop struggling, Li Mu unconsciously let go.

After releasing his grip and noticing her soft, tender face marked red by his pinching, he couldn’t help but reach out to rub it.

Tang Xiaobai instinctively dodged a little, saying: "I said you’re too young to understand just to excuse you."

Li Mu, initially upset at her dodging, heard this and gave a cold laugh: "What did I do that needed Second Miss to excuse me?"

Before, even if he really made a mistake, like deceiving her when he fell off the cliff, she couldn’t bear to make him look bad in front of others.

But this time, even though he hadn’t done anything, she rebuked him in front of Li Xingyuan!

"Uh... nothing..." Tang Xiaobai thought carefully and realized that apart from his last two sarcastic remarks, he hadn’t really done anything wrong. His confrontation with Li Xingyuan was due to the eldest lady’s instructions.

"Then what is Second Miss worried about? Afraid Yuan Xing will be upset?"

Tang Xiaobai blushed, stammering: "He seems very capable, and he will be teaching you martial arts in the future. I’m afraid he might have a grudge against you... I was just too anxious and misspoke, I’m sorry..."

"So Second Miss doesn’t really think I’m too young to understand?"

Tang Xiaobai hesitated.

Why is he fixated on this? Could that remark have hurt his pride?

"Is that right?" he pressed on.

"Of course not!" Tang Xiaobai immediately replied.

Whether it was true or not, she had to say "it’s not true!"

"Ah Xiao is young but far more mature than most of his peers!"

"Does Second Miss think I’m too young?"

Tang Xiaobai was taken aback.

Here we go again? What is going on?

"But you really are young!" Tang Xiaobai couldn’t help but point out the obvious.

Li Mu’s face darkened: "He’s just too old!"

Tang Xiaobai chuckled and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! He’s too old! Ah Xiao isn’t young, Ah Xiao is just right!"

Watching the little master’s sulky face, she found him both childish and adorable, and couldn’t help but pull his sleeve, teasing him with a smile: "I’m ten, Ah Xiao is thirteen, we’re both young, eighteen is way too old, right?"

The young girl laughed lightly, her eyes clear and free of any shadow, and even Li Mu couldn’t help but curve his lips into a smile.

Just as Tang Xiaobai thought she had coaxed the little master, he asked again: "Why were you staring at Yuan Xing outside the main hall before?"

Tang Xiaobai blinked in surprise.

Isn’t this over yet?

"Because he’s good-looking!" Tang Xiaobai teased.

As soon as she spoke, her face was pinched again.

"Am I not good-looking?" Li Mu fixed her face in place, making her look at him.

Tang Xiaobai didn’t like making eye contact at such close range, so she turned her eyes away and answered perfunctorily, "Very good-looking!"

"Am I better looking or is Yuan Xing better looking?"

"You’re better looking, you’re better looking!"

"Then you should look at me just like that!"

Tang Xiaobai instinctively glanced at him.

Meeting his eyes, she felt like she was burned and immediately averted her gaze.

"Stop it!" She slapped his hand forcefully.

This time, he let go.

Tang Xiaobai let out a sigh of relief, shouted "Ah!" and said, "I still have homework to do, I’m leaving!" Without waiting for his response, she hurried away.

Even after running back to Bright Moon Building, Tang Xiaobai felt her heart pounding out of her chest.

This is too scary!

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy...

No, no!

After clambering onto her bed, Tang Xiaobai lay down and sighed deeply.

Counting the past year since she transmigrated into this story, she’s almost twenty, the perfect age for a romance.

But now it’s very awkward.

Those her physical age are too young, and those her psychological age would have to be perverted to even be interested in her.

Sigh, better wait a few more years...

...

Realizing the little master might be experiencing first love, Tang Xiaobai consciously created distance between them.

The child is too young, she couldn’t bring herself to make a move.

In her free time, Tang Xiaobai reviewed the story line, and she just couldn’t see any potential for development between her and the little master. Wasn’t it supposed to be Ah Yuan, who disguised herself as a man and lived with the little master, who had more of a CP vibe?

Especially since both are now with Tang Ziqian, which seems so fateful.

Maybe she could give it a push!

With that in mind, Tang Xiaobai went to find her brother.

When she found him, neither of the two CP candidates were there.

"Where are Ah Yuan and Ah Xiao?" Tang Xiaobai asked.

Tang Ziqian sensed something was off when he heard this question: "You’re looking for the two of them?"

"Uh... not really."

"Then what is it?"

"Nothing much, just asking... where did they go?"

Tang Ziqian looked at her thoughtfully, saying, "Ah Xiao is practicing martial arts at the training ground, Ah Yuan went to West Market to buy something for me."

After a previous test, although he temporarily ruled out Ah Yuan as a suspect for internal betrayal, he deliberately assigned Ah Yuan more tasks outside, having people secretly watch her.

They’re not together...

Tang Xiaobai was a bit disappointed.

Back when they were with her, they were together every day.

But since Tang Ziqian returned, the pair had been split up.

This won’t do, she must create opportunities for them!

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(Mini Theater)

Li Mu: Second Miss, some readers suspect you’re reading pirated Chapters.

Xiao Bai: Impossible, I’d never read pirated novels!

Li Mu: Then why are you always pairing the wrong CPs!!!!