I exhaled, knowing he couldn’t muster any internal energy and was too far to hit us. Looking back, I saw Feng Qingyin had also exhaled. We exchanged glances and grinned at Xiao Zizi.
Provoked, Xiao Zizi whooshed out a cherry. “Hehe, didn’t hit me. What about you?” I asked Feng Qingyin, who shrugged, indicating the same.
In our moment of triumph, Meng Yu suddenly shouted, “Ah—ya! My cherries!” I immediately sensed something was wrong; Xiao Zizi was ruthless! He didn’t hesitate to frame an innocent person.
Xiao Zizi pointed at us: “They’re afraid of him picking too many.”
Then, the entire cherry orchard became a battlefield. Wu Chen patted Shi Ran on the shoulder, pulled Yi Qing out of the action, and kindly gave Mu Jiyu and the servants a handful of cherries while eating and watching the show.
When Mu Jiyu called us to eat, we counted one-two-three and stopped, walking out of the forest together, bursting into laughter.
I wasn’t laughing at them, but they looked adorable. Feng Qingyin had two rows of red marks on his cheeks, curved like cherry-sized tears, contrasting with his loud laughter and a big red dot on his forehead—a result of me deliberately cutting a cherry and placing it there. He didn’t know yet. Xiao Zizi, aware of his insufficient martial arts, focused on dodging and fell from a tree while avoiding hidden weapons, ending up with a blue mark on his face, resembling the blue-faced warrior Yang Zhi. The funniest was Meng Yu—he had a cherry stuck in his nostril! I was dying of laughter!
“Okay, stop laughing at each other,” Wu Chen approached, gently rubbing the red marks on my face, which was also peppered with them.
“Let’s go eat,” Meng Yu finally noticed his muffled speech, felt his nose, discovered the cherry, and helplessly removed it, stomping on it in frustration, ruining his alliance leader image.
Suddenly, my head spun, and I stumbled.
Mu Jiyu promptly supported me: “Flower Sect Leader…”
“I’m fine,” I shook my head, “Where’s Wang Zai?”
“Huh? Seems like he didn’t come out earlier,” Wu Chen looked around, confirming Wang Zai’s absence, and waved to us, “You go ahead, I’ll find Wang Zai and catch up.”
