How To Fall In Love With The Villain

Chapter 7

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Ch. 7 How to Fall in Love with the Villain (HLV)

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Tiger Tribe VII As Jiang Yu pondered how to complete his task, Ya Qi was torn about what to do."Do you want to send some herbs to Qi or not?"Ya Qi was holding some healing herbs and pacing back and forth in his room.His face was alternately red and pale, changing from shy to sorrowful and back again.It wouldn’t be surprising if Ya Qi"s father got a headache just because of his child."Why are you taking so long, it’s just giving that Qi boy some medicine. It’s no big deal, what are you worried about?Just send it over and it’ll be fine." the father looked at Ya Qi’s conflicted face, laughing with amus.e.m.e.nt. "My Ya Qi’s all grown up now and thinking for himself. Don’t be shy, your father will teach you!Hearing his father talk about his feelings, Ya Qi’s face burned up. He held his left hand with his right hand and was somewhat overwhelmed. "I, I -"Ya Qi wanted to deny his own father’s guess, but what Father said was true, and he could not refute it. When he thought of Qi’s brilliance and then himself, with his weak chimera body, Ya Qi became listless.He said in a very low voice, "But I"m just a chimera, Qi’s so outstanding, he definitely does not like me."Father touched Ya Qi’s fluffy little head, his expression very calm. "Whether he likes you or not is not for you to say, and you will not get an answer just by waiting here, so why don’t you find out for yourself?"Think about Qi’s father, your teacher Ya Suo. Isn’t he also a shapes.h.i.+fter, and nevertheless he married the tribe leader and gave birth to such an outstanding shapes.h.i.+fter as Qi?"Father narrowed his eyes and put on a skeptical expression. "Unless you think Ya Suo isn’t good enough for the tribe leader?"Yaqi was shocked and quickly shook his head. "No! No, Uncle* Ya Suo is amazing. He is the person I admire the most."(*"Uncle" is a polite term of address similar to "sir", and is used for men about your parents" age, so they aren"t necessarily related by blood)Father suddenly laughed. "Then what are you worried about here? Tell me why you can’t work hard to become an outstanding chimera like Ya Suo?"Ya Qi thought for a moment, then nodded hard, his face solemn. "I will definitely put in all my effort! In the future, I will definitely be someone like Uncle Ya Suo!"Father looked at Ya Qi’s expression, satisfied. "Ya Qi, you have to remember that we are just as important as the shapes.h.i.+fters and females. We can even be considered equal to the shapes.h.i.+fters.""Although we are far less fertile than our females and we have at most one child in our lifetime, we have a much stronger body than females. You can learn as much as you like about medicinal herbs and become an excellent pharmacist. The injured shapes.h.i.+fters depend on us for a quick recovery. Therefore, Ya Qi, do not ever think less of yourself just because you are a chimera. You must have pride in yourself."Looking at his gentle and solemn expression of his father, Ya Qi bewilderingly realized that he suddenly had an urge to cry.He nodded hard. "I will not disappoint you, father!""Good boy," dad rubbed Ya Qi’s nose, his voice seeming to smile. "Then why haven’t you left yet?"Mm!" Ya Qi nodded hard, and then quickly ran out.When Ya Qi was out the door, father "s expression became puzzled and quite helpless. "Ya Qi is only seven years old and already likes that Qi kid? I was still playing with mud when I was seven."After his father’s pep talk, Ya Qi ran to Qi"s door, holding the medicinal herbs.He hesitated in front of the door and then firmly knocked.Shapes.h.i.+fters and chimeras are different from females. They start living alone at the age of fourteen in a house that they build with the help of their fathers.From that time on, they live in their own houses, not with their parents.And Qi is now exactly 14 years old. He just moved into his house a month ago.Ya Qi, who was plucking up his courage, felt his heartbeat speed up uncontrollably when Qi opened the door."This, this is for you!" Ya Qi face looked like a ghost"s.Qi was surprised for a moment and then looked at him coldly. "What is this?"Yesterday, yesterday I felt that you were hurt," Because of his nervousness, Ya Qi stammered the beginning, and his words became smoother as he talked. "These are the herbs I collected, if you grind them and then apply them to your wound, it’ll heal very fast!”After talking, Ya Qi seemed to be afraid that Qi wouldn’t believe him, so he nodded hard.Qi looked at him and did not take the herb in his hand. His tone was cold. "Wait here for a minute."Then he went directly back into his house.Ya Qi looked at his hands which held the herbs that hadn’t been accepted. He felt depressed, and there was a biting pain in his heart."You’re so shameless that you even came to brother Qi’s home?!" A voice full of disgust suddenly appeared behind Ya Qi.Ya Qi turned back and found that unbelievably proud Ya An.His chest constricted slightly.He has lost count of the number of times Ya"an bullied him and right now he felt afraid.The desire to flee had just risen up in him when he remembered the talk his father had just given him.Ya Qi"s gaze slowly became firm. He can’t go on being so weak, in the future, he wants to be someone as n.o.ble as Uncle Ya Suo!Under the needle-like gaze of Ya An, he straightened his back.Ya An saw that Ya Qi did not shy away from his sight as he had done before, but rather looked forward without fear, and the loathing in his heart became stronger.Thinking of how last time he had lost face in front of Uncle Ya s...o...b..cause of this guy, Ya An was so mad he could tear him to pieces!Wasn’t he just a good-for-nothing piece of trash? How does he dare be so arrogant in front of him, Ya An?His line of sight moved to the herbs in Ya Qi’s hands, his face full of scorn. "You actually want to send Qi medicine?! With your ability, how can you even think of taking herbs to Qi? What are you going to do if his injuries get worse? Have you thought of that?! It must be really difficult to kiss up to shapes.h.i.+fters since you’re not even trying to save face." Ya An’s maliciousness seemed almost tangible. "You really bring shame to chimeras!"Finished, Ya An viciously stepped forward and s.n.a.t.c.hed the herbs in Ya Qi’s hands."This rubbish is unsightly even to look at, so why don’t I help you destroy it!"When Ya Qi saw Ya An lunge forward, he had had a bad premonition, and after hearing his words, his face turned as pale as a ghost*.(*The original words are "煞白" (Shàbái) and lo and behold, the English equivalent "pale as a ghost" is what this phrase literally means in Chinese, as "煞" translates to evil spirit)No! He cannot allow the herbs in his own hands to be destroyed!Ya Qi was ready to fight to protect his herbs. Before this, Ya Qi had taken Ya An’s abuse lying down. Even if his own herbs were taken away, he only secretly mourned for them in his heart because no matter whose hands they were in, at least these herbs have not been wasted.But now, Ya An looks like he is going to throw the herbs directly onto the ground!He won’t allow this!A wave of courage he had never had before flooded his body. Ya Qi fiercely pushed back Ya An!Ya An did not think that a weak waste like Ya Qi would actually resist him, so he was not prepared at all for the attack, so that when Ya Qi pushed, he staggered back two steps and directly fell onto the ground!Sharp stones bit into the palm of his hands, and the severe pain immediately made Ya An start to cry.Only upon hearing Ya An cry did Ya Qi snap out of it, somewhat panicked."Are you ok?” Ya Qi hurriedly ran to the Ya An’s side, wanting to help him up, but Ya An kept on crying regardless and pushed away Ya Qi.Ya Qi felt guilty. He did not know he would actually hurt Ya An.At this moment, there was a sound from the direction of the door behind them.Ya Qi was at a loss. He was extremely terrified, Qi will definitely see me!What would he think?He’s definitely going to hate me!The more Ya Qi thought, the more depressed he became. His eyes could not help but redden, and automatically sparkling tears began to spin in his eyes."Qi!" When he saw Qi walking out, Ya An stopped crying, and then immediately began to cry louder. He got up and immediately pounced toward Qi.Qi saw Ya An rus.h.i.+ng over. He wrinkled his brow, and then ducked sideways.Because of inertia, Ya An rushed forward a few steps. Right before he crashed into the door frame, he managed to stop himself."What"s wrong?" Qi walked over to the red-eyed Ya Qi and said icily.Ya Qi stared blankly for a moment, and then some uneasily lowered his head, not daring to speak.He felt that if he opened his mouth, he will never have the opportunity to see Qi again. Qi will certainly look at him with disgust. Imagining Qi’s expression, the dull throb in his heart was extremely painful."He hit me!" Off to the side, Ya An suddenly started crying again, seemingly very hurt. "I just want to see the herbs in his hand, but he hit me instead!”"That’s not true!" Ya Qi lifted his head and shook it. "It’s not like that, you have to believe me!"“If it wasn’t like that, then what happened? Stop quibbling! I should tell the tribe leader that you hurt someone and have him expel you from the tribe!"Although Ya An continued to fake cry, his eyes showed a trace of victorious hate.Ya Qi’s face paled quickly. His hands flew around, panicked. "It’s really not like this, I didn’t hurt him on purpose!”Qi frowned and somewhat stiffly put his hand on the top of Ya Qi’s head. After a moment’s pause, he gingerly patted him. "Don’t panic, tell me slowly."The warmth on his head calmed Ya Qi’s panicked heart down. He looked at Qi with surprise.Qi went stiff when he saw Ya Qi’s earnest gaze, and put his hand down, awkwardly looking away.

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