This was the first time Zhao Zhao had been actively pushed away by Su Yuan. In the past, even if Su Yuan had said no or was reluctant, as long as she took the initiative, he never actually pushed her away.
Zhao Zhao felt a sudden panic. Watching Su Yuan drag his heavy body forward step by step, she reached out her hand, trying to grab something, but in the end, she only grasped at thin air.
Was Su Yuan still angry? Zhao Zhao's mind was in a complete mess. She desperately grasped a wisp of thought from the chaos. Right! Su Yuan must be angry about what had happened before. She had to explain it to him properly.
"Wait!" She hurriedly took a few steps forward and grabbed Su Yuan. Running too fast and the water being too deep, she choked on several mouthfuls of water and couldn't help but cough, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.
The man standing still in front tightened his other hand hanging by his side without a sound.
He wanted to turn around and see how she was doing. He wanted to turn around and pat her on the back to help her catch her breath. He wanted to do so many things, but in the end, it was just a thought...
Su Yuan never turned around. His voice was cold and harsh when he spoke, "Is there anything else, Miss Song?"
Miss Song... Zhao Zhao was completely bewildered by this address. A sour feeling quickly spread in her heart. The corners of her eyes, already red from coughing, now really turned red in disappointment.
"You... don't call me that..." This Su Yuan made her feel strange. It seemed that something was slowly drifting away from her.
Su Yuan didn't respond to her words. Instead, he impatiently asked again, "Do you have anything else to say?"
The water in this pond was deep and cold, just like Zhao Zhao's heart at the moment.
She sniffed, hooked her finger around Su Yuan's hand, and said with a hoarse cry, "I didn't tell him to take the Bu Ye Cauldron. I do know that person. He's very important to me, so I couldn't let you hurt him."
"But I promise! I will definitely bring the Bu Ye Cauldron back. Trust me. I will definitely find it."
Su Yuan listened quietly. After a long time, he finally spoke, "Are you done?"
Zhao Zhao was stunned for a moment. She couldn't think of anything else she hadn't explained, so she honestly nodded. After nodding, she remembered that Su Yuan was facing away from her and couldn't see, so she struggled to run a few steps forward and stood in front of Su Yuan. "I'm done."
The man in front of her had his eyelids drooping, making it impossible to see his eyes. All she could hear was his cold and calm voice, "He's very important to you. How important is he?"
How important was he? How could she describe it? Zhao Zhao couldn't explain. Due to her lack of words, she could only repeat dryly, "Very, very important."
Su Yuan didn't mind. Finally, he was willing to look up at her.
His eyes were as deep as this cold pond, as if they were going to suck people in. Zhao Zhao subconsciously held her breath as she looked.
"Then between him and me, who will you choose?" She heard Su Yuan ask her this.
Zhao Zhao didn't know how to answer. She also didn't understand why Su Yuan was asking such a question. "Why do I have to choose?"
Su Yuan tugged at the corner of his mouth, shook his head with a smile, and said, "Forget it."
"Don't follow me anymore. I won't be with you, and I will never agree to date you."
Leaving behind these words, he pulled away Zhao Zhao's hand and left this cold and deep pond with a very determined attitude.
"Su Yuan!" Zhao Zhao didn't understand why. She wanted to chase after him, but Su Yuan waved his hand and set up a barrier, not even leaving her a chance to chase.
"This can't be. Don't do this. Don't treat me like this..." The water level rose as she slapped the water. She was completely soaked from head to toe, and her wet hair stuck to her neck and collarbone. She looked so pitiful.
"Why... I don't understand. I will really bring the Bu Ye Cauldron back. Please trust me, okay?"
But no one would answer her anymore. What made her even more sad was that she couldn't feel Su Yuan's emotional fluctuations anymore. She could no longer feel what Su Yuan was feeling through the heart in her chest. Su Yuan had forcibly cut off their connection.
The dragon scale hanging around her neck sparkled, contrasting sharply with Zhao Zhao's pale face.
Hearing the commotion, Taotie rushed over in a hurry. Its hard horn hit the barrier, and surprisingly, it managed to break it.
"What happened to you? Did you quarrel with him? Sigh, I'm really convinced of you..." Taotie bit the corner of its stupid master's shoulder clothes in frustration and carried her on its back, taking her away from this terrible place.
"If he scolds you, just scold him back. Why are you so stupid? You just stand there crying and taking it all in."
When Taotie got angry, it completely forgot that the person who had "quarreled" with Zhao Zhao was the Dragon Lord, the very person it usually avoided. At this moment, it was so angry that it was ranting without a care in the world.
However, Zhao Zhao just lay on Taotie's back and whispered, "You're right. I'm a fool."
She was so sad. Usually, she hated it when others called her a fool, but now she repeated this sentence over and over again.
Taotie was startled by her abnormal behavior and didn't dare to say a word. It was so anxious that it didn't know what to do.
"I always don't understand. I always can't learn many things. I... I only cause trouble for him. But a fool really doesn't understand. What should I do?"
Zhao Zhao fell into a very negative mood and kept hitting her own head, as if she wanted to smash this head that she thought wasn't smart enough.
Taotie had absolutely no experience in comforting people. But it couldn't just let Zhao Zhao stew in her own thoughts. After taking her to a meadow, it transformed into a human form and paced around anxiously.
"Hey! You're not stupid at all! You... Tsk!" Taotie didn't really understand what kind of conflict had arisen between its master and Su Yuan. It could only try to console her half - blindly. "If you quarreled, then try to make up! Figure out what made him angry and solve that problem. Crying won't solve anything!"
After its long - winded speech, unexpectedly, Zhao Zhao wiped her tears, glanced at it, and explained in a stuffy voice, "Of course I know crying won't solve the problem. But I'm not crying to solve the problem. I'm just too sad and can't help it."
Taotie: "...Alright, then cry your heart out?" What else could it say? It could only tolerate this troublesome little master.
Zhao Zhao really sat on the meadow and had a good cry, until her eyes and nose were all red.
After crying enough, she wiped her tears and got up from the ground. She patted the grass clippings off her clothes, then bent down to stroke Taotie's head and said, "Let's go. Let's go find the Bu Ye Cauldron."
She wanted to go back to Wutong Mountain and had to find a way to get rid of Taotie.
However, before she could come up with an excuse for Taotie, a loud and angry voice suddenly erupted not far away. "Zhao Zhao! Are you standing me up?!"
Lu Chukong's hair was all spiky. His whole face was black, and a puff of black smoke came out of his mouth when he spoke.
Well... he looked like he had just come out of a coal mine explosion.