Looking into the cold gaze of Cheng Sang sitting on the ground, Song Yao awkwardly scratched her nose. Then she suddenly realized that she seemed, probably... should help the guy up. She took a step forward, but in an instant, she felt at a loss as to where to put her hands. Somewhat sheepishly, she said, "Sorry about that. I really am. I misunderstood. Let me help you up?"
Cheng Sang ignored the hand Song Yao had offered. The fall he'd just taken was truly embarrassing, especially in front of his sweetheart, Zhao Zhao. So it was hard for him to show any kindness to this cheap cousin of Zhao Zhao's in the human world.
With an annoyed snort, he pushed himself up from the ground and dusted off his clothes with a scowl.
Song Yao was in the wrong this time, so she rarely reined in her spoiled - brat temper and didn't bicker with him about his attitude. Instead, she turned to Zhao Zhao and made a gesture, indicating that she wanted to talk to Zhao Zhao alone.
But Zhao Zhao's mind was elsewhere at the moment. After the previous fiasco, she was in a strange state of blankness, looking dazed. Gazing at her cousin's hand, she stupidly asked, "Cousin, are you having a cramp in your hand?"
"..." Song Yao was utterly speechless. What a weird cousin! What a strange train of thought! What a strange answer! She was just a super - duper weirdo!
She was a bit angry, but since there was an outsider present, she couldn't lose her temper. So she just grabbed Zhao Zhao and dragged her into the house.
However, the intense gaze of Zhao Zhao's senior brother behind them was impossible to ignore. Song Yao paused for a moment. Three seconds later, she steeled herself, turned around, and stammered to the man, "Sir... senior brother? Make yourself at home. I just want to have a little chat with Zhao Zhao."
Cheng Sang let out a sigh of frustration and turned to put away the fruit yogurt on the table. Zhao Zhao hadn't eaten it just now, but she might want some later at night. He had to put it in the fridge to keep it cold.
Zhao Zhao followed her cousin into the room. She watched as her cousin furtively locked the door and then carefully examined her from head to toe. Zhao Zhao was very confused. "Cousin, what are you doing?"
To her surprise, Song Yao turned around with a serious look on her face. She pinched Zhao Zhao's chin and shook it from side to side. Taking advantage of her height, she looked down at her silly cousin and asked, "What happened to you just now? Your eyes were so red. You looked like you were about to cry. Were you bullied by someone?"
As she said this, it seemed as if she was certain that Zhao Zhao had been bullied. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. It seemed that as long as Zhao Zhao named the person, she would rush out and teach that person a lesson.
Zhao Zhao felt dizzy from being shaken. She reached out and grabbed her cousin's wrist, freeing her chin from the clutches. Shaking her head, she whispered, "No, no one bullied me."
"Then what was wrong with you just now? You're going to drive me crazy. Hurry up and tell me!" Song Yao was an impatient person by nature. Now that she'd asked for so long but hadn't gotten a single useful answer, she was really starting to lose her patience. She was getting a bit worked up.
"I just... just... saw something that made me a bit unhappy."
"Oh, what thing could make you, this carefree little idiot, unhappy? Come on, tell your cousin. You were so sad that your tears were about to fall."
Zhao Zhao had always appeared optimistic and strong in front of Song Yao. Song Yao really couldn't imagine that she would be so sad just because she saw something.
"Cousin, if someone thought that your birth and existence were a mistake, what would you do?"
Song Yao sneered. "Humph... What would I do? Of course, I'd rip that person's mouth off!"
Zhao Zhao: "!!!"
Well, it wasn't really a surprise. It was just the usual style of Miss Song.
Stubbornly, as if she was being a bit obsessive, she continued to ask, "What if you can't beat that person?"
"What's really going on with you?" Song Yao listened and felt that something was off. Her eyebrows furrowed. The way she was talking in such detail didn't seem like it was something she'd just seen suddenly. It felt like someone had said the same thing to her.
"Is there someone bad - mouthing you behind your back? Did people from the Xuanmen say something? Did they question your identity? Or did they mock your status in the Song family?" Song Yao was almost going crazy with worry. She wished she could immediately find the person who said this and hang him up to give him a good beating.
Zhao Zhao held back the impetuous Song Yao and pulled her to sit on the single - person sofa. Then she squatted down and leaned against her cousin's leg, comforting her instead. "No, the people from the Xuanmen didn't say anything to me. And how could I even get in touch with the people from the Xuanmen? I've always been staying at the Demon Management Bureau. I don't have much contact with them. Who would say bad things about me behind my back? I just suddenly saw a record in an ancient scroll today and felt something."
Something was definitely off.
Zhao Zhao, such an optimist, could be affected by a record in an ancient scroll? Song Yao had a hunch that there must be something she didn't know. But Zhao Zhao's ambiguous attitude made her feel that Zhao Zhao didn't really want her to know the ins and outs.
Not daring to ask too much, she could only stroke Zhao Zhao's head one by one, trying every means to console her. "Don't pay attention to what those people say. Have you heard that saying?"
"Cousin, you're swearing!" Zhao Zhao immediately caught Song Yao's mistake. She tilted her head and looked at her happily. Some of the sadness in her heart dissipated.
Song Yao tapped her on the head. "You ungrateful little thing. Who am I doing this for? Don't interrupt me. What was that saying... 'Existence is reasonable'. If anyone says something like your existence or birth is a mistake, just throw mud back at them and teach them how to be a decent person. Don't always look for reasons in yourself. There are a lot of crazy people in this world. Crazy people don't reason. They just blindly blame others. So cover your ears and walk forward boldly. Just follow your heart. As long as you have a clear conscience, that's enough, right?"
Song Yao's words woke Zhao Zhao up. She was so sad because she thought that the Heavenly Dao, as the law - maker of this world, regarded her as inauspicious and a disaster. So she naturally began to reflect on herself. Was there really something wrong with her? Was it really her fault that she wasn't allowed to exist in this world and was chased by thousands of thunderbolts?
But looking at the whole thing, judging from her remaining memories, she hadn't done anything wrong. She hadn't even had the chance to take a good look at this world. From the day she took human form, the thunderbolts had descended on her. At that time, she hadn't had the chance to do anything yet.
She was so innocent.
Who said that the Heavenly Dao was always right? The Heavenly Dao said that she was a mistake and a disaster, but she had never done anything to hurt others from beginning to end. She had just been trying to grow and survive.
She was not wrong. It was the Heavenly Dao that was determined to kill her that was wrong.