Yuan Qing was fuming, her voice unrestrained, causing everyone in the store to turn and look at the two Beastmen, Han Chao and Bai Cha.
Han Chao, thick-skinned as he was, ignored the surrounding stares.
Bai Cha, following behind him, felt heat rising to her face, her white fur-covered ears trembling nervously.
She couldn't help but step forward to grasp Han Chao's arm, pressing herself tightly against him as if seeking a sense of security.
Han Chao didn't turn around, merely reaching back to pat Bai Cha's hand reassuringly.
Yun Manman had never seen Yuan Qing so angry before.
It wasn't just anger; she was also surrounded by an aura of sadness and distress.
She looked just like she did when they first met.
Back then, Yuan Qing had been lifeless, filled with nothing but sorrow, confusion, and self-doubt.
But now she was full of hope for life, always cool, laughing loudly without caring about her image when happy, and not minding others' gazes.
Yun Manman looked at her figure, standing straight but trembling upon closer inspection. She immediately suspected that these two Beastmen before her were the culprits who had driven Yuan Qing to contemplate ending her life back then.
The enemy of her friend was her enemy!
Anyone who made the beautiful sister sad and angry was a sinner!
Yun Manman stepped forward to stand beside Yuan Qing, placing her hand on her shoulder.
She hoped this would give her the courage she needed.
The weight on her shoulder made the furious Yuan Qing calm down a bit. She turned her head towards Yun Manman and forced a smile, her face pale.
She turned back to face the intimately positioned cat couple in front of her and sneered, "You two have the nerve to show up here?"
"What? Are you here to invite me to your wedding?"
"Well, I'll have to decline! Unless it's your funeral, in which case I might send you a catnip stem out of consideration for our past relationship!"
Han Chao's gaze swept over Yun Manman, then he frowned at the bristling Yuan Qing in front of him. "Qingqing, your words are a bit harsh."
"We saw online that you were working at this tasteless little fly-infested shop, so we came to talk to you."
Yun Manman, caught in the crossfire, thought: Huh? You're the one without taste.
Yuan Qing laughed bitterly, "Oh? Are you here to lecture me again?"
"You're so polite and refined, why don't you consider whether cheating on your girlfriend with her best friend is in line with proper etiquette?"
"And stop calling me Qingqing! It makes me sick."
The surrounding Beastmen, who were enjoying the drama, all gasped.
Oh my Beast God! This drama is getting intense.
Good thing I ordered a bubble tea (chew chew chew).
Han Chao's face darkened for a moment. He was about to say something when Bai Cha tugged at his sleeve from behind.
Bai Cha was wearing a light green dress that hugged her slender waist, with delicate arms and legs. Coupled with her pure and innocent face, she always evoked a strong protective instinct in Beastmen.
Now she stepped out from behind Han Chao, her light blue almond eyes brimming with tears. Her ears on top of her head and her fluffy white tail behind her drooped down, giving her a pitiful appearance as if she wanted to speak but didn't dare.
She spoke in a soft, delicate voice, "Qingqing, what happened before was our fault. But my love with brother Han Chao is genuine."
"We've always felt guilty and wanted to make it up to you, but you've been refusing to contact us."
"We only recently saw that you were working here and thought you must be struggling and had fallen on hard times. We came to see if there was anything we could do to help."
Yun Manman listened carefully until she finished, concluding in her heart: What a white lotus!
Why call her Bai Cha (White Tea)? Just call her White Lotus and be done with it!
Yuan Qing, looking at this once close friend she could tell anything to, only felt how unfamiliar she had become.
The Bai Cha from before wasn't like this at all.
Had she changed, or had Yuan Qing just been bad at judging people?
Yuan Qing closed her eyes briefly, swallowing the bitterness in her throat, and curled her lips into a mocking smile.
"Now you're concerned about me?"
"Bai Cha, you truly live up to being my years-long best friend, always knowing what I care about most."
The words "best friend" were spoken with particular venom, cutting to the bone.
For Yuan Qing, the most painful part wasn't just her boyfriend's betrayal, but the betrayal and deception of her longtime best friend.
When Bai Cha said behind her back, "Yuan Qing is rich, she doesn't care about these things, so she gives them all to me," Yuan Qing knew she no longer had Bai Cha as a friend.
The latest dress from a certain brand, Tony's hairstyle design, the job position she cared about, the male Beastman she liked...
It turned out that without realizing it, Bai Cha had already taken so many things from her into her own arms with her gentle and considerate manner.
Past details of her relationship with Bai Cha suddenly flooded Yuan Qing's mind.
It gave Yuan Qing a sense of sudden realization.
Everything had been predictable; it was just that a cat's heart is separated by a layer of cloth.
Bai Cha's worried expression froze for a moment, then she pretended not to understand and asked, "Qingqing, what are you talking about? I don't understand."
Yuan Qing, looking at her pure and innocent appearance, thought about how she used to be fooled by this act, and her anger surged.
She sneered, "Just say it, why did you come to find me? What else do you want to get from me?"
Bai Cha hurriedly shook her head, her eyes brimming with tears that threatened to fall: "No, how could you think that? We really came here out of concern for you..."
Before she could finish, she was yanked by Han Chao beside her. As she stumbled, her face was smothered by Han Chao's raised brown tail.
It was summer, the season when cats shed their fur, and even Yun Manman had to brush her fur several times a day to avoid shedding too much outside.
One can imagine how much fur stuck to Bai Cha's pure little face.
Yun Manman watched from the side, secretly amused. Not so easy to play the white lotus now, is it?
Han Chao didn't bother with Bai Cha, he just impatiently said to Yuan Qing, "Withdraw the lawsuit quickly."
Yuan Qing had previously given many nice things to Han Chao and Bai Cha. After discovering their affair, Yuan Qing almost turned into a misanthrope, but then she came to her senses and firmly demanded they return everything.
Han Chao and Bai Cha certainly didn't want to, but they didn't expect Yuan Qing to quietly file a lawsuit.
Kashida always dealt with such cases swiftly. With the sufficient evidence Yuan Qing submitted, they directly deducted money from Han Chao and Bai Cha's personal accounts and transferred it to Yuan Qing's account.
Today, when they discovered a large sum missing from their accounts, with the court having nearly emptied them, they panicked.
The little that remained was only because the court had notified them that the rest would be deducted in a week.
That's why these two rushed to find Yuan Qing.
Yuan Qing stared at Han Chao's irritated eyes, devoid of any affection, and curled her lips, "I was wondering why you suddenly thought of me, so it's about this."
"But this isn't how you ask for a favor, is it?"
She really was blind as a cat back then, how did she fall for this scumbag?
Poor character and looks.
He even tried to PUA her.
She really couldn't believe herself.
Yuan Qing repeatedly cursed her past foolish self in her heart, but her expression remained unchanged, "I'm just taking back what belongs to me."
"Who knew you two would be so stingy, unwilling to return a single thing to me."
Han Chao, furious and embarrassed, stepped forward to grab Yuan Qing. Yun Manman, who had been on guard, quickly pulled Yuan Qing back, "What are you doing? We're just talking, why are you getting physical?"
Thwarted, the scumbag turned his fire on Yun Manman, "You're just a shopkeeper, why are you butting in?!"
"Yuan Qing, being with a cat like her who only knows how to ride on others' popularity will only harm you. I get it now, is she the one who told you to file the lawsuit? She's just trying to scam you for money!"
"Yuan Qing, don't be fooled by her. Quickly withdraw the lawsuit and we can go back to how we were before."
Yun Manman and Yuan Qing: Huh? What nonsense is this?
Go back to how we were before? Bai Cha, standing behind Han Chao, turned pale, looking at his back in disbelief.
Xiuneng, who had been eating dessert and watching the drama unfold, couldn't hold back anymore and said, "Young man, don't go too far. You're being improper."