After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 696: Calling Everyone a Little Friend

Chapter 696: Chapter 696: Calling Everyone a Little Friend

"Well then, I really appreciate it."

Shi Yaoguang was just short of rolling her eyes, yet she was expected to let Bai Tangyuan call her ’Mom.’

She truly felt so "honored."

If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, Shi Yaoguang would never have believed that even in this day and age, there could still be people shameless enough to play the role of the other woman under the guise of joining a family.

Bai Ruoxi insisted that she had something to say.

She really didn’t come to destroy this family.

She came to join this family.

Was there a problem with her wanting to join this family?

No!

"Mrs. Quan, I know you might not like what I’m going to say."

Bai Ruoxi’s elegant brows furrowed slightly, "Honestly, if we’re talking about who came first, I have the upper hand."

"When I met your third brother, you were just a middle schooler. How could you have been with him back then?"

The moment Bai Tangyuan heard this, he was suddenly invigorated.

"Bad woman, did you hear that? My mommy is upset, you’re the one who’s here to ruin us! You shameless bad woman!"

As he spoke, he even attempted to start hitting her.

Shi Yaoguang watched the little boy pounce towards her, flashing a grin with a chill in her smile that made him shudder.

"Little friend, do you know? I’m very kind when I’m not angry, but when I do get angry, I tend to eat ’little friends’~"

Bai Tangyuan was frightened by her gaze, but he quickly realized that it couldn’t be true.

He wasn’t the average kid, someone who would believe everything an adult said.

He wasn’t that easy to fool!

And "eating little friends?"

As if!

Just as he was thinking this, Shi Yaoguang suddenly produced a segment of a bloodied lotus root that resembled a child’s arm.

At first glance, the lotus root looked like the arm of a small child.

Shi Yaoguang held up the bloody lotus root in front of Bai Tangyuan and bit into it.

Even the ingenious child genius Bai Tangyuan was scared.

After being stunned for two seconds, he burst into tears.

"Wah wah wah~" Crying, he plopped down on the floor, and no matter how Bai Ruoxi tried to comfort him, she couldn’t calm him down.

"Wuh wuh wuh wuh, the bad woman’s eating people!"

"Mommy mommy, Tangyuan is so scared, wuh wuh wuh wuh!"

Bai Ruoxi was soothing Bai Tangyuan while furiously glaring at Shi Yaoguang, "What’s wrong with you? Tangyuan is just a child, don’t you know you could scare him like that?"

"I didn’t do anything, why would Bai Tangyuan be scared?"

Bai Tangyuan cried even louder, "Wuh wuh wuh wuh~ bad woman, you keep talking about ’little friends!’ Wuh wuh wuh wuh!"

Bai Ruoxi comforted him, saying, "Honey, be good, Mrs. Quan was just tricking you, she’s not eating a child."

"Exactly, exactly!" Bai Tangyuan had seen with his own eyes how Shi Yaoguang bit into the bloody arm, how could it not be a little friend?

He used to think that stories of people eating children were just lies, but now he realized they were true.

He had naively provoked a freak who ate children!

Bai Tangyuan was filled with immense regret in his heart.

If only he had known it would turn out like this, he wouldn’t have done what he did.

But it was already too late to say such things now.

He had already provoked the Great Demon King he shouldn’t have, and immediately looked pitifully at Bai Ruoxi, "Mommy, can’t we just ditch daddy? Daddy’s actually with a bad woman who eats kids; he must eat children too!"

"Wuh wuh wuh wuh~ I don’t want to be eaten!"

Listening to Bai Tangyuan’s racket, Bai Ruoxi really was at her wit’s end.

"Tangyuan, listen to what mommy is telling you..."

"I’m not listening, I won’t listen!"

"Tangyuan—"

Bai Ruoxi was getting a little angry, as she had wanted to use Bai Tangyuan to hit back at Shi Yaoguang.

She didn’t expect Tangyuan to be so disappointing.

Having let Shi Yaoguang see this, she could just imagine how Yaoguang would mock her inside, not even being able to educate a child properly.

Thinking this, Bai Ruoxi grew even more furious at Quan Jinbei.

Her look towards Bai Tangyuan also carried a touch of dissatisfaction.

But Bai Tangyuan didn’t notice anything wrong with mommy’s attitude.

He continued to wail, "Mommy, I don’t want to be eaten!"

"Bai Tangyuan!" Bai Ruoxi raised her voice, "Mommy already told you, you won’t be eaten! Mrs. Quan doesn’t eat children, eating children is illegal!"

Hearing this, Bai Tangyuan finally calmed down a bit.

Still nervous and scared, he hesitated, "Is what mommy said true?"

"Nonsense! When has mommy ever lied to you?"

"But... but I’m scared..."

As he spoke, his lips started to quiver again.

Bai Ruoxi sighed, "Tangyuan, be good, mommy isn’t lying to you. She was just eating a snack, not a child. If you don’t believe it, you can take a look for yourself."

"Really?" The little boy was skeptical.

Bai Ruoxi nodded, "Of course it’s true. When has mommy ever lied to you?"

Hearing this, Bai Tangyuan finally regained his senses, and his gaze at Bai Ruoxi was tinged with sheepishness.

"I’m sorry, Mommy, I lost my composure just now."

"It’s okay."

Shi Yaoguang, holding her own bloody lotus root arm, walked over to mother and son, "You wanted to see what I was eating, right? Well, take a look."

At first, Bai Ruoxi thought Shi Yaoguang was eating some kind of prank toy.

Upon a closer look, she almost blacked out in horror.

Fortunately, she remembered her son and hurriedly covered Bai Tangyuan’s eyes with her hands.

Bai Tangyuan was still trying to see what was in Shi Yaoguang’s hand when his mother suddenly covered his eyes, which unsettled him completely.

What did Mommy tell him just now?

Didn’t she say that thing was fake?

If it was fake, why wouldn’t she let him look?

Thinking this, Bai Tangyuan became even more frightened.

Bai Ruoxi also wanted Bai Tangyuan to take a look, to convince him to trust her.

But looking at the bloody lotus root arm in Shi Yaoguang’s hand, even though she knew it was not a real arm, she was still terrified.

If Bai Tangyuan saw it, he would certainly be more frightened.

Afterward, if she told him Shi Yaoguang doesn’t eat children, he certainly wouldn’t believe it.

Thinking this, Bai Ruoxi’s gaze turned to Shi Yaoguang, filled with a few more degrees of hostility.

She felt she had come to loggerheads with Shi Yaoguang.

Shi Yaoguang was purposely frightening her Tangyuan; she would find an opportunity to get back at her for this!

With this thought, her look at Shi Yaoguang was filled with threat.

Shi Yaoguang glanced at her and shrugged, "There’s no use looking at me like that, it won’t help."

"What do you mean?" Bai Ruoxi asked anxiously, "What do you mean?"

"I mean what I say."

After speaking, Shi Yaoguang slowly pulled out a tissue to wipe her bloody mouth corner and said meaningfully, "Actually, I’m not very averse to having one or two extra burdens join the family."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ruoxi wasn’t reassured at all.

Shi Yaoguang wouldn’t make such a statement without having other ideas.

And sure enough.

Shi Yaoguang quickly added, "You see, I’m unusually magnanimous and wouldn’t bully a widow and orphan easily."

"However..."

Shi Yaoguang let out a light chuckle, "I like eating children, and it would be bad if one day I got hungry and ate Tangyuan."

"Speaking of which, Tangyuan looks rather plump and tasty, doesn’t he?"

Listening to Shi Yaoguang talk about Tangyuan’s ’flavor’ in such a drooling tone, Bai Tangyuan couldn’t help but shake his little arms and legs.

Was Shi Yaoguang still human?

Bai Tangyuan accused her in his heart but didn’t dare to say it to her face.

He was afraid Shi Yaoguang would eat him in one bite.

Shi Yaoguang hadn’t expected that eating the lotus root arm would have such an effect.

Actually, her actions were completely instinctive.

She didn’t even know where she got the lotus root arm from.

Moreover, she had no idea why she had such prank snacks.

Not to mention, although the lotus root arm looked bloodied and frightening, it tasted quite good.

She had simply forgotten, otherwise she would have known it was a special gift from Shi Fan.

The little guy had specifically researched how to make the appearance of the lotus root arm look more realistic.

Referring to eating ’children’ wasn’t just a joke.

Of course, Shi Fan’s grand idea wasn’t realized.

The most Zhan Miao would tolerate from him was making bloodied lotus root arm as a prank snack.

Making a complete ’child’ was out of the question.

It would be bad if it scared someone when word got out.

The Shi Yaoguang before her memory confusion appreciated the gift from Shi Fan, but never considered eating the lotus root arm.

After all...

She wasn’t that twisted.

She never imagined that one day she would take the lotus root arm and intentionally use it to scare children.

And scare each with precision.

It was absolutely ridiculous.

Bai Tangyuan was so scared by Shi Yaoguang’s feat of "eating children" that he didn’t dare to propose going home with Quan Jinbei right away.

Bai Ruoxi still wanted to struggle, but without her son’s cooperation, she had to give up for the time being.

That’s right.

She was just giving up temporarily.

She wouldn’t willingly let go of such a good opportunity.

One day, she would definitely oust Shi Yaoguang from the position of Madam Quan.

By then, everything of the Quan Family and Quan Jinbei would belong to her and her son.

Thinking about that scene, she couldn’t suppress the excitement inside her.

As for her lickspittle Tang Nade?

She had long since forgotten him.

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