Chapter 56: Will You Stay?

Ruan Mian was using some strength in her hands, and the face of the man beneath them had turned somewhat flushed.

His hands feebly clawed at the hands around his neck.

A pair of large deer-like eyes were filled with innocence.

They even misted over with tears because of the force she was using.

"I, I... I am not..."

A strange man had suddenly appeared on her planet, a planet that was barren at that, and he had entered without obtaining her permission.

No matter how one looked at it, this person's arrival was suspicious.

What was his purpose in sneaking in?

Was it her, or the plants?

Her scrutinizing gaze remained fixed tightly on him, not missing a single micro-expression on his face.

It was as if she wanted to stare a hole through him.

"I, I, am not..."

His complexion had turned somewhat pale, as if he were unable to breathe, and he could die under her hands at any moment.

He had absolutely no ability to resist.

In the end, Ruan Mian did not have the heart to kill him.

It was never her intention to kill him in the first place, otherwise she would not have saved him.

She only wanted to test whether he possessed Mental Power.

It seemed he was also a person without Mental Power.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough..."

The moment she let go, the man broke into a fit of coughing, gasping for fresh air as if he were a drowning person desperately trying to grasp at a single lifeline.

With a creak, Ruan Mian opened the door of the Medical Pod so he could sit up.

"Now you can tell me how you got in here."

"Xia Cheng."

Xia Cheng swallowed, his clear, sky-like eyes beneath his dark blue hair looking pitifully at Ruan Mian.

At this moment, Ruan Mian felt as if she were a heartless scoundrel.

She had ruthlessly ravaged an innocent little white rabbit.

A sense of guilt even sprouted in her heart.

"My name is Xia Cheng, and I came by spaceship."

Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something, lowered his eyelashes sadly, and gripped his hem tightly with his hands; his thin, protruding shoulder blades revealed the boy's unpleasant past.

"Spaceship? Are you talking about that red spaceship?"

The only spaceship that had landed on the planet was the one belonging to Ji Jialin.

"Impossible, she is my friend; if you had come on her spaceship, she couldn't have not told me."

Having his lie exposed made Xia Cheng panic for a moment; his eyelashes swept quickly over Ruan Mian, and he bit his lower lip in extreme embarrassment.

Ruan Mian only felt that this man was a bit like a stray kitten that had been abandoned and couldn't find its home.

Even though he had been hurt, he still wanted to obtain a sliver of warmth.

It really made one unable to bear it!

"I'm sorry, I did indeed come on that spaceship, but I snuck in secretly."

Thinking of something, he became terrified, and hurriedly begged, "Sister, please, don't send me back. You can make me do anything, or exile me to another planet, just please don't send me back..."

His eye sockets turned red, and a crystal-clear teardrop slid from his eye, down his tender white cheek to his chin.

Finally, it dripped onto his light-colored clothing, forming a dark spot.

Who was it that said a man's tears are a woman's stimulant?

His crying made Ruan Mian's already softened heart soften even more.

A small towel was handed to him, "Stop crying, it's clean, wipe your face first."

Xia Cheng was incredibly moved, and the eyes he looked at Ruan Mian with seemed to have little stars in them.

"Thank you, Sister!"

"Did you... encounter something?"

After thinking for a moment, fearing she might hurt his feelings, Ruan Mian added, "Tell me about it, perhaps I can help you?"

"Thank you, Sister!"

Seeming embarrassed and shy, he appeared to be mentally preparing himself, and he gritted his teeth hard.

The eyes he looked at Ruan Mian with turned even redder.

"It's because of this."

He sat up, stepped out of the Medical Pod, and walked step by step until he was in front of Ruan Mian.

He crouched down, lowered his head, and brought it closer.

In an extremely low posture.

Like a submissive.

He lifted his blue hair, revealing the furry ears hidden within.

They were actually ears!

And real ears at that!

He exposed his most inferior side, his most detestable side, without reservation.

He was already prepared to be reviled and loathed.

A flash of malice crossed his lowered brows and eyes.

He loathed everything in this world, including himself.

Who would have known, a gentle touch came upon his ears.

It was so soft that his body couldn't help but flinch.

Ruan Mian only then realized her impropriety.

It seemed a bit impolite to touch someone's ears without their permission.

But—

They are just so good to pet!

How could anyone see cat ears and not be able to resist touching them!

"Ah, sorry."

Though she spoke an apology, her hand remained unrestrained.

She gave them another small, light rub before reluctantly pulling her hand away.

"Sorry, sorry, but your ears are really so cute!!!"

Xia Cheng turned his head and met her eyes, which were shining as if they were glowing.

There was not a trace of disgust, only liking.

It was a truly pleasantly surprised liking.

"They're really cute! Can I touch them again?"

"Do you... not think I'm strange?"

"Hybrid," "bastard," "beast," "monster," "lowlife"...

These were the words he heard most often.

Liking and cute were things that had absolutely nothing to do with him.

"Why???"

Ruan Mian simply couldn't control her fingers and lightly touched his ears again.

The texture was truly super good, furry and soft.

They really, truly are so good to pet!!!

"They're very cute! What are they? Cat ears?"

Xia Cheng shook his head obediently, "No, they are wolf."

He was a Half-Beast and shouldn't have belonged to that planet, "My mother thought I was a monster and abandoned me as soon as I was born. I grew up in an orphanage and was different from everyone else. After I became an adult, the orphanage wouldn't keep useless people either..."

Ruan Mian could already picture in her mind a poor little thing abandoned from childhood, a child who grew up amidst all kinds of bullying, and who, after reaching adulthood, was found to have no Mental Power and was heartlessly abandoned once again.

Wasn't the original owner the same?

At eighteen, with no Mental Power, she was kicked out of her home.

No one would raise a useless person with no Mental Power; their only fate was to be abandoned.

Not to mention someone viewed as an outcast!

Thinking of this, Ruan Mian's heart softened even more.

She had long since cast her previous wariness aside and pityingly stroked his ears.

(She is definitely not doing this because she wants to pet furry ears!)

"They bully me; if I go back, I might really not survive."

He lightly rolled up his sleeve, revealing an arm as thin as a stick, so thin that the bones protruded, especially with quite a few faint scars on the skin.

That was only because of the treatment from the Medical Pod that such small scars remained.

One could imagine how severe the injuries were before.

"I beg you, Sister, don't deport me back to that planet, okay?"

Sob, sob, sob, the puppy—no, the little wolf-dog is really so pitiful!!!!

Her overflowing maternal heart was beyond control.

"Do you want to... stay?"