The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man-Chapter 98 - 97: Shifting the Target

Yun Hao was so startled that he stumbled back several steps.

Xu Wenwan had just reached out to take Yun Hao’s hand, but now it was left hanging awkwardly in mid-air. A hurt look flashed in her eyes.

"Yun Hao..."

Tears slowly welled up in her eyes, and her gaze upon Yun Hao held a kind of shattered beauty.

Yun Hao snapped back to his senses and quickly explained, "Wen Wan, I... I just saw a bug. It startled me. It’s gone n—"

Upon hearing this, Xu Wenwan’s expression changed drastically. Before Yun Hao could finish, she leaped to her feet.

Her face was contorted.

"Ah! Where’s the bug?"

She screamed, running to Yun Hao’s side and hiding behind him.

"Yun Hao, where is it? I’m so scared."

She was genuinely afraid of bugs; this wasn’t an act.

In her previous life, she had lived in a high-end, impeccably clean apartment building. Forget bugs; there wasn’t even a single mosquito in her room during the summer.

Now, just hearing the word "bug" sent her body into an uncontrollable panic.

It wasn’t enough to hide behind Yun Hao; she gave him a hard shove, pushing him out in front of her.

"Yun Hao, hurry and see where it is!"

Yun Hao, who was shoved so hard he nearly tripped and face-planted: ...

He stared at Xu Wenwan, completely shocked. But when he saw her face go pale with fright, he suppressed the strange feeling in his heart. ’She must be terrified,’ he thought, and began to comfort her.

"It’s okay, the bug’s gone. Don’t be scared."

Xu Wenwan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the bug was gone.

Then, she turned her head and saw a thumb-sized black spider dangling in the air from a branch. It had a hairy body, malevolent-looking compound eyes, and eight legs. Spinning a thread of silk, it was slowly descending, about to land right on her shoulder.

"AHHH!"

With a shriek, Xu Wenwan forgot all about romance and bolted straight down the mountain.

Startled by Xu Wenwan’s shriek, the spider trembled violently, nearly snapping its silk thread. It quickly dropped onto a leaf below and scurried away.

Yun Hao’s expression darkened.

’He hadn’t expected Xu Wenwan to be so terrified of bugs that she’d run off without even a word.’

Yun Hao wanted to follow her. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

’But with so many people at the foot of the mountain, if I chase after her, won’t that just announce to everyone that Xu Wenwan and I were up here together?’

’That would be bad for Wen Wan’s reputation.’

So, he suppressed the urge to follow her, picked up his basket again, and decided to dig for some wild vegetables.

No one was exempt from gathering food for the winter.

Further up the mountain, Li Hongmei had forgotten all about digging for mushrooms. She was clamping a hand tightly over her mouth.

’Yun Hao’s father is a factory director, and his mother is a supervisor! It must be incredibly easy for someone like him to arrange a job slot.’

In that moment, Li Hongmei’s entire worldview was turned upside down.

’Before, I thought a man like Leng Yuan was the best possible catch.’

’He has a job, makes twenty-five yuan a month, and gets subsidized grain rations.’

’He has no parents-in-law or sisters-in-law to deal with. If I married Leng Yuan, I’d be the mistress of my own home. It was the life I’d always dreamed of.’

’But that was all based on the assumption that I could never return to the city.’

’After all these years of being sent down to the countryside, I’d given up hope of ever going back.’

’But if there was a chance to go back to the city, then of course these mud-caked peasants here wouldn’t be good enough for me.’

’I heard what Xu Wenwan said loud and clear. Yun Hao’s family can get a slot to return to the city.’

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. ’Leng Yuan’s qualifications? Compared to Yun Hao, with a factory director for a father and a supervisor for a mother, Leng Yuan is nothing but dust.’

’No wonder Gu Jiaojiao used to be into Yun Hao. Looks like I was the one who was blind before.’

At this thought, Li Hongmei immediately stood up and straightened her clothes. She had just seen Yun Hao head off in that direction.

’Time for a little "accidental" encounter.’