I became a cannon fodder villain. If I want to survive, I must take care of my baby first.

I don’t know how long it took, but when Jing finally made his choice, Mushu’s face was filled with fatigue.

"Sorry, have you been waiting long?" She put her hands behind her back worriedly.

"No, it's just that there were too many people just now and the stall owner was too busy, so I helped look after it for a while." Muxu shook his head, without a trace of boredom on his handsome face.

"Compared to this, what do you think of your choice? Do you need my help and advice?" He glanced behind Rujing.

"I heard this can make the skin smoother, and this bracelet..."

"Well, it suits you very well."

Rujing enthusiastically told Mushu about the jewelry and cosmetics she had chosen after a long period of hesitation. Mushu listened patiently and smiled with satisfaction from time to time.

"Everything else is fine, except this brooch, which is too dark in color and not suitable for you." Muxu pointed at the thing in Rujing's hand, while holding a small object in the other hand.

"Well, I think this style suits your temperament very well, so I want to give it to you." Ru Jing handed the brooch to Mu Xu, but found that he was holding a white brooch of the same style in his hand.

"Oh, I just picked one for you too, we thought of the same thing." Mushu exchanged the white brooch with her, and both of them laughed foolishly.

"I heard that these are just cheap little items and cannot be compared with real jewelry. When your taste improves, I will help you pick out a few better pieces from the reward from Lord Mekalos." Ru Jing said with a smile.

"Oh, is this a sign of love?"

Muxu wanted to joke that he would look forward to it, but Rujing subconsciously said:

"Yes."

After saying this, Mushu froze on the spot, and she herself was stunned.

"No...what I mean is...I do like you, Muxu." Rujing hesitated for a long time. Muxu thought she would evade the question like before, but he didn't expect her to admit it so generously.

He held his breath, waiting for Rujing to continue.

"There's nothing I can do. It was difficult for me to lead a normal life before, and suddenly I'm being pursued so passionately that I don't even have time to react. I can only devote myself to work and try not to think about these things." Rujing's voice was very low, but surprisingly clear.

Mushu's heart was pounding when he heard this: "I thought you couldn't even notice it."

"No matter how slow I am, I can't ignore your existence."

He is rich, powerful, handsome, has a good figure, is gentle, considerate, capable, understanding, and always loyal in his emotions. If Ru Jing doesn't like him anymore, she will doubt her sexual orientation.

Rujing lowered her head and dared not look at his face:

"Don't look at me like this. I've actually had similar feelings towards others before, but now I understand that they were just ordinary admiration, and you are the one I truly have romantic feelings for."

Mushu smiled helplessly: "Can you tell me about your initial aspirations?"

"Will you be angry?" Ru Jing looked up at her and subconsciously held his hand nervously.

"On the contrary, I'm so happy to hear that you can take the initiative to talk about your past." Mushu touched Rujing's beautiful long hair with his big hand. His tone remained steady, without any trace of uneasiness or anger.

"When I was a child, I was influenced by my family environment and had a bad temper. I was not popular, and only one little boy of the same age was willing to play with me."

"So you have a crush on him? I see. That's really thoughtless of you."

As soon as Ru Jing started to speak, Mu Shu couldn't wait to interrupt.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't mind?!" After hearing Muxu's sour remarks, Rujing realized that he was unexpectedly petty.

Shouldn't the focus at this time be the thought that "So you were like that when you were a child, you have changed so much"?

"Please don't get me wrong, I just think that I am much better than your first love who is nothing special. Well, I am definitely not jealous that he knew you earlier than me." Mushu smiled slightly.

"Aren't you just being sullen? And it's not that easy for me to fall in love with someone else."

Ru Jing sighed, "That guy is an orphan. He has no family to protect him so he is always excluded. So the two of us naturally became playmates. We just don't like each other and neither of us cares about the other."

Hearing this, Mushu looked surprised, as if he had remembered something extraordinary.

Ru Jing continued, "That guy was later adopted by a noble family because of his outstanding magical talent. I was very angry at the time because I thought our talents were similar, so why was he chosen? Was it just because I was a girl?

"I was so angry that I cursed him and even had a fight with him."

Mushu looked melancholy, "Wow, you were really annoying when you were a kid."

"That guy must have put up with me for a long time. After the fight, we both collapsed on the ground. He scolded me for hating being treated differently because of gender, but how come I ended up thinking the same thing.

When saying these words, Rujing's expression was unexpectedly relaxed:

"He also said that I should raise my fists at my father who beat me all day long, instead of at my best playmates."

Mushu paused, then said, "What happened next?"

"I thought his words were ridiculous and I wanted to scold him but I didn't have the energy. That guy must have still had some strength left, because he said, 'You hit me so hard, but don't say you couldn't resist because you're a girl'. Then we both fainted." Rujing said.

When she woke up again, the boy had been taken away by the nobles who adopted him, and Rujing was severely scolded by her mother because she was covered in wounds.

In the days that followed, Rujing just muddled through, doing heavy work that was not suitable for her delicate body. She was often scolded by her mother and beaten by her father until her younger brother was born.

Ru Jing originally thought that she would hate this child, but when she saw his innocent little face, she was filled with joy.

Only then did she realize that she had no reason to hate men. It was only because she was too weak and unable to resist her violent father and indifferent mother that she transferred her resentment to those whom she could reprimand.

Like the little boy who told her to rebel.

Because he is a boy, his parents love him very much, and Rujing also thinks he is very cute.

But she gradually discovered that even though her brother was a boy, her father was still irritable and her mother was as cold and selfish as before.

It doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl, being born into this hopeless family is destined to suffer.

One day, after drinking heavily, her father beat Rujing as usual. She collapsed to the ground in pain and could not even stand steadily. But when she saw the evil hands reaching out to her young brother, Rujing's mind flashed back to what the little boy had said to her several years ago.

"Throw your fist at the person who is causing you pain."

If I hate men because I am a girl and suffer unfair treatment, then aren't I just like my parents, hating others without reason and with prejudice?

She hates those who bring her suffering, but continues the tragedy in the same way.

Will my newborn brother experience the same thing?

"I don't want it." A sudden force surged into the body. Rujing struggled to get up from the ground, picked up the wine bottle on the ground, and smashed it hard at his father.

He lost a lot of blood, and his body became weak from the external blows after drinking too much. He cursed harshly, but he didn't have the strength to teach Rujing a lesson.

For the first time, she realized that her seemingly scary father was actually so weak.

Later, Rujing unexpectedly did not get scolded by her mother, and her father did not dare to hit her because he was still injured.

After a while, when her father was about to use violence against Rujing again, she dared to rush forward and swing her fists.

The girl's body was very soft. She was hungry every day and was as thin as a bamboo pole.

However, his alcoholic father was not much better.

They kept fighting like this until their heads were broken and bleeding. Ru Jing did a lot of heavy work, so he still had enough strength.

When both sides stopped what they were doing due to exhaustion, she finally realized that there was a hint of fear in her father's eyes when he looked at her.