A tall boy with a prickly demeanor stood at the doorway, his ears red and his head bowed, his hand clenched at his side.
He had just... hugged that plump woman.
And he even touched her hand.
He was ready to leave; staying in the home of this pure human woman for half a month was already something he couldn't fathom.
He was supposed to despise pure humans to the extreme, but this woman was different from any pure human he had encountered before. None had ever been so kind to him.
This woman had no intention of harming him at all, yet he let himself stay in a pure human's home at his weakest moment.
Back when he was imprisoned and abused, there wasn't a moment he didn't long to escape from those pure human homes.
And yet now, he had allowed himself to stay in a pure human's home for over half a month.
He was already heading downstairs when he heard the muffled groan from the woman falling to the ground. Seeing her there, he helped her up, their bodies making contact.
Every male werewolf paid close attention to the distance between them and females, especially when the female was a pure human he detested. But in that instant, that wasn't what he paid attention to.
He just wanted to know what was wrong with her.
A woman who could kill even succulents might as well kill herself.
Furrowing his brows, he looked at the woman on the couch, Zhou Ziyou, that was her name.
"What happened to you?"
Zhou Ziyou wiped the cold sweat off her forehead with a tissue, casually saying, "Nothing, just haven't eaten all day."
During this time, she had been cutting down on food for dieting, and today, she skipped meals due to a deadline.
Hypoglycemia, it was common for her.
Since cutting ties with her family four years ago, she had been living alone. Her eating habits were casual; when hungry, she cooked instant noodles, and when in a good mood, she cooked a few dishes. Occasionally, she would eat out.
The house was stocked with various bread and instant noodles.
Right now, she asked Gray Tail, "Could you get me three slices of bread and two bottles of milk from that cabinet over there?"
Gray Tail didn't say anything but followed her instructions, fetching bread and milk from the cabinet.
Zhou Ziyou took the milk, smiled, and thanked him, revealing a dimple on her round face. "Thank you."
Gray Tail was taken aback and averted his gaze.
He felt somewhat uncomfortable and asked, "Are there many pure humans as friendly as you?"
"Hmm? Friendly?" Zhou Ziyou asked in a somewhat dismissive tone. "You mean providing food and shelter during this time?"
"Yeah." Gray Tail thought, what else could it be?
Zhou Ziyou took a big gulp of milk. "Then there should be many. You saved me, so it's only right for me to help you recover, right? Many humans are like me."
She took a bite of bread. "There's a saying... How does it go again? 'A life-saving grace cannot be repaid, except by...'" She suddenly stopped.
She felt it wasn't appropriate to say that now.
Gray Tail stared at her, puzzled. "Except by what?"
Um...
Zhou Ziyou felt her face heat up inexplicably. "Except by... except by treating the lifesaver well, something like that."
She heard the boy utter an "oh."
For a moment, she felt fortunate that he was a werewolf, not understanding too much; otherwise, she would have been extremely embarrassed.
"Are there really many pure humans like you?"
With a sharp gaze and a firm grip, the boy with a prickly demeanor repeated his question.
He believed the woman before him was a genuine pure human, wouldn't deceive him. She was the first pure human he trusted.
Zhou Ziyou replied, "Hmm, there are quite a few. It's not worth mentioning."
"But there are also those who don't understand gratitude. We have all kinds of people, kind and friendly, malicious, cruel, purely wicked. Just stay away from the bad ones."
Upon hearing this, Gray Tail lowered his eyes and tugged at his lips. So, was he just unlucky enough to encounter bad people?
He thought of the woman from Nanfeng Yuan, the mother of the cub.
He had hurt her, he shouldn't have been impulsive that night. He had been too self-absorbed, thinking too highly of himself, forgetting his own identity because the head of the household was too good to him.
The head of the household made decisions, and he had made a mistake by hurting Shang Xi. He needed to take action to make amends.
"Um, maybe you should put on some clothes?" Zhou Ziyou had wanted to say this for a while. This wolfman was only wearing a piece of cloth around his waist, standing far away talking to him.
"If you go out like this, you'll attract attention." After some thought, she added, "We pure humans all wear clothes."
"I have men's clothing here, let me get it for you." With that, she got up and went to the balcony. Besides her colorful women's clothes on the clothesline, there were also several sets of men's clothing.
"This is the largest size, you should be able to fit into it."
Gray Tail stared at the clothes in the woman's hand, his nose twitching, trying to catch the scent of a strange man on them.
However, all he smelled was the fresh scent of laundry detergent.
She must have washed away the man's scent.
He stepped back and said, "I won't wear your partner's clothes."
With that said, he turned and walked towards the door.
This woman was plump and cute. It was strange for her not to have a partner; she must be quite popular in the human world.
He had stayed in the same room as someone else's woman for over half a month, and he had done something wrong again.
A trace of impatience with himself flashed in Gray Tail's eyes.
Then, he was stopped by Zhou Ziyou.
"You can rest assured to wear it. I don't have a partner, these are clothes I bought for myself."
"I live alone as a woman, I'm a bit scared, so I keep men's clothes around to make others think there's a man in my house, it might keep me safer."
But when Gray Tail heard this, his expression darkened slightly. "Someone wants to harm you? Who?"
Zhou Ziyou: "..."
She had to explain a lot before the boy in front of her understood.
After she suggested wearing clothes again, Gray Tail went to the room to change. With his height of one meter eighty-nine, the clothes were obviously too small, but as long as he could wear them, he didn't care so much.
"If you ever encounter danger, you can call my name."
The young werewolf who said this had a lingering hint of youthful vigor between his brows, his eyes showing a hint of unruliness, indicating he wasn't easy to get along with.
"I will... protect you."
After saying this, the werewolf's ears turned slightly red.
Zhou Ziyou was stunned.
From childhood to adulthood, her parents favored her brothers over her. While her brothers had new clothes to wear, she could only wear her brother's old clothes.
It's easy to imagine how a girl who wears old boys' clothes throughout elementary and middle school would be perceived by her classmates.
Especially when her name is Zhou Zhaomei, a name that everyone knows the meaning of, evoking sympathy and pity to some degree.
She was never the slim type of girl, so during school, not only were there no boys interested in her, but they also treated her as a target for mockery.
Little did she expect that one day, a tall, lean werewolf boy would blush and tell her, "He will protect her."
He will protect her?
Even her biological parents didn't protect her.
Throughout her journey until today, she had been protecting herself, never considering that she, too, could be protected.
Even if this werewolf brother was just being polite, it did touch her.
She had a brother, but he was not cute at all. He bullied her at home, blamed her for his mistakes, stole their father's money but accused her. And her parents always sided with her brother.
She had cut ties with those people.
Therefore, she no longer had a brother.
But this werewolf in front of her gave her a heartwarming feeling of being an older sister.
"Well, if you don't mind, you can call me sister from now on."
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