Free Web NovelChapter 203: Chapter 201: Bluntly Rejecting Mirene
Li Chenlin stood to the side like a neglected little wife. "Susu... didn’t you promise to go to the amusement park with me tonight? On the Ferris wheel, I even..."
’I’ve even figured out the best way to kiss you!’
But he was afraid of offending Bai Su, so he didn’t dare say it out loud.
Bai Su looked at him apologetically. "Sorry, I don’t think tonight will work. Yelias has been working so hard lately, I should show him more care."
In his heart, Li Chenlin couldn’t help but curse Yelias a thousand times over.
But on the surface, he still put on a well-behaved and magnanimous look. "Alright then. Susu, don’t feel bad about it. I won’t force you to do anything you don’t want to do!"
He had learned his lesson long ago and didn’t dare.
Bai Su patted his head. After finishing breakfast and seeing the little ones out, she headed to the restaurant.
*
It was a weekday, but the restaurant was still quite full.
She wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but she felt like all eyes were on her the moment she walked in.
The moment Yan Qingya saw her, she rushed over. "My dear girl! You’re finally here!"
Bai Su froze. "What’s wrong? What happened?"
Seeing her genuine confusion, Yan Qingya hesitated, unsure if she should tell her.
Bai Su sensed something was off. Her mind raced, and she quickly guessed, "Is it because of what happened with Prince Mirene yesterday? Am I getting flamed by netizens again?"
Yan Qingya nodded. "Yes..."
Bai Su: "Flamed badly?"
Yan Qingya: "Yes..."
Bai Su patted her shoulder. "It’s fine. I can handle it."
Yan Qingya looked at her with some concern. "Just be mentally prepared when you start your stream."
Bai Su nodded, changed her clothes, put her hair up, and went into the kitchen.
The instant she started her livestream, over a hundred thousand people flooded into the stream room.
Their usernames were things like "Little Seashell" and "Little Starfish"—they looked like residents of the Sea Clan.
Bai Su greeted them with practiced ease. "Hello, everyone. I’m your host, Bai Su. Welcome to my livestream. Today, let’s see what our customers will be ordering."
Bullet Comments: [Bai Su, you’ve gone too far! Prince Mirene likes you so much, why did you have to break his heart like that?]
[Prince Mirene is the most beautiful male in our Sea Country! If you don’t like him, plenty of Mermaid females from the Sea Clan do! Why did you have to hurt him like this?]
[He likes you so much and is so devoted! Don’t you have a conscience, hurting him like that?]
[It breaks my heart to think of such a beautiful Mermaid Prince having his feelings trifled with!]
Bai Su’s kitchen received its first order: a seafood stew.
She raised an eyebrow, took various shellfish, sea fish, and sea crabs from the nearby ingredient pantry, and began to work with practiced skill.
[What a cruel woman! You can tell just by how skilled her hands are!]
While cleaning the shellfish, Bai Su addressed the bullet comments. "I think you’re yelling at the wrong person. I’m the real victim here."
Bullet Comments: [??? What are you talking about?]
[Do you even hear yourself?]
[If you’re the victim, then what does that make our Prince Mirene?]
Bai Su glanced at the camera. "Perhaps you can try to imagine something. What if the one pursuing me wasn’t Prince Mirene, but an unattractive, pot-bellied male laborer from the slums?"
"This pot-bellied male comes to my restaurant every day to wait for me. The moment he sees me, he rushes up to confess his love, and even tries to get handsy and touch my hand."
"I’ve rejected him countless times, but he’s deluded himself into thinking I’m just being shy, that one day I’ll fall for his charms."
"He even announced to everyone that he would be my Beast Husband, trying to incite the public to push us together."
"After he cornered me for many days in a row, I finally couldn’t take it anymore and rejected him in very serious terms."
"The next day, he stirred up all his female relatives to guilt-trip me, and everyone started thinking I should be responsible for him, that I had hurt him."
"So, do you still think the victim is the pot-bellied worker from the slums?"
The bullet comments went silent for a moment.
Bai Su’s fans also started to pop up: [I feel so bad for the boss, running into that kind of troublemaker.]
Bai Su continued, "In the world of adults, everything should be consensual."
"I don’t like him, so I don’t even have the right to refuse?"
"Since when have our rights as females been diminished to this extent?"
A few weak comments still appeared: [But he’s Prince Mirene, a prince of the Sea Country, not some worker from the slums. It’s not comparable at all.]
Bai Su scoffed. "It’s only not comparable to *you*."
"We stand at different levels, so naturally, we can’t see eye to eye. I don’t expect you to stand at my level to make a choice, and likewise, you shouldn’t expect me to lower myself to judge things by your same material standards."
[It’s all Greek to me...]
[Every time the boss starts lecturing, I feel like my brain can’t keep up.]
Bai Su’s mouth twitched. "To put it simply: he might be Prince Mirene of the Sea Country, but I, Bai Su, am the Duke of Snow Country, and the legitimate Leader’s Wife."
"Strictly speaking in terms of status, the Sea Country is a matriarchy. His status is several tiers lower than mine."
"The male you Sea Clan People treat as a precious treasure is, in the eyes of this Duke, no different from a commoner in the Snow Country. Understand now?"
’They’re really forcing me to be harsh.’
Only then did everyone come to a sudden realization.
’Oh, right...’
Bai Su was the Duke of Snow Country and the Leader’s Wife. Her second Beast Husband was the globally renowned head of the Lanton Family.
And the Sea Country was a matriarchy. A prince like Mirene, who held no official post, was essentially just a noble with no official position when compared to the situation in the Snow Country.
The Imperial City was crawling with idle Earls and Marquises.
They probably couldn’t even get a meeting with Bai Su, let alone have her personally serve them if they came to the restaurant to eat.
Mirene was only able to get close to Bai Su because she was being polite and patient, seeing as he was a foreign envoy. She had tolerated it again and again...
On what grounds did they think that Prince Mirene pursuing Bai Su was some kind of honor for her?
The Sea Clan People in the livestream chat fell silent.
Bai Su’s fans fell silent too.
Suddenly, it felt like Mirene was no different from those nobles on the streets of the Imperial City who tried to pester Bai Su relentlessly.
How were these situations usually handled?
For a moment, everyone was a little lost.
Just then, another noble showed up outside the restaurant to profess his love for Bai Su.
With lightning reflexes, Kong Ji subdued the man. He gestured to the side, and the noble was unceremoniously tossed out.
Even the bouquet of roses that had fallen to the ground was scooped up and casually tossed into a nearby trash can.
A gentle breeze blew through the street in front of the restaurant, carrying a few scattered rose petals far away.
The gawking onlookers in the restaurant: "..."
’Oh, right. That’s probably the correct way to handle it.’
