“Oh? Here they come! Here they come!”
Ark, who had been hiding shyly behind the daisies, widened his eyes as Stella approached. Nervous, he chewed the carrot he was holding at twice the speed as before.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Watching Ark, who still had food in his hand, Esta shook her head and sighed deeply.
“Don’t run away this time.”
Esta admonished Ark as he took another bite of the carrot. Ark, with a serious expression, chewed on the carrot and then stuffed the last piece into his mouth, mumbling a response.
“You’re the one who runs! I was, uh, trying to talk!”
Ark’s speech was muffled by the carrot, but he spoke bravely. The sweet scent of carrot wafted with every word he said.
Considering how much he was eating carrots lately, one might worry he’d turn orange.
“That’s because you suddenly fell from the window frame and scared me. I didn’t know humans could wake up.”
“I didn’t expect to be caught. Maybe I’m lucky.”
“Don’t trust humans blindly.”
“But you said you could feel the earth’s energy.”
“Just because you feel the earth’s energy doesn’t mean they can all help us. Remember! Don’t trust them!”
“Okay!”
Ark nodded in agreement at Esta’s warning. Meanwhile, the human, who had come close, first sent the woman she was with inside the house and looked around.
Ark and Esta took deep breaths, preparing for the conversation with the human.
Confirming there was nothing else around, Stella sat down in front of the two creatures, who were staring at her with wide, curious eyes.
Since no one here knew her, talking to these creatures didn’t seem to change her situation much.
She couldn’t pretend she didn’t care, but human hearts are fickle. What intrigued Stella most was the subtle difference between these creatures and those she had encountered in Amalun.
“You look different up close.”
The ones she had seen in Amalun had darker skin and only black pupils in their eyes.
Moreover, they had a more somber feel, but these creatures were different. If the ones in Amalun were shadows, the ones she met here felt closer to sunlight.
Brighter, warmer, more human-like.
“Different? How so?”
Intrigued by Stella’s muttering, Esta looked at her intently, with round, twinkling eyes. The way her long eyelashes moved when she blinked was quite adorable.
“Who are you? Why do you speak so well?”
“We’ve always been able to talk.”
Ark responded this time. He had already taken out another small carrot from his pocket and was chewing on it. Stella, looking at the carrot in Ark’s hand, involuntarily swallowed her saliva.
The sweet scent of the carrot was irresistibly enticing. Maybe because she hadn’t eaten properly at the banquet, but the sight of the carrot made her desperate to eat.
As Stella paused her speech to stare at the carrot in her hand, Ark looked puzzled, then carefully pulled out another carrot from a different pocket and offered it.
“Want to eat?”
Stella quickly reached out her hand. Ark cautiously walked forward, watching her carefully.
Esta was tensely on guard, ready to flee with Ark in case the human attacked.
During this, Ark came right up to Stella’s hand.
Nervously trembling, Ark held out the carrot as if to show it was there, then dropped it onto Stella’s palm and scurried back to Esta.
“Esta, I did it! I fed the human!”
As Ark jumped around in excitement, Esta patted his back and said, “Good job.”
“Well done. If we’re careful, we might be able to tame humans.”
“Should I bring more carrots? They won’t bite, will they?”
Listening to the conversation of the two creatures, Stella couldn’t shake off the feeling that something had changed.
She watched them, engaged in a heated debate, utterly oblivious to her presence.
“Is that even possible?”
“Didn’t you see? They like it when we give them carrots.”
Ark pointed at Stella with his short fingers.
Stella, who was about to eat the carrot she had just received, flinched and slowly lowered her hand holding the carrot. An indescribable emotion welled up within her, hard to put into words.
The two discussed seriously for a while and seemed to reach a conclusion, nodding at each other before approaching Stella with determined faces.
Stella tried to ignore the sweet scent of the carrot and watched the two approaching. The craving for the carrot was inexplicable – it wasn’t fruit or pudding, yet her mouth watered uncontrollably.
It was odd to salivate so much over a mere carrot. This wasn’t any ordinary carrot, apparently.
“Hey, human.”
“Stella.”
“What?”
“My name. It’s Stella.”
It felt strange introducing herself to non-human beings.
“Ah, human Stella. We have a proposition for you.”
The tremor at the end of their voice indicated the seriousness of their proposal. Stella was curious about their offer, but first, there was something she needed to know.
“Before that, can you tell me who you are? Are you ghosts?”
Stella asked the question that had been on her mind.
“Don’t insult us!”
Esta shouted, clenching his fists, but Stella didn’t even blink. Their bright eyes and cute appearance made them seem less threatening.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
