Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 233 - 170: The Future Great Villain, Growing Toward the Sun, Attempting to Influence

Chapter 233: Chapter 170: The Future Great Villain, Growing Toward the Sun, Attempting to Influence

An Jin was speechless.

’Calling it a waste of time, yet you’re eating it with such relish. What a little guy, saying one thing and feeling another.’

’The favorability points from the system have already exposed your true feelings.’

An Jin suppressed the smile at the corners of her lips and continued to hand him slices of meat. Watching someone else thoroughly enjoy the delicious food she’d made with her own hands filled her heart with immense satisfaction.

She fed him a slice of meat.

[Favorability +1!]

She fed him two slices of meat.

[Favorability +2!]

She fed him again.

[Favorability +1!]

An Jin couldn’t help but ask again, "My cooking is good, right?"

Seeing the boy’s cold expression, he paused for a moment before saying flatly, "It’s so-so."

So she fed him a few more slices of meat, and his favorability increased again.

An Jin was speechless. ’This kid... His face and his words scream disdain, but his favorability score keeps secretly creeping up.’

Just from feeding him medicine a few times and giving him some meat, his favorability had already accumulated to 18 in just two days.

’This is much easier than I imagined.’

All she could say was that although the boy in front of her seemed rebellious, cold-blooded, and unfeeling—and no matter how calculating he might be—he was, in the end, just a child of about fourteen.

And he also seemed to be a gloomy, unloved child.

People like him were like thorny weeds rooted deep underground. All it took was a little bit of kindness for them to break through the soil and grow toward the sun. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

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Ever since he was young, whenever Qi Yuan caught prey, he would just transform into his beast form and swallow it alive. He had never seen this method of cooking food before.

Although it certainly seemed troublesome and unnecessarily complicated, he had to admit the flavor was very unique. And so, before he knew it, he had eaten more than half of the Long-eared Beast.

Having not eaten for a good two or three days, Qi Yuan could have actually eaten more—swallowing a whole one wouldn’t have been a problem. But seeing An Jin beside him, not having had a single bite, something stirred in his heart. He forced himself to leave a little for her.

"Have you always lived in this cave? Do you have any other relatives or a tribe?" Seeing his favorability reach 20, An Jin began to ask about his background.

’If he really is a pitiful, abandoned wanderer, I’d really like to take him back to the city to live.’

’But to get the boy to come with me so easily, I’ll definitely need to get his favorability above 30. Otherwise, it would be bad if he thought I was a trafficker trying to abduct him.’

After all, in this world, the trafficking of Beastmen was a common transaction between tribes. Helpless, abandoned boys like him were the easiest targets.

Qi Yuan lifted his eyelids to glance at her, his beautiful lips pressed together lightly, and said nothing.

Compared to before, however, the disgust and wariness in his eyes had dissipated significantly, almost to the point of disappearing.

After a long wait, he lowered his head and spoke without any emotion, "No tribe. I survive on my own."

After those two sentences, he fell silent again.

"Then do you have any relatives who are also wanderers? Have you always survived by yourself? No other Beastman companions or anything?" Although An Jin could tell the boy didn’t want to continue this conversation, she still wanted to get a clear picture. It would be troublesome if other problems arose after she brought him back to the city.

A bone-chilling coldness once again emanated from the boy’s round, slightly downcast dark eyes.

’He had relatives, blood relatives. It was just that those relatives felt not an ounce of affection for him, and he, in turn, was plotting for that old bastard to die soon.’

’Just waiting for him to go back and give him one last shock before his life ended.’

"I hate nosy people! Stop asking. I’m not telling you!" he said coldly, narrowing his dark eyes and gritting his teeth.

[Favorability +1!]

’Huh? He says he’s disgusted, but his favorability went up?’

’??? An Jin couldn’t quite understand this move.’

’It couldn’t be that because I asked a few more questions, he felt a sense of concern he’d never experienced before, and that’s why his favorability increased, could it?’

To be honest, she had guessed right.

This was the first time since being abandoned that Qi Yuan had let down all his guards, spoken so much to someone, and received their extended attention and listening ear.

And it was with a female he had never met before.

The feeling was new to him, but not unpleasant. At least for now, it seemed this female held no malice or ulterior motives toward him.

The two of them finished eating in the cave and chatted idly as the sky quickly grew dark.

An Jin cleaned up the food scraps, bones, and other leftovers in the cave, tossed them into the small woods outside, and then walked back.

Normally, the smell of food would attract many wild beasts with keen senses of smell, especially in a lush, tropical-like jungle like this one.