Beast World: The villain mermaid cub refuses to become a good person

Chapter 243 Fear of Letting Down

After hanging up the phone, Yu Manman opened Zhou Na's information.

Once she finished reading it, the file was automatically destroyed the moment she exited the document.

Yu Manman stood by the window and looked down, and happened to see Wu Yingyue and Zhou Nan.

Wu Yingyue shyly kissed Zhou Nan on the cheek, and then went into the dormitory building.

Soon after, Yu Manman heard noises outside.

"Yingyue, you're back?" Yu Manman walked out of the room. "I just saw a handsome guy bring you back downstairs! Is he your fiancé?"

Seeing Wu Yingyue's slightly flushed face, she teased, "What's his name?"

“His name is Zhou Nan, my childhood sweetheart and fiancé.” Wu Yingyue smiled. “I have been in poor health since I was a child. There was an old lady in the Zhou family who was very good at medicine. In order to improve my health, my father sent me to the Zhou family for treatment.”

Wu Yingyue smiled and said, "Zhou Nan and I grew up together. When I was receiving treatment at the Zhou family's hospital, he was always by my side."

“Childhood sweethearts!” Yu Manman nodded. “So you grew up in the Zhou family?”

"Yes, it was about two years ago, when I was almost fully recovered, that I returned home. The elders in the Zhou family treated me very well."

Yu Manman stopped there and didn't ask any further questions.

“By the way, Yingyue, are you free this Friday?” Yu Manman took her hand.

"We're in the same major, so we just have classes in the morning and then we're on holiday, right? I don't have any special plans." Wu Yingyue looked at Yu Manman, "What's wrong?"

"I'm going home for my birthday party on Friday, and I'd like to invite you to come!"

This was something Yu Manman had planned long ago; it wasn't something she decided on the spur of the moment after Puslin called.

Yu Manman truly considers Wu Yingyue a friend.

"I was also planning to invite You Xiao and the others! I just don't know if they'll have time!"

Wu Yingyue understood. "So Friday is your birthday? Your eighteenth birthday?"

"Yup!"

"I'm free!" Wu Yingyue nodded, her eyes sparkling. "Why didn't you tell me sooner? I should have prepared a gift for you sooner!"

Wu Yingyue used to be in poor health and had been raised by the Zhou family. Even her studies were done with private tutors. University was the first school she entered!
Therefore, Wu Yingyue doesn't have many friends and cherishes her friendship with Yu Manman!

It was only after arriving at university that Wu Yingyue realized how wonderful campus life could be! Unfortunately, she wasn't in good health and was previously forbidden from leaving the house! She had to take medication almost every day!
Even now, although Wu Yingyue feels that her body has recovered, her family still needs her to take some medicine to maintain her health every month.

"I've been busy lately and forgot for a moment..."

"Busy dating your instructor?" Wu Yingyue winked at her. "I see you're either in the lab or seeing Instructor Ackerman every day!"

Yu Manman touched her neck, but did not deny it.

Well, she really did go there to learn from Ackerman, and sometimes she would go to the ocean with Ackerman to kill Fallen Ones.

"Manman, you're really amazing!" Wu Yingyue looked at her admiringly. "I'm even afraid of the instructors, but you dare to get so close to them!"

"Don't even mention me, Zhou Nan was quite surprised when he heard you were with the instructor! He's never been one to gossip, but he even asked me if you two were really together! So, Manman, are you really with the instructor?"

Yu Manman's eyes flickered slightly. Why was someone who wasn't usually gossipy suddenly talking about her and Instructor Ackerman? Suspicion began to creep into her mind.

"We're not really together yet." Yu Manman lowered her head shyly, trying to hide her emotions.

"Shouldn't we wait until after my birthday to talk about it?"

"Oh~" Wu Yingyue's eyes curved into two crescent moons, her pupils shimmering with a subtle light. "So, good things are coming soon?"

"So you must have invited your instructor to your birthday party, right?"

“Yes.” Yu Manman nodded. “I have already invited the instructors.”

"Isn't that meeting the parents?" A smile spread across Wu Yingyue's eyes.

Yu Manman looked at her teasing gaze and said softly, "Actually, I took the instructor back last week."

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

Wu Yingyue laughed.

After starting university, Wu Yingyue became more and more cheerful, as if she had broken free from constraints and lost the restraint she had when she first entered the campus.

She thought, this seems to be the kind of life I should have...

It's a pity that I was in poor health before and didn't have the chance to seize my youth, but luckily it's not too late now!

She seems to have gradually found her own goal.

Sometimes, she still envied Yu Manman.

Yu Manman has many friends, is capable, and has her own opinions.

Wu Yingyue recalled the surprised expression on Yu Manman's face when she first met her and Manman learned that she had several fiancés arranged by their families.

She was influenced by her family atmosphere from a young age, and most of the few females she knew, like herself, had already made arrangements.

It was only after arriving at Kyushu University that Wu Yingyue suddenly realized that females don't necessarily have to follow the family's arrangements! Females can also be very "rebellious".

Even An Yan and the others, although they would accept some arrangements, would consider many things and would not be as indecisive as I am. Even if they had a moment of resistance in their hearts, they would quickly compromise.

An Yan and her female companions have a broader spiritual world than I do. They want to achieve something, they don't want to be inferior to the males, they want to be in charge in the future, and they want females to have more say. And this desire is growing stronger and stronger...

Sometimes, Wu Yingyue would feel a strange unease and fear.

She feared that one day she would let her family down and rebel against their arrangements for her life, which seemed like a bad thing.

Regardless, her parents gave her life and protected her every step of the way, fearing she might get hurt. They are the best people to her, and the arrangements they make for her are undoubtedly the best—all for her own good!
Wu Yingyue composed herself and said to Manman, "I will definitely go, don't worry."

Yu Manman nodded, "By the way, if your fiancé wants to come with you, he can. I think... Zhou Nan can't bear to leave you for a moment and wants to follow you everywhere!"

Wu Yingyue smiled shyly.

Indeed, Zhou Nan would pick her up from get out of class and take her out to eat whenever she had free time. When she went on training trips with the Ninth Action Team, Zhou Nan would often ask about her condition and worry about her getting injured.

Zhou Nan was gentle and considerate, and of her several fiancés, he was her favorite.

"Great idea! I'm not very good at driving anyway, so I'll have him drive me there!"