Deep affection knows no origin; remember the polar bear's love for you.

Chapter 104 Don't Make Choices for Me
This statement conveys a lot of information; the male bear belatedly realized that her situation might not be as simple as just moving to a different place.

Caesar became alert and asked her:
"Where are you going?"

There's no need to hide anything now, so Guo Mi will tell the truth:
"I want to go to the forest."

This was an unfamiliar word, so unfamiliar that Caesar had never heard of it before. He guessed it must be a place rarely visited by polar bears.

"Isn't the snow mountain nice? Why do we have to go there?"

Guo Mi wanted to shake her head, but stopped halfway through the movement because Caesar couldn't understand. At this moment, everything was reminding her that she and Caesar were different.

“Caesar, the snow-capped mountains are nice, but not for me. I can’t stand the cold there, and I don’t have the talent to stay in the water for long periods of time. I can’t live there as well as you do.”

She spoke sincerely, recounting all the misfortunes she encountered in the Arctic Circle.

Caesar's brown eyes were full of confusion. He didn't understand why Guo Mi found the Arctic so cold unbearable, or why she couldn't swim as skillfully as they did.

But Guo Mi understands.

These gaps are not caused by temporary factors, nor can they be bridged by effort alone; rather, they are the result of species evolving in different environments.

Just as Caesar was accustomed to vast ice fields, he might not have been able to accept lush forests.

The distance between her and Caesar was not only their understanding and hearts, but also a geographical gap of thousands of kilometers, and...

Millions of years of species evolution.

These achievements of human technology and wisdom are something that even if Guo Mi wanted to talk to Caesar about, she wouldn't know where to begin. She couldn't explain to Caesar what evolution and genes were, and Caesar couldn't understand them either.

She could only try to persuade him again and again:
“Caesar, the snow-capped mountains and ice floes are where you can survive. You should choose what suits you, not change because of me. Your choices should not be influenced by me.”

Caesar understood this, and he asked Gomi thoughtfully:
"So you mean you don't want your influence on any of my choices? You don't want to interfere with me?"

This sounded a bit strange, but it was exactly what Guo Mi wanted to say, so she agreed:

"Yes……"

Before she could finish speaking, Caesar interrupted her:
"If you don't want to interfere with me, why make decisions for me?"

Guo Mi was stunned, and for a moment she couldn't think of anything to refute.

Caesar now held the upper hand in the conversation. He took two steps around Guo Mi and continued:

"You say you want to make a choice that suits me, but how do you know that following you isn't a good choice? I'm choosing to follow you for my own sake, isn't that also making a choice according to my own wishes?"

Caesar's words left Guo Mi speechless.

She looked Caesar up and down with surprise, then suddenly realized that her perception of him might be wrong.

This male bear is not actually a bear that is not good at speaking; on the contrary, he is quite eloquent.

Guo Mi attempted a final struggle:

"What about Slok? You're willing to come with me, but have you asked him if he's willing?"

Caesar answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world:

"If he doesn't want to, he can go back. I won't force him."

Guo Mi's throat tightened. Although this was indeed the answer that best suited Caesar and was most expected, she still couldn't help but mourn for Slok. The poor bear probably didn't know that his cold-blooded older brother was already prepared to abandon him at any moment.

But then again, isn't this just another concrete manifestation of Caesar's usual cheating?
Guo Mi's mind, which had been bewitched by Caesar, instantly cleared up. She could already foresee that if she explicitly refused Caesar, this bear would immediately throw a tantrum and yell, "Why won't you let me come along? Didn't you say you wouldn't interfere with my decisions?"

Seeing Guo Mi's sullen expression, and noticing that after her "eloquence" attribute had awakened, she had also awakened the "understanding bears' feelings" attribute, Caesar decided to let her have some peace and quiet.

"Okay, I'll go ask Slok if he'd like to come with me."

The male bear turned to leave, but after a few steps he suddenly stopped, turned back and said:

"If you can't wait, you can leave early. It's okay, I can catch up with you by following your scent."

After Caesar finished speaking, as if afraid that Guo Mi would speak, he quickened his pace and disappeared into the bushes.

Guo Mi: "..."

Her brain had already automatically translated the sentence: "Go ahead and try to escape, I'll admit defeat if I can't catch you."

Guo Mi had a headache; she suddenly realized that the polar bear's keen sense of smell wasn't necessarily a good thing for her.

Meanwhile, Caesar walked briskly into the bush passage, feeling much better than when Guo Mi said she was leaving.

When Caesar was talking to Guo Mi just now, although she wasn't very happy, he had a feeling that they had returned to the night before their argument.

Caesar felt a pang of regret. Would it have been better if he had rolled around on the ground and acted like a spoiled child?
The male bear's ears twitched twice. When it passed the pink flower field where it had picked flowers earlier, it stopped, lowered its head, and sneezed a small flower that was in full bloom. Then it sneezed loudly!
The poor little flower was suddenly blown backward by the strong airflow, followed by a swaying motion, and the fragile petals trembled and fell down. In the blink of an eye, only two of the five petals remained.

Seeing its miserable state, the male bear even "helpfully" raised its paw to support it.

The moment the thick bear claw touched the slender stem, the already battered plant finally succumbed to the final blow and bent completely in the next second!
Just a moment ago she was all dressed up and looking glamorous, but now she has lowered her head.

Caesar silently lowered his claws, took two steps back, and felt a little guilty.

He looked around, pretended nothing had happened, and turned to quickly leave towards his temporary resting place.

……

In the evening, Guo Mi sat by the bushes early and waited until late at night. The bushes swayed slightly, but soon quieted down again.

Guo Mi waited for half a minute, then sighed and said:
"Bada, it's me."

Silence reigned in the bushes. Two minutes later, after a few scattered sounds, a dark bear head emerged from the bushes!

Badar held up his yellow muzzle and sniffed twice to make sure that Caesar's scent was faint before emerging from the bushes.

As soon as they came out, they rushed straight towards the berry grove!

Guo Mi wasn't in a hurry. She sat beside him and watched him eat, and only after he had stuffed more than twenty berries into his mouth did she continue:
"I've made up my mind, I'm going to take the little bear to the forest."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the black bear, who had been stuffing berries into its mouth, suddenly coughed violently!

Bada spat out the fruit from his mouth with a series of popping sounds, then struggled to swallow the fruit stuck in his throat back down before turning around to look at Guo Mi in disbelief:

"You're going to the forest, and you're taking these two little brats with you?"

I added a few things; today a reader drew anthropomorphic versions of Yu Yuan and Guo Mi for me, I'm so happy!
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