039 Human Girls
“Go for it, Fei! I’m coming!”
“Bullshit! You’re pinging ‘on my way’ from the damn fountain?”
“Qin Ren, get over here quick! My Yasuo has ult!”
“Huh? Where’s my Black Cleaver…”
…
On a muggy night, Qin Ren played games with his friends in a voice chat, headphones hanging around his neck. Since he had a sleeping Luo Yao tucked in his arms for cooling, he was still on mute, only listening and not speaking.
Yu Yourong, on the other hand, was lying on the sofa, studying a map of the vicinity on the tablet that hadn’t been sold yet. In the end, she found with great helplessness that the environment on Earth was truly complex. Roads intersected everywhere, buildings stood shoulder to shoulder. Finding a master who wasn’t very smart to begin with in this vast sea of people really felt harder than ascending.
“Mmm…” The soft, petite body squirmed in his arms. The little girl’s hand squeezed Qin Ren’s stomach.
“Did I wake you?” Qin Ren looked down.
“Mhm…”
Luo Yao looked at Qin Ren, raised her finger, and scraped his stubble a couple of times.
“Qin Ren, carry me back to the room.”
“I’m not sleepy yet.”
“It’s okay. This eminence… can sleep alone first today.”
“Oh? You can do that?”
Qin Ren was very pleased. The little Pixiu seemed to have grown up again. He carried her to the bedroom first, then returned to continue the battle, but he didn’t fight for long.
There was now another girl in the house, one big and one small, two in total. Qin Ren had more things to consider every day. He was even less focused on gaming than before. After quickly losing two rounds, he hastily logged off.
“Hah—mmm—”
*
He yawned. The living room had been quiet for a long time. He turned his head and saw that classmate Yu Yourong had already fallen asleep on the sofa. Her black hair, untied from its ponytail, spread out with a faint, cool orchid scent. Her small nostrils flared with her even breathing. Because she was sleeping on her side, two plump, snow-white little rabbits were hiding in her collar, peeking out from the squeeze of her arms, as if ready to jump out at any moment.
Qin Ren walked over lightly and found that the tablet on the coffee table was still open to Baidu Maps. The search box was filled with the three words [Yu Ling’er].
Such a search was obviously futile. Qin Ren looked at the rows of search results like “Fresh Fish Village” and “Frog Fish Head” and couldn’t help but chuckle.
“You always say your master is stupid, but aren’t you just as silly…”
He murmured softly, went to find a thin blanket to cover Yu Yourong, moved her little legs, which were dangling off the sofa, in a bit, and then helped her take off her slippers.
Qin Ren hadn’t paid much attention before, but looking up close like this, Yu Yourong’s little feet weren’t much bigger than Luo Yao’s.
Just as clean, just as rosy-white. Her delicate toes were neatly curled, and the fleshy pads of her toes also looked soft and springy. Her whole foot was naturally not as soft and tender as the little girl’s, but because of this, it had a few more touches of the delicate beauty unique to a girl in her budding youth.
They were nice to look at, but Qin Ren didn’t dare to look for long.
Last time, he had just carelessly squeezed Luo Yao’s little foot, and she had caught him in the act, almost branding him a pervert.
If he accidentally woke Yu Yourong up this time, and both girls confirmed it, then he might really be labeled a pervert.
In order to not be a pervert, Qin Ren didn’t linger. After turning off the tablet’s screen, he went back to the bedroom. It wasn’t until the bedroom door clicked shut softly that a pair of bright black eyes on the sofa slowly opened.
“…”
Her delicate fingertips clutched the blanket. Yu Yourong lay motionless in the darkness, staring blankly at the ceiling for a second, two seconds, three seconds. Then, a small patch of pink blush crept up from the delicate skin of her neck to her cheeks, and then to the roots of her ears.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that getting used to a man was not as easy as she had imagined…
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When Qin Ren returned to the bedroom, Luo Yao had, as promised, fallen asleep like a little pig.
Congratulations were in order.
This was the first time she had fallen asleep on her own since coming to Qin Ren’s side.
But what puzzled Qin Ren was that she seemed to have fallen asleep in a hurry.
Not only had she not taken off her socks, but she hadn’t changed into her cotton nightdress either, still wearing the silk dress from the daytime.
Qin Ren speculated that Luo Yao’s stomach must have been hurting during the day, making her very tired, which was why she had passed out as soon as she hit the bed.
This was very reasonable, so he didn’t think much of it. He gently held Luo Yao’s round and slender heel, took off her small, white cotton socks, and then lay down beside her, holding her gently, sleeping as he always did.
It wasn’t until 7 o’clock the next morning that Qin Ren groggily opened his eyes to find a pillow stuffed in his arms, a move straight out of his own playbook. Only then did he realize the situation might not be so simple.
“Luo Yao? Yaoyao?”
Qin Ren called out softly a couple of times with no response. Instead, he heard a rustling from the bathroom, the sound of running water and clothes being scrubbed.
What’s going on…
Qin Ren rubbed his sleepy eyes and tiptoed to the bathroom door. He saw light coming from inside, and with a creak, he opened the door. Luo Yao, behind the door, was startled and hastily hid something behind her back.
And the sink was full, filled with foam from a lot of laundry detergent.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing…”
Luo Yao’s little hands were held tightly behind her back. Her eyes darted to the side guiltily. Through her slippers, you could see her toes wiggling restlessly, exactly like when Qin Ren had questioned her about her stomachache yesterday.
“What are you hiding?”
“Nothing…”
“I feel like you’re treating me like an idiot.”
“…”
Luo Yao fell silent, her head bowed low. Soon, the sound of sniffling could be heard.
“No… what’s wrong?”
Hearing this, Qin Ren’s tone immediately softened. He squatted down and gently lifted her head, seeing the little girl’s face was red, the tip of her nose was red, and her eyes were red-rimmed. The watery mist in her eyes quickly condensed into glistening, warm teardrops.
“Qin Ren… Qin Ren…”
When she was particularly aggrieved or sad, she would keep calling Qin Ren’s name. The teardrops at the corners of her eyes were at first the size of a grain of rice, but in the blink of an eye, they were the size of a bean. After pattering down her pretty cheeks, Luo Yao seemed unable to hold back any longer and threw herself into Qin Ren’s arms.
“Qin Ren… sob… this eminence is going to… going to… sob sob…”
“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Good girl, good girl…”
When the High Immortal cried, Qin Ren could never muster any anger. He could only smile wryly and gently pat the little girl’s thin, pitiful back.
“What is it you suddenly want? Tell me first, we’ll discuss it and then see if we’ll buy it, okay, Yaoyao?”
“Qin Ren… sob sob… this eminence is going to perish…”
?
Qin Ren was stunned.
“You’re going to what?”
“I’m going to… going to die…”
Luo Yao cried even more sadly.
“Qin Ren, I don’t want to die. I… I can’t bear to leave you…”
“…”
Combined with the stomachache from yesterday, Qin Ren had already guessed what was happening. While continuing to comfort her, he pulled a crumpled pair of little panties from her clenched little hand. On them were a few scattered plum blossoms, like the pads on Tuantuan’s paws.
“Alright, alright, stop crying. You’re not going to die.”
“But… but there’s so much blood. It started yesterday… Qin Ren, I don’t want to leave you… sob…”
“You little dummy.”
Hearing her sobbing words, Qin Ren felt both heartbroken and amused. He gently pushed Luo Yao away and reminded her softly.
“You’re not going to die. You’re just going to be like a human girl.”
