The cub is so pure. He definitely doesn’t have that kind of meaning.
Li Shuoxing hurriedly interrupted his dirty thoughts, pulled himself together, and began to read the system narration carefully.
Yesterday, 04:00pm
[Su Mingqian is reading.]
[Su Mingqian is absent-minded.]
Su Mingqian: “…”
[Su Mingqian picks up the Ximu doll.]
Yesterday, 04:30pm
[Su Mingqian strolls around the room with the Ximu doll.]
[Su Mingqian cheers up.]
Yesterday, 05:00pm
[Su Mingqian opens the wardrobe.]
[Su Mingqian takes out the little devil princess costume and compares it on the doll.]
Li Shuoxing: “…”
As he read all the way here, Li Shuoxing felt a chill on his body.
The cub held the princess costume on me to…
No, it’s not on me.
It’s on my doll.
…
Is there any difference between the two?
There is, right?
It’s just that, for some reason, I seem to feel a trace of terror…
Li Shuoxing put his phone down for a moment.
He stood up, opened the window, took a deep breath, calmed down, and turned back to the game.
Yesterday, 05:00pm
[The little devil princess costume drowns the doll.]
[Su Mingqian is a little disappointed.]
[Su Mingqian enters the production workshop with the clothes and the doll.]
[Su Mingqian begins to make clothes.]
[Su Mingqian copies the doll princess costume, but it fails.]
[Su Mingqian is very disappointed.]
Su Mingqian: “…”
[Su Mingqian sits blankly.]
Li Shuoxing: “…”
When he saw this, he actually wanted to laugh a little.
After all, #pain of clumsy hands#… But he managed to control his laughter in time.
Because the system narration had a long, long follow-up.
There was no telling what would be hidden in it…
Li Shuoxing felt that he couldn’t view the information so reactively. It seemed too passive.
It was better to skip the process and look at the result to get mentally prepared before going back to read the system narration.
Li Shuoxing thought it was a good idea.
So he carefully searched the room and finally found the doll next to Su Mingqian.
The doll wasn’t wearing pants.
…?
Li Shuoxing couldn’t believe it. After staring at his doll’s thighs for a long time. he finally realised that it wasn’t that the doll wasn’t wearing pants, but that it’d changed into a pair of light underpants, which were quite short, and the t-shirt on its upper body was made longer, covering the small underpants, so that the doll’s legs appeared to be naked.
After realising this, Li Shuoxing relaxed from the bottom of his heart.
He made the rest of his observations with peace of mind.
He noticed that the t-shirt on the doll looked familiar, just like the ones he’d made for Su Mingqian before.
Its version was more regular, and it had words on the back in addition to the front.
The front had the words “Good Boy” and the back had the words “Super Cute”.
Li Shuoxing could almost see Su Mingqian’s mind through these words…
After all, he himself had done the same thing to Su Mingqian.
Empathy, empathy.
The two hearts of empathy hadn’t officially connected.
A “Xingxing” from Su Mingqian gave Li Shuoxing’s body another shock.
Su Mingqian was reading.
But not as attentively as he normally read.
And instead of his usual thick fully-English book, he was reading a colourful magazine.
He curled up on the couch and called out to the doll, then picked it up and placed it in his arms, pointing his finger at all kinds of things on the magazine page and asking the doll one by one.
“Does Xingxing like this?”
As he asked these questions, his other hand was on the doll, sometimes controlling the doll to nod and dubbing, “Yes.”
So Su Mingqian made a decision with satisfaction. “Then we’ll note this down and buy it for Xingxing later.”
Li Shuoxing was in a trance.
Countless garble flew through his mind and for a moment he felt he had so many complaints that he didn’t know where to start.
In the end, he could only conclude.
The cub I’m raising is raising me in the game.
How can this relationship be so messed up!
Li Shuoxing put down his phone again, went into the kitchen, drank a glass of water, took a walk, and calmed down.
When he’d calmed down, he returned to his phone again and continued to read the system narration.
His heart was finally put to rest. It wasn’t really a big deal. It was just a change into clothes with writing anyway. He often did such things to the cub. He would try to fully understand the cub…
Yesterday, 05:30pm
Li Shuoxing continued on and found that Su Mingqian had made the clothes with writing by this time.
Then he undid the doll’s clothes and took a glance.
Next it was almost time to change the doll’s clothes.
…Hmm?
…Change clothes?
Doesn’t this mean that my doll is about to…
Li Shuoxing had a bad feeling.
He couldn’t help but glance at the system narration and saw.
[Su Mingqian strips the Ximu doll of its shirt and pants.]
[The Ximu doll is naked.]
[Su Mingqian plays for a long time.]
Li Shuoxing: “…”
The blow was too violent.
Li Shuoxing fled offline.
He fled too quickly to see that shortly after he left, Su Mingqian, who had finished flipping through a magazine, lost the smile on his face.
***
Without the sound of talking to himself, the room became extremely quiet.
Su Mingqian closed the magazine and put it aside.
He turned the doll in his arms around to face him.
He gently poked the doll’s face.
Su Mingqian murmured, “Xingxing, you’re super cute.”
He mouthed the words, thinking of how Ximu had always described him.
“Cub, you’re super cute!”
Su Mingqian guessed something.
He looked at his own hand and then at the doll’s hand.
He gently took the doll’s hand and said, “Maybe we’re the same…”
But after saying that, Su Mingqian smiled again. He added, “But maybe we’re not quite the same. Because you’ll become the Star Magician.”
With that, Su Mingqian slid his finger over the other’s eyebrows, eyes and nose.
Those long and soft lashes swept his fingertips like a small fan, gently sweeping his heart.
He lifted the doll high and gave it a small kiss, then held it in his arms again and picked up the next magazine to read.
He decided he would discuss with Ximu about raising the doll when he came online.
He still had a lot of things he wanted to buy for the doll.
At the very least, he had to arrange a resting room for the cute little thing first, right?
***
Li Shuoxing calmed down for a while.
During this time, it wasn’t that he didn’t play with the cub. It was just that in order to calm his mind, he secretly observed how the cub treated the doll, upholding the strategy of less talking, less doing and more observing.
Then he found.
The cub really spoiled the doll.
He combed and braided its hair in the morning, fed and dressed it at noon, and read English books together with the doll in his arms in the evening.
Almost 24 hours a day, apart from sleeping, he kept the doll in his sight.
He just felt…
A strange pleasure. After all, it was his form.
If it was me who appeared in the game instead of my doll, I’m sure the cub would be so inseparably close to me too.
Although it felt good, Li Shuoxing still felt that this good feeling seemed a little strange.
In order to correct his mentality and to distract the cub, Li Shuoxing once again took out all kinds of data from his novel when he was online.
From clicks, recommendations and favourites to various list changes, he screenshotted them all and sent them to the cub.
Then he saved almost all the interesting discussions in the discussion forum and sent them together.
From the data to the content, double preparation, double insurance, it was bound to move the cub’s heart!
His screenshots were sent.
Su Mingqian finished looking at the screenshots.
He bowed his head in thought for a long time.
Li Shuoxing was a little confused. “Cub?”
Su Mingqian looked up. “Um, can I make a little request to you? If you don’t want to agree, that’s fine. I know my request is a bit much.”
Li Shuoxing was even more confused. “It’s okay. Cub, go ahead.”
The trip to Shanghai changed a lot of things.
The real Ximu appeared.
A corner of the real world unfolded to him.
This directly led to some confusion about his feelings for Ximu.
Expectation and dependency were for sure.
But what about deeper feelings?
Then he saw the discussion forum of Ximu’s novel.
He suddenly remembered that he also had an emotional entanglement with a woman named “Cunxing” in the novel.
He didn’t think it was very good.
Even if it was just in the novel, he still hoped to put off any emotional scenes if possible.
And this character also had a “Xing” in her name.
It felt even stranger when he compared it with the “Xingxing” in his hand.
Because Ximu seemed to like stars very much, Su Mingqian even thought that “Cunxing” had some special meaning for Ximu…
Su Mingqian hesitated for a long time, but he still couldn’t help but put forward this rude request. “Ximu, can you change the gender of Cunxing in the novel?”
With a “bang”, Li Shuoxing’s phone dropped.
Li Shuoxing’s voice had changed a little. “…Cub?”
Su Mingqian quickly added, “If it’s difficult, you don’t need to.”
He said it with sincerity.
But above his head.
Favourability -10.
Li Shuoxing was horrified. “Why do you want to turn Cunxing from male to female?”
At that moment, he felt like he’d been turned from male to female!
Su Mingqian: “Wait, isn’t it female to male?”
Li Shuoxing: “But Cunxing is already male.”
Su Mingqian: “…”
Su Mingqian was shocked.
The little person on the couch straightened up abruptly, and his already large eyes opened wider.
Three large exclamation marks appeared above his head, and then the exclamation marks turned into a tangled mess.
The background colour of the tangled mess, however, wasn’t the normal white, but a light pink.
Su Mingqian turned his head slightly and whispered, “…Oh.”
A +50 floated out of his head.
Another +50 floated out of his head.
Li Shuoxing was very confused and couldn’t help opening the system narration.