Chapter 66: Morning at Yu Sheng's House
When Yu Sheng woke up, he saw Irene sleeping on her back in a corner at the end of the bed, with her picture frame on the bedside table, leaning against the wall.
Yu Sheng sighed. He failed to successfully drive this doll out last night. The main reason was that every time he tried to carry her to the door, this guy would make a loud noise, which was really a headache.
He sighed deeply again, and noticing that Irene showed no sign of waking up, Yu Sheng stretched out his foot and kicked her twice.
"Wake up. If you don't get up, I'll take your picture frame away and let you go back to sleep in the painting."
Irene, who was sprawled at the end of the bed, finally moved, slowly got up, and looked at Yu Sheng with sleepy eyes with a messy head of hair: "Good morning... Hey..."
"Good morning! It's almost noon!" Yu Sheng resisted the urge to kick the unlucky puppet off. "Do you know how many times you rolled around in your bed last night?! It's strange enough that you need to sleep as a puppet, but how can you sleep in such a dishonest posture!"
"I don't know, yawn—" Irene rubbed her eyes and muttered while stretching, "Don't be so opinionated, I'm so beautiful, and you're not happy to sleep in the same room with me..."
Yu Sheng looked at the tiny guy who was only 66.6 cm tall with a cold sweat on his forehead, and felt his temples twitching: "You are not big but you have a big face. Do you know what you are saying?"
Irene didn't care at all. She crawled in front of Yu Sheng with her hair disheveled. She lowered her head and said confidently, "Help me comb my hair."
The veins on Yu Sheng's forehead jumped, he rolled off the bed, ran to the bathroom, got a comb and threw it on the bed: "Whatever, comb it yourself."
Irene grabbed the comb that was as big as her head with both hands and rolled her eyes: "Do you think I can comb my hair by myself? I can't even hold this thing with one hand. How about you make me a comb that a doll can use..."
Then there was a series of beeps like "When your hair is messy you can only use your hands to comb it", "You can only sleep on a chair on the first day", "No one cares about a doll's feelings at all", etc., without any pause in between, and the people who listened to it felt like sparks were coming out of their ears.
"...I really owed you in my last life." Yu Sheng finally couldn't stand it anymore. He came over and took the comb from Irene's hand, then carried her to the bedside table next to him. "Sit here and don't move."
Irene immediately laughed triumphantly, and while sitting on the bedside table, she muttered: "You made this body, so it's normal for you to take care of the after-sales service..."
Yu Sheng combed the doll lady's hair in a bad mood and asked, "Is this how 'after-sales' is used?"
"It's not a big deal. Be gentle, don't pull it off. The doll's hair is very precious."
Yu Sheng sighed again, and managed to straighten Irene's hair which was messy due to her sleeping. Then he hung the picture frame leaning against the wall on the doll and turned to wash up.
"Hey, Yusheng! What do you want to eat breakfast?" Irene's voice came from outside the bathroom after a while.
Yu Sheng's mouth was already full of toothpaste foam, and he responded vaguely: "I'll make some noodles later, so I'll just have a bite to make do with it - and then I'll go out."
A "oh" sound came from outside the bathroom door, and then the puppet finally quieted down.
But Yu Sheng always felt that Irene's temporary silence must be planning for a bigger excitement - he felt that his spiritual intuition was beating.
Although it might sound a bit strange for spiritual intuition to be beating like crazy in this situation.
After Yu Sheng finished washing up, he wiped his face and looked up at himself in the mirror in front of the sink.
He was in good spirits, looked healthy, and even had an unconscious smile on his face.
It seemed like he hadn't seen himself so energetic in the mirror for a long time, and he was a little dazed for a moment.
He still remembered that not long ago, he was still living an uneasy life in this huge and frightening city. During those two months, he fell asleep in tension and depression every day, spent a restless night with many dreams, and then woke up in exhaustion. He washed his face only once every few days, and the self he saw in the mirror was always listless.
But now, he only saw a spirited young man with a look of expectation for the future in his eyes - he didn't look like a man who had been kicked all night by a doll with a restless sleeping posture.
"...This mentality is really different..." Yu Sheng couldn't help laughing and whispered to himself.
Then I heard Irene howling outside the door: "Mr. Yu! Did you fall in? I'll ask Hu Li to get you out--"
The smile on Yu Sheng's face froze instantly. He turned around and opened the door. He saw Irene standing on the floor outside the door with a picture frame on her back, looking energetic and smiling at him.
"You've been in there for more than half an hour!" the puppet said, looking up.
Yu Sheng walked straight past this guy, opened the bedroom door, and prepared to see if the fox had woken up.
As a result, he was shocked when he opened the door: Hu Li was standing at the door, leaning forward like a thief, looking as if hesitating whether to come in.
Hu Li was also startled by Yu Sheng's sudden opening of the door. She was really startled - the big ball of tail behind her exploded with a "bang" and stood in the aisle like a screen, and even the two big ears on her head were instantly stretched straight.
After two or three seconds, the angry fox slowly relaxed and looked at Yu Sheng helplessly: "My benefactor..."
Yu Sheng was very curious: "What are you doing?"
"I woke up, but I didn't know what to do, so I... came to wait, but I didn't know if you were awake, so I didn't dare to knock on the door." Hu Li immediately explained nervously, and then looked at Yu Sheng worriedly, "My benefactor, are you okay? Where did you fall?"
"I didn't fall anywhere! Don't listen to Irene's nonsense," Yu Sheng suddenly widened his eyes, then frowned and looked Hu Li up and down, "Have you been waiting at the door like this?"
"Um."
"...This will be your home from now on. You don't have to be so nervous. You can watch TV when you have nothing to do...Oh, I'll teach you how to use the appliances at home when I have time," Yu Sheng said casually, turning and walking towards the stairs. "Let's go downstairs to eat first. I'll cook some noodles for you and take you shopping today."
As soon as he heard the word "eat", Hu Li's eyes lit up visibly, and he almost jumped for joy to follow Yu Sheng's footsteps.
But Yu Sheng stopped after taking two steps, turned his head to look at the fox demon, and his expression seemed to be hesitant to say something.
Hu Li tilted his head: "Benefactor?"
"I suddenly remembered something..." Yu Sheng's eyes fell on Hu Li's head, "You can fold your tail, but what about your ears? If you walk outside like this... it might attract more attention."
Hearing Yu Sheng say this, Hu Li seemed a little confused. She had never stepped out of the house since she came here, so she had no idea what the outside world was like. She couldn't imagine what was wrong with herself walking outside in this state.
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But since it was her benefactor who said it, she believed it.
The fox girl rubbed her hands, raised her hands to take off the ears on the top of her head and stuffed them into her tail, and then hid the tail again.
The scene was silent.
Yu Sheng maintained the same posture as when he was speaking a second ago, standing in the corridor like a petrified man.
Until Irene's scream suddenly broke the silence: "Ahhhh——Fox Fox Fox, what did you take off your head?!"
Hu Li conjured up the tail she usually used to hide things, and took out a pair of furry ears to show Irene: "Ears."
Yu Sheng's eyes almost popped out of his head: "Can this thing be disassembled?! Is it fake?!"
"It's true," Hu Li said as a matter of course as he put his ears away, "The fox demon is good at changing shape."
Yu Sheng: "The fox demons I know don't seem to transform in this way..."
Hu Li was immediately surprised: "My benefactor, have you seen other demon foxes?"
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then calmed down in an instant: "...I haven't seen it before."
"The first step for a fox demon to learn how to refine itself is to refine itself. Once it's done, it's time to transform," Hu Li told Yu Sheng and Irene in a serious tone, explaining what she considered to be "common sense" and "but my parents didn't have the time to teach me too much, so I only learned... the basic transformations. I heard from the immortals that a powerful fox demon can even transform itself into an allusion in a book or a shadow in history. It can travel through time and space and cross the sea of stars in a flash just by relying on word of mouth. But I can't do that!"
Yu Sheng listened in amazement, using his imagination at full capacity to keep up with the description of the fox girl. However, his ears understood but his brain refused to believe it. He always felt that this girl was fooling him.
But Hu Li's harmless face didn't look like someone who would tell a lie.
"I always feel like there's something wrong here," Irene muttered, stroking her chin. "My memory isn't working well right now, don't fool me... Where on earth did you get this common sense? Were you really fooled by that immortal? I tell you, tour guides like them dare to say anything..."
Hu Li shook his head and said, "I don't know, but my method of transformation was really taught by my parents. It is indeed like this—"
As she spoke, she looked at Yu Sheng carefully again, and then the color of her hair and eyes changed instantly, imitating Yu Sheng with black hair and black eyes.
Now, she looked like an ordinary pretty girl, and it was obvious that she was a native of Jiecheng.
"Is this okay?" The fox girl looked at Yu Sheng expectantly.
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and finally nodded in a daze.
If nothing else, at least her transformation process seems much more normal this time...
(End of this chapter)
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