"Could you give me one of these clothes? I can trade you a magic item for it." Zu'an thought that his "Pinru's Wardrobe" was short of clothes, and collecting a few more pieces would surely come in handy.
Upon hearing this, Shang Hongyu blushed slightly and said, "I can't give this to you, otherwise I'll be naked."
Zuan: "???"
Seeing his bewildered look, Shang Hongyu chuckled and said, "Silly brother, my clothes are made from mermaid scales. Although they can be transformed into various styles of clothing, they are ultimately the only ones available. If I give them to you, I'll be naked."
Zuan was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I really didn't know before, it was really presumptuous of me."
"What's wrong with that? You didn't do it on purpose," Shang Hongyu leaned closer to him, her bright eyes filled with curiosity. "Aren't you a seasoned player who's been through countless romances? The more I look at you, the more you seem like an innocent virgin?"
Zuan: "..."
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore. Do you think there's anything I need to improve?" Shang Hongyu asked seriously. She didn't want anything to go wrong on the way to the Dragon Palace.
Zuan rested his chin on his hand and examined her entire body, finally focusing his gaze on her astonishing waist-to-hip ratio: "You need to hide your figure a bit, otherwise you'll inevitably run into something like what happened last time."
Thinking back to her previous experience at the restaurant, Shang Hongyu couldn't help but grit her teeth: "That dead sea cow was truly despicable. If it were in the past, I would have made him regret ever being born."
“Everyone says the Queen is gentle and virtuous, but now it seems that’s not necessarily true,” Zu’an said with a smile.
“If it were for other reasons, it would be fine; ignorance is no excuse. But that guy is just too vulgar and disgusting, and doesn’t deserve any sympathy,” Shang Hongyu rolled her eyes. “Besides, everyone says that you sleep with everyone you go around, and that you’ve slept with all the female knights and noble ladies from the human and demon races. Is that really true?”
She had overheard the gossip about the Regent from the bored patrons at the restaurant, and now she couldn't help but laugh when she thought about it.
Zuan was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to respond.
At this moment, Shang Hongyu spoke up, her tone somewhat troubled: "It's not that I don't want to change my posture, but that my body shape is naturally like this, and I can't change it. I don't know any transformation techniques, otherwise I wouldn't have left any flaws before."
“I see,” Zuan pondered for a moment, then suddenly took out two steamed buns from the glass bead and stuffed them into her clothes. This immediately made her supple and slender waist look bulky. He then nodded, “It’s solved. This should be enough.”
Shang Hongyu seemed startled and jumped back a step, then tightly covered her clothes: "Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch each other? How could you touch someone's clothes like that?"
Zuan said irritably, "I wasn't touching your clothes. Besides, you were wearing much less when you were swimming in the sea before. Now you're scared?"
It's time to teach her a lesson, otherwise this woman will keep harassing him.
After a moment of panic, Shang Hongyu returned to normal: "So it was revenge, huh? But she's a woman, you know. I can tease her, but you can't bother her, or I'll tell Liuyu later."
Zuan: "..."
This woman's logic is quite self-consistent.
As the two chatted, they arrived at the Fishbone Restaurant they had visited before. This time, there were many more customers than last time, all of whom scrutinized them with unfriendly eyes. Their gazes were mostly fixed on Shang Hongyu, and even after seeing her face, they were still uneasy. Finally, after examining her bloated waist, they withdrew their gazes in disappointment.
"I have to thank you for the steamed buns, otherwise it might have caused trouble." Shang Hongyu secretly transmitted her voice, her tone full of relief.
“Yeah, the atmosphere here is different from yesterday,” Zuan replied.
The two quickly arrived at the counter and asked the listless turtle bartender, "Do you still have tickets for the boat to the Azure Sea?"
The Azure Sea is where the Dragon Palace is located. Generally speaking, to get to the Dragon Palace, you need to take a boat from a designated dock to the Azure Sea before you can continue your journey.
"Yes, one Heavenly Rank Yuan Stone per room," the bartender replied lazily.
"So expensive?" Zu An frowned. It wasn't that he couldn't afford it, but the price was much higher than he had expected, and he didn't want to feel like he was being ripped off.
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