Hearing the praise that started layer upon layer and ended in unison, Qianyuan didn't feel particularly excited. Instead, she found it a bit noisy, like a mosquito buzzing around her ear while she was sleeping.
In the dream, Qianyuan became angry and swung her hand at him again.
After a burst of exclamations, the commotion subsided.
It's finally quiet.
Qianyuan closed her eyes contentedly and continued to sleep.
But perhaps it was because of that dream, when Qianyuan woke up, his perspective had changed again.
He felt himself grow taller, his arms and body becoming slender with a thin, textured surface, and the water droplets on his snow-white skin sparkling like diamonds. Even his originally rounded tentacles had lengthened and stretched, revealing more beautiful and ethereal details.
Qian Yuan was somewhat flustered. He wanted to use the water in the bathtub to see what he looked like, but the more nervous he became, the more his tentacles became uncontrollable and chaotic, surging with his emotions. So, after looking for a long time, Qian Yuan could only see a distorted face.
"ah!"
Qianyuan covered her face and cried out in alarm, her voice filled with panic.
"What's wrong?"
Zhou Jinze rushed in immediately, stiffened when he saw Qian Yuan, glanced down at the octopus tentacles, and, seeing that they were still there, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"C-036?"
Zhou Jinze couldn't bring himself to ask a handsome boy who looked about fifteen or sixteen if he was Zai Zai, nor did he know how to address Qian Yuan, so he could only awkwardly use his number to confirm with Qian Yuan.
Qian Yuan was startled when he heard Zhou Jinze call him that.
He wasn't particularly averse to the cold, formal address, at least it wasn't discriminatory and it was just a name. But Zhou Jinze had never called Qianyuan that before, it was like a parent suddenly calling their child by their full name.
Qian Yuan subconsciously felt that she had done something to displease Zhou Jinze.
After thinking it over, the only thing that came to mind was that Qian Yuan had grown up and Zhou Jinze no longer recognized him.
Or perhaps Zhou Jinze felt that getting bigger was a bad thing?
Qianyuan desperately wanted to speak up, to explain that he hadn't done it on purpose and that he shouldn't be abandoned.
But even when he choked himself, he still couldn't utter a single word.
"Hmm..."
The little guy wanted to reach out and tug at Zhou Jinze's clothes, but he hesitated in the end.
He was always insecure about his own love and his love for others.
But Zhou Jinze didn't leave him immediately. Instead, seeing him pinching himself, he stepped forward to stop him, grabbed Qian Yuan's hand, and said fiercely, "What do you want to do?!"
Seeing Qian Yuan's disappointed expression, and fearing that his voice was too loud and harsh, frightening the cub, Zhou Jinze, the god of death who never cared about others' feelings, softened his tone and said:
"Don't pinch, you'll get hurt."
"Oh!"
Qianyuan pulled Zhou Jinze along, helplessly pointing to her throat. In the end, she could only slump her shoulders and look at Zhou Jinze pitifully like a wet puppy.
Even as a cub, Qian Yuan's beauty was captivating, let alone how alluring he would be now that he'd grown up. Add to that his silly, coquettish expressions as he fawned over Zhou Jinze, and Zhou Jinze's breathing became erratic, his heart skipping a beat.
What an innocent and beautiful girl she is! Even if she is bullied and at the mercy of others, she probably wouldn't understand what she's going through.
Zhou Jinze's breath hitched, and he grabbed Qian Yuan's chin.
He's starting to worry that Qianyuan might be being targeted by someone with ill intentions.
Why is raising a child so difficult!
The two, who knew nothing about love, had not yet noticed any unusual stirrings in their hearts. One was still acting cute and the other was still indulging in doting affection.
"Can you shrink?"
After calming down, Qianyuan shook his head. He had no way to control his abilities and could only sigh silently, trying to shrink himself down by curling up.
Looking at the boy who was about to turn into a sad mushroom, Zhou Jinze couldn't muster any thoughts of scolding him. Just as he was about to say something, he saw the boy awkwardly writing words with water vapor on the dry ground.
"Don't abandon me, I will try my best to turn back."
Zhou Jinze thought of Qian Yuan's desperate expression when he couldn't speak, so he simply raised his hand and gently rubbed his head: "I won't abandon you."
"I promise."
"It's okay if you don't shrink anymore, I will protect you."
Upon hearing this, Qian Yuan stared at him with bright, watery eyes, and then the boy expertly threw himself into Zhou Jinze's arms.
Such rapid changes meant that, in Qianyuan's own mind, he still considered himself a child.
So he was completely unaware of the misunderstanding that his current act of throwing himself at Zhou Jinze would cause.
This is what the other researchers saw when they came in.
"Hey kid, you should think this over carefully. Our Captain Zhou has the fighting power, the looks, and the gentleness. You should really consider this carefully, or you'll end up with a pig."
"Yeah, yeah, you haven't met any outstanding people yet. Once you meet more extraordinary people and monsters in the future, your perspective might change."
"Besides, don't monsters not have these rules like us humans? But if someone gets taken advantage of and then abandoned, we'll be the ones who get hurt in the end..."
"Cough cough." Zhou Jinze couldn't stand listening to these researchers talking nonsense one after another, so he coughed several times with a stern face.
"The child just feels close to me. He's still young and doesn't mean anything else. He doesn't understand these things at all. Stop talking nonsense and poisoning the young child's mind. How can you be so shameless?"
The researcher was indignant: Who started this poisoning first?!
But they dared not speak out against their anger. Just as they said, under the absolute suppression of force, it was a sign of their courage to utter even a few words.
Qianyuan: ...
So what exactly are they talking about?
"Little one, have you grown bigger?"
Lin Jue's voice drifted over from afar, and Qian Yuan responded with an "Ah!" He wanted to greet Lin Jue himself, but unexpectedly, the moment he took a step, Qian Yuan shrank and was completely covered by the blanket that Zhou Jinze brought.
When Lin Jue arrived at the scene, he looked everywhere, even searching under the sofa and in the trash can: "Where's the kid? Where's the kid?"
The little boy silently lifted the blanket with a stern face.
"Oh, here it is!"
Lin Jue leaned closer, looking left and right with great interest, then hesitated and looked left and right again.
He asked hesitantly, "Uh... I have a little more soft flesh on my lower abdomen, does that mean I've grown up?"
Zhou Jinze stared at him, unsure whether to feel relieved or disappointed.
In short, he thought he could sew Lin Jue's mouth shut first.
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