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In the early morning, the high-light-blocking curtains blocked out the light from outside, and only a few cunning beams of light shone through the gaps in the undrawn curtains, shining onto the floor and the bed.
Summer vacation is the most leisurely vacation for students, not to mention that Shi Nianzhu and Jiang Duan are two of the most idle student groups, one is a graduate and the other is a college student.
At the head of the bed, the square electronic alarm clock's display flashed the numbers 7:00 a.m. At this time, the two were still in deep sleep.
Jiang Duan, who had been sleeping in a supine position, felt as if a huge rock was pressing on his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Maybe it was Shi Nianzhu lying on him.
Without opening his eyes, he instinctively raised his arms to hug the person on his chest to his side, and pressed Shi Nianzhu's head against the crook of his neck to shift the weight to another place.
The air could be breathed in and out easily, Jiang Duan's brows gradually relaxed, and he fell into a deep sleep again.
Until the alarm clock hit 7:30, that familiar, suffocating feeling came back.
Jiang Duan propped up his eyelids, half-opened his eyes, and groped the person on him, "Do you like sleeping on top of me so much..."
The tentacles are hairy.
I touched it in another direction and it was still furry.
strangeness.
Jiang Duan had to raise his upper body slightly and move his gaze down to his chest.
The top of the brown head appeared in front of me, with two triangular ears with white edges standing out.
Jiang Duan's system is down.
"...A doll?"
As he finished speaking, he watched the "doll" raise its little black paws and cover its ears as if it was disturbed.
Not only that, it buried its head in Jiang Duan's chest, and they could feel each other's touch through their pajamas.
Jiang Duan, who always does things with ease, suspected that he was dreaming.
Otherwise, why would he find a red panda lying on him when he woke up?
This is a national second-class protected animal. If anyone thinks that he is privately raising a second-class protected animal, he will be arrested and educated by the police!
Jiang Duan subconsciously looked to his side, wanting to wake up Shi Nianzhu to face the little panda with him.
The result was shocking. There was no shadow of Shi Nianzhu beside him. There was only him and a red panda that came from nowhere on the bed.
Shi Nianzhu might have gotten up early and gone downstairs.
Regardless of whether this guess was reliable or not, Jiang Duan felt relieved and calmed down now that he had an explanation in his mind.
He had even started thinking about what to do with the little panda.
First wake it up and coax it with food, then take the opportunity to take it into the car and send it to the police station, and explain to the police that it is not an illegal captivity.
If you explain these things, no matter what happens, it probably won't cause too much trouble.
With a clear plan in place, Jiang Duan, who is very proactive, began to implement it.
"Hey, hey, don't sleep." Jiang Duan didn't dare to use force and patted the red panda's head with his palm, for fear of scaring it.
The red panda seemed quite willful. He moved his black paws that were covering his ears away and impatiently pushed away the hand that kept harassing the top of his head.
When Jiang Duan came into contact with his black claws, his first reaction was that it felt hairy, and his second reaction was that the action of getting up from bed was quite similar to Shi Nianzhu's.
Jiang Duan persisted in patting its head and waking it up.
"Hmph." The little panda in front of him snorted, as if annoyed. It pressed its two paws against Jiang Duan's abdomen fiercely and sat up in an instant.
Two black eyes stared at Jiang Duan, and even though it looked cute, you could tell it was angry.
Jiang Duan subconsciously said sorry immediately.
When the red panda heard his apology, its straight triangular ears drooped a little and it calmed down.
Seeing this, Jiang Duan prepared to proceed to the next step according to the plan.
Suddenly, the red panda lowered its head and stared at its two outstretched black paws with an expression of extreme shock.
It seemed frightened. It pushed away the thin air-conditioning blanket used in summer, looked around, stroked its big tail several times, and finally stood there in a daze.
The motionless appearance makes it look like a fake window doll.
Jiang Duan was completely baffled by its series of actions. "What do you mean by acting more surprised than me? When I opened my eyes early in the morning, the first thing I saw was your little cat face, and I didn't react as much as you did."
The little panda got anxious and ran towards Jiang Duan with a few clicks.
Jiang Duan wanted to step back to avoid it, but his back was pressed against the headboard of the bed and he had nowhere to retreat. He could only watch as the red panda pounced on him, eagerly clinging to his shoulders, and its big fluffy tail swung over to rest on his waist.
“Boo, boo, boo!”
As soon as the words came out, both the man and the red panda were stunned.
Jiang Duan thought its humming was adorable, so he patiently inquired, "What does it mean?"
The little panda slumped down at the head of the bed, feeling depressed and pulling its tail away from Jiang Duan.
“?” Jiang Duan couldn’t understand it.
After the two of them ignored each other and sat at the head of the bed to calm down for a minute, the little panda stood up, straddled Jiang Duan's body, found Shi Nianzhu's cell phone next to the pillow, and used his paw to move it in front of him, trying to open it.
"Don't move--" Jiang Duan didn't finish his words to stop it when he saw that after the facial recognition automatically started on the phone failed, the red panda tapped the number keys a few times with his paw, and the password was correctly unlocked.
“!”
How ridiculous.
Jiang Duan pinched his thigh, trying to wake himself up from the dream.
While he was wondering whether the world before his eyes was real or illusory, the red panda successfully opened the WeChat chat box using his black claws, and struggled to adjust the keyboard from 26 keys to full-screen handwriting.
He raised his paw and typed a short string of words in the text box stroke by stroke. After writing, he pushed the phone and motioned Jiang Duan to look at it.
Jiang Duan took the phone and still felt it was magical the moment he understood it, and the content made it even more magical.
There was only a message in the chat box: Brother Duan, I am Nian Nian.
"What a joke!?" Jiang Duan was on the verge of disbelief.
Shi Nianzhu, who had somehow turned into a little panda, was startled by his faintly collapsed words.
It was the first time he saw Jiang Duan express his emotions so openly, and every word he said could be said to be expressing his feelings.
At this moment, Jiang Duan was indeed desperate.
It's incredible to believe that a red panda is your partner.
But watching a red panda write a string of Chinese characters on its phone doesn't sound much better.
He put Shi Nianzhu's phone back in front of the little panda, took deep breaths repeatedly, calmed himself down, and called the Jiang and Shi families one by one, asking indirectly whether Shi Nianzhu was with them.
After several phone calls, the conclusion was that she was not there. No matter who was on the other end of the phone, they subconsciously thought that Shi Nianzhu was with him.
The phone pressed against his ear was taken away, and Jiang Duan looked at the red panda with a complicated expression.
The red panda presented Shi Nianzhu's mobile phone with its paws. Jiang Duan took it and found that there was a new line of words in the chat box.
"Brother Duan, I don't know why I became like this, but I really didn't lie to you. I really am Nian Nian. I have evidence! For example, we officially started dating on June 12th!"
It was true that no one else knew about this except the two of them.
Jiang Duan was at his wit's end. He had no choice but to believe it given the current situation.
"What should we do? What can we do to change you back?" Jiang Duan recalled what they did before going to bed yesterday.
Hugging, kissing, and sticking close to each other... these are all very normal behaviors. Besides, it wasn't the first time they did those things. Shi Nianzhu hadn't turned into a little panda before.
His worried expression was obvious. Shi Nianzhu hugged him with his red panda body, and his big tail swayed and rubbed Jiang Duan's chin and cheeks.
Jiang Duan hugged the little guy in his arms and stroked his furry back. He exclaimed how cute it was, but at the same time he felt very scared, worried that Shi Nianzhu would never change back.
"I'll put you in my schoolbag and take you to Uncle Shi for help. He's your father and has watched you grow up. He must have a way. Besides, you're in the condition you're in now. I can't trust anyone else. Only Uncle Shi is the safest." Jiang Duan said.
Shi Nianzhu's furry head and furry tail nodded up and down at the same time.
As soon as Shi Nianzhu agreed, Jiang Duan got up, washed and changed his clothes quickly, found a large backpack and went to the bed. He supported Shi Nianzhu's body, while taking care of the big tail on his butt, and carefully put Shi Nianzhu into the bag.
"Is it uncomfortable? Are you uncomfortable with this posture and space?" Jiang Duan asked.
Shi Nianzhu shook his head, and as he shook his head, his triangular ears bounced in a very cute way.
Jiang Duan couldn't help but pinch his ears, and then he zipped up the backpack, leaving only a palm's width to ensure air circulation, allowing Shi Nianzhu to breathe freely in the backpack.
So, at eight o'clock in the morning, Jiang Duan didn't even have breakfast. He carried a big bag and drove quickly to Shi's house.
As soon as the car stopped, Jiang Duan put his backpack on his back backwards and let it hang in front of him so that he could always keep an eye on Nian Nian's condition in the backpack.
Noticing that he had changed his place, Shi Nianzhu became restless in his backpack. He wanted to stick his head out of the bag to look around, but as soon as the tip of his ear popped out a little, Jiang Duan slapped it back.
The groaning sounds of resistance were muffled in the backpack.
Jiang Duan looked around like a thief, scanning for anyone around him. He said to Shi Nianzhu in the bag, "Don't come out. It would be bad if we get seen."
The movement in the bag quieted down a bit.
As Jiang Duan entered the Shi family's house, he ran into Shi Linzhuo head-on.
Today is Saturday, and he didn't go to work. Except for his father who insisted on going to work on Saturday, no one in the Shi family went to work.
"Hey, are you alone? Where's Nian Nian?" Shi Linzhuo looked at him and looked behind him, trying to find Shi Nianzhu.
Jiang Duan unconsciously touched the bag in front of him and said in a steady voice, "He's still sleeping at my house. I'm here to look for Uncle Shi. Where is he now?"
"The bedroom upstairs." Shi Linzhuo saw that Shi Nianzhu didn't come, and he had no desire to chat with Jiang Duan. After giving the address, he turned around and left.
Jiang Duan didn't care much about his attitude and went straight to Shi Guilin's bedroom on the second floor with a clear destination.
When he arrived at the bedroom door, he knocked first.
A voice called "Come in" came from inside. Jiang Duan protected the bag in his arms, turned the door handle, and rushed in.
Shi Guilin, who was sitting on the edge of the bed in his pajamas, turned around and saw that it was him who came in. He was surprised: "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"
He had the same reaction as Shi Linzhuo and subconsciously looked behind him.
"Here." Jiang Duan said, took out the red panda from his backpack and placed it next to Shi Guilin.
"Woof woof!" Yuanyuan jumped up from the floor, scratched the edge of the bed with his front paws, and wagged his tail wildly at Shi Nianzhu.
Shi Nianzhu stretched out his black claws and slapped it back to the ground with disdain, his tail wagging leisurely.
Yuanyuan fell back to the floor and was fine. He climbed back to his original position like a dog and smiled foolishly at Shi Nianzhu.
Shi Guilin didn't care about Yuanyuan's silly behavior. He looked at the red panda on the bed with a frightened face, and then glared at Jiang Duan: "Kid, you are breaking the law! Why are you carrying a national second-class protected animal here with you?!"
"This is Nian Nian." Without waiting for Shi Guilin to question, Jiang Duan took out Shi Nianzhu's phone and stuffed it into the little panda's hand, "Nian Nian, show it to Uncle Shi."
Shi Guilin looked at the red panda with a look of surprise as he entered the digital password to unlock his son's phone and wrote for a while using the handwriting input method.
After he finished writing, he leaned over to read it, and read it out word by word: "Dad, I'm Nian Nian. I woke up like this today. Please help me think of a way. I want to change back."
Shi Guilin's belief in materialism collapsed.
He supported his chin, staring at Shi Nianzhu in the form of a red panda without blinking, and fell into deep thought for a long time.
Shi Nianzhu was afraid that he would not believe it, so he typed a lot of words for him to see, and then used the same trick again, writing some things that only he and Shi Guilin knew.
With Jiang Duan's corroboration, Shi Guilin had no choice but to believe it.
Shi Guilin asked them to stay in the bedroom and not run around. He walked out of the bedroom alone and sat in the study to think hard.
It is strange that a living person like my beloved son suddenly turns into a red panda, but what if we use reverse thinking and assume that Nian Nian was originally a red panda?
If Nian Nian was a red panda when she was born, and she transformed into a human in order to survive over the years, now she is just changing back.
He really didn't know how Nian Nian was born or how she appeared in his RV that year.
What if he was originally a red panda? It all seemed to make sense.
Because he was transformed from a red panda, there suddenly appeared in the world a beautiful cub who had no one to take care of him.
Shi Guilin had reviewed what happened back then. The biggest question was how could such a beautiful and healthy baby boy be abandoned.
To take a step back, even if Nian Nian's original parents really didn't intend to raise her, it would be easy to find a family for such a good child. There would be no need to go through so much trouble to send her to his nanny car.
It's in the deep mountains and forests where only a few families live.
There are no people in the deep mountains and forests, but there are animals. Maybe Nian Nian was originally a red panda. It was Nian Nian who came to his RV on her own initiative and chose him.
It's a little special, this little panda can turn into a human.
After Shi Guilin's rigorous reasoning, he convinced himself.
Since she can transform from a little panda into a human, then Nian Nian must be able to transform back.
The current difficulty lies in how to make Nian Nian change back.
The first thought that came to Shi Guilin's mind was to find a master to perform a ritual and see if there was any talisman water to drink.
The thought was cut off by him the next second.
The reason was simple. Shi Guilin imagined that if he asked a master to come to his house to turn the red panda into a human, the master might think that he was crazy and that he was the one who really needed to drink the talisman water.
If things get worse, the master might call the police directly and accuse him of illegally keeping a national second-class protected animal in captivity.
"well."
Shi Guilin sighed deeply.
He thought carefully for a while and finally called Li Yan.
"Hey, Li Yan, do you remember the mountain where I found Nian Nian while filming? Yes, that one. Do you have time today? Take a bottle and go to that mountain to fill it with spring water and soil..."
After hanging up the phone, Shi Guilin slumped in his boss chair for a few minutes, went downstairs to cut a fruit plate, and brought it back to the bedroom.
"Fill your stomach with food. You rushed here so early in the morning without eating."
Jiang Duan nodded and first fed the apple to the little panda Shi Nianzhu.
"Is there a solution?"
"I guess so." Shi Guilin pinched Shi Nianzhu's small black claws and big tail, which felt nice in his hands. "I suspect Nian Nian hasn't been back for too many years and she's not used to the local climate."
Jiang Duan frowned, and Shi Nianzhu, who was crunching an apple, didn't seem to understand these confusing words.
"Oh, it's about getting close to nature and experiencing life in the mountains." Shi Guilin didn't intend to explain it to them in detail, only saying, "It just so happens that red pandas are only found in one mountain in the country. I asked someone to get some of the unique soil and water there for Nian Nian to get in touch with."
"Okay, let's try it." Jiang Duan thought this was a method worth trying.
The mountain was too far away, and Li Yan had almost no rest during his death journey. He took two flights back and forth, and it was not until ten o'clock in the evening that a bottle of water and a bottle of soil were delivered to his door.
At that time, Shi Nianzhu, who had been hiding in Shi Guilin's bedroom for a whole day, had already fought Yuan Yuan for several rounds using the red panda's body, with some wins and some losses.
When Guilin got the water and soil, he quickly boiled the water and poured it into the cup. He then opened another bottle, pinched out a little bit of soil ash, and sprinkled it into the hot water to allow the two elements of water and soil to blend.
After finishing all this, he held the cup of water and, with the company and assistance of Jiang Duan, poured the whole cup of water into Shi Nianzhu's stomach.
"Okay, drink and go to sleep. Let's see if you can change back tomorrow morning." Shi Guilin stuffed the humming little panda into the quilt without saying anything and forced it to sleep.
Oddly enough, the glass of water seemed like a sleeping pill. After drinking it, Shi Nianzhu felt his eyelids were heavy when he lay down in bed, and he fell asleep in no time.
Only two men with melancholy and worried faces were left standing by the bed, staring at it and unable to sleep.
No matter how difficult the night was, it passed silently.
It was dawn, around four or five in the morning. Shi Guilin and Jiang Duan were lying on the edge of the bed and sleeping on a recliner, one with their eyes closed tiredly.
Suddenly, Shi Guilin's body tilted and he woke up from a nightmare. Before his eyes could focus, his gaze was already on the bed.
Then, his eyes widened and he exclaimed in surprise, "It's back!"
Jiang Duan suddenly looked up and looked at the place where Shi Nianzhu slept last night. The familiar profile lines and figure told him that Shi Nianzhu had returned to normal.
He kissed Shi Nianzhu's face excitedly.
When Shi Guilin witnessed this scene, he suddenly became unhappy and excited.
Shi Nianzhu was woken up by the two of them and turned over muttering, "It's so noisy, go out and talk."
After saying this, he fell asleep.
Shi Guilin and Jiang Duan looked at him and smiled at each other silently, feeling relaxed and happy.
"The problem is solved, let's take a rest." Shi Guilin lay down on the left side of Shi Nianzhu without any care.
Jiang Duan had been up all night and was very tired. He lay down on Shi Nianzhu's right side in a casual manner.
In the room, the breathing of the three people quickly and evenly rose and fell.
The sun slowly rose, and in one of the rooms of the Shi family villa, a peaceful sleep continued.
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There is also a special story about Jiang Duan and Nian Nian’s marriage and their sweet post-marriage life~
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