"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen!"
"Did you just see those Mechanically Modified Humans in the sky?"
"There was a whole flock of them flying by, so magnificent!"
Lin Zichen was still gazing at the night sky from the window when Shen Qinghan's voice suddenly came from outside.
The girl's voice was filled with excitement, like a village child from a past life seeing an airplane for the first time.
"Xiao Chen, Han Han is looking for you, go open the door," Zhang Wanxin said, looking down at Lin Zichen in front of her, urging him.
Lin Zichen quickly left the window and went to open the door for Shen Qinghan outside.
As the door opened, he saw Shen Qinghan, who had just taken a bath. She was wearing a set of light pink pajamas, her hair still wet, looking incredibly lively.
Lin Zichen said to her, "It's not like we haven't seen it on TV, why are you so excited?"
Shen Qinghan bounced into the room with a bright smile and said, "It's different, you know? What's seen on TV isn't as impressive as seeing it live."
Lin Zichen stayed silent and quietly closed the door.
After sitting down in the house, seeing Shen Qinghan's wet hair, he found a hairdryer and said, "Your hair is too wet. Come here, and I'll dry it for you."
Shen Qinghan obediently sat down, letting Lin Zichen dry her hair.
As he dried her hair, her straight and slender legs kept swinging, quite eye-catching.
Sitting next to them, Zhang Wanxin watched her with growing fondness, a maternal smile spreading across her face, "Xu Meng's daughter really is beautiful. I bet there are quite a few boys in school who have a crush on her."
"How about we also have a daughter?" Lin Yansheng teased with a chuckle.
Zhang Wanxin rolled her eyes and said, "With Han Han here, why not just treat her as my daughter? Why would I go to the trouble of having another?"
On the other side.
Finally, with her hair dry, Shen Qinghan turned to Lin Zichen, resting her cheek on her hand and tilting her head, her eyes shining like a pair of Kaslan large eyes, she asked,
"Xiao Chen, there are some problems in my math homework that I don't quite understand, can you teach me later?"
"Sure."
Lin Zichen agreed without a second thought.
In the time that followed, the two of them worked on the math homework in the room.
One taught.
The other learned.
Shen Qinghan was quite clever; most of the problems were resolved quickly once she got the point, and soon all difficulties were sorted.
Having finished the homework, Shen Qinghan carelessly lied down on Lin Zichen's bed, playing with her fingers while chatting with Lin Zichen.
Lin Zichen was doing sit-ups beside her, only managing to respond sporadically.
After chatting for a while, it was almost time to go to sleep.
Shen Qinghan yawned and said, "Xiao Chen, I'm really sleepy. I don't feel like getting out of bed to go home to sleep, so I might as well spend the night here."
"That's fine."
"Then, go tell my mom for me, will you? I don't want to get out of bed to call."
"Okay."
Lin Zichen got up from the bed after speaking and asked Zhang Wanxin to call Xu Meng and tell her Shen Qinghan was staying over that night.
Xu Meng agreed and brought over Shen Qinghan's school uniform, shoes, socks, and toiletries needed for the next day.
Lin Zichen took these things up to the room to make it convenient for Shen Qinghan to change into them first thing in the morning.
"She really falls asleep fast."
Watching Shen Qinghan lying on the bed in a spreadeagled position, fast asleep and looking content, Lin Zichen smiled and took a piece of tissue to wipe the drool from the corner of her mouth.
Then, he turned off the lights and went to bed.
One pillow for each person, and one blanket each, so no one would end up stealing a blanket and making the other cold in the middle of the night.
...
The next day, Lin Zichen woke up early.
It was still dark outside.
Glancing at the alarm clock on the bedside, it was just five o'clock.
He woke up promptly at five o'clock every morning, right in sync with his sleep circadian rhythm.
He had gotten into the habit of rising early to exercise his body. Waking up without doing a few hundred push-ups to warm up would make him feel sluggish all day.
"You are doing push-ups. Qi-Blood +1, arm muscle strength +1, chest muscle strength +1, push-up proficiency +1."
"You are doing squats, Qi-Blood +1, leg muscle strength +1, squat proficiency +1."
"You are doing sit-ups, Qi-Blood +1, abdominal muscle strength +1, sit-up proficiency +1."
After a session of intense exercise.
Lin Zichen went downstairs to wash up.
While there, he stood in front of the bathroom mirror, took off his shirt, and checked the results of his years of training.
The muscles weren't exaggeratedly large but looked well-defined, brimming with explosive power.
Particularly his abs, which were as impeccably chiseled as if sculpted by a knife—he found them a real pleasure to touch.
"Tsks, Xiao Chen, so you're vain just like your dad, striking all sorts of poses in front of the mirror so early in the morning."
Zhang Wanxin, who got up to prepare breakfast, couldn't help but chuckle when she passed by the bathroom and saw Lin Zichen posing like a bodybuilder in front of the mirror.
Lin Zichen was in the midst of admiring himself when Zhang Wanxin's remark made him so embarrassed he wished he could dig a hole on the spot and crawl into it.
"Oh my, you're even blushing. Come here and let mom feel those abs."
"I'm going to call Qinghan down for breakfast."
After dropping that line, Lin Zichen flew out of the bathroom.
Too socially dead.
He didn't want to see Zhang Wanxin again today.
It was just too unbearable.
...
By the time Lin Zichen returned to his room upstairs.
Shen Qinghan hadn't woken up yet.
She lay sprawled out on the bed, with no sign of the blanket anywhere on her.
Looking down, he realized that at some point she had kicked the blanket off the bed.
"You're so big now, and still kicking off the blankets in your sleep."
Lin Zichen shook his head, picked up the blanket from the floor.
Casually draping the blanket over her, his gaze shifted to Shen Qinghan's lower body.
The bulge around her crotch looked just like when she was little and wore diapers.
An eight-year-old girl still having to wear diapers—there's definitely a problem with her health.
Yet strangely, no cause could ever be identified.
Fortunately, up to now, Shen Qinghan had only had issues with wetting the bed and her pants.
That was the small mercy amidst the misfortune.
Lin Zichen didn't dwell on it further; he gently pinched Shen Qinghan's cheek and softly called out, "Han Han, it's past six o'clock. Time to get up, brush your teeth, wash up, and have breakfast."
"Mmm..."
Shen Qinghan opened her eyes groggily and instinctively sat up, stretching her arms in a big yawn.
Afterward, blinking sleepily at Lin Zichen, she said in a soft voice, "Xiao Chen, I just dreamt of Bai Xue—I wonder where she is and what she's doing right now."
"Bai Xue is having breakfast at her house. Get up quickly and change your clothes, or breakfast downstairs will get cold."
"Got it." Shen Qinghan replied and started changing out of her pajamas into her school uniform right in front of Lin Zichen.
It was the moment she took off her pajamas that Lin Zichen suddenly felt something glaring.
Shen Qinghan's chest was glowing!
More precisely, it was the Beast Fang she wore on her chest that was shining!
It was the Beast Fang given to her by the white-haired girl.
...
PS: Holding out my bowl, seeking Monthly Pass recommendations!