"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen!"
"Did you just see the Mechanically Modified Humans in the sky?"
"They flew over in such a large group, it was spectacular!"
Lin Zichen was still looking at the night sky from the window when suddenly Shen Qinghan's voice came from outside the house.
The girl's voice sounded very excited, much like a village child in a previous life seeing an airplane for the first time.
"Zi Chen, Qinghan is here to see you. Hurry and go open the door." Zhang Wanxin looked down and urged Lin Zichen in front of her.
Lin Zichen quickly left the window and went to open the door for Shen Qinghan outside.
As the door opened, what came into view was Shen Qinghan, fresh from a bath, wearing a set of light pink pajamas with damp hair, looking very refreshing.
Lin Zichen looked at her and said, "It's not like we haven't seen it on TV before, are you that excited?"
Shen Qinghan bounced into the room with a brilliant smile and said, "It's different. It's not as spectacular on TV as seeing it in person."
Lin Zichen didn't speak, he quietly closed the door.
After sitting down in the room and noticing Shen Qinghan's damp hair, he fetched a hairdryer and said, "Your hair is too wet. Come over here and I'll dry it for you."
Shen Qinghan obediently sat down and let Lin Zichen dry her hair.
While drying her hair, her slender legs kept swinging, quite eye-catching.
Zhang Wanxin, sitting beside her, grew more and more fond of her and, with an auntie's smile, said, "Xu Meng's daughter is truly beautiful. I bet there are quite a few boys at school who have a crush on her."
"Why don't we have a daughter too?" Lin Yansheng joked while smiling.
Zhang Wanxin gave a dismissive look and said, "With Qinghan here, why bother having another one when I can just treat her like my own daughter?"
Meanwhile.
Finally, with her hair dried, Shen Qinghan turned to look at Lin Zichen, resting her cheek on her hand and tilting her head, her big watery eyes shining, she asked:
"Zi Chen, I don't quite understand a few problems in my math homework. Can you teach me later?"
"Sure."
Lin Zichen said without hesitation.
For the next while, the two of them spent time in the room working on their math homework.
One teaching.
One learning.
Shen Qinghan was clever, understanding most of the problems after a little explanation, and soon all the tough questions were resolved.
After finishing the homework, Shen Qinghan carelessly laid back on Lin Zichen's bed, fiddling with her fingers and chatting with Lin Zichen.
Lin Zichen, who was doing sit-ups, could only half-heartedly respond.
After chatting for a while, it was almost time to go to sleep.
Shen Qinghan yawned and said, "Zi Chen, I'm so sleepy. I don't feel like getting out of bed to go home. I'll just sleep here tonight."
"That's fine."
"Then can you let my mom know? I don't feel like getting up to make a call."
"Okay."
Lin Zichen then got out of bed and asked Zhang Wanxin to call Xu Meng to inform her that Shen Qinghan would be sleeping over.
Xu Meng agreed and brought over Shen Qinghan's school uniform for the next day, including shoes, socks, and toiletries.
Lin Zichen brought all these things up to the room to make it convenient for Shen Qinghan to get dressed in the morning.
"This girl fell asleep so quickly."
Looking at Shen Qinghan lying spread-eagled on the bed, sound asleep and looking blissful, Lin Zichen smiled, fetched a paper towel, and wiped the drool that had trickled from the corner of her mouth.
Then, he turned off the light and went to bed.
One pillow each, one blanket each, to avoid anyone getting cold from blanket-hogging in the middle of the night.
...
The next day, Lin Zichen woke up early.
It was still dark outside.
The clock on the bedside showed it was only five o'clock.
Waking up at five o'clock every morning was precisely his biological sleep clock.
He had gotten used to waking up early to exercise. If he didn't do a few hundred push-ups to warm up in the morning, he felt 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 intense physical training,
Lin Zichen went downstairs to wash up.
While there, he stood in front of the washbasin mirror, took off his shirt, and examined the results of his years of training.
The muscles were not exaggeratedly large but looked sharply defined, bursting with explosive strength.
Especially the abs, perfectly chiseled, which felt particularly nice to touch.
"Tsk tsk, Xiao Chen, looks like you're just as vain as your dad, striking different poses in front of the mirror early in the morning."
Zhang Wanxin, who was up making breakfast, passed by the bathroom and couldn't help but laugh upon seeing Lin Zichen posing in front of the mirror like a bodybuilder.
Lin Zichen, who had been admiring himself, suddenly turned red-faced with embarrassment from Zhang Wanxin's comment and wished he could dig a hole and bury himself right there.
"Oh my, you're even blushing! Come here and let mom feel your abs."
"I'll go and call Qinghan had breakfast."
After dropping that line, Lin Zichen fled the bathroom as if flying.
That was too embarrassing.
He didn't want to see Zhang Wanxin at all today.
He just couldn't face her.
...
When Lin Zichen returned to his upstairs room,
Shen Qinghan was still not fully awake.
She lay sprawled on the bed, the blanket nowhere in sight.
Looking down, it turned out she had kicked the blanket off the bed at some point.
"You're so big now, and you're still kicking off your blanket while sleeping."
Lin Zichen shook his head and picked up the blanket.
Casually tossing the blanket back on the bed, his gaze fell on Shen Qinghan's lower body.
The crotch area was bulging, still wearing diapers like when she was a child.
An eight-year-old girl still needing to wear diapers definitely indicated a health problem.
Strangely enough, they could never diagnose the cause.
Fortunately, Shen Qinghan only had a chronic bed-wetting issue up to now.
Apart from that, there were no other issues.
Consider it a fortunate misfortune.
Lin Zichen didn't dwell on it any longer, gently pinched Shen Qinghan's cheek, and softly called, "Han Han, it's already past six, wake up, brush your teeth, wash your face, and come have breakfast."
"Mmm~"
Shen Qinghan slowly opened her eyes and instinctively sat up and stretched.
Then, with sleepy eyes, she looked at Lin Zichen and said in a soft voice, "Xiao Chen, I just dreamt about Bai Xue. I wonder where she is now, what she's doing."
"Bai Xue is having breakfast at her home. Hurry up, get dressed, or the breakfast downstairs will get cold."
"Got it," said Shen Qinghan, then, right in front of Lin Zichen, she took off her nightgown to change into her school uniform.
The moment the nightgown came off, Lin Zichen suddenly felt a flash of discomfort.
Shen Qinghan's chest was glowing!
To be more precise, the Beast Fang she wore on her chest was glowing!
That was the Beast Fang that the white-haired girl had given her.
...
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