Shadow Weaver

Chapter 45 Lan Xuesheng’s Friends

"Okay, now we can relax and take a closer look at your studio's plan—"

Lan Xuesheng raised the corners of her lips lightly, and was about to turn over the pages.

Unexpectedly, before she could calm down and read the plan in detail, there was a sudden noise mixed with children's laughter outside the door, and her face suddenly changed color.

"Ha! If it were you, He Xiaoluo, you'd just spoil her (鵸鵌) all day long. Look at what the bird has become now? She's even more outrageous than Ah Si——"

The blue-haired young man in a "centaur costume" cursed. Behind him, a little boy with silver hair and a shawl slowly raised his eyelashes and responded: "You said that as if you can beat her."

"——Am I pampering her? I was clearly defeated and had no other options! Didn't you see that last time... I just gave her some advice, and that crazy girl threw her into the pool with one paw?"

"Besides...her willful behavior isn't entirely my fault."

The little boy said confidently: "No one here can escape."

"? What you said makes so much sense, I can't even refute it." The blue-haired young man trembled in surprise. The teenager who had been wearing sunglasses and remained silent before could no longer hold back and started to ask a series of questions: "No, wait a minute."

"You two crickets, what do you care about my business?"

"I'm just a cook, okay? Just because I swing a ladle every day doesn't mean I like to take the blame!"

"You still have the nerve to say 'even more outrageous than Ah Si'... How am I outrageous? Can you tell me what's outrageous about me?"

——What he does most every day is to cook diligently for the whole family (monsters) in Xiqin! !

The three beasts quarreled and argued loudly, but then they squeezed into the door of the piano store together.

Lan Xuesheng's face had already turned dark when she heard Shu Hu's strange cry. Now that she saw him not only making loud noises and blaming He Luo Zhiyu, but also swaggering in with his true form (a human head and a horse body), a very sinister smile immediately appeared on her face.

...Ah~
Her idol's expression looked as if he was going to eat someone.

The little girl shuddered uncontrollably after seeing the woman's expression, and turned back quietly to glance at the strange-looking person who had just entered the room - she thought these were the friends with unique personalities that Taoist Master Jiazi had mentioned, Ms. Lan.

But...if you look at it this way, it seems okay.

That Furry fan does look a bit abstract, but he should be quite rich. Furry costumes are not cheap, and one like this one is so realistic that even the hind legs and tail can move along... I guess it must cost at least tens of thousands, right?

Woohoo, it’s another day when I envy them for being so rich.

Xu Yichi stared at the "beast costume" for a few more seconds, then silently withdrew his gaze.

"Wow - Xiao Lanlan, I tell you, you have no idea how excessive this He Xiaoluo is... Hey? There's a new person in the store today!" Shu Hu, who had dived into the store, couldn't wait to start a conversation with Lan Xuesheng as soon as he stepped over the threshold.

But before he could finish his words, his peripheral vision caught sight of the unfamiliar and well-behaved little girl sitting opposite Lan Xuesheng. His originally surging indignation suddenly disappeared.

"She's still a pretty little sister... Hehehe... Well, Xiao Lanlan, I can..."

——Would you like me to be lifted up and run around for two laps?
As a natural lover of Hu, he hasn't had the urge to play for a long time. "...I seem to be in need of two Humao strings and a Humao leather case recently." Lan Xue answered the question irrelevantly. She just put the plan back in place and slammed the teacup on the table with a "bang".

The splashing tea left a few deep marks on the table. Seeing this, Shu Hu dared not say a word.

——He was afraid that Xiao Lanlan would get so angry that she would ask the eight thousand year old old Qin spirit to skin him alive and put him in a box.

That old fellow was really ruthless.

"...If you are not happy, then you are not happy. Why are you being so mean to me?" Shu Hu pouted and muttered softly, and the two big wings behind him drooped on both sides of his body as if they were deflated.

Lan Xuesheng's face turned even darker when she heard this: "How dare you complain that I'm mean to you?"

"——What are you hesitating about! Hurry up and take off your horse skin!"

"Oh, got it. I'll go right away." Shu Hu hummed, and then he obediently ran upstairs.

Xu Yichi looked at his "beast costume" which made his movements very smooth and silky no matter he was running or jumping, and a hint of not-so-obvious envy gradually appeared in his eyes - today's technology is really advanced.

Look at this furry costume, it is much more detailed than the ones she had seen at comic conventions before...it looks almost like the real thing!

No, that's not right. The real horse doesn't have those two wings. It should be said that this thing is made better than the real one!
"What an amazing fursuit." Xu Yichi couldn't help but sigh, "What great details!"

"Furry suit?" Lan Xue was stunned when she heard the voice, and a strange look appeared on her face uncontrollably.

But she stared at the little girl for a while, hesitant to speak, and finally didn't have the nerve to say directly that it was not a furry suit, but a real one that could draw blood if cut with a knife - so she pretended to cough and changed the subject: "Hey, Xiao Xu, let's not worry about Shu Hu, that stupid guy with a bad brain."

"Let me introduce them to you briefly - this little silver-haired boy is He Luo, the one next to him wearing sunglasses is Ah Si, these two plus Shu Hu who just went upstairs to change his skin, these three are my... friends."

"Oh, I see." Xu Yichi nodded repeatedly, then quickly stood up and extended his hand to the two "people", "Hello, my name is Xu Yichi, and I'm a game producer who has just entered the industry."

"Hello, Sister Xiao Xu, we have heard Lan Lan and Taoist Priest Jia Zi talk about you." He Luo blinked obediently and raised his hand to shake hands with others. "She admires you very much."

"It's my honor." The little girl smiled and bared her white teeth. She turned her head and looked at the boy in sunglasses beside her. "By the way, may I ask you... why are you called 'Ah Si'?"

"Is it the fourth or..."

——She saw that the little brother was wearing sunglasses and he didn’t look like he was nearsighted.

Why did Taoist Priest Jiazi say that he was a four-eyed chef?
Xu Yichi didn't understand. Ah Si (颙鸟) was silent for a moment after hearing this. After a moment, he took off his sunglasses quickly and embarrassedly, revealing his eyes with double pupils: "This is actually because... I have congenital pupil distortion, double pupils."

“—I’m afraid of scaring others.”

"Oh my god, so cool!" Xu Yichi whistled and exclaimed, "You are born to COS the young King Xiang!"

　I will go to receive the award next month, and the organizing committee needs a photo of the author, but I don't have any. I have to finish writing and go home to pack up and take some photos. I originally didn't want to update, but we agreed last night that there might only be two thousand tomorrow, and I will try my best to write four thousand. If I really can't get it together, I can only accept it first.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)