I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

It's become a useless cat again.

She now suspects that she may have really turned into a human. If she were a demon, why would she feel so uncomfortable?

Not only does my stomach hurt, but I also feel a bit cold.

Chen Shuo came out of the kitchen carrying a bowl of brown sugar water. When he saw her like this, he couldn't help but laugh. She was wrapped in a blanket from head to toe, with only her little head showing. Her little eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and she was humming softly from time to time, which was inexplicably adorable.

Although he really wanted to laugh, it wouldn't be appropriate to laugh now. He composed himself and asked with concern, "How are you now? Does it hurt?"

Bai Xiaoqi clutched her lower abdomen, looking pitifully at Chen Shuo: "I'm in so much pain!"

As she spoke, she sat up slightly, preparing herself to be fed brown sugar water.

"Now you know it's not easy being a person, right?" Chen Shuoxu sat on the edge of the sofa, scooped up a spoonful, blew on it gently, and fed it to her.

As I've fed them more often, I've become more experienced and skilled at it.

"It's easy to be a woman, but it's not easy to be a woman."

Bai Xiaoqi opened her mouth and drank it, smacking her lips a couple of times to savor the taste, not forgetting to argue with him, saying that men don't have to come to visit relatives, and being a man is so easy.

"Yes, being a woman is the hardest thing, and there's always the warning about having children." Chen Shuo didn't argue with her; everyone had their own reasons for this kind of topic, and it would never be clear.

Besides, she's going through a special time right now, so we should just go along with her.

What are "warnings to have children"?

"They're just a bunch of boxers," Chen Shuo replied casually.

"Do humans fight when they give birth?" Bai Xiaoqi felt that this question touched on a blind spot in her knowledge, and she couldn't help but imagine the scene, which seemed absurd.

“You’re human now, so you can try punching your baby a couple of times when you’re having a baby,” Chen Shuo suggested after thinking for a moment.

Bai Xiaoqi remained silent for a moment, then said with certainty, "You're definitely lying to me. Who would fight while giving birth?"

"You've never given birth, how do you know you can't box?" Chen Shuo retorted.

“…”

Bai Xiaoqi opened her mouth to refute, but then thought it made sense. She had never given birth herself, nor had she ever seen a human give birth.

They might actually be able to fight.

"Will they really fight?" she asked.

"Seriously, he's still using the invincible turtle-like punches."

Chen Shuo was talking nonsense with a straight face. While talking, his hands kept moving, and he fed her another spoonful of brown sugar water.

"Invincible Turtle Fist?" Bai Xiaoqi was taken aback, feeling that the name was strange. She drank the brown sugar water that was handed to her and was about to ask another question when she saw Chen Shuo suddenly burst into laughter.

Seeing this, she immediately realized she had been tricked, and kicked him in embarrassment and anger, saying, "You really did lie to me."

"Alright, alright, I'm just teasing you. Drink up."

It was raining outside, but the house wasn't as cold and quiet as usual. The longer Bai Xiaoqi lived there, the more this small one-bedroom apartment was slowly changing.

I never seemed to feel lonely when I was alone before, but since I took her in, when I think back to my days of living alone, I feel a strange sense of loneliness.

Chen Shuo felt that he couldn't live without her anymore, in every sense of the word, and that he could never go back to the way things were before.

The bowl of brown sugar water was slowly emptied. He put the bowl aside and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

"Mmm." Bai Xiaoqi hummed softly, snuggling back against the sofa, feeling a warm, comfortable sensation in her stomach.

Seeing her languid appearance, Chen Shuo smiled, took the bowl to the kitchen to wash it, and came out to say, "I'm going inside to write. You stay here quietly by yourself."

"I do not."

"So what do you want to do?"

"I'm bored here."

"If you're bored, play on your phone."

"I don't want to play." Bai Xiaoqi puffed out her cheeks, turned her head away, and said, "All you ever do is let me play on my phone. What's so fun about playing on a phone?"

"So what do you want to play?" Chen Shuo felt that this girl was just bored. At first, she would play on her phone all day long, but now playing on her phone is not enough for her.

Sure enough, a person needs to have something to do.

"If you're really bored, how about I find you a factory where you can work as a screwdriver?"

"Hmph..." Bai Xiaoqi chuckled and stuck out her tongue at him, "I don't have an ID card."

"It's okay if you don't have an ID card. I'll find you a shady factory, the kind that doesn't require ID cards, a 16-hour assembly line job."

“…”

Bai Xiaoqi's smile froze instantly. Her lips trembled for a moment, then she shouted at the top of her lungs, "You're bullying me!"

As she spoke, her eyes began to redden, and then glistening tears welled up in her eyes.

"No, don't cry..."

Seeing this, Chen Shuo was at a loss again. He had just been talking in the heat of the moment, and who knew that this guy would cry when he couldn't win an argument.

"Don't cry if I don't send you to the factory. Oh well, aren't you bored here? I'll go get your computer and then you can sit on the sofa and type."

"it is good."

Seeing that she quickly stopped crying and agreed quite readily, Chen Shuo felt a bit complicated.

"You really do want to see my content, huh? Just wait, I'll bring out the computer right now, and you can look at it all you want, damn it."

After saying that, he turned around and went back into the house with a look of shame on his face.

Seeing him enter the room, Bai Xiaoqi pouted and snorted softly, "Tch, who wants to see yours?"

Chapter Forty-Six: You're Not Allowed to Sleep

"I used to think I was cool, but now I don't think I'm cool at all. Do you think I've really fallen for you?" A smile played on her lips as she asked the question abruptly, as if it had just occurred to her, or perhaps it had been buried deep within her heart for a long time...

Listening to the emotionless reading, like a soulless recitation machine, Chen Shuo's eyes twitched. Finally, he couldn't bear it any longer. He closed the laptop, turned his head, sighed, and said, "How about I send you to a shady factory to tighten screws?"

"......"

Bai Xiaoqi looked at him without saying a word, but the look in her eyes was impossible to hide.

"Alright, stop looking at me like that. I'm not sending you to the factory, so you can look all you want, but could you please not read it aloud? You're making me feel ashamed, you know?"

Why should we feel ashamed?

"Because I'm easily embarrassed."

"But I think you're pretty shameless."

"I'm fucking..."

Chen Shuo wanted to flip the table, wondering if they could still have fun together, but considering that she was on her period, he couldn't make a scene. He could only turn around and look at the folding bed leaning against the corner of the wall, saying, "I'll set up the bed for you, you can go to sleep."

"I'm not sleepy."

"You should get more sleep even if you're not sleepy; it's good for your health."

"I don't want to sleep."

"Fine, fine." Chen Shuo couldn't persuade him any further. "From now on, I'm going to continue working. You're not allowed to read anymore, do you hear me?"

After giving him a word of advice, he flipped the laptop back up and started typing away as if nothing had happened. Although he felt a little ashamed and embarrassed, what could he do? He still had to eat.

Is this what you're supposed to write for your job?

"Otherwise what? Do you think I write this for fun? It's all for making money. The clothes you wear, the food you eat, the brown sugar water you drink, the hand warmer you hold in your arms—all of it is typed out word by word by me. And you keep reading it. Don't cry when you don't have food to eat in the future."

"........"

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaoqi hesitated for a moment before falling silent, suddenly feeling that what he was doing had become sacred.

I felt a strange stirring in my heart.

No wonder he locks himself in his room all day, typing away on the keyboard all day long; it's all for making money.

Should I not act childishly and make him stay outside with me?

After thinking for a moment, she said softly, "Go to your room and write."

"Ok?"

Chen Shuo was taken aback, then turned his head and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Go back to your room and write," Bai Xiaoqi said, turning her gaze away and repeating the sentence.

"Oh, so you think it's meaningless if I don't let you read it?"

Chen Shuo didn't want to go in anymore. If you tell me to come out, I'll come out; if you tell me to go in, I'll go in. How embarrassing would that be?

"No, I want to sleep."

"Tired?"

"Ah."

Seeing her nod, Chen Shuo closed his laptop and walked over to set up the folding bed in the corner. A gust of wind blew in from the balcony, making it feel cool.

He looked at the balcony. Although the sliding door was closed, the sliding doors in this old-style residential area were like sieves, letting in drafts from all sides. Moreover, the balcony was an open type, just like some university dormitories.

As temperatures get colder, sleeping in the living room could freeze you to death.

"Why don't you go sleep in the bedroom?"

After a pause, Chen Shuo added, "The weather is getting colder and colder. If you sleep in the living room, you'll easily catch a cold. From now on, you should sleep in the bedroom."

"how about you?"

"Of course I sleep in the bedroom too. Do you expect me to sleep on the street?" Chen Shuo said confidently.

"So you're still sleeping on the floor?"

"It's so cold on the ground, and it's not summer. I want to sleep in the bed."

"......"

Bai Xiaoqi didn't say anything more, her expression was very conflicted. After hesitating for a long time, she whispered, "I... I don't think it's good for us to sleep in the same bed."

"What are you thinking?" Chen Shuo pointed to the folding bed in the corner of the living room. "Isn't there another bed over there? I'll sleep on that one, and you can sleep on the big bed. Or do you want to sleep in the same bed as me?"