Chapter 66
The four furry legs had been replaced by long, fair human limbs.
Xia Mo tried standing on two legs like a human and lowered his head to examine himself for a while.
Compared with Shu Li’s, was his a little small?
And what about his height? Why did he seem only as tall as Yu Tai?
The bewitchingly beautiful young man looked dejected for several seconds, then stepped forward and tried to walk.
At first, his feet felt light and unsteady against the ground. But he quickly adapted and began bouncing around the room.
“Yu Tai, look! I can jump this high!”
Not only his movements but also his pronunciation grew increasingly precise and clear. The young man laughed and tried to make the girl crouching on the floor, still questioning her life, look up at him.
Yu Tai remained motionless in her original position and perfunctorily said, “Mm-hm. You’re amazing.”
It was bad enough that Xia Mo’s human form looked like a combination of Yu Tai and the male lead. How had his sex changed too?
She suddenly wanted to say those two words. She truly did.
The System: [Thank you~]
Yu Tai’s lips curved sarcastically. [Thank you for saying it for me. Ha.]
“Are these clothes for this panda?” After tiring of play, Xia Mo casually picked up the gauze dress that had been tossed aside.
Seeing that it was made for a woman, he pouted. “This panda is male. I’m not wearing a dress.”
Xia Mo threw it aside in disgust, walked to Yu Tai, crouched, and lifted her by the arms.
Yu Tai was caught off guard when a face resembling her own suddenly moved close. Before she could react, something soft and warm pressed against her cheek.
Realization dawned on Xia Mo’s face. “So that’s what it feels like!”
Then he tried to continue, this time plainly aiming for the soft-looking red lips before him.
“What are you doing?”
The warm voice had lost its usual gentleness, and suppressed anger hid beneath it.
Yu Tai slapped Xia Mo on the head, knocking the young man’s face to one side, then calmly looked toward the person standing in the doorway.
A fading sheen of moisture still covered his lips. It appeared he had obediently finished the tea Yu Tai prepared.
Shu Li swept an icy gaze over the young man clutching his head, whose face he could not see. When he noticed those long limbs were completely bare, scarlet agitation faintly stirred in his eyes.
Unfortunately, Yu Tai was focused entirely on his lips and noticed nothing. “You’re awake. How do you feel?”
Shu Li answered flatly, “Not bad. But I don’t feel very good right now.”
Yu Tai: “… No, this person-”
“Boohoo! Shu Li, Yu Tai hit me!” The young man suddenly charged toward Shu Li and hugged him. His watery eyes looked pitiful as he bit his thin lower lip.
The instant Shu Li saw his face, his entire body stiffened and his pupils contracted.
Yu Tai waved a hand. “You see it too. This is what happened.”
Only after the young man in his arms rubbed a pointed chin identical to Yu Tai’s against his chest, tilted his head, and called “Shu Li” again did Shu Li recover.
He looked up. Something sank within his clear eyes as he said earnestly to Yu Tai, “I’m sorry… I never knew. You must have suffered during this time.”
“I’ll take responsibility and help you raise this child.”
Yu Tai: “…?”
In all the time she had known Shu Li, this was the most deranged she had ever thought him.
“Are you all right…?” Yu Tai asked dryly.
Xia Mo blinked innocently. “What are you talking about? You’ve been raising me for ages. I’m Xia Mo.”
The complicated look on Shu Li’s face grew even more complicated. He pulled the young man out of his arms and examined him carefully.
“Xia Mo?”
The young man nodded obediently. “This panda is here.”
Shu Li pressed his lips together.
Now that he looked carefully, the aura of a demon beast was obvious.
When he saw that face, which looked like a combination of Yu Tai and himself, his mind had truly become confused.
He had genuinely believed that Yu Tai had secretly… given birth to his child.
But…
He carefully examined Xia Mo’s new appearance.
If he and Yu Tai truly had a child, it would surely look like this. If it were a daughter, perhaps the child would resemble him even more.
Yu Tai clearly had no idea what the man had imagined right in front of her in such a brief moment.
“Um, take him to change clothes first,” she said weakly.
Everything she had bought was a dress and therefore impossible for him to wear. For now, he would have to make do with Shu Li’s clothes.
Wrapped in Shu Li’s outer robe, Xia Mo pouted and looked back at Yu Tai. “But this panda still hasn’t gotten a kiss.”
Yu Tai raised her fist. “If you don’t behave, I’ll hit you!”
Xia Mo’s hair nearly stood on end. He pushed Shu Li and hurried outside. “Run! Yu Tai is going to kill a panda!”
Hearing those childish words, Yu Tai helplessly shook her head.
Fortunately, he was not a girl.
Otherwise, she would have felt too protective of a girl to punch the brat as freely as she pleased.
…
“That isn’t how you wear it.”
Chuckling, Shu Li rescued Xia Mo from the pile of clothes. His slender fingers worked like magic, quickly arranging the garments that had left the panda so frustrated neatly over his body.
Xia Mo looked fascinated. “So this is what wearing clothes feels like!”
Having no fur had felt extremely uncomfortable. The extra layer of clothing felt much better.
Shu Li looked at him with curiosity.
“Why did you take human form like this?” He crossed his arms and leaned against a nearby pillar, an unusually lazy expression on his handsome face.
Xia Mo tugged at the overly long clothes without looking up. “Yu Tai likes extremely handsome men, and Shu Li is the best-looking person I’ve ever seen.”
“But I couldn’t look exactly like Shu Li. It just so happens that Yu Tai is the second-best-looking person I’ve seen.”
The simple explanation made Shu Li curl his lips. “Looking like this, you don’t seem like my demon beast.”
Xia Mo looked up at Shu Li and blinked his snow-white lashes, innocent confusion on his face. “Then what do I look like?”
“My son,” Shu Li said.
Understanding dawned on Xia Mo’s face, and he replied without hesitation, “Dad!”
Shu Li: “…”
Demon beasts possessed no sense of shame or morality. To Xia Mo, those words were nothing more than another form of address.
Suddenly wanting to tease him, Shu Li asked, “Then what should you call Yu Tai when you see her?”
Without thinking, Xia Mo answered, “Wife!”
Shu Li: “???”
Feeling the pressure radiating from Shu Li, Xia Mo shrank his neck and continued, “I know Yu Tai is yours, but this panda wants her too.”
“You shouldn’t be so stingy, Shu Li.”
Shu Li rubbed his temple and shook his head helplessly.
Had something gone wrong with his teaching?