Mu He held the rag doll in her hands, listening to Zhong Mu's voice beside her, lost in thought. "Your rag doll?"
"Mmm..." Zhong Mu's reply was barely audible, tinged with embarrassment.
The thought of keeping her own rag doll with the doctor was blatantly obvious. She wondered if she was being too direct, if she should have been more subtle and left a better impression.
"A rag doll is nice... I can touch it all the time." Mu He smiled, her fingertips slowly tracing the doll's face, gently outlining its contours, her movements both gentle and suggestive.
Just as Zhong Mu's heart raced, she suddenly raised her hand and, in front of him, placed her lips on the soft fabric. "If this is yours
... when you're not here, I can do what I want, right?"
A small rag doll resembling Zhong Mu was held in Mu He's palm, its delicately sewn-on mouth covered by the doctor's lips. It
was just a light kiss, but the scene before Zhong Mu's eyes widened in shock, and his whole body trembled.
How could the doctor kiss the doll when he was right in front of him?! He was already jealous of the doll!
No, what did he mean by "I can do what I want when he's not here"? He was right there! The doctor did it anyway!
A blind person can't read between the lines, but this level of inappropriate behavior was tantamount to deliberate seduction!
"You...you...like it?" Zhong Mu stammered, unable to speak, and finally managed to ask, his face flushed.
"I like it." After the kiss, Mu He rubbed her cheek against the doll, smiling. "From now on, you can stay by my side often." "
Perhaps these words were spoken to the doll itself, but in front of Zhong Mu, facing him, these words 'always accompany' seemed to be directed at Zhong Mu.
Zhong Mu was at a loss, his cheeks burning. The doctor's intimate actions were directed at the doll, but the doll was in his likeness, and he had sewn it himself. The doctor's actions always made him blush and his heart race."
"Then... can I tie the red thread with the doctor?" Zhong Mu asked Mu He cautiously, head down, as he pulled out the long-planned red thread from his pocket.
He was shy, but had business to attend to.
They were almost out of the instance; this important goal had to be achieved.
Mu He smiled but didn't speak, simply extending her right hand to Zhong Mu.
Zhong Mu blushed and consciously tied the red thread for the doctor.
The two stood quietly in the corner; even if others heard them, they pretended not to. Only 408 stared at them with a complicated expression.
Nantong was really going all out these days, even using love tokens.
Yin Xiu, who had been silent for a long time, looked down at his little finger. The other end of the red thread was silent, as if it had stopped responding after Li Mo went in. All everyone could do was wait outside.
No one thought the monster hadn't come out after going in; they were just worried that something had gone wrong that prevented it from getting out.
The tightly closed door remained closed, and only silence filled the darkness.
"Should we open the door again?" Ye Tianxuan suggested idly.
"No." Ye Niangniang immediately objected, "If the monster inside hasn't properly concealed its true form, opening the door rashly will turn you all into monsters. You'll be fine... but if it does, we'll be doomed."
Ye Niangniang secretly glanced at the quiet Yin Xiu, desperately trying to signal to Ye Tianxuan that he wouldn't be ungrateful. He wanted to die, but the monsters didn't.
"They'll come out." "Yin Xiu spoke up, and everyone else could only continue to wait patiently.
The long silence passed slowly, but the door remained unresponsive.
Yin Xiu was patient; he knew that if Li Mo corrected his body, he would rush out immediately. No one was more eager or impatient than him. If the door didn't open, it simply meant the time wasn't right yet.
He would retract his true form into human form, but this would cause some changes to the human form. He didn't want to see his boyfriend in a distorted form; in a sense, this was their first meeting.
Yin Xiu remembered… the little monster had said it wanted to leave Yin Xiu with the best impression. It wanted to become a handsome person to find Yin Xiu, to make him fall in love with it at first sight. Although it had already seen that body, it certainly didn't want any distortion in this second meeting through this door.
This pretentious little monster, who meticulously dressed itself before seeing its boyfriend, was diligently correcting the changes in its body, perfecting its human form before emerging.
The huge, terrifying monster was trying hard to disguise itself as a handsome person, striving to become like its boyfriend. How could he not patiently wait at the door?
After a long silence, the black door suddenly thudded, then slowly opened a crack, letting out a chill, though not with an overwhelming sense of oppression. The
previously idle crowd abruptly looked up, their gazes fixed on the door.
Standing within the slowly opening door was a familiar figure, still exuding a chilling aura, still standing ramrod straight, a smile on his face, but less sinister than before, a gentler one.
Li Mo was much the same as when he went in, except that when he came out, his black hair had grown long, reaching his waist, obscuring his eyes and adding a touch of the uncanny.
He stood with one hand behind his back, and as soon as he emerged from the door, he strode quickly towards Yin Xiu, his steps incredibly urgent.
"Boyfriend... after my true form entered human form, my body became twisted, and I barely managed to correct it." He stood tall in front of Yin Xiu, eagerly explaining his lateness to his boyfriend, "I still have one hand that hasn't fully recovered, but it'll be fine soon."
He showed Yin Xiu his best side. The three monsters standing behind Li Mo went berserk after they caught sight of the incredibly twisted hand hidden behind him, losing all control of their human forms. The
arm that hadn't been corrected and was still hidden behind him wasn't a human hand at all, but countless tentacles tangled and twisted together, its eyes crowded, dripping with slime, and its sharp teeth emitting an incredibly terrifying visual impact.
But even so, what the tentacles were entwined with was a beautiful, bright red bouquet, incongruous with the dark space.
"It's okay, it's good that you came out." Yin Xiu stared intently at Li Mo in front of him, not blinking. "Not much change, you've kept your original appearance perfectly."
He didn't need to change his appearance; that would only make Yin Xiu feel unfamiliar. He just needed to stay the way he went in and come out, which was enough for Yin Xiu.
"But I've grown my hair long." Li Mo's eyes curved into a smile, his dark pupils reflecting the face of his beloved. "That way, my boyfriend can braid my hair too."
He was pleased with his little scheme, while Ya Ya stared wide-eyed. "
You little devil, so that's what you were waiting for! "
Yin Xiu chuckled helplessly, "Okay, I'll braid it for you."
This desire for her boyfriend to braid her hair had carried over from the beginner's dungeon to her current form—it hadn't changed a bit.
"Then...boyfriend..." Li Mo said softly, her tone unconsciously softening. She slowly turned her hand, which had gradually returned to its normal form, from behind her and held a bouquet of bright red flowers to Yin Xiu. "Boyfriend, happy birthday as a human."
He squinted, "I became human today, and I want to celebrate my birthday with my boyfriend."
Yin Xiu lowered his head, smelling the flowers in front of him, his gaze and voice becoming lazy and gentle. He replied, "Okay, okay."
He couldn't quite remember how long ago it was when he last celebrated his birthday, only vaguely recalling that he was waiting for his coming-of-age day in a dungeon. He never imagined that many years later, he would still be in a dungeon, but not as lonely as before.
Now, he truly had everything.