Bumping and jolting along the way, starting and stopping, what should have been a ten-minute drive to the mall ended up taking a full two and a half hours.
Xu Yinsheng was so frustrated she nearly burst into flames.
She had originally planned to take some out-of-the-way backroads to avoid the traffic police—Zhao Yicheng had turned into a little boy, and his driver’s license was definitely useless.
As for her, all her identity records had been reduced to ashes in that big fire, let alone her driver’s license.
And now, as for those traffic cops checking licenses and drunk driving?
It didn’t matter if they were traffic cops or auxiliary police—they’d all been assigned to maintain order.
As for car accidents, with the current situation, people were moving faster than cars.
The main roads were basically paralyzed!
It was with great difficulty that they finally made it to the mall.
The whole parking lot only had a few scattered vehicles, maybe because the protest had caused a cliff-like drop in foot traffic.
Before getting out of the car, Xu Yinsheng pulled out a lump of liquid metal, slapped it onto her face, and changed that “demi-immortal” visage—with its maxed-out charisma and delicate, flawless beauty—back to her most commonly used appearance.
The two entered the mall. Zhao Yicheng led Xu Yinsheng straight to the men’s clothing section.
Xu Yinsheng followed behind, secretly complaining in her heart, You’ve gotten this small and you still want men’s clothes?
Right now, you’re better off in children’s wear.
When they approached the men’s casual clothing section, Zhao Yicheng circled a dark gray set of pajamas a few times, then stopped and nodded slightly, obviously very satisfied with it.
He called over a sales assistant and got ready to try them on, but the assistant looked troubled.
The reason was simple—Zhao Yicheng was just too small now.
They didn’t have any sizes that would fit him.
With no other choice, the two went over to the children’s clothing section.
The sales assistant there received them with great enthusiasm, introducing all the latest styles from the children’s store—she was clearly very dedicated to her work.
“Miss, your little brother is really cute.”
Before Xu Yinsheng could say anything, Zhao Yicheng, dressed in a tiny suit, answered first: “I’m not her brother.”
The assistant nodded, then gave an apologetic smile: “Sorry, Miss, I didn’t realize your son was already this big. He’ll definitely be a handsome young man in the future.”
Zhao Yicheng’s face immediately turned as black as coal.
‘No…..’
He was just about to speak, but Xu Yinsheng smacked him on the head, cutting him off before he could get the words out.
She smiled sweetly at the sales assistant and said, “Sorry, my son is just like this—he doesn’t like being called little.”
With that, she took several sets of children’s clothes from the assistant’s hands, stuffed them into Zhao Yicheng’s arms, and gave him a hard glare.
When Zhao Yicheng, arms full of children’s clothes, entered the fitting room, Xu Yinsheng glanced at her own hand that had just smacked his head and secretly thought, So hitting someone’s head feels this satisfying—no wonder Zhao Yicheng loves rubbing my head so much.
After a short while, when the fitting room door opened again, Xu Yinsheng’s attention was immediately drawn to Zhao Yicheng, who was standing in front of the mirror.
Zhao Yicheng was dressed in a gray little suit and white shirt, with black pants below.
His face was flushed pink, making him look just like a porcelain doll, so much so that Xu Yinsheng could hardly hold back her laughter.
“Miss, your son is really adorable.”
Even the sales assistant couldn’t help but genuinely praise him.
Zhao Yicheng blinked his big eyes.
Xu Yinsheng walked up and patted his little head, then turned to the sales assistant and said, “This one is great. No need to wrap it up, just pack away the old ones. And for these ones, same size, pack up all these.”
Her finger quickly tapped along a row of clothes until she had picked out five full sets of children’s wear.
In the end, carrying two big bags of kids’ clothes to the checkout counter, Xu Yinsheng happened to run into an acquaintance while paying.
“Miss Mu, is this… your son?”
A man in white was buying a large bag of live fish and was paying at the counter.
A gray-and-white kitten in a cat costume was draped over his shoulder.
The kitten looked up at the cool and cute little boy Zhao Yicheng, then at Xu Yinsheng.
Mu Qingwan—Xu Yinsheng’s Prosthetic Identity in front of this man in white.
She had accompanied Zhao Yicheng to the doctor using this identity several times.
Xu Yinsheng was about to answer when a small hand reached from behind and pinched her butt, twisting a chunk of flesh as if to threaten a three-sixty-degree spin at the slightest disagreement.
She quickly changed her words: “He’s my cousin from the countryside, here for winter break, so I’m taking him to buy some clothes.”
The man in white nodded.
“And Mr. Zhao? How’s his mental state?”
“Still the same, half-crazy, half-sane.”
“The follow-up checkup next week might have to be pushed to next month. I have a matchmaking meeting, sorry.”
“Alright, I’ll let him know.”
The two exchanged a few polite words.
The man in white picked up his bag of packed fish.
Just as he was about to leave, the kitten on his shoulder jumped into Xu Yinsheng’s arms and gently rubbed against her.
“Yanqing really likes you,” the man in white said softly.
“Really?”
Xu Yinsheng looked down at the little creature in her arms, meeting its big, round eyes, and watched as it stretched out its tongue to lick her palm, utterly adorable.
“He’s… very perceptive.”
***
Night fell.
In the villa’s living room, Zhao Yicheng sat on the sofa in his cool new kids’ clothes, drinking juice and swinging his little legs while watching the evening news on TV.
Meanwhile, Xu Yinsheng was rummaging all over the villa.
Damn it, where did the morphing potion go?!
She’d thrown out the enlargement potion, the shrinking potion had been accidentally drunk by Zhao Yicheng, and the morphing potion had always been kept on her, tucked securely in her jacket pocket.
But just after dinner, Xu Yinsheng reached into her pocket and realized the morphing potion was gone!
But come to think of it, the enlargement potion was a male enhancement, the shrinking potion made you small, so what exactly did the morphing potion do…?
At the same time, elsewhere, in an upscale residential complex.
Humming a little tune, the man in white walked out of the bathroom wearing a white bathrobe, a towel in his hand as he dried his wet hair.
His gaze swept outside the window.
The weather, which had been clear just a moment ago, suddenly turned gloomy.
The darkening sky was now covered by thick clouds, thunder and lightning roared, and rain poured down in torrents.
“What a damn mess of weather!”
The man in white frowned as he spoke.
He walked into his bedroom.
The room wasn’t large, but had all the necessary furnishings.
However, at that moment, the man’s eyes were drawn to something on the bed.
Under the blue-and-white striped comforter, a small bulge rose and fell with gentle breathing.
The blue silk shirt had ridden up, revealing a pinkish arm and a delicate collarbone…
“What the hell?”
The man in white couldn’t help but mutter.
He took a step back, but as if triggered by some mechanism, the blanket suddenly flew up.
A blue-and-white blur, swift as a cat, pounced straight into the man’s arms.
Fair skin, features exquisite as if carved, orange-gold pupils shimmering faintly like Zuma Topaz, glittering like stars in the sky.
Atop the head, a pair of white, fluffy cat ears completed a picture of utter cuteness and vitality.
The cat-eared little boy, wrapped in a blue-and-white striped robe, hugged the man in white tightly and rubbed his face against the man’s forehead, acting both spoiled and pleading.
“Teacher, I’m hungry, want to eat little fish cakes.”