Zerg: The female warrior's male master is acting strangely!

Herroy answered quickly and urgently, as if she were answering one of her best high-scoring questions.

He didn't even realize what he had said until he finished speaking. Then his face turned bright red, the redness spreading from his cheeks to his ears and then down to his neck.

But he did not go back on his word or try to make amends. After a moment of shame, he looked up at his father earnestly.

His little eyes clearly said: Father, I said I do, so please don't be sad.

(Although he still doesn't understand why his father suddenly likes to be close to him?)

It was just the day before... no, to be precise, three hours ago!

The father wanted to throw him into the insect-made lake in the backyard, but everything changed after the father accidentally fell into the water.

The father smiled at him, the father hugged him, and the father called him "Yi Yi";

The father said he would take him upstairs to live, and the father also said he wanted to sleep with him.

Everything happened too fast, so fast that he didn't have time to process it all.

He could only passively accept every "good thing" handed over by his father, and then secretly and slightly doubt in his heart: Could this be a dream?

If it's a dream, he doesn't want to wake up;

If it wasn't a dream, then he hoped that his father would never, ever turn back into his original form.

He likes his current male father very much, even more so than he likes his female father... uh, no... he still likes his female father a little more.

Looking at the little boy's shy yet determined expression, Manjushri finally couldn't help but laugh.

The laughter wasn't loud, but it was very pleasant to hear. It came from the chest and carried a feeling that made the insects feel very at ease.

He reached out and ruffled the baby's head again, making his already messy hair even messier, then bent down and gently kissed the baby's forehead.

"Then it's settled," Manjushri said with a smile, as if announcing some great joy. "Tonight, Xiongfu and Yiyi will sleep together."

"Hmm," Heroiyi hummed unconsciously.

Because his whole body stiffened again, he suddenly felt... that his little brain was about to stop working.

The father... kissed him?

His eyes suddenly started to sting again, but this time it wasn't from fear, but from something he couldn't quite identify, something about to overflow from his chest—a feeling that was slightly swollen and warm...

Heroi blinked hard, forcing back the embarrassing bitterness in her eyes, and nodded solemnly.

"Um."

After obtaining the baby's consent, Manjushri reached out and pulled the soft blanket over the baby's exposed lower legs.

Seeing this, Holoiyi lay flat on the bed, her two little hands placed timidly at her sides, being unusually obedient.

Seeing that the little one was so well-behaved that he didn't have to worry about him at all, Manjushri placed a gentle kiss between the two antennae on the little one's forehead.

"Our Yi Yi is amazing!"

"Then Father-in-law will go take a shower first, Yi-yi, you should go to sleep first."

Heroie nodded vigorously and earnestly assured her father, "I will go to sleep obediently, Father, please go now."

"Okay, our Yi Yi is the best."

After praising him, Wenshu pulled the blanket up higher, covering the little one completely, tucking in even the corners properly before leaving with peace of mind.

Meanwhile, on the bed, Holoiyi, the whole insect, was so embarrassed by her father's simple two words of praise that she immediately crawled under the covers.

When he had almost recovered, he turned sideways and shrank into the innermost part of the bed, his back pressed tightly against the wall, as if he wanted to embed himself into it;

He pulled the blanket up to his chin, leaving only a small section of his nose and a pair of tightly closed eyes exposed.

He planned to try to fall asleep quickly while his father was taking a shower.

So he started to slow his breathing, learning from the "sleep tutorials" he'd read about in books: first relax his toes, then his ankles, then his calves, knees, and thighs...

He divided his body into many, many small pieces, telling each piece, "It's time to sleep."

He had used this method many times when he couldn't sleep in the first-floor storage room. Although it didn't always work, it was successful at least half the time.

But this time, he clearly failed.

Perhaps it was because the bed was too big, so big that even with his back pressed against the wall, the other side was still empty, as if he could never reach the edge.

Or perhaps the blanket was too soft, completely different from his original blanket. It was so light that he couldn't feel its weight, making it impossible for him to find a comfortable position.

The pillow was so fluffy that his head sank into it, and he felt himself sinking deeper and deeper.

After an unknown amount of time, approaching footsteps came from outside, nearly scaring the insect to death on the bed.

Don't open your eyes, don't open your eyes, don't open your eyes...

Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep...

He had promised his father, "I will go to sleep obediently." If his father came back after taking a shower and saw that he was still awake, he would definitely think that he was a dishonest "bad kid".

Thinking about all this, he tried his best to focus his attention on "sleeping," but the harder he tried, the clearer his mind became.

He could almost hear his own heartbeat, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump...

It was beating so fast it didn't seem like the heartbeat a "good bug" should have.

He could even hear the sound of blood flowing in his veins.

Of course, it's impossible to actually hear it!

But he felt he could hear it, as if his whole body was screaming: You're not asleep, you're not asleep, you're not asleep, you're not asleep, you're not asleep, you're not asleep...

You can't sleep at all!

When Manjushri returned after his bath, he immediately saw the motionless little bulge on the bed, its stiff shape clearly indicating that it was pretending to be asleep.

Manjushri was amused by the little boy's adorable appearance, but he didn't laugh out loud or expose the little boy's clumsy pretense.

He walked quietly to the bedside and sat down, his voice extremely low, as if talking to himself, or perhaps reminding the little one:

"Time to turn off the lights."

After he finished speaking, he waited quietly for a few seconds, giving Heroie enough time to adjust, before raising his hand to turn off the warm light in the room.

With a soft "snap," the entire room plunged into darkness.

Manjushri lay down on the bed and looked to the side. He found that the space between them was enough to fit twenty 'Heroy's'.

Twenty, Heroiyi.

This exaggerated metaphor almost made Manjushri burst out laughing again, if he hadn't noticed that something was wrong with his little one.

At this moment, Heroiyi was indeed so nervous that she didn't look like an insect anymore.

He was pressed stiffly against the wall, like a small picture frame nailed to it, afraid that if he moved even a little, his father would seize on his mistake of "not being asleep" and fly into a rage.

But Manjushri was unaware of his child's little thoughts. He simply kept his eyes open and waited, waiting for his child to relax, for his child's breathing to become steady and long, for the little body curled up in the corner to no longer be so tense...

He worked the night shift at an orphanage for so many years in his past life that he could tell with his eyes closed which child was truly asleep and which was faking it.

The baby who was pretending to be asleep was breathing wrong, turning over at the wrong frequency, and even the sound of the blanket rubbing was wrong.

For example, the one right next to me right now.

Herroy's breathing sounded very even, but too even!

A person who is truly asleep will not breathe like a metronome, with each inhalation and exhalation lasting exactly the same amount of time.

Moreover, his breathing was so light that it was almost inaudible, which could only mean that he was deliberately controlling himself from making any noise.

Manjushri blinked in the darkness.

No rush, let's wait a bit longer.

My little one went through so much today, from holding him, comforting him, taking him upstairs, to asking him if he wanted to sleep together...

Everything was new to Herroy and required a lot of thought to process.

He needs time, he needs security, and he needs repeated reassurance that his father won't suddenly revert to his old self after he falls asleep.

Manjushri understood these things, so he was willing to use his patience and perseverance to help Heroiyi grow slowly.

Time passed second by second...

Manjushri's eyelids began to feel heavy.

He was indeed quite tired; a lot had happened today.

If you include his memories of his past life, you could even say he died once. When he woke up, he found himself back in his own body, with a little cub who had been abused by the original owner of the body as a bonus...

Just as Manjushri was about to drift off to sleep, his ears caught a sound!