“Beep beep beep beep…” Some unknown sound kept ringing nonstop, just like the monitor in an emergency room.
Chu Mingwan only felt a pain in his head as if it were about to split open, and for a moment his eyes were a little dazed and out of control. It was not until the patter of footsteps rang out that Chu Mingwan lowered his head along the sound to look over.
In front of him was a thin, small human cub, looking to be about three years old. He was struggling to hold a huge Pikachu big-belly cup in his hands, wobbling all the way toward him.
Hey, whose cub is this? How can he be this good-looking? He is practically born for creepy uncles to hug. The cub-obsessed maniac, Comrade Chu Mingwan, had not yet discovered his unusual situation and directly reached out to pinch the baby-soft round cheek of the little cub.
Hehe, as expected of a brand-new human cub, this soft and fluffy feel is really not bad!
Suddenly pinched on the round cheek by his little dad, the little cub tightened his arms around his Pikachu big-belly cup. His small body involuntarily trembled a little. He lifted those watery big eyes and looked at the weird stepfather in front of him. After pursing his little mouth, he still handed the big-belly cup in his arms over.
Chu Mingwan’s head really hurt badly, and he could even feel an unusual heat on his body. He was probably running a fever again. After all, his body was really too weak, and for a period of time recently he had almost been living in the hospital. Fever and colds were even more ordinary than ordinary. But facing the cute cub with the pursed little mouth, Chu Mingwan still grinned: “Is it for me?”
Hehe, sure enough, as expected of him, he was exactly the kind of person little cubs liked. Chu Mingwan lifted his feet, and that smug look was simply unbearable to look at.
But the cub was frightened pale. Was this stepfather fevered silly? Clearly it was the little dad who was going to snatch his Qiuqiu big-belly cup.
Almost teary-eyed as he looked at the big-belly cup in his arms, the little cub clenched the yellow strap wrapped around it. He was not a good child, and he suddenly felt that it would be pretty good if the stepfather got fevered silly like that, because then he would not snatch his big-belly cup, and would not throw him away either.
The cub’s reluctant, aggrieved little look was just too cute. Chu Mingwan wanted to reach out and pinch the cub’s round little face again, but a violent pain surged through his mind, causing him to faint to the side uncontrollably.
Before losing consciousness, Chu Mingwan only hoped the doctor could discover something was wrong in time, so as not to let his current terrible appearance frighten the adorable human cub.
Looking at that hand reaching toward him, the little cub’s mind immediately thought of some bad memories, and his thin, small body began trembling uncontrollably again. In the end, before that hand could even reach him, the stepfather had already fainted completely, flopping onto the sofa with a thud.
The cub stared wide-eyed, and tears finally spilled down uncontrollably: “Waaah, waaah, waaah, I am a bad cub, I did not give stepfather water to drink, did stepfather die!”
He lifted his short little legs and cautiously took two steps forward. The little cub moved up to Chu Mingwan and touched the stepfather’s forehead with his soft little hand: “Ah, so hot, little dad really is going to be burned to death.”
Tears pattered onto Chu Mingwan’s shoulder, and soon soaked a large patch of his untidy clothes.
The little cub hugged his Pikachu big-belly cup, and this time without the slightest hesitation, directly opened the cup lid. With both little hands, he laboriously lifted the fat cup and staggeringly stuffed the straw into the stepfather’s mouth.
The unconscious Chu Mingwan of course would not drink water, and also luckily avoided the fate of being choked to death by water. Only the little cub, looking at the stepfather who could not even drink water, trembled even more fiercely. The stepfather really is going to die, now he does not even know how to drink water anymore!
After lying beside the sofa for quite a while, the little cub finally seemed to remember something and staggeringly ran toward the entrance. He lifted one little foot and, using a great deal of effort, finally opened the room door.
The new madam had a very bad temper and was especially hard to deal with, so the whole villa was quiet. Only the sound of the little cub hurriedly running down the stairs could be heard.
Hearing the series of footsteps, the butler hurriedly walked toward the little cub: “Why did Mumu suddenly come downstairs, is your little tummy hungry?”
Running quickly to butler uncle’s side, the cub stretched out a little hand and tugged at butler uncle’s sleeve. Those watery big eyes were full of anxiety and fear: “Little dad… little dad is going to die.”
The little cub’s milk-sweet sentence brought a huge shock to the butler, who looked completely stunned: “W… what, madam is going to die?”
Although the little cub did not understand why butler uncle had repeated his words, he remembered the heat he had felt on stepfather’s forehead before, and his little head nodded repeatedly: “Mm-mm, butler uncle, hurry and save little dad.”
Although the stepfather who said he wanted to throw him away was a super, super bad big bad guy, the little cub tightly held his cute little hands and thought that he had already gotten revenge by not giving stepfather water to drink, but he did not want stepfather to die.
Being stared at by the little cub’s watery big eyes, the butler hurriedly comforted him patiently with a few words, and only then led the cub’s hand up to the second floor.
Chu Mingwan was still sleeping on the sofa. A delicate and beautiful face, because of the high fever, carried some unusual redness. His lips were also pale to the point of almost being transparent because of dehydration, and with that thin, frail body, at first glance he really did look a little frightening.
But no matter what, it was nowhere near as frightening as the cub’s “little dad is about to die.” The butler hurriedly took out his phone and called the family doctor. Fortunately, the family doctor lived quite nearby and could arrive very quickly.
When the family doctor arrived and saw that after two IV bottles had been hung, the sickly heat on Chu Mingwan’s body finally went down.
Xu Jianbai had just gotten off work when he was urgently called to the villa by the butler. At this moment, his face carried undisguised fatigue: “The result of excessive dieting combined with drinking is that it is already very good there was no gastric perforation.”
The butler had just coaxed the little cub back to the Moon Room to sleep. After hearing Xu Jianbai’s words, his face was full of indescribable complexity, but as an excellent butler, out of professional conduct he did not make any comment on the new madam’s bizarre behavior: “It is already very late, and the weather forecast says there will be heavy rain. Doctor Xu should stay in the villa for one night!”
Looking at the time on his phone, Xu Jianbai refused the butler’s suggestion: “I still have two surgeries tomorrow, so I will head back first. You should rest early too.”
The villa became quiet again. Before long, heavy rain pattered down outside. There was still a faint night light left in Chu Mingwan’s room, but the thin young man on the bed was sleeping very uneasily.
Chu Mingwan was an orphan. Because he had some problems from birth, he was abandoned at the orphanage entrance not long after he was born. If not for the dean grandpa’s kindness in picking him up, his little life might have ended right there at the orphanage entrance.
No major illnesses, but minor illnesses never stopped. He finally grew safely to sixteen, and that year the dean grandpa passed away, and the orphanage was taken over by another boss. Chu Mingwan then followed a familiar old man to work in another place, barely able to support himself.
Because he was worried about the younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage, Chu Mingwan would anonymously transfer most of his salary every month to the orphanage’s publicly accessible transparent account. But in the past half year, his old illness had relapsed, and most of his time and money had been consumed in the hospital.
This high fever made Chu Mingwan somewhat dazed, and his mind was full of thoughts about whether he was going to kick the bucket. To be honest, when it came to death, such a heavy topic, Chu Mingwan was still somewhat afraid. After all, he had only just turned twenty, and had long been struggling on the passing line of food and clothing, and had not yet properly enjoyed what beautiful human life meant.
Especially thinking of the beautiful little cub he had seen before fainting, Chu Mingwan could not stop feeling self-reproach. If a simple and lovely cub ended up leaving a shadow over life because he saw him kick the bucket, then he really would be guilty of a grave sin!
Countless messy thoughts flooded into his mind all at once, and even in his sleep Chu Mingwan felt like his head was two sizes too big. Just at this moment, the bedroom door was gently pulled open by a little hand. The cute cub, wearing Pikachu pajamas, revealed a fluffy little head through the crack.
The stepfather was still sleeping soundly on the bed. The little cub nervously grabbed the clothes on his body. A soft little face was full of conflicted worry. Every time the stepfather said he would throw him away, he was really super, extremely annoying, but the little cub was still worried that the stepfather would sleep and sleep and then die. And with the heavy rain pouring outside, after waking from the nightmare of the stepfather dying, the little cub was a little scared, which was why he secretly ran to the stepfather’s room.
After hesitating for a long time, the little cub still slowly took a few steps toward the bed. Half his body was lying over the edge of the bed. The children on TV all sleep together with their dad and mom. He did not have a mom, only a dad and a stepfather, but his dad seemed to dislike him very much, and the stepfather also wanted to throw him away.
The little cub sat there aggrieved and dazed by the bed for a while, until a wave of sleepiness hit. The cub could not help lifting his head and yawning, then carefully looked at the sleeping stepfather on the bed. He was only this tiny, but the stepfather’s bed was very, very big. Just sleeping here a little while should not be discovered by the stepfather, right?
Lifting a hand to rub his drowsy eyes, the little cub climbed onto the bed one tiny bit at a time, curling himself up in a corner of the big bed, looking just like a slightly larger Pikachu doll.
Chu Mingwan slept very obediently. At night, wherever he fell asleep, he would absolutely still be in that same place when he woke up in the morning, but he had a very embarrassing habit, which was that he absolutely had to sleep hugging his little bear.
Calling it a little bear was not entirely accurate. That was the comfort cloth Chu Mingwan had used since childhood. Because he lived in the mixed staff dormitory, if other people discovered it, it would be far too embarrassing, so he followed an online method and deliberately tied it into a little bear shape, trying to hide the fact that even at twenty years old, he still needed to hug a comfort cloth in order to fall asleep.
Without the comfort cloth, Chu Mingwan could never sleep soundly. Even though he was in the middle of a dream, one hand still fumbled around on the bed uncontrollably until he touched the furry little Pikachu tail on the cub’s body.
The slightly grainy looped fleece feel instantly gave Chu Mingwan an indescribable sense of safety. With one grab, the thin, small cub was gathered into his arms, and one hand was still very regularly rubbing the little Pikachu tail on the cub’s belly.
Outside, heavy rain was still pouring, but the big and small figures on the bed were completely unaffected, sleeping even more soundly.
After a night of heavy rain, Chu Mingwan only felt that he had slept so tiredly. Under the blocked light of the curtains, a faint glow shone into the room. He opened his eyes in a daze, and what he saw was not the hospital or staff dormitory he was familiar with, but a very unfamiliar place.
He subconsciously rubbed the “bear doll” in his hand twice, but Chu Mingwan, who had slept enough, finally noticed that something was wrong. After one night, the fluffy little Pikachu tail had already been messed up by him to the point of being all over the place, looking somewhat pitiful, but the owner of the Pikachu pajamas was still sleeping soundly.
Meeting the baby-cute face of the little cub in his arms, Chu Mingwan became even more dazed. Had he, while sleepwalking, abducted some family’s cub? That was something that could land him in jail. He did not know if it was still in time to send him back now!
At that moment, a familiar pain sensation rapidly surged up. Chu Mingwan had no time to make any reaction before a flood of messy memories suddenly poured into his little head like a flood.
He seemed to… have transmigrated into a book!
【Author’s words】
A new pit is opening. Updates in the early stage may be a little unstable, but later on I will keep daily updates! (Update time is generally fixed at nine o’clock in the evening)