Li Yudong was in the storage room getting some wood shavings when she suddenly heard a series of crackling, clattering sounds coming from outside.
She hurriedly rushed out of the storage room.
Ruan Tao had not expected that she would suddenly turn back into a human.
The little house that Bo Yutong had personally assembled had been forced apart by her just like that. She stood in the middle of the “ruins” of the house, not even knowing where to put her hands.
When she saw Li Yudong coming over, she was so startled that she stepped back.
With a crack, she stepped directly onto the “wall” and crushed it into two halves.
The two girls looked at each other.
Ruan Tao clutched her chest and squatted down. At the same time, she raised her index finger and placed it in front of her lips, signaling Li Yudong not to make a sound.
Li Yudong was shocked by the scene in front of her.
After all, she had grown up struggling in the Lower-Class Residential Area. She reacted immediately and covered her mouth with both hands.
Ruan Tao lowered her hand and asked in a small voice, “Um… do you have any clothes I can wear?”
Li Yudong stared at her in shock. After a long moment, she finally whispered, “My clothes… would that be okay?”
Ruan Tao nodded frantically.
Li Yudong had a spatial necklace that stored quite a lot of things—basically daily necessities, food and water, clothes, and beast stones used for capturing ferocious beasts.
When Ruan Tao had been reading the book before, she had found the male protagonist extremely annoying for constantly causing trouble for Bo Yutong. But at this moment, she had to feel grateful.
Because of the trouble the male protagonist caused, Bo Yutong would go out for the entire day and only return close to evening.
Ruan Tao glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.
12:03 p.m.
She had probably turned back into a human exactly at 12:00.
Regarding her hamster form, she always had a very strange feeling about it. She did not know whether it came from instinct or from an understanding of her own body.
But she knew clearly that it would not be long before she turned back into a hamster again.
Before that happened, she needed to find a “teammate” and also restore the scene she had destroyed.
Li Yudong was obviously very suitable.
As the female protagonist of this story, she should have the female protagonist halo. She would not die easily, and in many dangerous situations she could inexplicably turn danger into safety.
Moreover, it was still the early part of the story. This female protagonist had not yet been “redeemed,” and her moral standards were not very high yet, which made it very convenient to negotiate conditions with her.
After changing into a set of clean, brand-new clothes, Ruan Tao quickly fabricated a background story.
She said that she had originally been an Upper-Class Resident. She had gone hunting with her Big Brother and had been bitten by a mutated beast. When she woke up, she had turned into a hamster. After her wounds had finally healed, she had been captured by an exotic beast trader.
She said Bo Yutong was cold, ruthless, and completely unreasonable. If he found out that his pet was actually a human, he might become enraged and kill both of them.
For the sake of their shared safety, Li Yudong had to help her keep the secret.
Additionally, her “ability” to transform between hamster and human could make it easier for them to carry out certain operations right under Bo Yutong’s nose.
A Regional Chief’s Life Assistant was the person closest to the Regional Chief. They were usually simple young girls without abilities.
They could hardly survive alone in this world, so they relied on powerful people. The price was that unless the Regional Chief allowed it, they could not leave the Administrative District alive.
The Administrative District was like an imperial palace. Although it did not have that many rules, entering and leaving was still very troublesome.
Of course, Li Yudong was different.
She had relied on her cleverness and the female protagonist halo to sneak in, so she naturally had her own ways to slip out.
However, for a living person to sneak out like that was certainly not as convenient as a little hamster.
Li Yudong was quickly tempted.
When Ruan Tao turned back into a human, she looked like her original self.
She appeared very young, with an obedient and gentle appearance. Her pair of watery eyes looked even more deceptive than Li Yudong’s, making her seem completely like a naïve little girl who knew nothing of the world.
She also had the smooth skin of a modern girl, which fit perfectly with the “rich Upper-Class Resident young lady” persona she had fabricated.
Rich people were usually quite simple-minded—like Lu Yingzhu.
Having just deceived a Regional Chief from a small Residential Area, Li Yudong was very experienced and felt that she would easily be able to control Ruan Tao.
Thus, before Ruan Tao transformed back into a hamster, she successfully formed an alliance with Li Yudong.
The two of them worked together to restore the hamster’s little villa to its original condition.
Fortunately, the broken plank that Ruan Tao had stepped on had several spare pieces in the storage room. Taking one or two out would not be noticed.
Bo Yutong never cared about these small details of daily life.
Ruan Tao estimated the time she had before she transformed again. At most, she could last an hour.
Sure enough, one hour later, right in front of Li Yudong, she shrank and turned back into a hamster.
She crawled out from the pile of clothes, opened the “door” of her little house herself, and went back inside.
Perhaps turning into a human had consumed her energy, or perhaps the hamster’s biological clock had started working again.
Ruan Tao was extremely sleepy. She no longer had the energy to deal with Li Yudong, so she simply flopped onto the soft pile of wood shavings she had just brought and fell fast asleep.
She slept very comfortably and woke up naturally.
When she woke up, the room was pitch black.
Ruan Tao stretched lazily, used her little paws to push the wood shavings together into something that resembled a sofa, and climbed up to sit on it.
A fluffy little ball sat on the pile of wood shavings in the posture of a lazy couch potato. The scene was so soft and adorable that it was almost ridiculous.
Bo Yutong laughed out loud at the hamster once again.
If an ordinary cool guy were to grin foolishly at a hamster—twice in a row—he would definitely feel extremely embarrassed.
But Bo Yutong was not an ordinary cool guy.
At this moment, he did not feel embarrassed at all. He only found it fascinating.
Ruan Tao only realized there was someone there when she heard the sound.
She then discovered that she was no longer in the original room.
The “room” she had been sleeping in had been removed and brought separately into Bo Yutong’s study.
And Bo Yutong was sitting beside it, reading some documents.
In order not to disturb Ruan Tao’s sleep, he had not turned on the lights. His deep black eyes had turned into a beautiful lake-blue color, glowing faintly in the darkness.
Ruan Tao had once thought such a scene would look eerie, but when she actually saw it, she only felt that it was incredibly handsome.
Like a snow leopard waiting for the right moment to strike.
The male god was right in front of her. Ruan Tao quickly flipped over and stood up, trying to behave like a refined little mouse.
Bo Yutong reached out and opened the door of the little house.
A pleasant scent came toward her, and Ruan Tao eagerly climbed onto his finger.
She had originally thought that after turning back into a hamster, not wearing clothes would make her feel embarrassed, like she was running around naked.
However, after transforming back, she realized that with the soft hamster fur covering her body, she did not feel naked at all. Instead, it was like wearing a layer of coral fleece pajamas—warm and extremely comfortable.
Bo Yutong clearly liked her fur as well.
He stopped reading the documents and gently stroked her back with his index finger.
Ruan Tao had the type of personality that stayed up all night on the last day of vacation to finish homework. To put it simply, she lived in the moment and only panicked a little when things were about to go terribly wrong.
The atmosphere now was warm and peaceful. Lying in the palm of the male god’s hand while being gently stroked—there was no reason for her not to enjoy it.
The round hamster was stroked again and again by his finger. Her whole body softened, gradually changing from a ball of hamster into a flattened hamster pancake.
Bo Yutong stopped.
He was afraid that if he continued stroking, the little thing would really melt in his palm.
“So comfortable?” he asked in a low voice.
The question sounded extremely ambiguous, and his voice was still as pleasant as ever. Ruan Tao’s first reaction was to bury her face in his palm out of embarrassment.
Although it was embarrassing, she had to admit that when she had been reading the novel, she had fantasized about Bo Yutong many times.
In her mind, she had already written over a hundred thousand words of R18 fanfiction about Bo Yutong × Ruan Tao.
The moment he spoke, all sorts of indescribable images immediately appeared in her mind—most of them focused on parts below the neck that could not be described, and a smaller portion focused on Bo Yutong’s expression.
When saying something like that, he would probably have a blank expression, but there would be a trace of satisfaction in his usually calm black eyes. A thin layer of sweat would appear on his temples, and his cheeks would be slightly flushed.
Restrained yet seductive.
Now that her imagination had a real close-up of Bo Yutong’s face as a reference, the imagery became even more vivid.
Ruan Tao took a moment to calm herself down and threw all those images into the mental recycling bin. Then she poked her head out again and looked up at Bo Yutong.
Bo Yutong indeed had no expression, and there was certainly no thin sweat or flushed cheeks.
He looked at the flattened hamster in his hand as it climbed up again. Two round little eyes sparkled as they looked at him, filled with admiration and dependence.
He had seen plenty of looks of fear and hatred before.
But this kind of gaze was something he was seeing for the first time.
Bo Yutong only found it novel.
He had always liked novel things.
“Be good,” he said as he placed Ruan Tao on the desk. “I’m reading documents. Don’t run around.”
Ruan Tao nodded repeatedly, very obedient.
Bo Yutong chuckled softly, relaxed against the back of the chair, and reached out to pick up the documents on the desk.
But Ruan Tao climbed up along his hand again and made her way all the way to his shoulder.
Bo Yutong was still wearing his “work uniform.”
The several Residential Areas nearby formed a Regional Alliance. Within the same alliance, the Regional Chiefs all wore the same uniform.
Bo Yutong’s “work uniform” looked somewhat like a black German-style military uniform. The tailoring fit perfectly, with an ideal waistline and shoulder padding.
After removing the coat, there was a white shirt underneath.
Ruan Tao crouched on his white shirt.
Bo Yutong chuckled again. His fingertip rubbed Ruan Tao’s head before he reached for the documents again.
He read documents extremely quickly, scanning ten lines at a glance.
Before Ruan Tao had even finished reading the flattering nonsense at the beginning, he had already turned to the next page.
After finishing, he showed no expression. With a casual flick of his finger, the entire sheet of paper instantly turned to ash and disappeared.
Ruan Tao: “…” That was just way too cool.
Having nothing else to do, she accompanied Bo Yutong as he read documents until three in the morning.
With Bo Yutong’s current physique, even going seven days and nights without sleep would not cause any problems.
However, he was very disciplined in this regard. According to the original novel, he would go to sleep punctually at four in the morning, enter deep sleep for three hours, and wake up punctually at seven.
At three o’clock, it was time for him to take a shower and change clothes.
Bo Yutong’s bathroom was next to the study, and the bedroom was inside the study.
He did not like overly spacious rooms. Compared to the luxurious “palaces” of other Regional Chiefs, Bo Yutong’s residence was almost excessively simple and frugal.
He stood up, went into the bedroom, took a set of pajamas from the wardrobe, and then walked into the bathroom.
When he took off his shirt, he discovered that Ruan Tao was still lying on his shoulder.
He lowered his head to look at her, and Ruan Tao blinked her eyes, looking extremely innocent and harmless.
Bo Yutong did not think much of it. He casually placed Ruan Tao on the neatly folded pajamas and said softly, “Don’t run around.”
Ruan Tao nodded.
So, right in front of her, Bo Yutong began unbuttoning his shirt…