This was not the first time Ruan Tao had seen a man’s upper body.
After all, she had an older brother who lived with her day and night.
Because they spent so much time together, Ruan Zhu was indeed rather sloppy in private.
Although deliberately wandering around the house without a shirt would earn him a scolding from their mother, “accidentally” running into his sister and taking the opportunity to bully her a bit was one of Ruan Zhu’s specialties.
For example, when they had been growing teenagers, everyone got hungry easily. They often sneaked into the kitchen in the middle of the night to steal something to eat.
During summer, Ruan Zhu slept wearing only pajama pants. When he went out to steal food, he wouldn’t bother putting on extra clothes.
Sometimes he would run into Ruan Tao in the kitchen by chance, and there would only be the last small slice of cake left in the refrigerator.
Ruan Zhu would trap Ruan Tao between the refrigerator and his chest, shamelessly bending down and leaning his upper body toward her.
He usually exercised, so his figure was very good. His skin was fair, his muscles were well-proportioned, and he had that youthful charm. It was the kind of beautiful body that girls from Ruan Tao’s age at the time all the way up to adult college students would find hard to resist.
At first, Ruan Tao didn’t dare to look at him. He would take the chance to grab the small cake, snatch it, and run off, rushing back to his room to lock the door.
Later, Ruan Tao learned to close her eyes and fight him for the cake.
Later still, Ruan Tao could calmly look at his figure without her expression changing, even clicking her tongue as she commented, “Are your abs not as obvious as before lately?”
Ruan Zhu didn’t feel embarrassed at all. He deliberately flexed his abs and showed them off, touching them himself as he asked back, “Really? Don’t you think the shape looks better?”
Ruan Tao didn’t answer. She grabbed the cake and ran back to her room, locking the door behind her.
…
After several years, Ruan Tao had long since graduated from the “growing age.”
Although she still felt her height could grow a little more.
With her brother’s physique as a reference, Ruan Tao thought that appreciating Bo Yutong’s beautiful body from this distance probably wouldn’t cause too big a reaction, nor would he think she was a perverted mouse and slap her to death.
So Ruan Tao lifted her head and looked at Bo Yutong with anticipation.
Even though she had prepared herself mentally, Ruan Tao was still dazzled by the motion of Bo Yutong loosening his tie.
Of course, Bo Yutong would not feel shy in front of a hamster.
He naturally unbuttoned his shirt and took it off.
Ruan Tao couldn’t help swallowing.
At that moment, she finally understood why people used the phrase “youthful charm”—“boy” and “man” were practically two entirely different species.
Bo Yutong’s muscle lines were far more defined. When he wore clothes, he seemed cold and abstinent. But once the clothes were off, he was practically overflowing with sensuality, his hormones exploding instantly. The curves of his arms rose and fell with his movements, looking powerful enough to flip over a cow.
Ruan Tao remembered the way his fingertips had gently brushed against her head earlier—slow and tender. The contrast with the current him was striking.
Bo Yutong didn’t notice that a little mouse in front of him had already been captivated by his charm.
He casually turned around and bent down, personally placing his clothes into the washing machine.
This man had a slight cleanliness obsession and mild compulsive tendencies. He didn’t like “Life Assistants” touching his personal belongings.
He always handled washing clothes himself.
Thus Ruan Tao suddenly had a free opportunity to admire his broad back muscles and trapezius muscles.
Her eyes were already dazzled, but she hadn’t expected that something even more stimulating would come next.
After Bo Yutong straightened up, he glanced at her to confirm that the little mouse was obediently staying in place and hadn’t run around. Then he reached out—
—to undo his belt.
Ruan Tao heard the sound of the belt unfastening.
The fur along her back instantly puffed up.
As Bo Yutong moved, Ruan Tao’s gaze involuntarily fell toward his waist. She inevitably saw his lower abdomen, the lines of his V-shaped muscles, and his hands opening the belt buckle…
Those hands had gently stroked her many times before. At this moment, Ruan Tao finally saw clearly just how beautiful those hands were.
The belt was removed, rolled into a circle, and placed on top of the pajamas.
It just happened to form a circle around Ruan Tao.
“Don’t run around,” Bo Yutong warned again.
For a brief moment, Ruan Tao suddenly understood how Tang Monk must have felt when Sun Wukong drew a protective circle around him.
She stared in shock as he reached to unfasten the button of his pants.
Bo Yutong didn’t think much about it. Just as he was about to unzip his pants, he suddenly noticed that the little fellow who had been standing there blankly suddenly raised two fluffy pink paws and covered her eyes.
Bo Yutong: “……”
He paused.
After a moment, the little fellow secretly lowered one paw and sneakily peeked at him.
She looked both frightened and curious.
Bo Yutong laughed. “Shy?”
Ruan Tao covered her eyes and nodded desperately.
Originally she hadn’t been that shy. It was just that her already low moral bottom line had managed to hold back her scattered sense of decency in time, prompting her to cover her eyes.
But after Bo Yutong asked that question, she actually became genuinely embarrassed.
Bo Yutong touched her head, then pinched the little mouse’s soft body and turned her around.
Ruan Tao: “……”
She heard the rustling sound of him taking off his pants behind her. Soon after, the bathroom door opened.
Ruan Tao sat in place, her mind filled with the images from earlier.
It even came with background music—someone’s low voice with a hint of laughter repeating phrases like “Be good,” “Does that feel comfortable?” and “Shy?” on loop.
Bo Yutong showered quickly. In about twenty minutes, he came out of the bathroom.
His physical condition was excellent and his powers were strong. The water droplets on his body quickly evaporated from his warm body temperature, and even his hair dried almost instantly.
Ruan Tao covered her face as she looked at him. He laughed, picked her up, took away the pajamas she had been sitting on, and put her back down.
This time, Ruan Tao maintained her dignity and didn’t look at him while he put on his pajamas.
Mainly because she felt that if she kept looking, she might not be able to endure it.
Although Ruan Tao, as a hamster, had already slept for more than twelve hours due to her biological clock… when Bo Yutong went to bed, she still rubbed her little paws together eagerly, wanting to sneak into someone’s blanket.
To be honest, she was indeed a little sleepy.
And something instinctive was telling her that eating, exercising, and even sleeping could extend the time before she could turn back into a human.
Once she completely turned back into a human, her relationship with Bo Yutong would probably already be marching triumphantly toward marriage!
Ruan Tao thought optimistically.
She proactively crawled into Bo Yutong’s shirt pocket.
Unfortunately, Bo Yutong seemed worried that he might accidentally roll over and crush her while sleeping, so he didn’t actually take her onto the bed.
Instead, he put her back into her little house.
Before leaving, he even rubbed her forehead with his finger and said softly, “Good night.”
That was definitely the gentlest tone Ruan Tao had ever heard him use.
With that sentence, the casual brush of his finger felt like a good-night kiss given in place of lips.
Ruan Tao was completely dazzled by the cool guy’s tenderness. Blushing, she burrowed into the soft pile of wood shavings and shredded paper.
Bo Yutong chuckled and turned to leave.
Ruan Tao slept deeply again in the wood shavings.
In her dream, she smelled the pleasant scent on Bo Yutong’s body again. Bo Yutong personally carried her house back to the “villa,” then prepared to go out to work.
Unexpectedly, a certain little mouse who should have been sleeping soundly suddenly rolled up and jumped to her feet, swiftly climbing onto his sleeve.
Bo Yutong was afraid she might fall, so he didn’t immediately reach out to grab her.
Ruan Tao took advantage of the situation, climbing along his clothes at top speed and diving straight into the chest pocket of his shirt.
Bo Yutong said, “…Want to go out and play?”
Ruan Tao’s pink little paws tightly grabbed the edge of his pocket as she raised her head to look at him, nodding repeatedly.
Bo Yutong frowned slightly.
Ruan Tao felt that her vision had basically recovered now. At this distance, she could clearly see Bo Yutong’s signature cool-guy frown.
She almost wanted to climb onto his face and smooth out his eyebrows herself.
Or like Han Xiang once wanted to do to Meng Dan—take an iron and press his eyebrows flat.
As if sensing Ruan Tao’s dangerous thoughts, Bo Yutong quickly relaxed his frown.
“Alright,” Bo Yutong said as he walked outside, lightly pressing her little head. “It’s dangerous outside. Stay here. If I don’t call you, don’t come out.”
Ruan Tao rubbed her chubby little face against his fingertip.
Bo Yutong was pleased by her action and smiled again.
Just then, they happened to run into Li Yudong at the end of the corridor. Li Yudong was cleaning up some kind of green liquid.
Li Yudong was about to speak when she suddenly froze after seeing Bo Yutong’s smile.
Ruan Tao exchanged a glance with her and knew that in her heart she must be shouting like a butler in a CEO novel: Oh my god, Mr. Bo has never smiled this many times in his life!
Before Bo Yutong officially left the building, he pressed Ruan Tao’s head again, clearly hoping she would completely hide inside his pocket.
He didn’t want anyone else to see his pet’s peerless beauty.
Ruan Tao held her chubby cheeks and narcissistically guessed Bo Yutong’s thoughts.
Terrifyingly enough, she had guessed correctly.
This time, Bo Yutong seemed to be going out to negotiate a magical beast trade.
Mutated animals were generally divided into fierce beasts and magical beasts. Fierce beasts were mostly wild animals that couldn’t be domesticated and would only cause destruction. Magical beasts, however, could be domesticated by humans.
Residents of the residential areas needed magical beasts to help cultivate farmland and manufacture tools.
The “middleman” for this trade was the loud voice Ruan Tao had heard when she first arrived.
Only now did Ruan Tao learn that the loud voice belonged to someone named Ba Ye, an exotic beast trader who traveled between various residential areas, specializing in selling extremely rare and exotic animals.
When Ruan Tao heard his voice, she felt it was very familiar.
Perhaps because it had been the first voice she heard after arriving, she felt a strange chick-like attachment to him and had a good impression of him.
So she poked half of her head and one pink paw out of Bo Yutong’s pocket and waved very friendly at Ba Ye.
Ba Ye was stunned for a moment and almost laughed at the sight.
But in the next instant, everyone present felt that a certain big shot’s gaze had suddenly turned colder, and even the surrounding air pressure seemed to drop…
Ba Ye’s smile froze in midair, turning into a strange expression that was half-smile, half-not.