Chapter 624: Chapter 362: City Life of the Little Nian Beast and Lin Xingshi

"But you are a girl." Little Nian Beast shook his head, "You can wear dresses, have long hair... Little Nian feels sorry for you, you don’t have to practice boxing every day."

Lin Xingshi sniffed, her eyes suddenly reddened, she curled up her knees and buried her head in them.

"You’re really nice."

She was silent for a while, "Did you know? I used to go to school, and those boys called me a tomboy, and then... later I stopped going to school. I really wanted to go to school. I begged my family for a long time before they agreed to let me go."

Her voice grew lower and by the end, she was almost whispering.

Little Nian Beast stared blankly at her, it was hard to imagine how much grievance this girl was hiding, but it suddenly felt very sad, she must have been very lonely all these years, right? It was just because she couldn’t bear the loneliness that she ran away.

Just like him on the mountain, everyone was in awe of him because he was the Great Monarch’s son, afraid of him, no one really befriended him, he felt so bored and lonely that he ran away from home.

"Why don’t you go to school?" he asked softly.

"No one likes me."

"Then I don’t like them either." Little Nian Beast said angrily, "Besides, you look great, not at all like a tomboy."

"Really?" Lin Xingshi asked softly.

"Um, you’re the cutest human child I’ve met." Little Nian Beast finished, silently adding in his heart, although I’ve only met you as a human child.

"Human child, what kind of phrase is that?" Lin Xingshi was taken aback, then laughed, "You’re really funny."

"You don’t like your own name?"

"They all say my name sounds like a boy’s... say my hair looks like a boy’s, and also freckles."

"But I think your name sounds nice, your hair looks nice, and your freckles look nice too."

"What girl would have a name with ’lion’ in it?" Lin Xingshi lowered her eyelids, "I know you’re trying to comfort me..."

Little Nian Beast interrupted her, "There are female lions too. I think my mom is a very gentle and beautiful lioness, but she passed away... My dad was really sad, I’m sad too, but he’s so busy, he doesn’t pay any attention to me."

"Who says their mom is a lioness?"

"My mom is a lioness."

"Oh, then you’re a little lion."

"...Do you hate lions?"

"I don’t hate them. I’ve been learning lion dance since I was a kid."

"What’s that?"

"It’s a traditional culture, dancing with a lion head, why do you look so scared? It’s not a real lion head, it’s the fake kind you put on your head... Are you stupid? Did you really think someone would dance with a real lion head?"

"Oh oh oh."

"I’ll show you some moves when I have time."

"Um um."

"I’m going to take a bath."

"Little Nian wants to take a bath with you."

"No way, when do boys and girls bathe together?"

"Okay, then Little Nian will wait for you here." Little Nian Beast waved at her.

Lin Xingshi hugged the clean dress and got up, quickly walking out of the kitchen. She wiped the dust off her cheeks with the back of her hand, humming a song as she wandered around the large apartment building, just like a princess roaming her own castle.

After a while, she finally found a bathroom on the second floor. But at this moment, she suddenly felt it wasn’t good to leave Little Nian Beast alone in the kitchen, it was so quiet downstairs, he had been so obedient, curled up with his knees hugged in the kitchen.

She hesitated for a moment, then turned back and shouted downstairs:

"Hey!"

Little Nian Beast heard her voice, obediently sticking his head out of the kitchen, the two of them standing, one at the top of the stairs, leaning against the railing, the other on the first floor, just looking at each other.

"Let’s take a bath together." Lin Xingshi said, "I’m scared to go alone."

"Okay." Little Nian Beast nodded and went upstairs.

"You wait outside first, and when I tell you to come in, you can come in."

"Um um."

Lin Xingshi glanced at him, then walked into the bathroom and closed the door. She squatted by the bathtub, turned on the tap, watching the steaming hot water fill the entire bathtub, staring blankly at the bubbles emerging from the water surface.

Then, she placed the clean dress she was holding on the rack, took off the dirty jumpsuit, and stepped into the bathtub. The warm hot water instantly filled her whole body, she buried her entire head under the water, washed off the dust on her face, and stared at herself in the mirror.

Lin Xingshi squatted in the bathtub, only her head exposed above the water, her wet bangs sticking to her forehead, and then she said, "You can come in now."

Little Nian Beast pushed open the bathroom door, looking at Lin Xingshi curiously, it was his first time seeing her so clean, before she was always covered in a layer of dust.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Xingshi asked with red ears, "You get in the bath too." With that, she stuffed her head into the water, bubbles gurgling in the bathtub.

Little Nian Beast quickly took off his T-shirt and pants, curled up and hid in the bathtub. Then he mimicked Lin Xingshi, only exposing his head above the water.

"Where did you go?" Little Nian Beast was puzzled, "Are you playing hide and seek with me?"

"No, you can’t go underwater!" With a splash, Lin Xingshi suddenly popped her head out from below the bathwater, glaring at him.

The two small heads floating on the bathtub looked at each other’s silly expressions, and they both clutched their stomachs, laughing, the water splashing everywhere.

"This is the first time I’ve ever bathed in a bathtub." Lin Xingshi said.

"Me too, I always bathed in the lake water before." Little Nian Beast said.