Chapter 13
In the quiet and cool night breeze, the bent figure of the old woman gradually faded.
Finally, it dissipated into the boundless night.
At the moment the old woman ghost disappeared, a few stray wisps of golden light flew onto Lian Xi’s hand. He lowered his head and closed his hands around it slightly. The golden light fluttered around his fingertips and finally merged into his body and disappeared.
No one saw the golden light meld into Lian Xi’s body.
The old woman had gone to be reincarnated. The local Black Reaper stood there impassively and flipped through his Reaper Record.
A name slowly emerged.
[Zhao YuYing, 1928-1980, died of illness.]
The old woman had gone to be reincarnated and Lian Xi had obtained a golden light. Everyone was happy!
… Was this enough?
The short housemate swallowed his saliva and looked at a certain Black Reaper. He slowly shuffled towards Lian Xi’s side. After he stood behind Lian Xi, he breathed a sigh of relief. With a pandering face, he looked at the man opposite the street and said, “Er, Lord Black Reaper, that ghost has already gone to reincarnate. So, we’ll be going then!”
After he spoke, he immediately grabbed Lian Xi and wanted to run away.
Then…
He pulled.
Lian Xi didn’t move.
He pulled again!
……
Su Jiao: “…..”
Su Jiao pulled his head and expressed with a crying face: Lian Xi! Run ah!
Lian Xi glanced at him, gently shook his head then shook off his hand. He raised his head and looked at that person across the road. After taking a deep breath, he walked over.
A cool and pleasant night breeze was blowing. A man in black had one hand in his pocket and in the other he was holding the Reaper Record. He was looking back. Within the glow of light, he saw someone walking towards him. He looked at Lian Xi, then raised his eyebrow slightly.
At this time Lian Xi finally saw this man clearly.
The golden haze of light around his body at this point turned into tiny pricks of starlight and no longer concealed his appearance. Instead it flew around him like glittering golden fireflies. The man’s hair was short and black, moving in the wind. His face was handsome with straight brows but there was a small black mole which crossed his right right eyebrow. The man’s face was proud and detached, his eyes deep and colorless, as though he were a god looking coldly towards his subjects, majestic and detached.
He had a feeling of not being able to get close to.
Lian Xi approached step by step and finally he stopped in front of the man.
Endless golden lights danced wildly into the air, bumping into Lian Xi’s body from time to time then sliding down.
In the darkness, the youth stretched out his hand and his voice was soft and calm. “My name is Lian Xi. What should I call you?”
……
Su Jiao: #HelpMyHousemateHasGoneInsaneWhatShouldIDo!#
This psycho!
He really couldn’t be saved!
Doesn’t Lian Xi know who this fellow is ah!
Su City’s Black Reaper ah! One of the pair of damn rabbits! Inhuman! See a XuanXiu then immediately kill them! The kind of damn rabbit that will even kill a random bystander on a travelling trip ahhhhh!!! {Remember rabbit is slang for being gay.}
Su Jiao almost turned tail and ran away by himself. But as an upstanding young man who had just received the very latest Apple phone thanks to somebody…. He clenched his teeth and dug in his heels.
Just ten seconds.
I’ll wait another ten seconds. More than that I’m going to run!
However what Su Jiao never expected was that after Lian Xi said these words, that Black Reaper actually didn’t move to kill anybody.
He saw the Black Reaper lower his eyes and carefully, seriously, up and down…. consider Lian Xi.
Seeing this image took Su Jiao aback. He felt like something was weird.
From this angle, he could just see Lian Xi’s profile.
From the first day he moved in, Su Jiao already knew that his house mate was good looking. He was just a little bit worse than himself.
His eyebrows were elegant and handsome, the corners of his eyes were just slightly raised, and his gaze was clear and clean. His lips were both pale and light. If he lived in the ancient times, he would be the kind of young master who stood on a bridge to gaze at the scenery and was above common things. In modern day, he was the level of being the campus idol.
But….
How come he still felt like there was something weird.
Across the road, Su Jiao watched as Lian Xi and that Su City Black Reaper gazed at each other.
En, they were gazing.
For quite a few seconds already.
Still gazing.
Still…
****?!
Gazing?!
Su Jiao’s eyes suddenly went wide: No way, no way ba. Did this damn rabbit Black Reaper develop a fancy for Lian Xi?!
Just as Su Jiao’s heart was struggling desperately as to whether or not he should put his life on the line for this short-lived friendship with Lian Xi and forcibly drag him away, or whether or not he should adopt the stance of “housemates were just two birds sheltering from disaster under one roof, bye bye Lian Xi, be a good person in your next life” and just get the heck out, when suddenly the Black Reaper moved.
The man glanced at Lian Xi’s outstretched hand. He didn’t reach out his hand, instead he raised the corners of his lips and uttered two words, “Lie Chen.”
Lie Chen?
Lian Xi asked: “The “Lie” from “Enumerate”?” {Lian Xi is trying to figure out what character “Lie” it is. It’s actually not the one from “lie ju”/”enumerate”. It’s an uncommon character and uncommon surname. By the way, it’s not pronounced like the English “lie” but Li-Eh}
The man smiled but didn’t answer.
Lian Xi didn’t worry himself over this. His gaze was peaceful and looked at the man in front quietly. After a few seconds, as Su Jiao watched him with a gaze that expressed “you still goddamn want to chat?”, he used an extremely common tone to ask a very uncommon question: “So… are you really Su City’s local Black Reaper?”
The man’s eyebrow moved slightly but he didn’t speak.
After a moment, Lian Xi smiled. He said with an air of confidence, “Looks like you really are the local Black Reaper of Su City. Then…” He raised his eyes and gazed at the other person serenely. “Then can I ask, what happened to the original Black Reaper?”
The youth’s bright and clear eyes flashed with confidence and determination, without a trace of fear or retreat, like a bright moon shining radiantly.
As he looked at the person in front of him, without quite knowing why, Lie Chen’s lips moved but he still didn’t speak.
Finally after a moment, he smiled. “I can tell you but you also have to answer a question of mine.”
“What question?”
“How did you know that I’m not the original Black Reaper of Su City?”
***
Si City was a famous water town in HuaXia’s JiangNan. It had the name of “the Venice of the East”. Here the water networks ran vertically and horizontally, there were large and small rivers and lakes everywhere.
Rumour had it that the roads of Su City were not built in accordance with the directions of north and south, but by following the water. A water system can be seen beside every road in Su City, winding and twisting. This also created the trend of winding roads in Su City.
Three days ago, at 3AM in Su City, beside the YiShan Lake.
This lake is one of the oldest lakes in Su City. In ancient times, it was formed by the flood plain and the backflow of ocean tides. In the 1940s, the government encircled the lake, wanting to harness its power to build farmlands. Who knew that a heavy rain would wash away all the farmland that had just been fenced off. The fertile land washed into the lake and YiShan Lake returned to its original state.
At this moment, a heavy and thick yin energy that ordinary people couldn’t see, heavily and densely covered the earth around her.
Wearing a ghost official hat on his head, a Black Reaper holding a Reaper Record vomited out a large amount of blood. He was heavily injured and fell down beside the lake.
He had just killed a malicious ghost.
This malicious ghost drowned at the bottom of the YiShan Lake three years ago and it had been peaceful until last year when a developer reclaimed this piece of land. While digging a foundation, he had accidentally allowed lake water to pour in. The malicious ghost was awakened and turned the construction site into a bloodbath. In just a short three months, three workers had already died.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Su City’s Black Reaper would have had no problems dealing with this kind of malicious ghost who had only been dead three years and had only eaten three people. However last year he had fought a century old evil spirit and was already seriously injured. Now trying to kill this malicious ghost was like adding wounds onto an already nearly broken body, and he had reached the point of his death and reincarnation!
While panting, the Black Reaper opened his Reaper Record. He needed to contact the Underworld! He had to let them know to immediately send a new Black Reaper up!
However, the Black Reaper had only just opened his record and hadn’t called anyone yet, when suddenly he raised his head and saw a black shadow reach out from underneath the earth. Step by step, it climbed out!
“….???”
****?!
When did upper management start being so efficient?
Last year he already submitted his retirement application and this year it was already processed?
Under normal circumstances didn’t you have to wait two or three years, and then get squeezed for another two or three years?
Clutching his wounds, the Black Reaper walked up to the black figure.
A person who had just emerged from the Underworld would always be filled with too much yin energy and with the addition of darkness, he couldn’t see the other person’s face. He patted the other person’s shoulder. “Brother, your entrance is most timely. Let’s change shifts!”
***
Su Jiao: “??? The hell! So you’re actually Su City’s new Black Reaper?”
Lian Xi: “When did you get here?”
Su Jiao: “Just now when you guys were telling stories.”
Lian Xi nodded: “So Black Reapers actually can change shifts. So if the Black Reaper dies, he can also reincarnate? Wait, is the Black and White Reaper a person or a ghost? I thought they were always ghosts.”
“It can be either a person or a ghost.”
The man’s voice was low and steady. Lian Xi turned to look at him.
Lie Chen’s tone was indifferent. “Humans, ghosts and monsters can all be Reapers. Reapers are universal.” {He says it in a poetic, poetry type way.}
The voice seemed ethereal and the opinion seemed a bit other worldly as though it were looking down from a high place.
Lian Xi was slightly surprised.
After a moment, Lian Xi: “So my Lord, what you’re saying is right now you’re new to Su City and you’ve only been here three days?”
Su Jiao gave Lian Xi a strange look: My Lord?
Lie Chen lightly inclined his head.
Lian Xi smiled. He raised his eyes to look at that indifference face with the otherworldly air. Even the clothing he was wearing was strange. Other than the Reaper Record, this man didn’t even have a mobile phone. Sincerely and kindly he asked, “Then, do you have somewhere to live?”
Su Jiao: ???
Lie Chen raised his eyebrow and looked at him. There was some laughter in his eyes. “No.”
Lian Xi: “Since it’s like this… actually my Lord, my house is pretty big. Right now there’s two empty rooms. The rent is also not expensive. If you want to, I can rent another room from the landlord…”
Su Jiao grabbed him furiously. “Wait, wait, wait, Lian Xi what’s gotten into you tonight….”
As though someone had caught him by the tail, Lian Xi opened his eyes wide and righteously protested, “Golden light? What golden light? Don’t talk nonsense! Lord Black Reaper has just gotten here. As locals of Su City, shouldn’t we welcome him? What golden light, stop talking about it!”
Su Jiao felt extremely wronged!: “I didn’t say anything about a golden light ah! What golden light?”
“You really want to help me?”
After a pause, Lian Xi turned to look back at the man.
They gazed at each other. Looking into the man’s deep and dark eyes, Lian Xi’s gaze slowly moved towards the dancing golden lights around him. His heart calmed down. For some inexplicable reason he gave the answer, “Yes.”
Lie Chen smiled. “Okay, thank you.”
After he spoke, a few golden lights floated out of his body, leapt and ran over to Lian Xi and melted into him!
Lain Xi: “?!!!”
So quickly?!
Lie Chen: “However, before I come, I have a condition.”
Su Jiao glared at him. For a second he forgot to be scared and awed. “Hey, letting you live for free and you still have conditions?!”
The man’s hands moved slightly. A thin and plain notebook suddenly appeared in his palm. It had a plain white cover and was palm-sized. The other difference was the three characters printed on the cover–
“Reaper Record”.
Wait wait, the Reaper Record the man took out previously had a black cover, and now this one… had a white cover?!
Lian Xi suddenly realized something. He didn’t speak but saw the man slightly narrow his cold eyes.
“That Black Reaper said that the local White Reaper died more than a decade ago and has long gone to the Underworld to report for reincarnation. A new one should have arrived ages ago, however he never met the other person. So right now the White Reaper has been absent from work for more than a decade. These few years all the work in Su City has been done by him alone.”
Lian Xi: “Oh…. so?”
Do you want me to help you find the White Reaper?
Lie Chen snapped his fingers and the White Reaper Record flew out. Lian Xi subconsciously caught it.
Lie Chen: “Was it you who neglected your duties for more than a decade?”
Lian Xi: “……???”
****?!
Are all your Reapers so casual?!!!
***
The author wants to say:
Su City’s Black Reaper: You must be the new Reaper who’s come to report for duty ba!
President Lie who just ran out: ? Oh, yes I’m the Black Reaper, I’m the Black Reaper, I’m the Black Reaper [self-hypnotizing].
CC: ?? Then how did I become the White Reaper ah?! Ten years ago I was only a kid ah!!
Crisp Dumpling: Lian Xi’s changed! He’s changed! [A face of grief] He’s suddenly turned into a dog that hugs a thigh!
***
Chapter 13
In the quiet and cool night breeze, the bent figure of the old woman gradually faded.
Finally, it dissipated into the boundless night.
At the moment the old woman ghost disappeared, a few stray wisps of golden light flew onto Lian Xi’s hand. He lowered his head and closed his hands around it slightly. The golden light fluttered around his fingertips and finally merged into his body and disappeared.
No one saw the golden light meld into Lian Xi’s body.
The old woman had gone to be reincarnated. The local Black Reaper stood there impassively and flipped through his Reaper Record.
A name slowly emerged.
[Zhao YuYing, 1928-1980, died of illness.]
The old woman had gone to be reincarnated and Lian Xi had obtained a golden light. Everyone was happy!
… Was this enough?
The short housemate swallowed his saliva and looked at a certain Black Reaper. He slowly shuffled towards Lian Xi’s side. After he stood behind Lian Xi, he breathed a sigh of relief. With a pandering face, he looked at the man opposite the street and said, “Er, Lord Black Reaper, that ghost has already gone to reincarnate. So, we’ll be going then!”
After he spoke, he immediately grabbed Lian Xi and wanted to run away.
Then…
He pulled.
Lian Xi didn’t move.
He pulled again!
……
Su Jiao: “…..”
Su Jiao pulled his head and expressed with a crying face: Lian Xi! Run ah!
Lian Xi glanced at him, gently shook his head then shook off his hand. He raised his head and looked at that person across the road. After taking a deep breath, he walked over.
A cool and pleasant night breeze was blowing. A man in black had one hand in his pocket and in the other he was holding the Reaper Record. He was looking back. Within the glow of light, he saw someone walking towards him. He looked at Lian Xi, then raised his eyebrow slightly.
At this time Lian Xi finally saw this man clearly.
The golden haze of light around his body at this point turned into tiny pricks of starlight and no longer concealed his appearance. Instead it flew around him like glittering golden fireflies. The man’s hair was short and black, moving in the wind. His face was handsome with straight brows but there was a small black mole which crossed his right right eyebrow. The man’s face was proud and detached, his eyes deep and colorless, as though he were a god looking coldly towards his subjects, majestic and detached.
He had a feeling of not being able to get close to.
Lian Xi approached step by step and finally he stopped in front of the man.
Endless golden lights danced wildly into the air, bumping into Lian Xi’s body from time to time then sliding down.
In the darkness, the youth stretched out his hand and his voice was soft and calm. “My name is Lian Xi. What should I call you?”
……
Su Jiao: #HelpMyHousemateHasGoneInsaneWhatShouldIDo!#
This psycho!
He really couldn’t be saved!
Doesn’t Lian Xi know who this fellow is ah!
Su City’s Black Reaper ah! One of the pair of damn rabbits! Inhuman! See a XuanXiu then immediately kill them! The kind of damn rabbit that will even kill a random bystander on a travelling trip ahhhhh!!! {Remember rabbit is slang for being gay.}
Su Jiao almost turned tail and ran away by himself. But as an upstanding young man who had just received the very latest Apple phone thanks to somebody…. He clenched his teeth and dug in his heels.
Just ten seconds.
I’ll wait another ten seconds. More than that I’m going to run!
However what Su Jiao never expected was that after Lian Xi said these words, that Black Reaper actually didn’t move to kill anybody.
He saw the Black Reaper lower his eyes and carefully, seriously, up and down…. consider Lian Xi.
Seeing this image took Su Jiao aback. He felt like something was weird.
From this angle, he could just see Lian Xi’s profile.
From the first day he moved in, Su Jiao already knew that his house mate was good looking. He was just a little bit worse than himself.
His eyebrows were elegant and handsome, the corners of his eyes were just slightly raised, and his gaze was clear and clean. His lips were both pale and light. If he lived in the ancient times, he would be the kind of young master who stood on a bridge to gaze at the scenery and was above common things. In modern day, he was the level of being the campus idol.
But….
How come he still felt like there was something weird.
Across the road, Su Jiao watched as Lian Xi and that Su City Black Reaper gazed at each other.
En, they were gazing.
For quite a few seconds already.
Still gazing.
Still…
****?!
Gazing?!
Su Jiao’s eyes suddenly went wide: No way, no way ba. Did this damn rabbit Black Reaper develop a fancy for Lian Xi?!
Just as Su Jiao’s heart was struggling desperately as to whether or not he should put his life on the line for this short-lived friendship with Lian Xi and forcibly drag him away, or whether or not he should adopt the stance of “housemates were just two birds sheltering from disaster under one roof, bye bye Lian Xi, be a good person in your next life” and just get the heck out, when suddenly the Black Reaper moved.
The man glanced at Lian Xi’s outstretched hand. He didn’t reach out his hand, instead he raised the corners of his lips and uttered two words, “Lie Chen.”
Lie Chen?
Lian Xi asked: “The “Lie” from “Enumerate”?” {Lian Xi is trying to figure out what character “Lie” it is. It’s actually not the one from “lie ju”/”enumerate”. It’s an uncommon character and uncommon surname. By the way, it’s not pronounced like the English “lie” but Li-Eh}
The man smiled but didn’t answer.
Lian Xi didn’t worry himself over this. His gaze was peaceful and looked at the man in front quietly. After a few seconds, as Su Jiao watched him with a gaze that expressed “you still goddamn want to chat?”, he used an extremely common tone to ask a very uncommon question: “So… are you really Su City’s local Black Reaper?”
The man’s eyebrow moved slightly but he didn’t speak.
After a moment, Lian Xi smiled. He said with an air of confidence, “Looks like you really are the local Black Reaper of Su City. Then…” He raised his eyes and gazed at the other person serenely. “Then can I ask, what happened to the original Black Reaper?”
The youth’s bright and clear eyes flashed with confidence and determination, without a trace of fear or retreat, like a bright moon shining radiantly.
As he looked at the person in front of him, without quite knowing why, Lie Chen’s lips moved but he still didn’t speak.
Finally after a moment, he smiled. “I can tell you but you also have to answer a question of mine.”
“What question?”
“How did you know that I’m not the original Black Reaper of Su City?”
***
Si City was a famous water town in HuaXia’s JiangNan. It had the name of “the Venice of the East”. Here the water networks ran vertically and horizontally, there were large and small rivers and lakes everywhere.
Rumour had it that the roads of Su City were not built in accordance with the directions of north and south, but by following the water. A water system can be seen beside every road in Su City, winding and twisting. This also created the trend of winding roads in Su City.
Three days ago, at 3AM in Su City, beside the YiShan Lake.
This lake is one of the oldest lakes in Su City. In ancient times, it was formed by the flood plain and the backflow of ocean tides. In the 1940s, the government encircled the lake, wanting to harness its power to build farmlands. Who knew that a heavy rain would wash away all the farmland that had just been fenced off. The fertile land washed into the lake and YiShan Lake returned to its original state.
At this moment, a heavy and thick yin energy that ordinary people couldn’t see, heavily and densely covered the earth around her.
Wearing a ghost official hat on his head, a Black Reaper holding a Reaper Record vomited out a large amount of blood. He was heavily injured and fell down beside the lake.
He had just killed a malicious ghost.
This malicious ghost drowned at the bottom of the YiShan Lake three years ago and it had been peaceful until last year when a developer reclaimed this piece of land. While digging a foundation, he had accidentally allowed lake water to pour in. The malicious ghost was awakened and turned the construction site into a bloodbath. In just a short three months, three workers had already died.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Su City’s Black Reaper would have had no problems dealing with this kind of malicious ghost who had only been dead three years and had only eaten three people. However last year he had fought a century old evil spirit and was already seriously injured. Now trying to kill this malicious ghost was like adding wounds onto an already nearly broken body, and he had reached the point of his death and reincarnation!
While panting, the Black Reaper opened his Reaper Record. He needed to contact the Underworld! He had to let them know to immediately send a new Black Reaper up!
However, the Black Reaper had only just opened his record and hadn’t called anyone yet, when suddenly he raised his head and saw a black shadow reach out from underneath the earth. Step by step, it climbed out!
“….???”
****?!
When did upper management start being so efficient?
Last year he already submitted his retirement application and this year it was already processed?
Under normal circumstances didn’t you have to wait two or three years, and then get squeezed for another two or three years?
Clutching his wounds, the Black Reaper walked up to the black figure.
A person who had just emerged from the Underworld would always be filled with too much yin energy and with the addition of darkness, he couldn’t see the other person’s face. He patted the other person’s shoulder. “Brother, your entrance is most timely. Let’s change shifts!”
***
Su Jiao: “??? The hell! So you’re actually Su City’s new Black Reaper?”
Lian Xi: “When did you get here?”
Su Jiao: “Just now when you guys were telling stories.”
Lian Xi nodded: “So Black Reapers actually can change shifts. So if the Black Reaper dies, he can also reincarnate? Wait, is the Black and White Reaper a person or a ghost? I thought they were always ghosts.”
“It can be either a person or a ghost.”
The man’s voice was low and steady. Lian Xi turned to look at him.
Lie Chen’s tone was indifferent. “Humans, ghosts and monsters can all be Reapers. Reapers are universal.” {He says it in a poetic, poetry type way.}
The voice seemed ethereal and the opinion seemed a bit other worldly as though it were looking down from a high place.
Lian Xi was slightly surprised.
After a moment, Lian Xi: “So my Lord, what you’re saying is right now you’re new to Su City and you’ve only been here three days?”
Su Jiao gave Lian Xi a strange look: My Lord?
Lie Chen lightly inclined his head.
Lian Xi smiled. He raised his eyes to look at that indifference face with the otherworldly air. Even the clothing he was wearing was strange. Other than the Reaper Record, this man didn’t even have a mobile phone. Sincerely and kindly he asked, “Then, do you have somewhere to live?”
Su Jiao: ???
Lie Chen raised his eyebrow and looked at him. There was some laughter in his eyes. “No.”
Lian Xi: “Since it’s like this… actually my Lord, my house is pretty big. Right now there’s two empty rooms. The rent is also not expensive. If you want to, I can rent another room from the landlord…”
Su Jiao grabbed him furiously. “Wait, wait, wait, Lian Xi what’s gotten into you tonight….”
As though someone had caught him by the tail, Lian Xi opened his eyes wide and righteously protested, “Golden light? What golden light? Don’t talk nonsense! Lord Black Reaper has just gotten here. As locals of Su City, shouldn’t we welcome him? What golden light, stop talking about it!”
Su Jiao felt extremely wronged!: “I didn’t say anything about a golden light ah! What golden light?”
“You really want to help me?”
After a pause, Lian Xi turned to look back at the man.
They gazed at each other. Looking into the man’s deep and dark eyes, Lian Xi’s gaze slowly moved towards the dancing golden lights around him. His heart calmed down. For some inexplicable reason he gave the answer, “Yes.”
Lie Chen smiled. “Okay, thank you.”
After he spoke, a few golden lights floated out of his body, leapt and ran over to Lian Xi and melted into him!
Lain Xi: “?!!!”
So quickly?!
Lie Chen: “However, before I come, I have a condition.”
Su Jiao glared at him. For a second he forgot to be scared and awed. “Hey, letting you live for free and you still have conditions?!”
The man’s hands moved slightly. A thin and plain notebook suddenly appeared in his palm. It had a plain white cover and was palm-sized. The other difference was the three characters printed on the cover–
“Reaper Record”.
Wait wait, the Reaper Record the man took out previously had a black cover, and now this one… had a white cover?!
Lian Xi suddenly realized something. He didn’t speak but saw the man slightly narrow his cold eyes.
“That Black Reaper said that the local White Reaper died more than a decade ago and has long gone to the Underworld to report for reincarnation. A new one should have arrived ages ago, however he never met the other person. So right now the White Reaper has been absent from work for more than a decade. These few years all the work in Su City has been done by him alone.”
Lian Xi: “Oh…. so?”
Do you want me to help you find the White Reaper?
Lie Chen snapped his fingers and the White Reaper Record flew out. Lian Xi subconsciously caught it.
Lie Chen: “Was it you who neglected your duties for more than a decade?”
Lian Xi: “……???”
****?!
Are all your Reapers so casual?!!!
***
The author wants to say:
Su City’s Black Reaper: You must be the new Reaper who’s come to report for duty ba!
President Lie who just ran out: ? Oh, yes I’m the Black Reaper, I’m the Black Reaper, I’m the Black Reaper [self-hypnotizing].
CC: ?? Then how did I become the White Reaper ah?! Ten years ago I was only a kid ah!!
Crisp Dumpling: Lian Xi’s changed! He’s changed! [A face of grief] He’s suddenly turned into a dog that hugs a thigh!
***
