Yu Sheng woke up only to see Erin sprawled at the corner of the bed, her picture frame placed on the bedside table, leaning against the wall.

Yu Sheng sighed, realizing that he ultimately hadn't succeeded in kicking this doll out last night—mainly because every time he tried to carry her to the door, she would start creating a huge ruckus, giving him a real headache.

He sighed deeply again and, noticing no sign of Erin waking up, kicked her twice with his foot.

"Get up, if you don't I'll take your picture frame away and make you go back inside the painting to sleep."

At the foot of the bed, the sprawled Erin finally twitched, slowly got up with her hair all messy and her eyes bleary, and looked at Yu Sheng: "Good morning... hey..."

"Good morning, my foot! It's almost noon!" Yu Sheng resisted the urge to kick this unfortunate doll down, "Do you have any idea how much you were rolling around in bed last night?! You say you're a doll and yet you need sleep, that's weird enough, but why can't you even sleep still!"

"I don't know, yawn—" Erin rubbed her eyes, stretching and mumbling, "Don't be so negative, I'm so pretty, and you should be happy to share a room with me..."

Yu Sheng looked at this tiny figure, only 66.6 centimeters tall, and felt his temples twitching: "Aren't you full of yourself? Do you even hear what you're saying?"

Erin couldn't care less, disheveled, she crawled in front of Yu Sheng, lowered her head and boldly stated: "Help me comb my hair."

Yu Sheng's temple throbbed, rolled off the bed to the bathroom, grabbed a comb and threw it on the bed: "Don't care, comb it yourself."

Erin grabbed the comb as big as her own head with both hands, rolling her eyes: "Look at me, can I even comb it myself? I can't even hold it with one hand, why don't you get a special doll-sized comb for me..."

Then it was a series of complaints like "usually just have to scratch my hair when it's messy," "could only sleep on a chair the first day," "nobody even cares about a doll's feelings," and so on, non-stop, making the listener's ears nearly burst with irritation.

"...I really owed you in my past life," Yu Sheng finally couldn't stand it, grabbed the comb from Erin's hand, picked her up and set her on the bedside table, "Sit here, don't move."

Erin immediately smiled triumphantly, sitting on the bedside table and nagging, "This body was made by you, it's normal for you to provide some customer service..."

Yu Sheng, annoyed while combing the doll's all messed up hair from sleeping, retorted: "Is 'customer service' supposed to be used like this?"

"Not a big problem—hey, be gentle, don't pull it out, doll hair is precious."

Yu Sheng let out another long sigh, finally managing to straighten Erin's messy hair caused by tossing in sleep, then hung the picture leaning against the wall over the doll's body and turned to go wash up.

"Hey, Yu Sheng! What's for breakfast?" Erin's voice soon came from outside the bathroom.

At that moment, Yu Sheng's mouth was full of toothpaste, he mumbled a reply: "I'll just make some noodles later, just eat a bit to get by—then I'm going out."

An "Oh" came from outside the bathroom, and then the doll finally quieted down.

But Yu Sheng always felt that Erin's temporary silence must be planning some bigger commotion— he felt his Spiritual Intuition throbbing persistently.

Although, feeling the Spiritual Intuition throbbing in such situations seemed a bit oddly peculiar.

After washing up, Yu Sheng wiped his face, looked up at his own reflection in the mirror above the sink.

He looked fit and healthy, even wearing a slight involuntary smile.

It's been a long time since he saw himself looking so energetic in a mirror, he felt a bit dazed for a moment.

He remembered, not too long ago, living anxiously in this vast and unsettling city. For over two months, he would fall asleep tense and restless, spend a fretful night full of dreams, then wake up exhausted, washing his face only once in several days, always seeing a listless reflection in the mirror.

But now, he only saw an energetic young man, eyes gleaming with a hint of anticipation for the future—hardly the look of someone who'd been kicked all night by a restless sleeping doll.

"...It really is a whole different mindset..." Yu Sheng couldn't help but laugh, murmuring to himself.

Then, he heard Erin's wailing noise from outside the door: "Yu—Sheng! Did—you—fall—in—there! I'll call Hu Li to fish you out—"

Yu Sheng's smile froze on his face; he turned and yanked the door open, only to see Erin energetically standing on the floor outside with her picture frame on her back, grinning stupidly at him.

"You've been inside for over half an hour!" The doll said, looking up.

Yu Sheng stepped past her, opened the bedroom door, planning to check if the fox was awake.

However, upon opening the door, he got a start: Hu Li was standing right at the door, leaning forward like a thief, seemingly hesitating about whether to come in or not.

Hu Li was also startled by Yu Sheng suddenly opening the door—it really gave her a fright—her bushy tail exploded behind her like a screen in the hallway, and even her two large ears on her head were instantly tense.

After two or three seconds, the frightened demon fox slowly relaxed and looked at Yu Sheng somewhat at a loss: "Savior..."

Yu Sheng was curious: "What are you doing?"

"I just woke up and didn't know what to do, so... I came to wait, but I wasn't sure if you were awake, so I didn't dare to knock," Hu Li immediately explained nervously, then worriedly looked at Yu Sheng, "Savior, are you alright? Where did you fall into?"

"I didn't fall anywhere! You shouldn't always listen to Erin's nonsense," Yu Sheng suddenly widened his eyes, then frowned and sized Hu Li up and down, "Have you been just waiting at the door this whole time?"

"Uh-huh."

"…From now on, this is your home. You don't need to be so tense all the time. If you have nothing to do, you can watch TV or something... Oh, when I have time, I'll teach you how to use the household appliances," Yu Sheng said casually, turning towards the stairs, "Let's go downstairs for a meal first, I'll cook some noodles to get by, today I'll take you shopping."

As soon as she heard the words "eating," Hu Li's eyes visibly brightened and she almost jumped with joy following Yu Sheng's steps.

But Yu Sheng had only taken two steps before stopping again, turning his head to look at the demon fox, hesitating to speak.

Hu Li tilted her head: "Savior?"

"I just remembered something..." Yu Sheng's gaze fell on Hu Li's head, "You can hide your tail, but what about your ears? Walking outside like this... might draw a lot of attention."

Hearing Yu Sheng say this, Hu Li looked somewhat puzzled. She hadn't stepped out of the house since her arrival and didn't know what the outside world looked like, let alone imagine how inappropriate it might be for her to walk around looking like this.

But since the Savior said so, she believed it.

The demon fox girl rubbed her hands, then raised her hand to remove the ears on top of her head and tuck them into her tail, then hid the tail as well.

The scene fell silent.

Yu Sheng remained petrified in the hallway, frozen in the pose he had a second before while speaking.

It wasn't until Erin's scream suddenly pierced the quiet: "Ahhhh—Fox, fox, fox what did you just take off your head ah?!"

Hu Li pulled out the tail she usually uses to hide things and showed the fluffy ears to Erin: "Ears."

Yu Sheng's eyes almost popped out: "These things can be detached?! Are they fake?!"

"They're real," Hu Li put the ears away while matter-of-factly replying, "Demon foxes, skilled in transformation."

Yu Sheng: "The demon foxes I know of don't transform like this..."

Hu Li appeared surprised: "Savior, have you seen other demon foxes?"

Yu Sheng paused, then calmed down: "...No."

"Demon foxes must learn the Transformation Skill, the first step is to refine oneself, once mastered, it's transformation," Hu Li earnestly educated Yu Sheng and Erin with her common sense, "But my parents didn't have time to teach me much, I only learnt... the basics. I heard from the Immortal that powerful demon foxes can even transform into tales from books, shadows of history, merely through word-of-mouth, able to instantaneously travel through ancient and modern times, traverse the starry seas, but I, can't!"

Yu Sheng listened dumbfounded, his imagination running wild to keep up with the fox girl's description, yet his ears heard but his mind refused to believe, feeling like the girl was pulling one over on him.

However, Hu Li's harmlessly naive face didn't seem capable of lying.

"I have a feeling something's not right," Erin muttered, stroking her chin, "My memory isn't that great right now, don't fool me... where did you get this so-called common sense from? Are you sure that Immortal didn't deceive you? Let me tell you, those tour guides can say anything..."

Hu Li shook her head furiously: "I don't know, but my Transformation Skill, is truly taught by my parents, it really is so—"

Having said that, she observed Yu Sheng carefully again and immediately changed her hair and eye color to black, mimicking Yu Sheng's appearance.

Now, she looked completely like a normal beautiful girl, unmistakably a local from Boundary City.

"Is this alright?" The demon fox girl looked at Yu Sheng expectantly.

Yu Sheng was briefly stunned, but finally nodded with a hint of bewilderment.

Not to mention, at least this time her transformation process seemed much more normal...

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