Stop Thinking Chapter 7: Little sea rabbit with long ears

Chapter 7: Little sea rabbit with long ears

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

After the people dispersed, Ruan Yu, again red-faced, shooed Gu Xiuhan and Gu Rong, only to let Shen Jingya accompany him to practice walking.

Ruan Yu’s name for Shen Jingya was “Auntie Shen”, but in his heart he secretly thought of Shen Jingya as his mother, no matter how clumsy and childish he looked, he was not ashamed to let his mother see him.

Gu Xiuhan was whisked back to the bedroom, Ruan Yu sorted through but did not wear the clothes scattered around. He folded them one by one and stacked them neatly. After a long time as a soldier, simple and neat habits have been ingrained in the bones, even palm-sized shorts were unconsciously folded into sharp angles.

When he was about to stretch the crumpled c-sheet, Gu Xiuhan’s hand paused.

He basically did not move around in his sleep, and once he got up, the bedding was often flat as if no one had ever laid down, never like this…

The fabric was messy and stacked, and the bulge flowed with thread-like light, like a lake of wrinkled spring water.

Gu Xiuhan’s eyes were heavy, standing at the c side for a short half minute, endured, tolerated the pain, finally closed his eyes and lay into the mess.

Ruan Yu’s smell remained on the bedding.

Ruan Yu had slept warmly in his blanket, and the white glutinous skin and flesh was warmed and sweetened by body heat, like sugar dumplings. There was also a little fresh and thin scent of lake water.

Very familiar.

Ruan Yu often pestered Gu Xiuhan to sleep together during his sticky baby Ruan Yu period.

At first, it was Gu Xiuhan’s late night mental energy outbreaks that time.

When the symptoms kicked in, SSS-level mental energy flooded in all directions and spread all over the manor, Gu Xiuhan would temporarily gain mental perception beyond his five senses.

This type of perception was excessively sharp, and Gu Xiuhan could even easily catch the faint sound caused by an insect digging gravel with its knuckles a hundred meters away, but he did not know how to control the filtering, so the massive amount of invalid information invaded the memory of the mind like a virus, and triggered a series of severe neurological disorders, the human body could perceive all the negative experiences possible.

The brain tissue was riddled with intense phantom pains like ice picks.

As a teenager, Gu Xiuhan was used to enduring it. He lay on his side, gritting his teeth to the point of blood, but his eyes remained as cold as two pieces of black ice.

The indifferent genetics of the group’s reproduction had given these high-ranking individuals the power to protect the group, without caring whether they could have a happy and comfortable life experience.

Gu Xiuhan was waiting for a robot to deliver a strong painkiller, but the robot delivered not only the medicine, but also a little Ruan Yu who was lying on the food delivery tray.

The fish baby with the round tail rolled off the edge of the tray and crashed onto the bed, snapping a pair of webbed fleshy hands against Gu Xiuhan’s aching head and singing a few newly learned Imperial words upside down in a sweet, milky voice.

“Little sea rabbit, long ears… Ee…”

I forgot the rest.

“Long ears, little sea rabbit…”

Start muddling through.

Although it was just a childish children’s song, the key to a mermaid’s spiritual healing with singing was in the sound waves themselves, not in the meaning of the lyrics, and Ruan Yu was guided by mermaid instincts and vaguely felt that singing this way would help, and the sound waves coincided.

After a few rounds of singing, the raging mental energy gradually became tamed and flowed back into the mental body, and the pain subsided.

Gu Xiuhan did not react when the pain disappeared, after all, the previous attacks came with constant pain, and it was only after a while that he woke up like from a dream, raising his arms to gently embrace the cotton candy-like baby Ruan Yu.

“No thanks.” The little Ruan Yu tried to be polite and arched his head into Gu Xiuhan’s arms, taking the opportunity to stick to this cold kin.

[I’m fine… Now send you back.]

Gu Xiuhan was not sure if little Ruan Yu still had fear of him, and decided to send the fish back to the lake first.

He gently squeezed the back of Ruan Yu’s neck with his thumb and forefinger and tugged tentatively.

Little Ruan Yu twisted and broke away, then grunted and wrapped his arms around Gu Xiuhan’s neck and managed to cling to him, staying put.

Gu Xiuhan tried to tug again, but directly pulled out a string of intense babbling, like a quarrel.

[…]

Gu Xiuhan was helpless.

[You are not afraid of me?]

The heart sound just fell, and then provoked a bunch of preverbal milk accusations.

–Baby Ruan Yu is going to sleep with kin ah.

–You put me so far away, are you not afraid that I will be washed away by the ocean currents?

In the years after that, little Ruan Yu always slept with Gu Xiuhan.

When Gu Xiuhan woke up every day, little Ruan Yu was almost never nestled in his arms, either on his head or on his face, or hanging on the edge of the bed, curled up on the floor, and the c-sheet was always rolled up in a mess. The mess…

At this time, Gu Xiuhan would try to gently set little Ruan Yu to the center of the c, flatten the c sheet and tuck in the blanket.

Little Ruan Yu ate well, and the milk fat on his face and arms quivered like jelly when he was poked, so cute that it made people feel soft.

…

The memories of baby Ruan Yu were full of warmth and cuteness, and the brotherly compassion and affection barely regained a place.

This pervasive, extraordinarily restless love valley indebted to two years of repeated inhibition briefly cooled.

Gu Xiuhan’s cold and harsh jaw line tightened, suddenly got up and used his terminal to call up several reports on the construction of military bases in the adjacent star area.

Ruan Yu differentiated smoothly, his caretaker duty was considered done.

It was time to find something else to do it on his behalf.

…

Ruan Yu thought he was not smart enough to learn anything, so he paid extra attention to everything he learned. He could walk back and forth in the corridor for five or six hours a day after differentiating his legs to learn how to apply force and exercise his muscles.

He practiced so hard that within a few days he said goodbye to the toddler robot and was able to walk steadily and rest for a while on his own.

However, he learned to walk well, but Ruan Yu couldn’t overcome some other bad habits for a while. For example, it was common knowledge that “shoes and socks should be worn when walking on the ground”.

Ruan Yu’s shoes and socks couldn’t be worn, and he had to take them off secretly when no one was looking, throwing one to the east and one to the west, socks flying all over the place, and Gu Xiuhan could pick one up from time to time.

Gu Xiuhan had never been a mermaid, so he couldn’t relate to the comment that “shoes and socks are awkward on the feet and not as comfortable as bare feet”. In human opinion, it was really awkward to step on the ground with bare feet, and it was also easy to get cold and sick, so he could not indulge Ruan Yu in this kind of thing.

This day, at lunchtime.

The new male servant helped the food delivery robot to serve the food.

The digestive system decided that Ruan Yu was not used to eating human food, so the AI butler would prepare a separate meal for him based on raw seafood.

Although his eating habits were very different and he couldn’t eat together with others, Gu Xiuhan’s mother, Shen Jingya, had insisted that Ruan Yu should eat with them for more than a decade – for a while after he first joined the Gu residence, Ruan Yu was easily shy and hid from everyone except Gu Xiuhan, and refused to eat at mealtime. Shen Jingya often had to make every effort to lure the fish to the shore at the lake and abduct him into the house.

She and Gu Xiuhan’s father, Marshal Gu Rong, were both descendants of ancient Earth’s Eastern bloodline, and had a DNA obsession with family reunions at the table.

Today, both husband and wife were busy during their lunch, so only Ruan Yu and Gu Xiuhan were left at the table.

When Ruan Yu was about to eat a piece of raw scallop, Gu Xiuhan, who was sitting next to him, suddenly moved his chair back, picked up the tablecloth with his index finger and tilted his head slightly to look at Ruan Yu’s feet.

“Brother Xiuhan,” Ruan Yu’s heart was so weak that his legs shrank, and he started to tell the evil fish first, “Why are you making a surprise attack…” Where is the trust between man and fish?

Under the table, a pair of feet, whiter than raw shellfish, stepped on a pair of socks.

Apparently he just secretly rubbed them off under the cover of the tablecloth, thinking that no one would check it during dinner and could relax and unwind.

[His feet are so small.]

Suddenly an inexplicable heart sound reached Ruan Yu’s ears.

It’s not small, it’s just right.

Ruan Yu thought to himself, and looked at the voice with a little bit of defiance, it was the male servant who was in charge of serving food, the new one who came in a few days ago.

When he saw Ruan Yu looking at him, he quickly turned his face away.

Ruan Yu also did not think much about it, these days people at the manor change the excuses to see him walk, so he was slightly used to the heart noises he heard, so he just focused on the feet to the chair.

Gu Xiuhan also did not talk to him, pushing away the chair, squatting on one knee and kneeling down to put on his socks.

Ruan Yu’s feet were equivalent to the most dense part of the nerves of the tip of the fish tail, so they were ticklish, and once Gu Xiuhan touched them, Ruan Yu was electrocuted, and two snorts of laughter emerged, and the atmosphere suddenly became like a playful flirtation.

Gu Xiuhan showed a rare surge of impatience, and his right hand explored and steadily fetched one foot into his palm.

Ruan Yu’s fishtail was beautiful, so transformed into a human feet retained the same delicateness, the arch was long, the tip of the foot pink, and the skin was so smooth that it was like a warm jade grip, as if it would squeeze out of the palm if squeezed tighter.

Gu Xiuhan’s feelings were difficult to describe for a while, his expression was inexplicable, and he hurriedly grabbed the socks and put them on.

His movements were not as gentle as usual, Ruan Yu thought he was really upset and whispered, “I didn’t take them off on purpose… My feet slipped.”

“…”

Gu Xiuhan’s heart jumped hard, and his hand almost lost its strength.

[So cute.]

[I want to steal that pair of socks…]

At that moment, two heart sounds that were even more inexplicable than before rang out from the direction of the male servant.

Ruan Yu was stunned, and his light Persian irises coloured eyes widened as he swooped around to look at the male servant.

When his lower extremities were fishtail, not exactly the same as human, not so sweaty, and his socks would not be dirty if he did not step on the floor.

But even if they are not dirty…

“You want to steal… What do you want to steal my socks for?” Ruan Yu hesitated, but opened his mouth to ask.

As soon as the words left his mouth, the male servant and Gu Xiuhan both changed their faces, only one was as red as if someone had set fire to his skull, and the other was so gloomy that water could drip.

For security reasons, it was impossible to use such people who had bad thoughts about Ruan Yu, but Gu Xiuhan didn’t want to scare Ruan Yu, so he forced himself to suppress his anger and just raised his eyes to the other man and said in a cold voice, “Get out.”

He was too overpowering, his voice was so cold that the man’s knees went weak and bent when he went out.

Seeing Gu Xiuhan’s attitude, Ruan Yu could guess whether he was dull or not, swallowed in embarrassment and asked, “Is he that kind of… Pervert? Trying to steal my socks…”

He knew what “pervert” meant, but only to the extent of “not a normal person, to stay away”, and had no idea what perverts would do, including what they could do with stolen socks.

“…” Gu Xiuhan choked inconspicuously for a moment, “Yes.”

When ordering clothes before, he was afraid that Ruan Yu would be uncomfortable wearing them, and the fabric of such small intimate pieces were chosen to be the softest one. It was a special fiber not found on ancient Earth, similar to silk, but even softer than silk.

The tip of the socks and the heel of the socks were propped up, appearing slightly thinner than elsewhere, with a faint light.

Gu Xiuhan could not help but secretly twist it with his fingertips.