Raising You This Small Stuff

Chapter 32.1 ‘The little bunny’ and ‘the domineering president’

Moonlight shone from behind the young man, as if he was coated in a milky white circle of light, his delicate and brilliant face looking so unreal, as if it would dissipate with the wind with just one touch.

Mo Yi Cheng was so surprised that he couldn’t speak. He raised one hand slightly, as if he wanted to touch to feel whether the person behind him really existed.

“Mo Yi Cheng.” Yuan Suo cried again, aggrieved.

It was really Du Du! Although the image of the teenager was completely different from that of the Q-level image, his eyes hadn’t changed at all.

“Du Du, is it really you?”

Du Du nodded with red eyes, “I…. I’m Du Du, I am.”

Mo Yi Cheng took a big step forward and hugged him gently. It took him a while before he woke up, as if from a dream, patting the teenager’s thin back gently, “You were scared, right?”

Yuan Suo trembled slightly, but he shook his head, “No….. no.”

Mo Yi Cheng pulled away from him, looked into his eyes and asked, “Really?”

Yuan Suo lowered his head, not daring to look at him, his red nose as he pursed his lips, “A…. a little bit.”

“So, you thought I didn’t want you anymore?” Mo Yi Cheng asked with certainty.

Yuan Suo looked up in shock. How… how did Mo Yi Cheng know?

“I… I caused trouble, so… so I felt that….”

“Du Du.”

“En?”

Mo Yi Cheng said solemnly: “No matter how much trouble you cause, I will never not want you. This is my promise to you.”

“Hu….” Yuan Suo’s eyes turned red again, but afraid that he wouldn’t look promising in front of Mo Yi Cheng if he cried, he wiped his face with his sleeves hurriedly.

And Mo Yi Cheng, afraid that Yuan Suo would think nonsense in his little head again explained, “What happened today was because of a system malfunction.”

Yuan Suo was stunned, it turned out to be like this.

Mo Yi Cheng continued, “But I’ve found Long Bow. He has a way to help restore the game to its normal operation, so you don’t have to be afraid.”

“Long… Long Bow?” Mo Yi Cheng found Long Bow?

“Yes, that little buddy of yours. Wait until six o’clock in the morning and everything will be back to normal.” He comforted in a warm voice. The little thing must have been terrified this evening.

“That’s great.” There were tears still hanging on Yuan Suo’s long eyelashes, but being able to see Mo Yi Cheng again after this disaster and the happiness and joy from knowing that it wasn’t because Mo Yi Cheng didn’t want him diluted the hurt he had felt previously.

Mo Yi Cheng raised his hand, wiping the tears from the little thing’s eyelashes.

As his fingertips that were warm, with thin calluses on them swept gently over his eyelids and cheeks, they dispelled the shock and unease of the whole night.

After comforting Yuan Suo, Mo Yi Cheng suddenly remembered that he was barefooted, so he bent down at the waist slightly and said to him, “The ground is cold, come up.”

“Um…” Did Mo Yi Cheng want to…. carry him?

Looking at Mo Yi Cheng’s broad back, Yuan Suo was both happy and a little confused.

Mo Yi Cheng had arched his back for a long time but no one came up, so he urged in a warm voice, “Come up, otherwise you’ll catch a cold.”

It was only then that Yuan Suo climbed onto his back slowly.

Carrying him on his back, Mo Yi Cheng walked back from the entrance of the alley.

“Du Du.”

“En!”

Mo Yi Cheng thought of something, then stopped suddenly, asking, “Did you come out of the game before?”

“Em…” Yuan Suo had been warned by the system before that he couldn’t tell his player before he reached a certain level that elves could leave the game, but now that he had left the game temporarily because of a glitch in the game, he should no longer be restricted, right? So he answered honestly: “Hmm, I was so scared that day when I saw that the boiling milk in the kitchen was about to spill over, but I don’t know how I managed to break free from the system. But the time was so short that I almost couldn’t reach the gas switch.”

Mo Yi Cheng finally solved the long-standing mystery in his heart. Sure enough, Yuan Suo had really appeared that day!

“Then what do you little elves have to do to be able to get out of the game to survive outside?”

“Oh….. the system stipulates that you have to reach level 20 before you can enter and exit the game, but there is a time limit. However as your level rises, you can stay outside for a longer period of time. If you reach level 99, you can stay outside the game for 24 hours!”

“What about if you reach level 100?” Mo Yi Cheng thought that by reaching the top level, an elf could leave the game completely and stay in this world.

Yuan Suo paused for a moment, his originally bright eyes dulling suddenly.

“If I reach level 100… I will be able to get out of the game completely.” Then go back to his original world, the one without Mo Yi Cheng, only cold warships, treacherous royal battles, and a world where he simply couldn’t understand the intrigues, mutual deception and deceitfulness.

When Mo Yi Cheng got the answer, he seemed to be in a good mood, pushing the person on his back up again, “Then Du Du has to work hard to level up.”

“…. Ok.” Yuan Suo struggled to keep his voice lighter.

“That Long Bow… how is he like?” Mo Yi Cheng suddenly thought of how Long Bow was a person in the game, but became a Chinese field dog when he appeared outside.

“Long Bow is a very nice person.” Yuan Suo told the truth.

“I know, but I’m asking, he…” Surprisingly, he didn’t know what word to use. He paused for a moment before saying: “He should have reached the level where he is able to come out of the game, but when he comes out… he is a dog.”

Wha… what? Yuan Suo was so shocked that he jumped, his two hands slipping, almost falling off Mo Yi Cheng’s back. Fortunately, Mo Yi Cheng reacted quickly, stabilizing him.

“Mo Yi Cheng is saying that Long Bow is a dog?” In the interstellar world where he was from, dogs were primitive species that had long become extinct. Most of the pets that humans had were intelligent pets. Occasionally there would be one or two evolved cats and dogs, but there was a world of difference between the one’s in the Interstellar world and the one’s from ancient Earth. Most of them were huge and used in combat, extremely valuable.

But the main reason why Yuan Suo was so shocked was that it was difficult to accept that Long Bow = dog.

Seeing him so shocked, Mo Yi Cheng knew that the little thing didn’t know anything about this. Afraid that the only people who knew about it were Long Bow, the person involved and Old Man Fu.

So he changed the subject again, asking if he’d had dinner.

Chapter 32.2 ‘The little bunny’ and ‘the domineering president’

“A… a little.” He didn’t notice it before, but when Mo Yi Cheng asked, he felt a little hungry.

“You didn’t eat the dinner I sent in?”

“Ah? I didn’t see…. the dinner, but I’ve already drunk milk, Mo Yi Cheng doesn’t need to worry.”

No wonder the little thing was so sad, thinking that he didn’t want him anymore. It seems that the system had already started having problems when he transmitted the food. Then naturally that also meant that the message he’d sent to the little thing before everything started hadn’t been delivered.

“Du Du.”

“En?”

“Let me take you for a midnight snack.” He remembered vaguely that there was a snack bar next to the wonton stall that seemed to be open 24/7.

“Okay, let’s go for a midnight snack.” Yuan Suo had never really sat down to eat with Mo Yi Cheng before!

Mo Yi Cheng carried him on his back, walking lightly all the way. Yuan Suo had change back to his original body. Although he was up to Mo Yi Cheng’s eyebrows, he estimated that he was only a little more than 1.75 meters, however he was very thin, so it took no effort to carry him on his back.

Yuan Suo was also very happy on Mo Yi Cheng’s broad back. It provided an indescribable sense of security even as warmth gathered in his heart, making him unable to help but smile.

Inside the snack bar.

A man in his early thirties was inside the store, watching TV.

Seeing customers come in, he got up to receive them but when he saw Mo Yi Cheng and Yuan Suo he was obviously taken aback. The man was handsome, had an extraordinary temperament and looked very familiar and the teenager on his back was delicate and cute, extremely beautiful.

“What would you two…. like to eat.”

Mo Yi Cheng found a seat, put Yuan Suo down, then said to the boss, “Do you have hot wontons?”

“Yes, how many bowls do you want?” The boss asked.

“Two bowls.” Mo Yi Cheng hadn’t eaten dinner yet.

“Alright, just wait a minute!” The boss went to work in the back kitchen.

Yuan Suo sat on a chair. As he wasn’t wearing shoes, he could only suspend his feet, but because the chair was too short, he had to lift his knees, but he couldn’t hold on to them after a while.

Mo Yi Cheng smiled: “Having short legs are good on occasions.”

Yuan Suo blushed.

Mo Yi Cheng took his jacket off, folded it a few times, then crouched down and placed it under Yuan Suo’s feet.

“Put your feet on this. After you eat the bowl of hot wontons, you’ll be warm.” Yuan Suo had slept on the floor of the apartment for most of the night. If he didn’t get rid of the cold in time, afraid he would catch a cold later.

After a while, the boss brought two bowls of steaming hot wontons…

The wontons were stuffed with shrimps, pork belly, eggs, and other seasonings. This fragrance, in regards to the two people who were very hungry this late in the night, was very tempting.

Yuan Suo had never seen disposable chopsticks before, so he didn’t know how to use them, but why were they connected together?

Mo Yi Cheng broke his chopsticks apart and rubbed them against each other to smooth out the unevenness on them in order to prevent scratching the mouth.

“Use this.” Then he took a spoon from the bamboo tube, wiped it with a tissue and put it in Yuan Suo’s bowl.

Yuan Suo said thank you, took the chopsticks and spoon, lowered his head and began to eat the hot wontons.

The steaming hot air filled his delicate face, covering it in a misty cloud.

The little thing was eating very seriously. It looks like he was really hungry. He didn’t even wait for the first two wontons to cool down before shoving them into his mouth.

Seeing this, Mo Yi Cheng asked the boss to bring a small plate, then picked out the largest wontons in his bowl, blew on them, and put them on the plate.

“Eat these, those ones are too hot, they’ll hurt your stomach.”

Don’t know if it was because of the steam or something else, but Yuan Suo suddenly felt his nose became sore and his eyes start to heat up.

“Mm-hmm.” Not daring to raise his head, he ate all the wontons Mo Yi Cheng picked out one by one.

When Mo Yi Cheng saw that he was full, he took the bowl of wontons in front of him that had barely been touched, finished them in large bites, then glanced at the time.

“We should go back. In a little over two hours, we can ask Long Bow to help fix the game.” Yuan Suo being outside in his current state was definitely good, but it was because of a glitch in the game. They couldn’t rule out the possibility of something else happening that they weren’t prepared for, so it was better to send him back into the game first and level up slowly in the future. There would be a time…. when they could always together.

“En!” Yuan Suo’s stomach was full, and his body and feet were also warm.

Mo Yi Cheng got up, paid the bill, went around the table and bent over with his back to him, “Come up.”

Yuan Suo picked Mo Yi Cheng’s jacket up, helped Mo Yi Cheng put it on, then climbed onto his back.

At this moment, a girl’s voice suddenly came out from the back kitchen, “Brother, if there’s no guest then rest, tomorrow…..” The girl lifted the curtain, halfway through her sentence when she froze. She rubbed her sleepy eyes that were a little hazy….. then a look of caution immediately appeared in both of her eyes.

A tall and upright man was carrying a teenager in bunny pajamas on his back. The teenager seemed to be attracted by the sound of her voice as he turned his head curiously. He was so good looking that he took her breath away.

The girl endured and held back, not making a sound.

Ahhhhh!!! Was she being spoiled? She had just finished binge reading the ‘goddess of pure love’s’ masterpiece, [domineering president and his stunningly beautiful little bunny] throughout the night where the gong was a domineering and handsome man who controlled the lifeline of the entire empire! She had replaced the gong with her idol Mo Yi Cheng! As for the little bunny, she had never been able to come up with who was more suitable, but at this moment, this soft and delicate teenager was simply the prototype of the ‘little bunny’!

“What are you looking at? They’re gone.” The boss waved his big hand in front of his sister’s eyes twice.

The girl came back to then, as if waking up from a dream. Where was there still the figures of the domineering president and the little bunny? But… it was really a shame that she didn’t see the face of the gong just now. It must be that he wasn’t as handsome as her idol, so she took it upon herself to match this ‘little bunny’ and ‘the domineering president’ in a CP. In short, she’d had a good harvest this night, she was very satisfied.