"Where are you going? I haven't eaten my noodles yet! Sit down and keep me company!" Princess Longji grabbed the child by the collar, picked him up, and placed him on her lap.
"Let me go! You eat your noodles, I want to go play! I don't have many more days to play here!" The child struggled, trying to escape Princess Longji's clutches.
Little did he know how many people envied his current position, being held by Princess Longji sitting on her lap...
"You know there are only a few days left, right? Then why don't you spend more time with me? Who knows when we'll see each other again!" Princess Longji said wistfully.
The child looked at Princess Longji, thought for a moment, and then said, "Well, alright, I'll stay with you for the last few days..."
"Pah, pah, what do you mean by 'last few days'?! It's like we'll never have a chance to meet again. What an idiot, you can't even speak properly!!" Princess Longji said irritably, hugging the child even tighter.
"Princess Longji, here's your noodles..." At this moment, the owner brought over a bowl of noodles with very generous portions and looked at the child with envy.
The child looked at the bowl of noodles, his face changed, and he shouted unhappily, "It's not fair! Why does her bowl of noodles have so many ingredients, while mine has so few? Did you just lust after my cousin because she's pretty?!"
"..." The boss stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to say, as if his secret had been exposed.
"You little rascal, it's because your sister is beautiful and generous that others will naturally add extra ingredients to your sister's food. You can't be envious. At most, I'll give you a little bit... Ah, you little rascal, I haven't finished speaking yet, and you've already eaten it!!" Princess Longji realized that the child had already launched a formal attack on her face.
"Even if you don't say anything, I'll still eat!" the child replied, continuing to eat.
"..." Princess Longji said nothing more and started to snatch it from the child.
This situation made the owner feel ashamed. He really wanted to say that there was still plenty of noodles left, and he would make more if they wanted to eat more.
In fact, he didn't know that no matter how much noodles there were, the two of them would still fight over them; it wasn't a matter of more or less noodles!
Although the boss was unaware of the situation, seeing the two of them like this, he seemed to understand something, and he put all those rumors behind him.
What illegitimate child? That's utter nonsense! It's an insult to my goddess!
"Little brother, according to your estimate, how long will it take for you to return to your original state?" Princess Longji asked gently, holding the child after finishing her noodles.
"The older they are, the faster they recover in less than three days!" the child said.
What do you mean, "restore to the original state"? The shopkeeper, who had been listening intently, was a little confused. He didn't understand what Princess Longji was talking about. Did she mean that the child wasn't like this before?
That's right, he wasn't like that before; he was actually an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy!
At this point, the child's identity is obvious: he is Ye Lang!
Ye Lang is now the height of a child, and his face still looks like that of a teenager, so he is often mistaken for a child and thus becomes the illegitimate son of Princess Longji in the rumors!
Ye Lang hadn't expected this situation. He had thought that if he recovered, he would recover immediately and return to his original state. However, he didn't expect that the result would be that he would recover step by step.
According to Ye Lang's calculations, as his body size increased, the drug's effects seemed to diminish, allowing him to recover faster and faster!
He could also calculate that his body would fully recover within three days, which made him very happy, simply because it would allow him to escape Princess Longji's clutches.
These days, Princess Longji has been taking Ye Lang with her all the time, especially when he was still a little boy; she practically wore Ye Lang on her belt.
According to her, she liked that Ye Lang was so small, making him easy to carry around...
Because Ye Lang was small, Princess Longji naturally bullied him a few times. Who told you to be so small? If she didn't bully you, who else would she bully?!
Therefore, Ye Lang was living in dire straits, and he longed to recover quickly so that he could escape from Princess Longji's clutches!
Of course, he didn't make things easy for Princess Longji either. While researching how to recover himself, he accidentally put some alchemical potions into Princess Longji's food or accidentally splashed them on her.
This meant that Princess Longji had to fall into a coma at least once a day, and then be treated by Ye Lang...
"That little rascal, he must have done it on purpose!!" Princess Longji gritted her teeth, saying that Ye Lang did it on purpose, but Ye Lang said it was an accident, and since she had no evidence to prove that Ye Lang did it on purpose, she could only...
Of course, he didn't give up; he continued to bully Ye Lang. "Who told you to make me so unlucky? I'll bully you to death!"
And so, the two continued in this cycle...
There's another thing. After Ye Lang recovered, Cold-Blooded Fifth tried to escape, but Ye Lang caught him and bullied him badly!
What she had imagined before now seemed to have come true, and Ye Lang held it in his hands like a child holding a toy!
The worst part is that this child doesn't really cherish the toy; he often pulls on it forcefully here and there, and throws it around...
This is revenge, blatant revenge!!
Fortunately, Ye Lang often forgot about this and was always traveling around with Cold-Blooded Fifth!
After Ye Lang recovers, it will be time for Cold-Blooded Fifth to leave with him. He will not take Cold-Blooded Fifth with him, and Cold-Blooded Fifth will not leave with him either, as she has her own things to do!
During this time, the Empress Dowager also kept coming to talk to Ye Lang and would hug Ye Lang!
In the words of the Empress Dowager, she originally thought she had missed her grandson's growth, but this may be an opportunity given to her by God, allowing her to get some compensation during this period and watch her grandson grow up little by little.
Two days later, Ye Lang had almost recovered, only a centimeter or two short. However, it was believed that he could recover that one or two centimeters in less than an hour!
"Alright, I'm leaving now. Don't miss me. If you need to find me, go to the Holy City!" Ye Lang stretched his limbs and said to Princess Longji, Cold-Blooded Fifth, and Cold-Blooded Seventh in front of him.
"Who would miss you? I can't wait for you to leave!" Cold-Blooded Fifth said at this moment. She was on Ye Lang's shoulder, her little head tilted upwards, seemingly with a look of disdain.
"Little Five, I'm thinking about whether I should take you with me. If you don't recover, I can help you take a look!" Ye Lang said seriously, considering the matter.
"..."