Lin Hu

After taking over Little White Dog's body, Lin Chan first pressed the dog's ear against his own chest and listened to the heartbeat of his fleshly body. It was still beating steadily. He sniffed at his nose and mouth; his breathing was calm and smooth as well.

Like a sleeping child.

Sleeping!

After studying it for half the day, Lin Chan roughly figured it out.

"It's the effect of [Deep Sleep]!"

[Deep Sleep: High-efficiency sleep. While asleep, one can grow and cultivate, recover from injuries, and extend one's lifespan.]

In other words, when Lin Chan's soul left his body, his fleshly body, having lost its soul, automatically entered a state of Deep Sleep.

This talent had originally been a passive talent.

Now that it was working in such a strange way, Lin Chan thought it over carefully and found nothing wrong with it.

"Chan'er! Chan'er!"

Just then, Lin Yuemian knocked on Lin Chan's door.

Lin Chan immediately returned to his original body and walked out.

"Thirteenth Sister!"

Lin Chan pushed open the door.

"Chan'er! What were you doing in there?"

Lin Yuemian asked curiously.

"Nothing!"

Lin Chan said casually.

"Oh! Here, have a chicken leg."

Lin Yuemian held out her greasy hand clutching a chicken leg and handed it to Lin Chan.

It was Lin Chan's birthday today, so there was plenty of delicious food.

Lin Chan took it and squatted down with Lin Yuemian to finish eating it.

When only the bone remained, the Little White Dog Lin Chan had brought back earlier came over, biting its tail.

In the face of food, Little White Dog overcame its fear of Lin Chan.

"Here!"

Lin Chan tossed the bone to Little White Dog.

Afterward, Lin Chan, Lin Yuemian, and Little White Dog played house for a while before it was time to take their seats.

Lin Chan was today's main character, so he could not be absent.

As for Little White Dog, Lin Chan arranged for Xiao Can to look after it. From now on, it would be one of his incarnations.

After a fulfilling day came to an end and the night deepened, Lin Chan brought Little White Dog into his room. Smiling broadly, he reached out to pat the dog's head and took over its body.

After confirming that his original body was fine, Lin Chan familiarized himself with his new body, then pawed at the door.

No one came to open it, so Lin Chan could only switch back, then crack the door open.

This time, Little White Dog, Lin Chan's incarnation, was able to leave the room smoothly.

"There's a dog coming out of the young master's room."

A guard making his nighttime rounds noticed Lin Chan.

"That's Young Master Chan's pet. Leave it alone."

Another guard, seeing that Lin Chan had been inseparable from this Little White Dog all day, said so.

After that, the two Guards on duty ignored Lin Chan.

Lin Chan did not linger at Lin Family Mansion either. After twisting and turning through several paths, he finally crawled out through a dog hole.

"So this is freedom?"

Lin Chan howled twice, then ran freely through the streets.

After circling the nearby lanes and alleys several times, Lin Chan returned home panting as dawn approached.

"A dog's body is still far too inconvenient. Its limbs are clumsy. If I had a cat incarnation, it should be much more convenient."

After switching back to his own body, Lin Chan thought this.

He did not feel tired at all. On the contrary, he felt wonderfully comfortable, as though he had slept his fill.

Little White Dog, however, had become utterly exhausted after Lin Chan's night of tossing it about. The moment Lin Chan switched back, it swayed unsteadily and collapsed.

"With this Animal Doppelganger, I can to a certain extent go without sleep or rest."

Lin Chan was delighted.

Once one of his bodies became tired, he could switch to another body and directly save the time spent sleeping.

But a dog's body was still too difficult to use. Lin Chan urgently needed a kitten.

As it happened, Lin Fangzheng was home these days, so Lin Chan sought him out and asked him to catch a cat for him.

For Lin Chan's small request, Lin Fangzheng spared no effort to satisfy it. He immediately sent someone to ask around among acquaintances who kept cats.

Upon learning that one household had kittens that had only recently reached a full month old, he immediately took Lin Chan there to choose one.

"Chan'er, which one do you want?"

Lin Fangzheng pointed at a litter of kittens that had only recently reached a full month old and asked.

Lin Chan observed them carefully and chose a grayish-brown Tricolor Cat with evenly distributed markings. This Tricolor Cat was the liveliest, which meant it was in the best health and most suitable for Lin Chan's nighttime adventures outside.

Lin Fangzheng's friend immediately caught it for him, tied a rope around it, and handed the rope to Lin Chan.

"Chan'er, this little cat is mischievous and hasn't recognized its owner yet. Be careful. Don't let it scratch you."

"Got it, Uncle Ma."

Lin Chan took the rope. The little Tricolor Cat kept struggling, but when its gaze met Lin Chan's, a trace of fear suddenly rose in it. Its fur stood on end as it backed away.

Lin Chan slowly shortened the rope, then finally pinched the kitten by the scruff of its neck and caught it in his arms.

Whenever the kitten tried to resist, Lin Chan instantly used the Animal Doppelganger talent to restrain its soul.

In the end, the kitten lay obediently in Lin Chan's arms, incomparably docile.

Having acquired the new cat, Lin Chan took it home, paid respects to the Kitchen God, and ate wheat rice. The kitten then became a member of the Lin Family and Lin Chan's pet.

Little White Dog was named Little White, while the little Tricolor Cat was named Little Li—plain and unadorned.

From then on, the two would be Lin Chan's right-hand helpers.

Lin Chan even had someone make nests for the two little ones, and had the door to his room remodeled with a cat door and a dog door, making it easier for him to move about on his own in the future.

That night, Lin Chan used Little Li's body. He first adapted to the body, then began practicing climbing trees.

It did not take long for Lin Chan to learn the technique of climbing. He climbed onto the roof and raced freely between rooftops as if walking on level ground. This was a memory etched into a cat's bones; Lin Chan did not need long to learn it.

When the Guards of the Lin Family saw this kitten darting about the estate, they knew it was Lin Chan's pet and did not pay it much attention.

Before long, Lin Chan arrived atop the roof of a room and heard a child wailing.

"This seems to be Third Mistress's room. The one crying should be Hu Zi."

Hearing the cries, Lin Chan knew he had come to the room of his younger brother Lin Hu and his mother.

Out of curiosity, he stayed there, pressing his ear to the roof tiles and listening to the movement inside.

"You still haven't soothed him! What use are you?"

The moment Lin Chan pressed his ear down, he heard Third Mistress's hysterical voice.

"Third Madam!"

Then came the wet nurse's somewhat aggrieved voice.

A child only a few months old was at the age when they fussed endlessly. How could he be soothed in just a moment or two?

Such a child made a fuss over eating and drinking alike, needing someone to watch over and tend to him at all times.

Only Lin Chan back then had neither cried nor fussed, eating and drinking well all day long.

"Give him to me! Useless trash. Tomorrow, I'll have the master throw you out."

Third Mistress snatched the swaddling clothes away.

Lin Hu's wet nurse could only hand the swaddling clothes to Third Mistress resentfully, standing guard at the side without daring to speak.

"Hu Zi, rest assured. You're your father's own flesh and blood. In the future, everything in the Lin Family will belong to you."

Third Mistress muttered as she soothed Lin Hu.

Looking at Hu Zi, who had fallen asleep, Third Mistress was also dreaming of her beautiful future life.

In her eyes, Lin Fangzheng would sooner or later shift his focus toward Lin Hu, rather than Lin Chan, whom he had brought back from who knew where.

Hearing Third Mistress's words from the rooftop, Lin Chan seemed to realize something.