"Um, Yelang, what do you mean by your earlier words? What do you mean it will be hard for me to gain weight?"
"Because your absorption ability is only one-tenth of a normal person's, you have to eat the amount of food equivalent to ten people just to maintain your body. Only if you exceed this amount will you gain weight!" Yelang explained.
"Haha, that's great! I won't gain weight in the future and can eat as much as I want!" This was definitely good news for Zhen Xiaoyan.
"The issue is that if you eat less, you'll continue to lose weight day by day and sometimes even faint due to eating too little. It's troublesome, but fortunately, it can be slowly remedied. In three or four years, you should be able to recover to about seventy to eighty percent of a normal person, which should be enough." Yelang looked at the smiling Zhen Xiaoyan and frowned slightly. He realized that her smile seemed a bit abnormal.
"Hehe, I don't want that!" Zhen Xiaoyan shook her head and continued, "I want it this way. If I recover, I'll become a big fat lady again, and wouldn't that be more problematic? Besides, I already eat the equivalent of ten people's portions normally, and even if I eat less, you can help, right?"
"... You heavy lady, you're just shifting the responsibility onto me. Yes, I have medicine to help maintain your body, but it's expensive!" Yelang looked at the smiling Zhen Xiaoyan, seemingly having no solution either.
"A good thing that it's expensive; you like to spend money, don't you?" Zhen Xiaoyan joked.
"Fair point. That's settled then! If you were like you used to be, full of fat all over, it wouldn't be as good as it is now." Yelang waved his hand and left the matter aside.
Actually, even if he didn't regulate Zhen Xiaoyan's body, the human body would gradually recover. However, after this, no matter how much she ate, even surpassing her previous consumption, she never gained weight, and remained in her current shape.
Although this was strange, it seemed that no one cared about it. Was there a need to?
"Alright, there's nothing else, you can go home now. You don't need to stay here in the future." This was a very practical statement from Yelang after coming to a conclusion.
Since there was no longer a need for observation, there was no reason for Zhen Xiaoyan to stay here. They weren't really living together; it was just a unique situation during a special period which had passed, so this unique situation also disappeared.
"..., can't you be less direct? You really don't understand the finer things." Zhen Xiaoyan was puzzled for a moment, then said, not in a good mood.
"What finer things? Forget it, I can't be bothered with your nonsense. Remember to prepare some good food for me tomorrow. I will be returning to school, and also, take care of yourself, always bring something to eat, and don't forget to eat, or else you'll faint on the street, and no one will take care of you."
"I understand," Zhen Xiaoyan replied, muttering softly to herself, "I won't be left unattended if I faint on the street now. I'm a beauty, only you, the fool, would say that I'm no different from before, always calling me a fatty!"
"But, I like it when you call me that, because then I know that no matter what I look like, you treat me the same way!"
"Well then, hurry up, I don't have time to chat with you!"
"..."
That's the way it is. You won't be nicer to me just because I've become beautiful, and when the time comes, you'll just send me away without hesitation...
Perhaps, this is what a friend is, a real friend, who doesn't care about your beauty or ugliness...
So, Zhen Xiaoyan bid farewell to Ye Lang with a smile and returned home. She first thought about what she would cook for Ye Lang the next day, and then she thought about her peculiar boyfriend - Mo Ya!
After Zhen Xiaoyan left, Ye Lang continued talking with Ye Lanyu, and they had dinner together, then he went to sleep.
"I'm going to sleep. I wonder if I will meet that woman again today. I have to find out who she is!!"
Who is the woman Ye Lang is talking about? He doesn't know. Of course, if he knew, he wouldn't have to try to find out who she is. He had never told anyone about this, because it was truly extraordinary and couldn't be explained.
Because it was a dream, a dream that had been ongoing and its secret had yet to be deciphered!
Perhaps, this was just a dream, or perhaps there was some other reason.
After entering the dream, Ye Lang found himself in a beautiful flower sea, seemingly in the middle of a plateau, with a clear lake in the middle of the flower sea!
He saw a girl in white sitting by the lake, with bare feet dipped in the cool water. Of course, the coolness was just a mental sensation, and whether it really existed was uncertain.
"You're here?" the girl said softly, not afraid to speak softly, as she knew that no matter how soft her voice was, Ye Lang could hear it.
"Yeah, I'm here. Why do we keep changing places every time we meet? Yesterday we were at the beach, today it's a flower sea." Ye Lang came to sit next to the girl as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Although she was just a dream figure, he had been having this dream for several years now, and they had become very familiar with each other.
"Isn't this good? If it's always the same place, it would be so boring, and you'd get tired of it too," the girl said softly, swinging her translucent feet in the lake.
"I don't think so. I don't see any difference in that. It's more boring to change places every time. Couldn't you create a pavilion in a courtyard, so we can have tea and chat?" Ye Lang casually replied.
"Oh, then next time, I'll build a pavilion for you. What kind do you like?" the girl said softly.
"I like a small bridge over flowing water, a rockery with a pond, a bonsai garden, and the scent of birds and flowers..." Ye Lang mentioned his preferences, and the girl quietly made note, intending to design a courtyard pavilion that both she and Ye Lang would like.
Then, she and Ye Lang began discussing the details of this courtyard pavilion, sparking more topics, talking about everything under the sun.
But strangely, they never discussed their personal details, not even a hint of information, which seemed to contradict what Ye Lang had said before.
"Girl, you seem to know everything, but who exactly are you?" Ye Lang said casually, and after saying this, his expression changed immediately, as if expecting and also helpless.
"I ..." The girl wanted to say, but—
In an instant, the scene suddenly disappeared...