Chapter 430: Shui Miao Miao — I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Forget This
“Is there something wrong?”
Bai Feng looked a bit confused. Was there some weird rule in Dong Zhou that he didn’t know about? Or was Shui Miao Miao thinking too much again?
He glanced at her slightly red little face, and he’d bet ten silver coins that it was the latter.
So he reached out, poked her forehead lightly, and said, “It’s about wearing clothes while taking the shot.”
Once her inner thoughts were exposed, her face turned bright red instantly, almost as if she wanted to burrow a hole to hide in.
“All right, if you have questions, remember to ask me. I probably won’t be too busy lately.”
After all, recently he needed to stay by the Array to gather info and prevent surprises. Looks busy, but honestly, there wasn’t much to do.
“Actually, I do!” Shui Miao Miao, no longer bothering with shyness, quickly raised her hand and blurted out a question that had been bothering her for days: “Senior Brother Bai, how do you draw male characters? No matter how I try, it looks weird.”
“That’s a good question…” Bai Feng thought for a moment before replying, “Male body proportions are a little different from females, like shoulders and hips…”
After explaining the differences between genders, he picked up a teacup and took a sip of water. “That’s about it. Do you understand?”
“…Kind of difficult,” she whispered with her head lowered.
Then she silently raised her head, looking at Bai Feng’s body and muttered softly, “If only Senior Brother Bai could demonstrate it himself…”
Her voice was so soft that Bai Feng almost didn’t catch it. It was less about talking to him and more like she accidentally muttered her own thoughts out loud.
Bai Feng didn’t plan to ignore her. Instead, he nodded and agreed, “Well then, I guess I’ll demonstrate.”
“Huh?”
Did I just say what I really thought? Oh no, I’ve been alone too long and developed this habit of talking to myself. How can I break it?
If Senior Brother Bai really starts…
No, no, calm down. She just barely expressed her thoughts. It’s not too serious. Plus, from what she knew of Bai Feng, he probably was just explaining through drawing, not about to do anything else.
Just as Shui Miao Miao had this thought, Bai Feng reached out and took off his long robe, revealing a plain white shirt underneath.
“B-Bai… Senior Brother Bai!!”
Her eyes widened as she stared at Bai Feng. Her face turned red again, and even little white ‘steam’ started to puff out from her head.
“It’s easier to explain this way. You’ll remember better,” Bai Feng said with a smile. “You should be able to see that my shoulders are broader, right?”
“Mm…” She was still blushing fiercely but kept her eyes glued to Bai Feng.
“If you find it not vivid enough, you can also touch it.”
Bai Feng raised his arm and gestured to his shoulder.
“Can I really?”
Her eyes suddenly grew big, and her shyness seemed to evaporate as if a fog had cleared.
She stood up, walked over to Bai Feng, and slowly poked at his shoulder with her finger.
“It’s so hard.”
She muttered unconsciously.
“Because it’s muscle,” Bai Feng replied straight-faced.
Before he finished, Shui Miao Miao changed her finger to a grab and reached out to touch his shoulder, then his arm.
‘Wow, I can actually touch Senior Brother Bai’s body!’
Her heart was now completely over her shyness. Eyes only saw Bai Feng and his body.
“Okay, okay, just touch his shoulder. Don’t go any lower,” Bai Feng said gently.
“Ah…”
Shui Miao Miao suddenly snapped out of her daze. She looked down and saw her little hand on Bai Feng’s abs, and her cheeks flushed even more.
She desperately wanted to pull her hand back, but it seemed to have a mind of its own and refused to obey.
In the end, she forcibly grabbed her wrist with her other hand and ‘dragged’ her tiny hand away from his abs.
“So, how does it look? Remembered everything?”
Bai Feng put his long robe back on and asked.
Shui Miao Miao closed her eyes, savoring the feeling just now, then opened them and nodded. “Yes, Senior Brother Bai’s upper body is completely etched into my mind.”
I don’t think I’ll forget this lifetime.
“…Sounds kinda weird when you say it like that,” Bai Feng remarked with a chuckle.
“Um, Senior Brother Bai, didn’t you say the hips are different too?” Shui Miao Miao asked expectantly.
“…We’ll explain that part with drawings.”
Bai Feng shot her a sidelong glance. He had actually wanted to see her blush and get shy, but it backfired—if he didn’t stop her, she’d probably dare to touch him everywhere.
“Oh…”
Shui Miao Miao sounded a little disappointed.
……
“Not bad, not bad! You’re pretty quick at grasping this!”
Bai Feng nodded in approval as he looked at the new drawing Shui Miao Miao had produced. She had only practiced once after he explained the male body proportions, and she could already draw them well. Her talent for painting was quite good. If only her depiction of him looked more like him…
“Hehe…”
Shui Miao Miao shyly rubbed her cheek, but inside she sighed slightly. She thought her drawings still weren’t good enough—not because of her skills, but because she’d only managed to touch Bai Feng’s upper body. She couldn’t draw his lower half properly no matter how much she tried, making the entire figure look awkward, which she found hard to accept.
Is there a way to get to Bai Feng’s…?
She quietly lifted her head, looking at Bai Feng, then blushed again and shrank back, as if imagining something.
“Alright, you can keep working here. I’ll go over there to record data. If you need anything, come find me.”
“Record data?” Shui Miao Miao looked up with curiosity. “Senior Brother Bai, did you do something special again?”
“Oh, right, I forgot to tell you. It’s called a Virtual Training Array—something special for practicing. Want to see it?”
“Mm-hmm!”
She eagerly nodded.
Soon, she followed Bai Feng to the side of the Virtual Training Array.
“This—think of it as a real virtual world. You can train and cultivate inside. Even if you d*e, it’s just a few days to recover,” Bai Feng explained. “Want to try, Shui Miao Miao?”
She shook her head without hesitation, “No thanks, I’m not really into training.”
As someone who had given up the throne and was just a lazy fish, she didn’t have any scary ambition to fight hard for power. If she were a newly emerged princess, maybe she’d be interested, but now she just wanted to stay with Bai Feng to learn painting—and draw herself and him… cough cough!
But then she suddenly thought of something. She looked at the virtual training array with a determined expression and asked, “Senior Brother Bai, is this virtual training as real as the actual world?”
“Almost. You could say it’s nearly the same,” Bai Feng replied.
She continued, “Can this array summon the materials I need for painting?”
“…Yes.”
But if she used such an array as a material library for painting, it somehow felt… a bit excessively luxurious and wasteful.
