Chapter One Little Girl

  "What are you thinking about? You look quite refreshed?" Li Luyou asked An Nanxiu as he turned his head around.

  "Uh-huh."

  "When did you arrive here?"

  "This morning."

  "How did you get here?"

  "A battle took place and the fighting got out of control."

  "How will you get back?"

  "Accumulate strength and break through space."

  "Is it difficult?"

  "Ordinary."

  Arriving in a strange world, An Nanxiu had more freshness and curiosity, but after Li Luyu accepted the existence of an otherworldly princess by his side, he found it increasingly difficult to suppress the desire to ask questions from within.

  Li Rouyou kept asking questions, and An Nanxiu endured her impatience, answering each one briefly.

  It seemed like a casual greeting when visiting relatives, Li Luyu frowned at the little girl's good-looking eyebrows and decided to stop, it was clear that in her eyes, she was just a native, as a princess who centered on herself, naturally wouldn't have much interest in communicating with him.

  Looking at Li Luyu's awkward expression, An Nanxiu said with a straight face: "I will try my best to answer your questions, after all, I also have many questions to ask you."

  "Go ahead and ask, I'll tell you everything."

  An Nan slightly opened her mouth, but didn't ask questions immediately. How could she be as ignorant as Li Luyu, asking only trivial and boring questions? When she asked questions, they must match her identity and show depth.

  "Are people in this world picked from trees?"

  After some thought, An Nanxiu raised a very serious academic question involving social composition and ecological culture.

  "No." Li Rouyou couldn't help but stifle a smile, unable to imagine the scene of a little kid hanging from a tree like fruit, waiting for someone to pick and raise them. "A man and a woman come together, then the woman gets pregnant, and she'll give birth to a child... that's how each and every one of us was born... in our mother's belly."

  An Nan Xiu lowered her head to look at her own belly, and subconsciously touched it. She looked at the women walking on the street with an incredulous expression, "What a strange world, women have replaced the function of the tree of life... But what's the use of men? Is it necessary for men and women to be together to have children? Are men indispensable in this?"

  "Of course, it takes a man and a woman to complete the process of conception, and then the rest is left to the woman. So in our world, mothers often get more praise." Li Luoyu hoped that her question would stop there, he had no way to specifically explain childbirth to an underage girl.

  Li Luyu looked at An Nanxiu's eyes and felt a bit strange. People from the Tianyun Divine Realm were all picked from trees, so from the perspective of Darwinian evolution, even if they originally had reproductive abilities, they would have degenerated, or they never had those functions and organs to begin with.

  Just thinking about Li Luyu made him feel uncomfortable and he couldn't help but ask: "Are you all asexual?"

  "Asexual?" Annan raised an eyebrow and looked at Li Luyu.

  "It's just no gender, no distinction between men and women...... Fruits are all fruits, but there is no distinction between male and female."

  Under the night color, Annan Xiu's cheeks were slightly flushed, and she raised her eyebrows to wait for Li Luyu, "Of course not, we also distinguish between men and women, why do you ask this?"

  "I just find it hard to understand."

  "You're an idiot, this is also hard to understand." An Nanxiu turned her head away, fortunately, he didn't ask her to prove herself as a girl too much. As a knowledgeable and skilled divine technique master, An Nanxiu was very clear about the differences between men and women, but she didn't bother to pay attention to those things.

  Li Luyu also thinks it's okay, not some strange creature, just a normal girl. Li Luyu doesn't want to live with asexual people, neutral people, bisexual people and other weird creatures... But in comparison, asking if someone is picked from a tree or something like that makes one look even more stupid.

  Li Luyu took Annan Xiu to the supermarket, and although Annan Xiu had changed into relatively ordinary clothes, such a beautiful little girl was still very eye-catching. Li Luyu glanced at those holding their phones and pretending to press the keyboard, so he hastily bought some daily necessities and quickly took her back. Annan Xiu was somewhat unhappy because earlier in front of a shelf, a woman bought a pack of something, and Annan Xiu just looked at it with some curiosity. The woman actually looked at her with some disdain and said, "Not needed yet? Little kid."

  Li Luyu did worry about this issue, but he wasn't suitable to discuss it with Annan Xiu. Moreover, he had some doubts that Annan Xiu might not be able to give birth like an Earth woman, so that matter would never come to pass.

  Annan Xiu, the eldest princess of the Tianyun God Realm's Annan royal family, settled down in this small district built in the early 90s and didn't bring any changes or troubles to Li Luyu's life. Starting from the next day, he rushed to attend school as usual. After a week passed, the elderly men and women who were initially enthusiastic about finding out if the little girl had found her parents finally figured it out. It turned out that the little girl was an orphan and didn't want to go to welfare institutions or similar places, so she temporarily stayed with Li Luyu. Seeing that the little girl could move around freely every day without being coerced or intimidated by bad people, no one bothered to contact the neighborhood committee or police station.

  Poor little girl, someone even sent over old clothes from their own children, including boys', and Li Luyu accepted them all, but didn't tell Annanxiu. This princess would not think that the other person was kind-hearted, only that they were provoking her royal dignity.

  Annan Xiu settled down in a plain and unassuming manner, without causing much trouble for Li Luyu. He went out early and returned late every day, except for buying breakfast and preparing dinner, Annan Xiu didn't need him to take care of her excessively. Most of the time she was alone at home, occasionally taking a stroll around the neighborhood, sitting in a small pavilion gazing up at the sky, standing by the pond watching the big red carp swim back and forth, or swinging gently on the swing with her slender legs.

  An Nanxiu didn't act like the ancient people in TV dramas who come to modern times and don't understand anything, making a fuss and laughing. She was particularly calm and had strong learning abilities, mastering the use of household appliances such as washing machines and induction cookers within a few days. Occasionally, she would also watch TV programs. One time, Li Luyu kicked away the power cord of the refrigerator, An Nanxiu walked over to plug it back in and warned Li Luyu that ice cream was something she particularly liked to eat, but if the power went out, the ice cream would melt.

  Lee Ruo Yu no longer remembers that she is the princess of Annan royal family, but it feels like when she lived with her sister before. However, he occasionally sees Annan Xiu holding a newspaper and reading, and starts to focus on the books Lee Ruo Yu bought, such as "Bosnia War History", "Two River Valley War Civilization", "Independence War" and so on, which makes Lee Ruo Yu secretly shocked, is the idea of summoning alien troops to invade still not abandoned?

  At home, a beautiful little girl was raised, bringing not much impact to Li Luoyu except that he had to take on the heavy responsibility of sweeping and washing clothes himself. The good old days of piling up dirty laundry waiting for his sister to come over and wash it on weekends were gone. Li Luoyu could only use the excuse that his sister was in her third year of high school and shouldn't be running around wasting time learning, to avoid his sister discovering Annanxiu's existence.

  It's bound to be discovered sooner or later, and Li Luyu hasn't figured out how to explain it yet... Another trouble is that there is one more person, and the living expenses are a bit tight. After Li Luyu spent his summer vacation working as a tutor and earning money to buy several sets of clothes for An Nanxiu, the old man's head in his wallet was left with only a few thin ones.

  Annan Xiu didn't have the usual pocket money like other little girls, and Li Youyi still left her two dollars, letting her try to participate in this world's economic activities on her own, especially in a world where having no money in one's pocket means no sense of security.

  He soon discovered that Annanxiu was not suitable for participating in the economic activities of this world. On that day, he had just bought a set of English six-level tutoring materials and was about to leave the bookstore when he unexpectedly saw Annanxiu at a small store on the corner. He didn't expect her to have already expanded her activity range so far, knowing that this place was more than five kilometers away from the residential area. Extremely disgusted with public transportation and not knowing how to take a taxi, Annanxiu's delicate and elegant feet had surprisingly traveled such a long distance, which was beyond Li Luyu's expectations.

  Annanshuo is buying popsicles, the kind that cost 50 cents each, white sugar popsicles. In Li Luyu's eyes, Annanshuo only has a crush on white sugar popsicles. When she likes this thing, she doesn't care about her princess identity and doesn't care that sucking on popsicles is not elegant and damages the demeanor she should keep.

  Li Luyu often sees her licking an ice stick while strolling around the neighborhood, but as soon as she sees Li Luyu, she stops and hides to secretly eat after Li Luyu walks away. Occasionally, when Li Luyu takes a sneak peek, she reveals some very enjoyable expressions.

  How can popsicles be so delicious? Li Luyu found it hard to understand, but little girls are just little girls after all... even princesses. Only little girls would like eating popsicles, and girls of the same age as Li Luyu were mostly enthusiastic about or yearned for Haagen-Dazs, looking down on 50-cent white sugar popsicles with disdain.

  A five-mao ice stick can earn one or two mao, but An Nanxiu took out a 100-yuan bill. The shop owner was somewhat unhappy and asked An Nanxiu if she had any change.

  "What's with the change?" An Nanxiu sucked on her ice pop, expressionless, as she pulled out another 100-yuan bill. "Will this one do?"

  "Are you kidding me? I'm talking about small change!" The shop owner looked at An Nanxiu with a stupid expression.

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