Teacher Lu Lu had been worried that once Ruan Shu revealed she was a carnivorous beast-type star creature, the kids might reject her. But now, it seemed she’d been overthinking it.
The main reason was that Ruan Shu had such a soft and harmless demeanor. She looked so easy to bully, yet she was also the kind of person that others wanted to protect.
Moreover, Ruan Shu had even drawn pictures for each of her classmates. How could anyone dislike such a sweet Ruan Shu, even if she was a carnivorous type?
After school in the afternoon, Ruan Shu packed her bag, carrying the gifts her classmates had given her. Just as she stepped out of the classroom, she saw her dad!
She felt a surge of joy and excitement, though she didn’t know why her nose tingled, and her eyes turned red.
It was as if a childhood wish from a past life had finally come true, leaving no regrets behind.
With her backpack on, Ruan Shu jogged over to her dad, her eyes slightly red but her face lit with the happiest smile.
“Dad.”
Ruan Xiao knelt down and gently wiped her eyes with his fingers, not asking why she was crying. Instead, his voice was exceptionally gentle as he spoke softly.
“I’ve come to take you home.”
“Yes, yes!”
Ruan Shu nodded vigorously, her smile widening as her bright, dewy eyes sparkled as she looked at him.
Her dad lifted her up into his arms.
Ruan Shu hugged her dad’s neck tightly, snuggling up to him. In a soft, teary voice, she whispered affectionately.
“Dad.”
“Mm.”
“I’m so happy.”
Ruan Xiao just patted her shoulder gently. “From now on, if I have time, I’ll come to pick you up. And even if I don’t, your grandpa and brothers will. We’ll never let you go home alone.”
Ruan Shu nodded enthusiastically.
“My family now is the best!”
When they got home, any lingering feelings of emotion had vanished without a trace.
She saw her grandpa standing at the door, and her brothers, who were also waiting for her to come home.
One by one, Ruan Shu called to them, happily throwing herself into their arms.
“Grandpa, brothers, I missed you all so much!”
The butler came out with a cup of her favorite milk juice, and everyone gathered around her, asking how her day at school had been.
Their voices were filled with concern, as if they feared she’d been mistreated at school.
Ruan Shu felt warm inside. Holding her milk juice, she shared the day’s events at school, her eyes crinkling with happiness.
When they heard that her classmates had willingly shared snacks with her, everyone nodded approvingly.
The students in her class seemed like a good bunch.
When they heard about Ruan Shu’s performance in P.E. class, her family, in their typical double-standard way, claimed that their little Shushu, being so small, naturally wasn’t cut out for sports. So what if her strength level was low? At least it wasn’t zero—she had 30 points, after all.
Ruan Shu had managed to keep running for almost 2,000 meters—wasn’t that impressive enough?
They couldn’t help but feel proud of their sweet child, whose body flexibility was unparalleled compared to the other little ones!
Indeed, this generation of parents was the epitome of double standards.
Ruan Shu herself felt embarrassed about her test scores, but hearing all the praise from her family made her shy in an instant.
Regardless, her first day at school had been a great experience.
After dinner, Ruan Shu went straight to her homework.
She was very disciplined.
Since she’d already learned the material during online lessons, the assignments weren’t difficult for her.
After finishing her homework, she even continued studying a bit on her own.
Then she went to her room, cuddling Pink Maiden—the little creature that had perched on her shoulder ever since she got home.
The room was temperature-controlled, with various plants growing well inside. Some strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and a white fruit called “milk fruit” had already ripened and were ready to be picked.
Milk fruit was probably from another planet. Like strawberries, it grew on short plants, and when broken open, it revealed a soft, creamy, sweet flesh inside.
These plants weren’t mutated but were free of any pollutants.
Since they were easy to grow and matured quickly, Ruan Shu had planted quite a few.
She planned to bring some to share with her classmates tomorrow.
“Oh, Dad, can I grow some bamboo?”
Ruan Xiao, munching on a strawberry his daughter had fed him, nodded at her request.
“Sure. Why the interest in bamboo?”
Ruan Shu’s eyes sparkled. “Because one of my classmates is a panda!”
“A round, chubby panda—who wouldn’t like that?”
Ruan Xiao raised an eyebrow. “A panda? A bear cat? You like bear cats?”
Ruan Shu’s voice softened. “In that world, pandas are national treasures, extremely rare, and everyone loves them. Shushu loves them too.”
Ruan Xiao was silent for a moment.
A bear cat… a national treasure?
He couldn’t quite understand this world his daughter described, where animals were treated like treasures. In their Star Beast Empire, every person was essentially an animal!
Why was he feeling a little jealous?
What happened to loving tigers and qilins?
However, the doting father still made arrangements for someone to prepare some bamboo seedlings for her.
The room was enormous, almost the size of a small farm. Because many plants required different temperatures, the room was divided into separate compartments, each area dedicated to a unique group of plants.
After inspecting the strawberries, Ruan Shu continued forward and discovered a neatly planted row of carrots.
One of her classmates was a rabbit-type star beast, so she decided she’d bring a carrot to school tomorrow.
Curious to see how big the carrots had grown, she grabbed a carrot top and tried to pull it out.
The soil looked soft, but to her surprise, she couldn’t pull the carrot up!
Ruan Shu’s eyes widened slightly, and she tried harder, her little face turning red from the effort until she finally managed to pull out a carrot’s big, round head.
Just as she took a deep breath, preparing to keep pulling, a large hand reached out from behind her, effortlessly lifting the entire carrot out.
Wow… what a huge carrot!
Even though the carrot tops weren’t very large, Ruan Shu had assumed they were still small. She hadn’t expected such a massive carrot hidden underground!
It was as long as her arm.
Ruan Xiao seemed equally surprised.
Father and daughter exchanged a glance and then started pulling out the remaining carrots together.
Each one was substantial, creating an impressive pile once gathered.
Besides the orange carrots, there were also white radishes.
The white radishes were also underground, and neither of them knew what to expect in terms of size.
And so, they eagerly began pulling up the white radishes.
To their amazement, the white radishes were even larger—three times the size of the orange carrots! They were almost as big around as Ruan Shu herself!
“Wow!!!”
In both her lives, Ruan Shu had never seen such enormous radishes!
“I thought they weren’t fully grown!”
Ruan Xiao felt the same way…
He hadn’t expected that Ruan Shu’s sudden whim to pull up a carrot would yield such a surprise.
Ruan Xiao called the butler and some robots to help, and soon, all the carrots and radishes were neatly gathered, leaving the field completely harvested.
Ruan Shu turned to her dad, “Let’s leave a couple as seeds.”
Ruan Xiao nodded in agreement. Given their massive size, even though modern vegetable seeds had undergone countless rounds of genetic screening and cultivation, they rarely grew to this extent.