Ye Mu toasted two slices of bread, ate them without tasting anything, and then opened the room where he kept the little butterfly.
A soft light was on in the room. Ye Mu looked towards the small nest placed in the corner. The little butterfly's pink, translucent wings twitched in its sleep, showing no signs of discomfort.
Ye Mu felt a little relieved. After watching the little butterfly sleep for a while longer, he returned to his own room to rest, leaving a small gap in the door of the little butterfly's room.
The next morning, when Ye Mu woke up, the little butterfly was still asleep. As usual, Ye Mu got up and went to check on the little butterfly first.
The little butterfly was still sleeping, its small wings occasionally twitching, along with its small antennae.
Ye Mu curved his lips, thinking that the little butterfly had probably slept early yesterday because it was too tired during the day.
He cut fresh fruit for the little butterfly and placed it on a small dish. He also changed the water and took out the leftover fruit and water from yesterday.
After everything was tidied up, Ye Mu left with peace of mind.
Having such a fragile little creature at home that could only depend on him to live and survive made Ye Mu feel very good.
With a smile on his face, Ye Mu decided to get off work early today, treating it as a day off.
If the other people in the company knew what the big boss was thinking, they would probably complain endlessly.
Over the past month, the big boss had wished for a day off every day. One might think the company was going bankrupt and the big boss was going out to drum up business.
At the same time, at Ye Mu's home, the beautiful little butterfly sleeping in its soft nest twitched its wings and woke up.
It looked around, a little confused about where it was.
After staring blankly for a while, something suddenly surged into its heart, and it seemed to remember something.
Its name was Luo Qi, and in this life, it seemed to be a little butterfly spirit.
In its previous life, it had been saved by a human named Ye Mu, so it had come to find this human as soon as it was born in this life.
And it had indeed found him, the human who was now raising it!
It was truly a lucky little butterfly spirit!
Luo Qi twitched its wings and realized that it was still in the form of a little butterfly. It frowned in its heart and Luo Qi tried its best to recall the inheritance memories of a little butterfly spirit, pondering how to transform into human form.
When it got tired from transforming, it would eat a few bites of small fruit. After eating its fill, it would continue transforming. Finally, as the last ray of sunlight dipped below the horizon, a faint glow flashed, and Luo Qi transformed into human form – a very, very, very small person.
Luo Qi grew small hands and feet. The nest that could previously accommodate it in the center now barely fit it, but small wings remained on its back.
It frowned, not understanding why it had only become this small after transforming into human form, nor why its wings were still there.
At this moment, the sound of a door opening could be heard from afar. Luo Qi was startled. In its current state, not only would it fail to repay its benefactor, but it would surely frighten the benefactor!
Luo Qi looked around, grabbed a large leaf to cover its naked little body, and flapped its wings to hide behind the table.
It listened carefully to the sounds outside, and as expected, it heard familiar footsteps, just like every day recently.
Luo Qi held the leaf with both hands, nervously creating several marks on it. Its hands were also stained with leaf juice, turning both of them green.
Ye Mu entered the room and turned on the light. As usual, he went to check on the little butterfly first, but to his surprise, the little butterfly was not in the nest he had prepared for it today.
Ye Mu looked around in surprise, searching the room carefully, but he couldn't find the little butterfly. Ye Mu's expression then changed slightly.
He first carefully checked the windows in the room. He would open them for a short while to ventilate after returning each day, but he would always close them tightly after leaving the room. Now the windows were also closed properly, so the little butterfly should not have flown away.
Ye Mu walked out of the room. The gap under the door of this room had never been closed. Perhaps the little butterfly had gone to the living room?
Luo Qi flew out from behind the table, curiously looking at the benefactor of this life. When it was a little butterfly, Ye Mu always appeared blurry, and this was the first time it was carefully observing its benefactor.
The benefactor was so handsome! His name was Ye Mu, and his name was so pleasant to hear!
Luo Qi flew in a circle. It liked Ye Mu the most!
At this moment, Ye Mu, unaware that he had earned the "most favorite" of his beloved little butterfly with his handsome face and pleasant name.
At this moment, Ye Mu was anxiously looking for his little butterfly. Previously, as soon as he got off work and returned home, he could see the little butterfly flying out of its room and circling around him in the living room.
Where had the little butterfly gone today?
Ye Mu's face was tense, his eyes brewing with a heavy darkness. Although the little butterfly had only been with him for less than a month, he had already made the little butterfly a very important part of his life.
At this moment, he had no other thoughts in his heart, only knowing that he could not lose the little butterfly.
He carefully searched every corner of the room, but in the end, he found nothing. The little butterfly seemed to have never appeared there.
Ye Mu stood in the center of the living room, his hands by his sides clenched into fists. He took two deep breaths to suppress the fear and unease in his heart.
He returned to the room where he kept the little butterfly. As soon as he opened the door, he met a pair of round, glistening eyes.
It was a very small but very exquisite little doll, with a round face flushed with two touches of pink. Its eyes were large and round, clear and watery, like a spring.
Its mouth was tender and small, seeming to be slightly widened in surprise at his sudden return.
Looking further down, the little doll was holding a leaf almost as big as itself to cover its small body. The edges of the leaf were already damaged and creased, and its small hands were also stained green.
But what surprised Ye Mu even more were the transparent pink little wings on the doll's back, which were exactly the same as the wings of the little butterfly he was raising.
A very absurd but the most logical guess slowly emerged.
Could this exquisitely carved little doll be the little butterfly he was raising, transformed?
Ye Mu looked Luo Qi up and down again. Could he have raised a butterfly fairy! No, a butterfly fairy boy?!!!
Luo Qi was so small, and being stared at from head to toe by the benefactor he had been thinking of for so long, he became a little shy after a while. His fair and tender body slowly became tinged with a layer of pink, turning the same color as his wings.
Ye Mu blinked, with only one thought in his mind: cute, want to... pet.
Thinking this, Ye Mu extended a finger towards the little butterfly and said in the gentlest voice he had ever used:
"Little butterfly, is that you?"