Chapter Fifteen: My Little Sister’s Request

To wander atop the body of a giant woman was already an exceedingly awkward affair, and all the more so when that woman was a distinguished beauty whose inner heart was as innocent as a young girl’s. Han Tianyue pressed his palms together, silently chanting in his heart, “I have eyes only for the Crown Prince, only the Crown Prince,” yet his feeble heart beat ever faster.

Meanwhile, the consciousness of the Suzhou Maiden had dispersed throughout the room as if searching for something. She kept muttering, “Where is my ring? Where is my ring?”

Stranded atop the Suzhou Maiden’s stomach, Han Tianyue found himself unable to sit or stand—pacing downward seemed indecent, upward even more so—so he could only wander awkwardly about her abdomen.

Her awareness now filled the entire chamber, yet the ring she spoke of remained elusive. It was the first time Han Tianyue had seen such a composed beauty driven to distraction before his very eyes.

The Suzhou Maiden’s hands were folded gently atop her belly. When Han Tianyue glanced back, he saw a ring on her finger. He asked, “Is this the ring you’re looking for?”

At his question, she immediately approached the crystal coffin, looked at the ring on her finger, and nodded. “Yes, yes, that’s the one!”

She slipped off the ring and tossed it to Han Tianyue. “Help me deliver this ring to my beloved!”

To the Suzhou Maiden, the dainty ring was a delicate keepsake, but to Han Tianyue it was a colossal object. Her careless toss nearly crushed him beneath its weight.

Having narrowly escaped calamity, Han Tianyue stood within the giant ring’s circle and asked, “How are we supposed to carry such a large ring with us?”

The Suzhou Maiden smiled. “I can make it smaller!”

With a gesture, the ring shrank to match Han Tianyue’s own size.

He stared at the ring, now as tall as himself, and protested, “Do you really expect me to carry a ring as big as I am?”

She frowned thoughtfully. “Ah, this is already as small as I can make it. Any smaller and I won’t be able to see it, so I can’t shrink it further.”

Han Tianyue’s face paled as he regarded the ring beside him.

Suddenly, the Suzhou Maiden exclaimed, “I’ve got it!”

“What is it?” Han Tianyue listened intently.

“If I can shrink objects, I can also enlarge them. If I make you bigger, the ring will seem smaller by comparison!” she said excitedly.

Han Tianyue was left speechless.

With another gesture from the maiden, Han Tianyue returned to his original size. Now enlarged, he found himself seated upon her body, every part of him in contact with her. Blushing fiercely, he leapt off in embarrassment.

Standing on the ground, Han Tianyue was surprised to find himself shorter than the Suzhou Maiden. She remarked, “I like men to be taller.” With another gesture, Han Tianyue grew ten centimeters taller.

Grateful for her preference, Han Tianyue clutched the ring tightly and asked, “How am I to deliver this ring to your beloved?”

She replied, “The ring was a gift from him to me. It will find its way back to its owner on its own.”

With that, her consciousness transformed into a wisp of blue smoke that settled upon her body. From nowhere, a crystal coffin lid drifted down to cover the coffin.

“Hey, Suzhou Maiden, why are you leaving so quickly?” Han Tianyue rushed to the coffin and knocked, but there was no response.

He slumped beside the crystal coffin, grumbling, “You built this place, so at the very least you could have told me how to get out before you left!”

Just then, a beam of light shot from the coffin, refracted several times about the chamber, and then streamed toward the cavern exit. Han Tianyue followed the beam with his eyes and thought, “Could this be the way out?”

As he stepped into the light, a colossal figure of a straw man suddenly appeared before him—

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