Chapter 18: Mr. Aurora

Author's note: Bonus chapter #3 for 30/20 power stones.

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After shaking hands with Yesenin and saying hello, Chen Yingxiong looked down and saw a suitcase at Yesenin's feet...

He raised his head again in confusion and looked at the translator in front of him.

Yesenin continued to keep a kind smile on his face and explained in a calm tone. "From today on, I will live with you, Hero."

Chen Yingxiong's jaw almost dropped.

He palmed his face.

Then a smile appeared on his face. "Oh, haha, haha, okay..."

As he was laughing, he suddenly took a step back and waved his hand to close the door!

He never expected that the middle-aged man on the other side was much more agile than he thought. He caught up with Chen Yingxiong almost at the same time as Chen Yingxiong retreated. Chen Yingxiong wanted to close the door, but Yesenin blocked it with his body.

Chen Yingxiong, who failed to close the door, looked annoyed. But Yesenin had a kind smile on his face throughout the whole process, as if that smile was engraved on his face and would never change...

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Chen Yingxiong stood at the door of the bedroom, watching the translator make the bed very carefully, then took out daily necessities and clothes from the box one by one and placed them on the made bed.

"Hey, why does the translator have to live with the players? I've never heard of such a thing!" he complained unwillingly.

The translator turned around and still had that kind smile on his face, but now it seemed very rigid and stiff to Chen Yingxiong. "Because I have no place to live. The club promised to solve my accommodation problem."

The matter-of-fact tone made Chen Yingxiong very unhappy.

"There are many empty dormitories here..." Chen Yingxiong waved his hand and pointed outside the door.

"I think it would be convenient for me as a translator and your language teacher to live together," Yesenin answered directly without turning back this time.

"Hey!" Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes. He really had no way to deal with such a shameless person.

"I know what you're worried about, Hero. Don't worry, this dormitory has two bedrooms and one living room. We are in our own rooms, and I will never disturb your privacy. No matter what you want to do in the room, I will just pretend I didn't hear it..."

Yesenin's serious tone drove Chen Yingxiong crazy. "I didn't want to do anything in my room!" It sounded like he had already done something dirty in this room. If he could do it... he would have done it long ago!

It's so remote, I can't find a Russian girl here, and he didn't have a way to get to the city. 

"No, I just...just...don't you think it's weird for two grown men to live together?"

Chen Yingxiong thought of this wretched middle-aged man wearing an apron and making breakfast for himself in the kitchen early in the morning. It was a heart-shaped fried egg. There were two pieces of bread on the plate on the table, with a greasy sausage sandwiched between the bread. The exposed top of the sausage was cut vertically, and golden oil was slowly oozing out of the cut... After seeing him, Yesenin raised the spatula and said to him with his signature stiff smile. "You're up, Yingxiong?"

Goose bumps ran from his tailbone along his spine to the back of his neck, and he couldn't help but shiver.

Hearing what Chen Yingxiong said, Yesenin stopped what he was doing, stood up straight, raised his head slightly, supported his chin with one hand, and held the other hand across his chest to support the hand. 

"Really? So you like women..." he pondered.

"Fuck you! You're the one who likes men! Your whole family likes men!" Chen Yingxiong was about to collapse. Was Zenit playing a joke on him? Just because he abused their entire youth team's defence, they found such a psychopath to torture him...

When he finished his roar, he was surprised to find that Yesenin, who was standing in front of him and had his back to him, turned around. As he turned around, his entire appearance changed drastically - he became thinner and slimmer, and his barrel-shaped figure, which was originally a straight line from shoulders to buttocks, began to gradually show uneven changes, with the convex parts protruding and the concave parts sinking. The whole person seemed to be interpreting the drift and collision of the earth's continental plates. In this process, mountains were formed, basins were formed, plains were formed, trenches and canyons were formed... Hair began to grow on his bald head. The colour of the hair was black at first, and gradually turned yellow as the length changed, and finally became a dazzling golden colour...

When Yesenin turned around completely, the person who appeared in front of Chen Yingxiong was no longer a bald and wretched middle-aged man, but a tall, blonde, blue-eyed, rosy woman! She was wearing a set of tight-fitting professional clothes - the white shirt that was obviously one size smaller could not support her at all. The button on the chest was already shaky, and it seemed that it might fall from the top of the mountain into the abyss at any time. The black skirt tightly wrapped around her hips, and the location and angle of the slit of the skirt were just right. One more point would be too erotic, and one less point would be boring. A pair of slender, tight and long legs were wrapped in black stockings, adding a mysterious charm to the haziness, making them more sexy and seductive... In addition, the previous round glasses had also changed shape, becoming black-framed square glasses, which were placed on the high nose bridge, setting off the delicate facial features, and matched with a professional suit. There was an intellectual beauty behind the seductive sexiness, which made people's hearts beat wildly.

The only thing that made him feel out of place was that such a beautiful woman still had Yesenin's signature stiff smile on her face, making her look like a high-end inflatable doll...

"Do you like this image?" Yesenin's voice rang out, but it was no longer the calm and gentle male voice, but a charming female one...

Chen Yingxiong sat down on the ground.

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"Am I dreaming?" Chen Yingxiong was pinching his thigh hard, but the muscles there were so tense that he couldn't even feel any pain.

Just now, his translator and Russian teacher had answered a question that had always puzzled him - why did he suddenly acquire such an abnormal heading ability that he had never possessed before?

"Obviously, no." The blonde Yesenin - now called Yesenina - shook her head. When she shook her head, her soft, waterfall-like blonde hair swayed with the movement, just like the shampoo commercials on TV. The light from her hair was reflected into Chen Yingxiong's eyes, and he couldn't help but squint, and even stretched out his hand to block the dazzling light.

In the absence of professional lighting and camera lenses, this effect could be achieved as it should be in an advertisement, which shows that the hair was quite perfect...

But Chen Yingxiong just felt disgusted.

"I say... can you change your look? This look is scary to me."

Yesenina was surprised, "Don't you like this image? You have really high requirements..."

Chen Yingxiong said unhappily, "If you had used this image when you first met me, I would have been very happy! But after seeing your wretched middle-aged man image, and seeing you like this now, I always think of him! A grown man turned into a woman in front of me, I have a bad heart, please don't provoke me anymore! Besides, I'm not Thai, I don't have that kind of hobby!"

Yesenina spread her hands and asked, "What image do you like?"

Chen Yingxiong waved his hand. "You should change back to your previous image first... I'm used to it, and it's convenient. I don't have any psychological burden to talk about this kind of thing with a wretched man, but I feel very stressed being serious with a blonde beauty..."

As Chen Yingxiong asked, Yesenina turned back into Yesenin.

Although he had seen the transformation process of this "person" once, Chen Yingxiong still felt shocked - how could a living person change shape, gender, appearance and physical signs little by little right under his nose?

Chen Yingxiong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had turned back into the bald middle-aged man with a stiff and wretched expression - this image looked better after all, not as scary as Yesenina.

Yesenina was too perfect, so perfect that she didn't seem to be a natural thing, but more like something artificial. The perfection sent chills down Chen Yingxiong's spine and made him feel terrified - being too perfect meant being unreal, and being unreal made people feel uncomfortable.

"So... I suddenly became very good at heading, is it because of you? The mysterious aurora that appeared in the Moscow sky that day was you?" 

Chen Yingxiong and his father knew about the aurora. They heard Panchenko, who was driving, tell them about it on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The whole of Moscow was discussing the aurora that suddenly appeared and disappeared.

At that time, Chen Yingxiong had no idea that the incarnation of the Aurora was sitting in front of him, looking like a middle-aged ugly bastard.

Yesenin nodded.

"After I scanned your body, I bound myself to it. In addition, I made some minor modifications..." He raised his right hand, and pinched his index finger and thumb together, leaving only a very tiny gap.

When Chen Yingxiong thought about how he had made the entire youth team of Zenit St. Petersburg look so miserable with just a little bit of transformation, he felt that it was probably not just "a little transformation".

"Haha!" He laughed. "So you are a god?"

Yesenin smiled and said, "I am Maxim Yesenin, your Russian translator and language teacher."

Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes. "Tsk!"

Yesenin was somewhat surprised by Chen Yingxiong's attitude. "Aren't you frustrated?"

Chen Yingxiong asked curiously: "Why should I feel depressed?"

"Uh..." Yesenin didn't know what to say, so he thought for a moment before speaking. "You originally thought this was your talent, but now it has become a sudden supernatural power... Don't you feel lost and frustrated?"

Chen Yingxiong stared at Yesenin as if he was looking at a mental patient.

His look made Yesenin feel uneasy. "Did I say something wrong?"

"You are really not a human being..." Chen Yingxiong retracted his gaze and shook his head, "Would anyone feel lost and depressed after winning five million dollars?"

"Talent? I do have talent. Or tell me, if I don't have talent, why did you choose me among so many football players in the world? People who win five million will only be proud of their good vision, but I have never heard of anyone being dejected because of their luck."

Yesenin was completely stunned. He didn't expect that the 18-year-old boy in front of him would say such a thing...

He shook his head and then smiled. The rigid smile on his face seemed to become more lively. "Yes. If you had not persisted until you ran out of food and ammunition during the half-month trip to Europe, and instead gave up after being rejected a few times in the beginning, I would not have noticed you. If it had not been for your persistence and outburst in the confrontation with the CSKA Moscow youth team, I would not have made up my mind to help you. You are optimistic and strong. You deserve everything you have now, hero."

Chen Yingxiong shamelessly poked himself with his thumb and said. "That's right! Who do you think I am? I'm a hero! Blaming others and sighing is not my style!"

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