Since the "Pink Jelly Skirt Incident," Wang Meili had been trying to gain better control over her superpower. She began practicing using her abilities in small, contained ways, like turning a wilted flower pink or changing a glass of plain water into pink lemonade.
However, as with most things, sometimes accidents strike when you least expect them.
One day, while browsing in a secondhand bookstore and looking for books about supernatural phenomena, Wang Meili picked up a thick old tome. Unfortunately, she knocked over a row of paint cans on a nearby shelf.
"Oops!" she exclaimed, quickly reaching out to stop the cans from falling.
Just as her fingers were about to touch the cans, her superpower uncontrollably activated once again!
A faint pink glow shot out from her fingertips, hitting a blue paint can. The blue can instantly turned into a pink one. But that wasn’t the end of it.
The pink paint can tipped over and hit a yellow one, which, too, changed into a pink can. Then, the new pink can toppled onto a green one, which, once again, became pink.
Like a domino effect, the row of paint cans on the shelf transformed into pink at an astonishing speed.
The shop owner, an old man with reading glasses and a grumpy demeanor, heard the commotion and walked over with a frown.
"What’s going on? Who knocked over my paint cans?" he demanded.
But when he saw the row of pink paint cans on the shelf, his face froze in disbelief.
"How... how did this happen? My blue, yellow, and green cans are all pink now?!" the old man stammered, his eyes wide.
Wang Meili stood awkwardly, unsure how to explain herself.
Even worse, the "pink domino effect" didn’t stop there. The newly pink paint cans began to fall onto nearby books, and the colorful book covers slowly became overtaken by the pink hue.
Before long, an entire corner of the store had turned into a sea of pink. The books were pink, the paint cans were pink, and even the bookshelves were covered with a faint pink layer.
The old man, staring at the mess, let out a desperate wail, "My books! My paint! Is my secondhand bookstore going to turn into a pink-themed store now?!"
At that moment, Lin Xiaoqiang and Azai walked into the store and were stunned by the scene.
"Meili... you again..." Lin Xiaoqiang sighed, looking at Wang Meili with a mix of disbelief and exasperation.
Wang Meili lowered her head, feeling guilty. "I didn’t mean for this to happen… I just wanted to stop the paint cans from falling…"
As the old man neared a full breakdown, Azai suddenly lifted his camera with excitement and said, "This is perfect! This is art! A visual feast of pink slowly taking over the world!"
The old man’s face twisted further. "Art?! This is a disaster!"
To make up for her mistake, Wang Meili stayed behind to help clean up the pink "disaster zone." However, no matter how much she scrubbed, the items that had turned pink seemed impossible to restore to their original colors.
In the end, the old man’s secondhand bookstore truly transformed into a "specialty" bookstore filled with pink hues. Although business didn’t improve much, it did attract some curious customers intrigued by the "pink supernatural phenomenon."
As for Wang Meili, she earned herself a new "title"—"The Creator of the Pink Chain Reaction." She also gained a deeper understanding of her superpower: like the butterfly effect, even a small trigger could cause an unexpected "pink" chain reaction.
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