Cyrene screamed silently in her heart, her body stiff as a stone wrapped in pink syrup, not even daring to move her fingertips.
And Elysia just hummed an off-key tune happily, enjoying the cute reaction of the "little cutie" in her arms who was nervous yet didn't dare to resist, as if the video storm that had caused the Flame-Chasers to make a strategic withdrawal had never happened.
Xianzhou Luofu.
The dawn light was faint; the streets were just waking up from the silence of the night, and early-rising vendors were sporadically starting to set out their goods.
Baiheng dragged her legs, which felt like they were filled with lead, and moved step by step toward her inconspicuous little courtyard.
Her face was pale, heavy shadows hung under her blindfold, and she radiated an aura of "I desperately need a bed right now" from head to toe.
Last night was simply a nightmarish night.
(Finally... only Huo Huo from the Ten Kings Court is left...)
This was the only thought left in Baiheng's mind.
But now, she just wanted to collapse onto her bed and sleep until the end of time.
She reached the gate of the courtyard almost by muscle memory, took out her key, fumbled to insert it into the keyhole, and turned it.
Pushing open the courtyard gate, the cool air of early morning rushed into her nostrils.
She habitually looked up, wanting to see if she had forgotten to take in the drying cloth before she left, and then—
She froze.
She saw that in the center of the small courtyard, a figure was standing with her back to her, stretching in an extremely relaxed way.
The person was wearing an exotic-style outfit with a hood, convenient for movement. Silver mid-length hair peeked out from the edge of the hood, and most eye-catchingly, from both sides of the hood, a pair of fluffy cat ears with ring-shaped patterns were twitching comfortably with her stretching movements.
The morning light outlined her slender yet vibrant silhouette.
Seemingly having heard the sound of the door opening, the figure paused, then turned around lightly.
Beneath the hood was an exquisite face, and a pair of blue, slit-pupiled cat eyes were curiously sizing up Baiheng, with the corners of her mouth naturally curling into a bright and slightly cynical arc.
"Yo! Good morning~"
She raised a hand and waved grinningly at Baiheng, her voice crisp and her tone leisurely, as if she were the owner of this courtyard and Baiheng were the guest who had intruded rashly.
Baiheng: "..."
She subconsciously raised her hand, rubbed her sore eyes hard, and blinked again.
Hallucination? Was she so tired that she was hallucinating?
Or... did she accidentally trigger some hallucinogenic array while sneaking into the Divination Commission last night, and the aftereffects were only just kicking in now?
No! Those cat ears!
And this temperament... although it seemed more vivid and lively than in her memory, lacking that sense of trance, but...
Just in these few seconds while Baiheng's brain was crashing, the breakfast combination of soy milk, fried dough sticks, and steamed buns that she was carrying in her other hand, just bought from a breakfast stall and still steaming, slipped from her fingers due to her excessive shock and fell straight toward the ground!
"Oh no! The food!"
The cat-eared girl exclaimed.
Baiheng didn't even see her movement clearly; she only felt a blur before her eyes, and the figure had appeared in front of her lower down as if teleporting, catching the breakfast bag that was about to kiss the ground steadily with an extremely nimble and swift low-body reach!
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