Bai Xiaonuo hesitated for a moment but still picked up a Xiaolongbao and took a small bite.
Delicious!
Having lived here for so many years, Bai Xiaonuo immediately recognized it as the “Xiang You Hao” bun shop from the next street over.
Their buns were renowned; people from several nearby streets would come to buy them.
To get a basket of their Fresh Pork Buns, you had to line up before dawn.
Bai Xiaonuo sipped her warm milk and secretly glanced at Ling.
Ling wasn’t overthinking it.
Since Bai Xiaonuo was eating the buns and drinking the milk, she picked up the leftover Man Tou.
The bun shop’s signature was Xiaolongbao; the Man Tou wasn’t their specialty and tasted fairly ordinary, but it was large and the dough was very white.
She subconsciously thought of Bai Xiaonuo — how to put it — Bai Xiaonuo was bigger, just as pale, but more fragrant.
Taking a tentative bite, hmm… indeed, Bai Xiaonuo’s was tastier.
Ling never showed her emotions outwardly.
She ate the Man Tou quietly, and no one knew what she was thinking, but Bai Xiaonuo’s gaze toward her grew increasingly strange.
Big sister is acting weird.
This morning she’s like a completely different person from last night!
What was she like last night?
Radiating murderous intent, as cold as a surgical blade, eyes bloodshot, and she’d pin me down at the slightest disagreement and then…
But this morning?
The killing intent was gone, the red eyes disappeared, and her aura was softer.
Before dawn, she ran out to buy me breakfast.
After bringing it back, she gave me the best Fresh Pork Buns and milk and ate the Man Tou I didn’t want.
Bai Xiaonuo didn’t understand anything about killing intent or inner demons.
She calmly analyzed and thought carefully, drawing a conclusion—
“Are you trying to CPU me?”
“…What?” Ling paused mid-bite of her Man Tou, slightly stunned.
“I mean, are you trying to CPU me, pretending to flatter me now, gain my trust and favor,” Bai Xiaonuo said warily, “so you can probe me more times?”
Ling rolled her eyes. “Do I need to?”
Ah, well, maybe not… Wait, if that’s the case, then she can probe me anytime she wants, and I’m defenseless!
Bai Xiaonuo’s face turned pale.
She shrank back a little, loosened her grip, and trembled as she said, “There’s one and a half Xiaolongbao left. If you… want to eat, you can have them.”
It wasn’t cowardice—mostly because that killing intent had already been released.
Another time like last night would be really painful!
“Why do you always think people like this… never mind.”
Ling originally wanted to lecture her a bit.
On the surface, Bai Xiaonuo looked like a pure girl—except for her large chest, which was a bit lewd—but why was her mind always filled with these things?
However, recalling what she’d done last night, Ling found herself unable to say anything.
Once involved, it was involved.
You can’t argue with killing intent.
After a long silence, Ling said directly to her, “You’d better move somewhere else soon. It’s not safe here anymore.”
Then she wrote a string of numbers on paper and handed it to Bai Xiaonuo.
“If my mess drags you down, you can call me for help.”
Bai Xiaonuo took the number, blinking.
“You’re not going to ask me to send you the new place’s address so you can come over whenever… you know, right?”
Ling twitched the corner of her mouth but didn’t reply.
After venting on Bai Xiaonuo last night, the killer’s aura had dissipated.
Ling suspected Bai Xiaonuo’s body might have some special ability, so she hoped this big-chested girl could survive—she might come in handy.
But it seemed Bai Xiaonuo’s biggest survival obstacle was that cute, rosy little mouth of hers.
If possible, Ling would have taught her a few more lessons for her own good, but today was just bad timing.
“I hope next time we meet, you’ve learned your lesson. If not, I’ll personally teach you.”
Leaving behind a lukewarm threat, Ling turned and disappeared out the door.
Bai Xiaonuo didn’t hear her leave downstairs, so she went to the hallway to check and saw she was really gone.
The Ancestral Jade Pendant crawled out from under the blanket, barely having time to relax before hearing Bai Xiaonuo exclaim, “I knew it!”
“What what what… what’s going on?”
Knew what?
The girl stood with hands on her hips, self-righteous: “I guessed her thoughts right, so she fled in panic!”
The Ancestral Jade Pendant nearly rolled off the sofa. “H-How could that be?”
“How not? Since I asked her if she wanted my new address to come visit whenever, she became hesitant, didn’t say a single complete sentence,” Bai Xiaonuo argued logically, “Then she lost face and got angry, left me with a threat, and ran off.”
Ah… the Ancestral Pendant was momentarily stunned, recalling carefully and finding it really was like that.
No no no, something must be wrong.
The Pendant thought it over and tried to analyze: “Could it be your words were too provocative and made her speechless with anger?”
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
“…”
Then the Pendant suddenly realized a problem: the person was gone now, so the truth was unknowable.
Why bother dwelling on it? The best plan for now was—
“She’s right. We need a new place to live.”
The Pendant sensed a big battle had taken place here last night—not the bed kind, but a real bloodbath.
“I know,” Bai Xiaonuo pulled out her phone. “First, I’ll ask for leave from school.”
Skipping class on the second day after the semester starts, even in university, was a bit much.
Coincidentally, the counselor just sent a message: 【Bai Xiaonuo, why weren’t you in class today? Is something wrong?】
【Bai Xiaonuo: Nothing, I just need to take a few days off to find a place to rent.】
【Counselor: Oh… have you considered living in the dorm?】
【Bai Xiaonuo: No, it’s inconvenient.】
“What a joke. If I lived in the dorm, sharing such a tiny room with three others, what if one night someone suddenly gets wild and climbs into my bed,” Bai Xiaonuo grumbled, “Then I’d be really screwed.”
The Ancestral Pendant silently watched her, thinking, if only you had this kind of anti-gank awareness in front of others.
“Oh right, Xiaonuo, I don’t know,” she said, relieved, “when did you save up enough money to rent a place?”
Bai Xiaonuo lifted her chin and stuck out her tongue sheepishly. “Actually, I haven’t saved up yet.”
“…”
The Pendant was silent for a moment. “Then how will you pay the rent?”
Could it be with your body? We succubi haven’t stooped that low for years.
“No worries. I’ll just look for a place to share with some cute girls,” Bai Xiaonuo had a plan. “It’s cheaper, and if you talk nicely, they might even let me owe them rent first.”
The famous LPL mid-laner Left Hand once said, Who wouldn’t want to play against me when I’m so strong?
Bai Xiaonuo had her own words: Who wouldn’t want to share a place with me, a cute girl with big boobs?
“Yeah, that makes sense, but…”
But can she really “talk nicely”? The Pendant was worried.
“Also, what if I end up with another dangerous person when I’m sharing a place,” the Pendant fretted, “Just like that woman earlier.”
Bai Xiaonuo waved her hand dismissively.
“There aren’t that many dangerous people. Statistically, it’s unlikely.”