“Train you?”
Bai Shuanglian paused, then seemed to realize something and asked, “Is it to prepare for the upcoming Xuantian Martial Tournament?”
“That’s right!”
Ling Xiaoyou nodded her small head solemnly.
“After all, it’s an important competition coming up. Even though one of my goals is to investigate the Devil’s conspiracy, since I’m already participating, I should at least try to get a good ranking!”
This was a lie.
If it weren’t for the System Mission, she would have just participated and wouldn’t have cared much about what ranking she got.
After all, she didn’t really care about this sort of thing.
“But why do you want me to help you? Aren’t you—”
Bai Shuanglian’s words halted.
She suddenly remembered that Hong Lingyan didn’t want Ling Xiaoyou to know she and Bai Shuanglian were acquainted, so she was ‘supposed’ to be unaware that Ling Xiaoyou had help with training.
“Not what?”
Ling Xiaoyou tilted her small head in confusion and asked.
“Nothing.”
Bai Shuanglian came back to her senses, shook her head, and said it was nothing.
“Alright, then tonight, after I finish teaching Xiaoyu, I’ll train with you.”
Maybe Hong Lingyan was just busy with something.
Bai Shuanglian didn’t feel the need to pry.
After all, Ling Xiaoyou wanting her to train together made her very happy—this meant Ling Xiaoyou was gradually accepting her.
“It’s a promise, then.”
Ling Xiaoyou stretched out her small hand, raised her pinky finger, and said, “Pinky swear, a hundred years without change. Don’t forget to summon me tonight!”
“Mm, I know.”
Seeing Ling Xiaoyou’s adorable expression, Bai Shuanglian couldn’t help but smile and mimicked her, hooking her own pinky finger.
***
“Hu~”
At some point, Bai Shuanglian realized Ling Xiaoyou was no longer responding.
When she looked at her phone, she saw that the cute girl had curled up on the Gaming Chair and fallen asleep peacefully.
Looking at the screen and the girl’s slightly flushed sleeping face, Bai Shuanglian smiled, placed her phone in front of her, and quietly watched her sleep.
Listening to the gentle sound of breathing, she only wished this moment could last a little longer.
When Ling Xiaoyou awoke from her dream, it was already nighttime.
She didn’t know what she had dreamed about, but she smacked her small lips a few times, then let out a soft, cute sound and slowly opened her hazy crimson eyes.
“Are you awake? Xiaoyou.”
She rubbed her eyes.
Suddenly, she heard Bai Shuanglian’s familiar voice beside her.
Her sleep-fogged mind immediately cleared up.
Subconsciously, she shouted, “Bai Shuanglian! You can actually enter the Underworld now?!”
As she spoke, Ling Xiaoyou looked around, as if trying to find Bai Shuanglian.
Of course, she couldn’t find anything—after all, Bai Shuanglian hadn’t actually come to the Underworld.
“I’m right here.”
Looking at the little girl searching for her all over the screen, Bai Shuanglian couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh and reminded her.
“Eh?”
Following the sound, Ling Xiaoyou saw her phone on the stand and Bai Shuanglian on the screen.
She was stunned at first, then all the memories from before she fell asleep flooded back.
“You fell asleep and forgot to turn off the video call.”
Bai Shuanglian explained, as if worried Ling Xiaoyou wouldn’t understand what had happened.
“Ah, this…”
Ling Xiaoyou froze, her small face turning a little red.
Embarrassed, she said, “So, that means you saw everything after I fell asleep?!”
“Mm.”
Bai Shuanglian smiled faintly.
“Very cute.”
Ling Xiaoyou’s face turned bright red.
She stammered, “You—you have to forget all of it!”
Of course, forgetting was impossible.
Ling Xiaoyou couldn’t erase Bai Shuanglian’s memories, so she could only pretend nothing had happened.
However, after such an incident, Ling Xiaoyou naturally wanted to hang up the video call.
But before she could press the end button, she heard Bai Shuanglian persuade her:
“Don’t hang up yet.”
Ling Xiaoyou tilted her head in confusion, not understanding why Bai Shuanglian was stopping her.
Did she want to watch her sleep again?
If so, she really would get angry!
“After all, it’s already this time. You probably have to go to work soon, right?”
Bai Shuanglian glanced at the sky, then at the time, and finally looked at Ling Xiaoyou and asked.
“That’s true. What do you want to do?”
“Since it’s already so late, and I’ll be summoning you soon, why not just wait until I summon you and then hang up?”
Bai Shuanglian smiled brightly at Ling Xiaoyou.
“Ah, this…”
Ling Xiaoyou instinctively felt uneasy.
Having a video call with Bai Shuanglian the whole time was a bit embarrassing, especially after forgetting to hang up and falling asleep before.
But for some reason, Ling Xiaoyou didn’t want to refuse Bai Shuanglian.
It was as if… she was actually looking forward to it.
Realizing this, Ling Xiaoyou quickly shook her head to shake off the thought.
She wasn’t that kind of person!
Even so, she didn’t refuse Bai Shuanglian.
Like she said, at this point, hanging up didn’t matter.
Soon she’d see Bai Shuanglian anyway.
“Hmph, I really can’t do anything about you!”
Ling Xiaoyou let out a tsundere snort, then used her spiritual power to lift the phone and make it float beside her.
After all, she still needed to change and wash up.
She couldn’t hold the phone the whole time.
When Bai Shuanglian heard Ling Xiaoyou agree, she immediately smiled with curved eyes, completely losing her previous ice-cold demeanor.
Leaving the computer room, Ling Xiaoyou first returned to her bedroom to change clothes.
She opened the wardrobe and thought for a while, still unable to decide what to wear.
So Ling Xiaoyou looked at Bai Shuanglian on the phone screen and asked, “What do you think I should wear tonight?”
“Um, let me ask first, do you still have to wear your Work Uniform tonight?”
Bai Shuanglian thought for a moment and asked.
“Of course not. You’re the one summoning me, and I don’t need to go around scaring people.”
Ling Xiaoyou naturally decided to slack off.
“Then…”
Bai Shuanglian looked at the clothes in the wardrobe and pondered for a moment.
“That pink and white wooden-sleeved top with the black-and-white floral skirt, and a sleeveless outer garment on top.”
“Mmm, sounds good. Let’s go with that.”
Ling Xiaoyou imagined it and nodded her small head.
She undid the buttons on her pajamas from the top, revealing smooth, delicate skin with a faint blush.
When she unbuttoned the second button, Ling Xiaoyou suddenly felt an unignorable gaze.
She looked to the side and saw Bai Shuanglian staring fixedly at the spot where her pajamas were coming undone.
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