The first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the gap in the curtains, illuminating a certain young lady’s room.
While heralding the arrival of morning, it also signified that the activities of a new day should officially begin.
Unbeknownst to many, autumn had already arrived in Su City.
The sun rose much later than it did in summer, and full daylight wouldn’t come until nearly eight o’clock.
If it were the old days, Su Lulu, the big sister of the Su Family, the legendary bed-slugging champion, the nurse who cared for her little blanket.
Su Lulu could sleep soundly not just until eight in the morning, but even at noon, or four in the afternoon.
But this morning, Su Lulu had gotten up against all odds.
Oh no, to be precise, she hadn’t actually gotten up. To put it accurately, Su Lulu hadn’t slept at all that night.
Yesterday afternoon, Su Qi and a group of girls had been teleported to the Fifth Plane.
As Su Qi’s biological older sister, Su Lulu had been worrying about Su Qi’s safety ever since.
Unlike siblings in ordinary families… oh wait, no, they were biological sisters.
Although on a daily basis, Su Lulu and Su Qi seemed as carefree and ordinary as any normal pair of sisters.
But because their father and mother had been missing for many years,
The two had relied on each other since a very young age, and their relationship was actually very close.
Not to mention that during the years Su Lulu was in a coma, Su Qi had been running around tirelessly for her sake.
Su Lulu had remembered all of this and was deeply moved by it.
And after Su Qi was teleported away by the Two-headed Dragon, worry clouded Su Lulu’s judgment, and she had been frantically searching for a way to resolve the situation since yesterday.
To this end, Su Lulu had made many attempts.
After returning from the Saint Ruins, she first went to the Adventurers’ Guild to seek out high-ranking members, scholars, or professors to ask for advice.
But regarding this, when faced with the unprecedented Fifth Plane, everyone was experiencing this kind of situation for the first time.
After that, Su Lulu returned home, thinking she might find some clues by searching her own house.
Considering the precedent that her parents had left gifts for her and Su Qi in the master bedroom.
After returning home, Su Lulu conducted a very thorough search this time. First, she flipped over the master bedroom’s bed. You see, most furniture beds have some storage space underneath, but Su Lulu only found some scattered childhood toys and clothes.
The bed yielded nothing, so Su Lulu turned her attention to the wardrobe and the floor, trying to find a hidden compartment.
Su Lulu was very meticulous in her inspection this time, even dismantling the entire wardrobe and floor, but aside from a pile of normal clothes and some moldy stashed-away cigarette money her father had secretly hidden in various corners, there was nothing else.
As a Water Element Archmage, Su Lulu’s stamina wasn’t high to begin with.
Coupled with her emotional turmoil and a sleepless night, Su Lulu was in poor condition.
Her usually smooth, creamy skin showed signs of fatigue after a night of thinking and searching, and her complexion appeared very pale.
Her deep Peach Blossom Eyes, identical to Su Qi’s, were now tinged with bloodshot veins, giving her the fragile air of a delicate beauty.
But Su Lulu paid no attention to her own physical condition.
She walked out of the fully explored master bedroom looking somewhat dejected.
Just thinking about Su Qi currently exploring the Fifth Plane with virtually no information, which was already an extremely dangerous situation for any Adventurer.
Not to mention the Pitch Black Beasts of the Fifth Plane, whose combat power was far superior to the third floor of the Saint Ruins.
With this level of difficulty, with no way to return or resupply, if time dragged on, it could practically be described as a survival rate of one in ten.
Thinking of this, Su Lulu, who had no leads at all in that moment, absentmindedly wandered into Su Qi’s room.
As for Su Qi’s room, Su Lulu had rarely visited it since waking up from her coma.
The reason, frankly speaking, was simple.
The bed was too small—just a single bed.
For Su Lulu in the past, rather than sleeping in Su Qi’s room, it was better to coax Su Qi into her own big bed.
But this time, after walking into Su Qi’s room, Su Lulu’s eyes couldn’t help but grow a little moist.
Perhaps it was the truth of ‘you never know what you have until it’s gone.’
At that moment, Su Lulu suddenly realized something belatedly.
Xiao Qi had already transformed from a boy into a girl, but upon closer inspection.
The room seemed to have no changes at all. The wardrobe was unchanged, the desk was unchanged, there wasn’t even a vanity or a full-length mirror in the room—everything was exactly the same as when he was a boy.
Seeing this, Su Lulu only felt even more guilty. ‘I really am an incompetent sister. Not only did I fail to protect Xiao Qi with the other girls yesterday, but I’ve never paid enough attention to Xiao Qi before either.’
Muttering to herself, the weary Su Lulu instinctively leaned her body against the pristine white wall beside Su Qi’s bed, trying to borrow some support from the wall.
But the next second, Su Lulu froze.
Creak~
Because as she leaned against it, the wall emitted a sound like a door being pushed open.
Hearing this sound, Su Lulu initially thought it was an illusion caused by her current emotional instability.
But after turning around and carefully examining the wall.
Su Lulu suddenly grew serious, realizing that Emmmm, this didn’t seem to be her imagination.
There really was a Hidden Door on the wall of Su Qi’s room.
Looking at this Hidden Door, Su Lulu’s emotions were complicated, and she suddenly recalled a detail.
A few days ago, it seemed her good best friend had come to her house without making a sound.
Originally, she thought she had simply been asleep and hadn’t noticed.
But then… judging from this Hidden Door, Emmmm, could it be that her good best friend had secretly come to see Su Qi?
Wait, with Wen Yin’s yandere Demon Enchantress attribute, she felt like it was more than just ‘seeing.’
Perhaps some intimate things had happened.
Yes, that must be it.
After all, her little Qi’s personality was so soft and adorable, like a little bun. Running into the carnivorous Gu Wen Yin, being devoured completely was only natural.
However, although Gu Wen Yin knowing that her little sister had been eaten by her best friend left her feelings complicated,
The urgent matter now was to race against time and find clues to resolve the situation.
Looking at this Hidden Door, Su Lulu quickly had a flash of inspiration and recalled some details.
Thinking back carefully, Elder Sister Wen Yin’s mother had been very close to her own mother after moving next door.
Because of that, she and Su Qi had often been taken to the Wen household to visit when they were children.
And not long after her parents went missing, Elder Sister Wen Yin’s mother had also disappeared.
So was there a possibility…
The clues she was looking for might not be in the Su Family, but in her best friend’s Gu Family. Although entering someone else’s home without permission was impolite and illegal.
But urgency overrides etiquette, and besides, since there was a Hidden Door, the two families had essentially become one. It shouldn’t count as trespassing.
Su Lulu instinctively reached out and pushed against the Hidden Door, wanting to enter Gu Wen Yin’s room on the other side.
But perhaps to prevent her ‘best friend’ from discovering the Hidden Door’s secret on a daily basis.
After pushing twice, Su Lulu was surprised to find that the Hidden Door wouldn’t budge.
Upon closer inspection, she realized the Hidden Door actually required a Key.
Naturally, Su Lulu didn’t have the Key to Su Qi’s room’s Hidden Door.
However, even without it, as an Ability User of the Water Dragon King, Su Lulu had some little tricks of her own.
All she had to do was have water flow mimic the shape of the Key and rotate to unlock the door.
Because this was delicate work, and Su Lulu’s stamina was currently poor.
To better complete the Key, Su Lulu took out the gift her mother had given her—the High-tier Water Staff—and held it in her hands.
With the Staff’s enhancement, it was quick work.
Click~
With a crisp sound, the Hidden Door was easily opened.
Walking from Su Qi’s room into Gu Wen Yin’s room, the atmosphere shifted from a subtle fragrance to the scent of lavender.
This change in scent and the shift in room style momentarily made Su Lulu feel something wondrous, like she had broken through the dimensional wall.
But novelty aside, Su Lulu soon remembered the matter at hand.
Where exactly should she start looking for clues now?
And just as she stood holding the Staff, staring at her best friend’s bedroom without any leads, lost in thought.
Subtly, Su Lulu suddenly detected a faint disturbance.
If she were in her normal healthy state, she might not have been able to perceive such a faint sensation.
Because that disturbance was simply too weak.
But now, with her body weakened from a sleepless night and her stamina diminished.
Holding the Staff, Su Lulu felt as if, in some unseen way, the Staff in her hand was resonating with something, as if it were guiding her toward a path.
Su Lulu didn’t resist and followed the Staff’s pull step by step. She walked out of Gu Wen Yin’s bedroom, crossed the Gu family’s Living Room, and entered the Gu family’s master bedroom.
And soon, following the Staff’s guidance, in the crevice at the very top of the wardrobe.
Su Lulu discovered an item that resonated with the Staff.
It was a small stone statue of a graceful maiden carved with a heart-shaped wings and a little tail.
And if Su Qi were here.
She would absolutely recognize at a glance that this statue was nearly identical to the Demon Enchantress statue design that had teleported her twice!