“Senior Brother? What’s wrong?” Gantang was startled by the sudden cry of grief.
Seeing her senior brother’s face instantly flush even redder and her eyes look as if she were about to cry, Gantang asked cautiously, afraid of upsetting her.
“… Junior Sister,” Lu Qiancha took a deep breath as if making a monumental decision.
Her blue eyes darted around, avoiding Gantang’s gaze, and her voice was so low it was almost inaudible. “I… I’m sorry.”
This nonsensical apology left Gantang even more bewildered.
“Huh? Why are you apologizing, Senior Brother?” Gantang was completely confused, unable to make head or tail of the situation.
“Be… Because of that…” Lu Qiancha’s cheeks were so red they looked ready to bleed.
She extended a slightly trembling finger and quickly pointed at Gantang’s chest, where a few faint little teeth marks were clearly visible.
*Ahem.*
Gantang followed the direction of her finger, and the tips of her ears instantly turned crimson. She let out an awkward cough. “Oh, this.”
She waved her hand, forcing herself to stay calm. “It’s fine, it’s fine. Senior Brother, I really don’t blame you. You weren’t exactly conscious at the time. I understand.”
She paused, her eyes suddenly sparkling with uncontrollable curiosity and a hint of expectation.
She slowly leaned toward Lu Qiancha and lowered her voice to a whisper. “Um, Senior Brother… I just… I just wanted to ask. When you bit me just now…”
Her voice carried a hint of bashfulness. “Did it feel good?”
“… Do you want the truth or a lie?” Lu Qiancha lifted her watery blue eyes and glanced at Gantang, her tone filled with the resignation of someone who had given up on life.
“The truth, of course,” Gantang replied decisively without a moment’s hesitation, her face full of a thirst for knowledge.
Lu Qiancha pursed her lips, seemingly organizing her thoughts. Then, she clearly uttered seven words: “Too small, no feeling when I bite.”
“Eh —?!”
Gantang’s eyes instantly went round as if she had heard something shocking.
She instinctively wrapped her arms around her chest, straightened her back, and pouted deeply in dissatisfaction.
Her cheeks puffed out like a pufferfish that had its tail stepped on. “Senior Brother, w-what are you talking about? I clearly have a decent figure, okay?”
The response she got was an extremely weak eye-roll from Lu Qiancha and a long, drawn-out mumble filled with exhaustion. “… Ugh, I’m so sleepy. I’m going to bed now. Goodnight…”
At that moment, a tidal wave of sleepiness mixed with residual shame completely overwhelmed her. She only wanted to escape this suffocatingly awkward scene immediately.
Lu Qiancha practically flew, her feet barely touching the ground as she zipped past Gantang. She was so fast she created a light breeze.
She first grabbed the storage key for the locker area, threw on a nightgown, and then dived into her room, slamming the door shut with a loud *thump*.
***
Inside the room, Lu Qiancha threw herself heavily onto the soft bedding.
“Ugh…” She buried her burning cheeks deep into the pillow that smelled of the sunset, trying to use the cool fabric to lower the temperature of her face. A frustrated and aggrieved whimper escaped her lips.
It was so embarrassing. She had just confidently told Gantang that she wouldn’t fall for it…
And yet…
Lu Qiancha recalled the scene of her burrowing and arching in her junior sister’s arms, and her face grew hot again.
That fluffy big tail had also lost all its vitality. It hung limply off the side of the bed, with only the tip twitching and tapping against the bedframe in irritation, reflecting its owner’s complicated emotions.
In the bathroom, Gantang, who was as stunned as a wooden chicken by the strike of the five words “no feeling when I bite,” finally recovered from her frozen state after a long while.
She looked down at her chest and then touched those faint teeth marks, her face flashing between red and white.
Small? Senior Brother actually said I was small?
A mixture of shame, frustration, and intense indignation churned in Gantang’s chest. She squeezed a little and pouted. ‘I clearly have a decent figure, okay?’ she thought to herself.
Forget it, forget it…
Gantang shook her head, trying to move her attention away from the issue of size. Anyway, the soft and fluffy feeling of Senior Brother was real, and the joy of petting a wolf was also real.
Recalling the ultimate sensation of holding her dazed senior brother and kneading those cute ears just now, a silly smile involuntarily appeared on Gantang’s face.
It was worth it. Even being teased a bit was worth it. Senior Brother really was the cutest creature in the world.
She smacked her lips in satisfaction, savoring the lingering aftertaste, and turned to walk toward her own room.
***
Meanwhile, outside Lu Qiancha’s door, a silent figure stood still at some unknown point in time.
Ling Wanbai’s expressionless face remained calm as ever. Her grey eyes swept over the open window, looking at the blue fur ball inside who was currently burying herself in the covers out of shame.
‘What’s going on?’
The little grey wolf’s eyes blinked in confusion in the darkness. She keenly caught the faint, frustrated whimper floating out from the crack in the door. She tilted her head in confusion.
*Creak —*
She reached out a small hand and cautiously pushed open the door, which hadn’t been locked. The old door hinges made a loud rubbing sound that was exceptionally clear in the quiet night.
However, Lu Qiancha, immersed in her world of self-reproach, seemed to have completely blocked out all external sounds.
She remained lying face down on the bed, her tail tip still irritably tapping against the bedframe.
Ling Wanbai floated silently into the room. She didn’t approach immediately, but even standing a few steps away in the shadows, her keen sense of smell caught an unusually rich fragrance.
The scent permeated the air like something tangible, carrying the natural sweetness of plants mixed with a slightly intoxicating quality.
Ling Wanbai’s little nose couldn’t help but take a deep breath. She felt the scent rush straight to her head, so thick that it made her slightly dizzy.
‘Xiao Qiancha secretly ate that fragrant herb again…’
She instantly understood the source of that familiar yet strange scent.
‘And she didn’t share any with me.’
A small sense of grievance instantly gripped Ling Wanbai’s heart. Her little mouth unconsciously pouted slightly as her grey eyes fixed intently on the back of the blue fur ball on the bed.
She approached the bedside nimbly and quickly. Without a word, Ling Wanbai leaned down and lay gently on Lu Qiancha’s back.
“Hm?!”
The sudden weight on her back finally pulled Lu Qiancha out of the mire of self-reproach. She instinctively twisted her body to shake off the weight, turning around abruptly at the same time —
In that exact instant, her movement was too large and the direction she turned her head happened to be right where Ling Wanbai was leaning down.
Consequently, Lu Qiancha’s small face, flushed with shame and annoyance, collided without warning with Ling Wanbai’s soft lips.
“Mmph!”
The strange and soft sensation from her lips surged through her entire body like an electric current. Lu Qiancha’s blue eyes flew wide in shock, her pupils shrinking to their limit.
Almost instinctively, she turned her face to the side, instantly pulling away.