Mu Wannuo flung the door open in a panic.
She had just left the archive room, not even having time to feel happy about finding clues to treat Ning Chuxue’s strange illness.
First, she rushed to the cabinet where she stored her belongings and pulled out her phone.
She opened the app Wen Yasheng had sent her to monitor Ning Chuxue.
Unexpectedly, Ning Chuxue’s location on the map wasn’t in her office, but in the club classroom next to the teaching building.
Her brows furrowed. A bad feeling rose up.
She kept telling herself it might be false, but her hand still couldn’t help clicking on the option to check the historical movement trajectory.
This page showed Ning Chuxue’s daily activity logs—where she’d been and how long she’d stayed in specific places.
After the loading time passed, what awaited Mu Wannuo was disappointment.
The records showed Ning Chuxue had never gone to her office. Instead, she’d spent a long time in that building full of clubs.
Panic, anger, unease.
Like three suffocating pythons, they wrapped around her whole body, devouring her rationality.
Without caring about anything else, she turned to her attendant Cheng Yao, mumbled an apology, and ran frantically toward that building.
Cheng Yao was caught off guard by Mu Wannuo. She stood frozen for a few seconds.
She noticed Mu Wannuo had left in a hurry, leaving behind the coat stored in the box.
Cheng Yao wanted to call out to Mu Wannuo, but the other woman had already disappeared.
She had no choice but to take out the forgotten coat and keep it for her temporarily.
As she pulled out the coat, she found it was unusually small—several sizes too small for Mu Wannuo’s frame.
Out of respect for someone else’s privacy, she didn’t dig deeper. She quietly folded it, planning to return it to Mu Wannuo when she had the chance.
Hurrying as fast as she could, Mu Wannuo reached the bottom of the club building.
But the map only gave a rough location, not detailed enough to pinpoint the exact room.
Searching room by room would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
“I was too hasty.”
Under the pressure of the predicament, Mu Wannuo finally regained some rationality.
She realized she had been too impulsive.
So impulsive that she’d wanted to completely control Ning Chuxue.
If not for this situation where she had lost direction, she might have continued losing control and even resorted to unconventional methods against Ning Chuxue.
“Hoo—”
Mu Wannuo took a deep breath, then exhaled it all at once, relying on that alone to keep herself calm.
“Waiting here right now definitely won’t get me anywhere.”
Who knew when Ning Chuxue would come out? Waiting passively wasn’t a good choice.
Plus, Mu Wannuo’s emotions were too agitated right now. She needed something else to ease them.
She thought about finding some work to distract herself.
So she decided to clean the office.
It just so happened the office hadn’t been cleaned in a while—this was a good chance to take care of it.
Having made the decision, she headed in a different direction.
On the way, Mu Wannuo was distracted, constantly thinking about Ning Chuxue.
“Could Chuxue be hungry?”
It had been a while since lunch.
Worried, she picked up a slice of cake on the way back.
Then, at the shop next door, she spotted a pair of white slippers at a glance.
That pair of slippers had bunny ears, and the silver-white color scheme was very similar to Ning Chuxue’s hair.
Plus, the size was close to Ning Chuxue’s feet.
Mu Wannuo bought them on the way.
Back in the office, she thoroughly cleaned the entire room.
There was a shoe rack someone had given her before, which she’d never used.
Mu Wannuo reassembled that shoe rack, placed it by the entrance, set the newly bought slippers on it, and wrote Ning Chuxue’s name beside them.
After all that busywork, Mu Wannuo was drenched in sweat.
But no sooner had she turned on the air conditioner than she noticed a rainstorm warning notification on her phone.
Unable to let go of her worry for Ning Chuxue, who still hadn’t returned, her attention—which had just been distracted—was pulled back again.
Time passed. Ning Chuxue still hadn’t come back. The location was still at the club building.
Mu Wannuo couldn’t sit still anymore. She stood up and rushed out, determined to bring Ning Chuxue back no matter what.
Halfway there, Mu Wannuo crossed paths with Ning Chuxue without either noticing the other.
She waited downstairs for a while. When she checked the map again, Ning Chuxue’s location had already returned to her office.
So, after all that effort, Mu Wannuo came back.
***
“Sister Mu Wan?”
Ning Chuxue stood at the door, appearing before Mu Wannuo.
Mu Wannuo stood tall at the entrance, looking at the little loli in front of her, who seemed a bit anxious.
She looked at this little loli who had defied her orders and gone elsewhere instead.
“Chuxue, where did you go?”
Mu Wannuo’s face showed no expression, but beneath her eyes lurked a hint of something indescribable.
‘It finally came!’
Ning Chuxue’s heart jumped into her throat.
This trial she had anticipated was something she’d have to face after all.
But since she’d predicted it, Ning Chuxue was definitely prepared.
She calmed her nerves, her eyes turning a bit innocent.
“I went out of campus to eat, so I came back a little late.”
Ning Chuxue’s tone was pure, her acting skills skyrocketing.
If she could, Ning Chuxue would even award herself a gold medal for best performance.
She was confident her acting right now could absolutely fool Mu Wannuo. Then she just had to wait for Mu Wannuo’s anger to fade.
As for punishment? It definitely wouldn’t happen!
“I don’t have the patience to listen to your lies.”
Mu Wannuo saw through her at a glance.
“You’d better explain yourself to me right now.”
She didn’t even need to catch it instantly.
Ning Chuxue’s forced explanation was full of holes. She just needed to be slowly led, and she’d slip up on her own.
But Mu Wannuo wasn’t in the mood for that right now. She just wanted to know exactly what Ning Chuxue had been doing.
Even though the monitoring software had automatic recording, Mu Wannuo would rather hear it from Ning Chuxue’s own mouth.
“I really just went out to eat!”
Seeing that Mu Wannuo hadn’t fallen for it, Ning Chuxue’s acting started to crack.
Ning Chuxue was betting that as long as she insisted she’d only gone out for a meal, Mu Wannuo couldn’t do anything about it.
Unless she had her location or was following her.
But she’d scanned her whole body earlier and hadn’t found any strange electronic devices.
So those two possibilities were ruled out first.
Even if only for a moment, Mu Wannuo caught it sharply.
She said nothing, stepping closer and closer to Ning Chuxue.
Seeing Mu Wannuo’s stance, cold sweat instantly soaked Ning Chuxue’s back.
She panicked, stepping back in a fluster.
‘What’s going on? Could my lie have been discovered?’
Mu Wannuo remained silent, and Ning Chuxue guessed frantically.
Under Mu Wannuo’s relentless advance, her tension grew.
Even more so because Mu Wannuo wasn’t saying a single word!
‘No way. Sister Mu Wan doesn’t know my whereabouts. This might be a test.’
After a moment, Ning Chuxue denied her previous thought.
Until Ning Chuxue’s back pressed against the cold wall.
Only then did Mu Wannuo speak.
“I want the truth.”
Should she gamble?
Gamble that Mu Wannuo hadn’t seen through her lie.
Ning Chuxue nervously weighed the pros and cons. Life and death hung in a single instant.
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