Chapter 47: Don’t Know What Qiu: Anyway, She Had Me Pinned

Low murmurs sounded from behind the white curtain—probably Gu Nanqiu calling Ye Qiu.

After hearing the sounds, Yue Yiyue focused on restraining Xie Ying to stop her from self-harming.

She noticed Xie Ying growing agitated again at any noise or sight.

Yue Yiyue stayed as quiet as possible, pulling a piece of nearby gauze over the girl’s eyes.

After doing all this, Yue Yiyue looked around. The place was a mess.

Many things had been knocked over onto the floor, and even the pillowcase was torn.

Only then did she realize her hand hurt a little.

It was from when Xie Ying had struggled earlier and scratched her.

Yue Yiyue looked at the long bloody marks on her hand, her gaze falling on Xie Ying’s hand.

It was still a human hand, but for some reason, the nails were abnormally sharp.

It was no exaggeration: if Yue Yiyue had dodged any slower, a strip of flesh might have been torn off.

She stared at Xie Ying’s hand. It resembled the failed mutations described in books that triggered rejection reactions.

Xie Ying on the bed was still wriggling like an earthworm, trying to break free from the restraints.

At the same time, whenever there was any noise from Gu Nanqiu’s side, Xie Ying would fall into a new frenzy.

Logically speaking, it would be best to leave Xie Ying alone in this state.

But Yue Yiyue still felt it wasn’t right. According to the first rule of horror movies, whoever was left alone died.

After repeatedly confirming that the ropes on Xie Ying’s hands were tied securely, Yue Yiyue lifted the white cloth and looked at Gu Nanqiu, who was frantically tapping on her screen.

“How’s it going?” She kept her voice as low as possible to avoid agitating Xie Ying.

“Got someone coming to take her.” Gu Nanqiu noticed the raised, red wound on Yue Yiyue’s hand. She frowned slightly, leaned over, and the tip of her scarlet tongue slid across Yue Yiyue’s skin, leaving a faint itch in its wake.

Yue Yiyue instinctively wanted to pull her hand back and step away, but Gu Nanqiu held it firmly in place.

Her hair brushed over Yue Yiyue’s wrist as Gu Nanqiu pressed her face against it. Her expression was openly displeased: “Disinfecting.”

She then bit down on Yue Yiyue’s wrist—not too hard, but it still left a small mark.

……

“There are disinfectants over there.” Yue Yiyue pointed to the bottle that had been knocked over and rolled not far away, with some unopened cotton swabs beside it.

“Didn’t see it,” Gu Nanqiu said righteously. “Her condition needs more professional handling. I just called several.”

“We’ll stay here and watch her. They should arrive soon.”

Although she didn’t care much about Xie Ying’s life or death, Gu Nanqiu remembered her persona.

She glanced at Xie Ying, who had started howling in pain on the bed, then leaned lazily on Yue Yiyue’s shoulder, looking at the girl with concern. “Yiyue, what do you think caused Xie to end up like this?”

“Saw something she shouldn’t have.” Yue Yiyue answered quickly.

This matter was related to He Wu.

But why could only she hear what Xie Ying said, while Gu Nanqiu couldn’t?

It was like an obvious trap.

Moreover, the School Doctor had been gone for too long.

It was so long that Yue Yiyue grew a little uneasy. If this continued, Xie Ying’s mental state…

As Gu Nanqiu had said, she had called several professionals to handle it. Unfortunately, because of a small accident with Xie Ying, Yue Yiyue had no time to spare.

The woman with graying hair burst in energetically. She saw the chaotic scene and Xie Ying screaming on the bed.

Her brows furrowed as if they could squash a fly.

Xie Ying had long since broken free of the ropes binding her, and Yue Yiyue was now struggling fiercely with her. The counselor’s arrival dazed Xie Ying for a moment.

Yue Yiyue seized that instant to pin Xie Ying down firmly and told Gu Nanqiu to quickly take away the sharp scissors nearby.

Once the scissors left Xie Ying’s sight, she went berserk again, trying to grab them.

Her mouth kept muttering: “Let me die.”

“I want to rip out my heart.”

“Atonement.”

“I am deeply sinful.”

“I deserve to die.”

The counselor went pale, then paler, and immediately had the two burly students behind her help Yue Yiyue.

She rummaged in the nearby cabinet for restraint straps and handed them to one: “Quick, Yu Tong. I notified her parents; they’ll arrive tonight.”

“Gu Nanqiu, you come out first. I need to hear what happened from you.”

The School Doctor also hurried back, holding a light brown bottle. Sweat beaded on her forehead. “I was only gone a bit. What happened?”

She grumbled under her breath and pulled out two more restraint straps from somewhere else, joining the fray.

Following behind was the department director with two security guards. Seeing the scene, he quickly called out: “Hurry, go help. Be careful not to hurt the students.”

More people meant greater strength. The farce caused by Xie Ying finally ended—for now.

Yue Yiyue, who could finally relax completely, staggered toward the door. The moment she reached Gu Nanqiu, she collapsed to the ground from exhaustion.

There was nothing else around, so she simply hugged Gu Nanqiu’s thigh, panting and muttering softly: “So tiring……”

Gu Nanqiu’s dangling hand stroked Yue Yiyue’s fluffy head soothingly.

“Thank you for your hard work, teacher—and you two students too. This was too sudden.”

She then squatted down and picked Yue Yiyue up: “Teacher, my friend here has been holding Xie Ying down the whole time. She’s also got a minor injury. I’ll take her back to rest first.”

The counselor looked worriedly at the person in Gu Nanqiu’s arms, thanked her, then anxiously asked if she was okay.

After getting a definite answer, the counselor saw how easily Gu Nanqiu carried her and couldn’t help asking a couple more questions.

Gu Nanqiu answered truthfully.

“Yes, Xie Ying seemed perfectly normal these past few days. She just hung out more with Wu Zhen and her group, often going in and out of the dormitory together, so I don’t know what happened before this. But it can all be checked on surveillance.”

Gu Nanqiu’s peripheral vision swept the corner, where the floor’s reflection showed a familiar figure…

What a bunch of impatient little tails. But anyway (&) would clean up.

“I was the first &……%9（&)”

“Ah….. how could I refuse baby you……”

“Such a cunning human. But who told me to like you……”

“Just find whoever wanted to mutate her and kill them…..”

“But that would dirty baby’s hands.”

“If you need it, come to A City, okay? I’m waiting for you in A City….. Come over, I’ll handle everything for you, then we….. together.”

“Forever…… forever……. forever…… together.”

“Thanks, and sorry for making you tell me all this.”

Yue Yiyue noted down the key info here, then switched screens and copied the law about imprisonment being illegal.

“You can go mad, but don’t break the law. I think you’re okay. If you were a bit more normal, maybe we could be forever-strangers, online friends.”

There was no response from the other side.

Yue Yiyue didn’t care what happened to them anyway. She had gotten what she wanted and sent the above info to Ye Qiu, asking about the feasibility.

She had just woken up and wasn’t sleepy or hungry.

Rarely, Yue Yiyue didn’t immediately get up to find something to do.

Instead, she lay on the bed scrolling her phone to kill time.

She sprawled on the bed looking at boring posts, her thoughts drifting to that inexplicable line: “Have Gu Nanqiu watch over you?”

She thought about Gu Nanqiu falling asleep fast and soundly on the bed.

While she, brimming with restless energy, had to lie there pondering complicated things.

Yue Yiyue still dismissed the idea. After all, Gu Nanqiu had worked hard carrying her back today.

A knock sounded at the bedroom door, interrupting Yue Yiyue’s lazy time: “Come in.”

As soon as she spoke, Gu Nanqiu poked her head in curiously: “Yiyue, feeling better?”

Yue Yiyue waved her hand, where the wound had been properly treated.

“Yeah, I’m good. Is it time to eat? I’m not hungry. If you want to, eat first.”

Gu Nanqiu shook her head and handed over a poked-open carton of milk: “Ordered takeout; not here yet.”

“Xie Ying was fine, then suddenly like this. They say it might be contagious.” Gu Nanqiu sat on the edge of the bed, examining the marks on Yue Yiyue’s hand. “Ye Qiu said scratches might infect you, so I should watch you more closely for a while.”

Gu Nanqiu looked all worried for her as she quickly slipped under the covers. Her silk pajamas carried a slight coolness against Yue Yiyue’s skin.

Yue Yiyue looked at the sudden fluffy head in her arms.

The owner of that fluffy head rubbed against Yue Yiyue’s chest, dragging out her tone coquettishly: “Today was too chaotic. That Wu Zhen seemed so off~ I was worried about you too, so, sleep together, okay……”