Ye Zhibai hurriedly shrank back to the side, avoiding Guang Yu’s thieving little hands from groping her any further.
After syncing with the sensations Guang Yu had felt last night, her entire body tingled with numbness. She felt like even a single touch from those fingers would lead to something unfortunate and utterly embarrassing.
Once she had put some distance between them, Ye Zhibai frowned slightly and said, “What you said earlier… that Yun’er took advantage of me while I was asleep… what did she do?”
“She stole a kiss! Heh heh, I heard about it back in the Heavenly Realm! That move’s called kissing! Ah… wait, that’s probably too fancy a word for you, right? It’s normal if you don’t get it—you’re the kind of girl who’s never even held a girl’s hand in your past life. Come on, let the knowledgeable Lady Guang Yu demonstrate with a straightforward action: lips to lips, and then… and then what comes next?”
Lady Guang Yu talked a big game, but in reality, she knew nothing about it.
Wahhh, back in the Heavenly Realm, she was just a Light Orb! What would she know?!
Putting aside those half-heard scraps of weird knowledge, Guang Yu slapped her thigh with a small hand to preserve her “scholarly” dignity and summed it up in the most direct words possible.
“Ahem… anyway, that’s the gist of it! Eek, you should’ve seen her last night, hugging you and just chomping away! She sure has stamina—tossing and turning until nearly dawn, and you slept like the dead through it all… Ow! Why’d you smack my head?!”
“Settle down… let me think.”
“So why smack my head while you’re thinking?!”
“Tsk!”
“Ow… fine, whatever.”
With just one tsk from Ye Zhibai, Guang Yu knew that if she didn’t pipe down, next time it wouldn’t be her head—it’d be her ears.
Terrified of that sensation, Guang Yu slunk off gray-faced to the corner of the room and stared out the floor-to-ceiling window at the butterflies fluttering in the courtyard.
Humans sure had tempers!
First off, Ye Zhibai had smacked her head because of one line in her snarky chatter.
—The kind of girl who’s never even held a girl’s hand in her past life.
No saying that! Wahhh, even if it was pretty close to the truth, she wasn’t allowed to say it!!
Secondly, Ye Zhibai really did need some time to think alone.
Truth be told, what Guang Yu had said was probably spot on.
Ye Zhibai had wondered why, in her dream last night, that goat kept sticking out its tongue to lick her! So there was a reason for it!
Subconsciously, she touched her soft lips with a finger.
Her mind roiled like stormy seas.
Her first kiss from two lifetimes… might’ve been lost while she was asleep!
At the end of the day, wasn’t Ye Zhiyun’s behavior straight-up perverted?!
An image of Ye Zhiyun flashed through Ye Zhibai’s mind—that excessive indulgence sent chills down her spine.
She couldn’t decide if she should be happy or burst into tears.
Huh?
Hold on.
A flicker of surprise crossed Ye Zhibai’s mind.
She suddenly looked up at the Little Fox Maiden sitting on the edge of the bed, hugging her knees and pouting sulkily.
“Guang Yu?”
“What?”
“This doesn’t add up… You said you were sleeping in human form on the bed last night, and that Yun’er came here. So wouldn’t she have seen you?”
“Oh, that? No need to worry about—”
Knock knock!
“!”
Speak of the devil.
The knocking came right on cue, followed by that same unhurried, steady, and gentle voice.
The knocks were deliberately slowed, as if afraid of waking someone still asleep inside.
“Sister? Are you awake? Breakfast is ready~”
Breakfast?!
Playing possum was tempting, but Ye Zhibai had to admit—she was hungry.
“I’m awake.”
“Perfect! Hehe, we can have our first breakfast together since you got discharged~ Um… can I come in now?”
“Sure.”
At the same time, Ye Zhibai shot Guang Yu a frantic look: Turn into a cat, quick!!
If she sees you in human form, she’ll kill me!
But Guang Yu just grinned mischievously. She even brazenly stretched out on the floor, crossing her short little legs in a perfect figure-four, looking utterly fearless.
No matter how anxious Ye Zhibai got, she couldn’t just pin her down and force the change—Ye Zhiyun was already pushing the door open.
They were doomed.
Ye Zhiyun looked like she’d just taken a hot shower.
A pure cotton towel perched on her damp black hair, still steaming faintly. Her elegant light-blue pajamas were embroidered with cute kitten patterns that clashed adorably with her cool demeanor, yet she still radiated an ethereal aura.
Ye Zhibai had thought they were done for.
But…
She blinked in disbelief and realized… Guang Yu was right there on the floor, yet Yun’er walked in without so much as glancing at her.
Yun’er scanned the room once, then fixed her gaze on Ye Zhibai.
Huh, could she not see Guang Yu?
“Uh… Sister, where’s your cat?”
“She ran out to the courtyard… to play, probably in the flowerbeds…” Ye Zhibai kept up her straight-faced fibbing.
“Oh, whatever. The cat’s not important.”
With that, Ye Zhiyun turned back to the door and hauled in several large bags, stacking them on the floor with loud thuds.
“Cat food, litter, toys! All set up in one go~”
Even in front of Ye Zhibai, the usually delicate Ye Zhiyun seemed to have endless strength. She grabbed the cat food bag in her left hand and the litter in her right, hauling them toward the courtyard in one go.
But she overestimated herself.
Halfway there, the cat food bag slipped from her grasp.
“Ah?”
“Oof!!”
The bag landed squarely on Guang Yu’s belly!!
The poor Scummy Fox clutched her stomach and rolled aside in a hurry.
She’d only wanted to show off to Ye Zhibai that no one else could see her—who knew she’d take a direct hit like that!
After dragging all the bags to the courtyard and returning, Ye Zhiyun puzzledly scanned the room again.
“Sister…? Did you hear any weird noises just now?”
“Nope.”
“No? I swear I heard something…”
“Nope.”
“Then I must’ve misheard!”
If Sister said so, she believed it!
Ye Zhiyun shut the door to the courtyard, then sat right up against Ye Zhibai’s shoulder on the edge of the bed.
She didn’t say a word, just bobbed her head happily.
Mm… it had been two years since she could greet her sister good morning at home like this. She cherished these mornings.
At such close range, Ye Zhibai noticed an obvious detail.
Under Ye Zhiyun’s pretty eyes, there was a faint dark circle—nonexistent last night.
—”She was hugging you, tossing and turning until so late.”
Perfect… Ye Zhibai wanted to verify Guang Yu’s words anyway.
“Yun’er… didn’t sleep well last night?”
“Hm? Why do you say that?”
“Dark circles.”
“!”
Ah… no verification needed.
Judging by Yun’er’s reaction, it was one hundred percent true.
Pointed out like that, Yun’er froze for a second, then her cheeks flushed visibly red.
And now… she shyly ducked her head, nuzzling even closer to Ye Zhibai like a spoiled child.
Ye Zhibai had already retreated to the headboard with nowhere left to go, so she could only let Yun’er have her way.
She clung like a magnet, her tone laced with coquetry.
“Sorry, Sister… Yun’er didn’t mean to lie… Last night, I just… couldn’t help myself. I was so happy you came home from the hospital that I… dropped by a few times in the evening.”
Oh ho!
Don’t say it—perverted, sure, but honest!
Ye Zhibai nodded calmly. “Mm… what did you come over for?”
At the question, Ye Zhiyun sucked in a sharp breath.
Her eyes darted evasively as she clasped her hands together, grinning in pure panic!
“Ahaha…! Obviously to check if you were sleeping soundly, Sister! Think about it—this room’s all new to you. Of course I had to pop in a few times to make sure… right?”
“……”
Honest, but not entirely honest.
Fine, you don’t wanna say it?
Good, I don’t dare ask either! Wahhh!
