"Suppose one day you wake up and find a strange male beside you?"
"What would you think? Wouldn't you jump up three feet and elbow strike my head?"
Listening to Master Fuli's rant, the three people in the business car simultaneously froze, each with a different expression.
Lin Ying thought for a moment, feeling that what Master Fuli had said made some sense.
Assuming that one day she wakes up and sees a male lying beside her.
Lin Ying feels that the most likely thing she would do is grab the metal-base table lamp from the nightstand and smash the head of the strange male, turning him into Fuding-style pork slices.
But if it were Master Fuli.
Then it's an exception.
"Hahaha..."
Lin Ying snapped back to reality from the hypothesis, chuckled, and said to Master Fuli:
"Your worries might be a bit over the top, after all, Master Fuli, you're just a child. Ah Qing would most likely thank the heavens for blessing her..."
"A fluffy-tailed fox-eared boy, sleeping peacefully while hugging his tail. This scene is an irresistible temptation for college girls."
Master Fuli's concern is indeed reasonable, but there's a flaw in the assumption he made.
By mentioning a male, Master Fuli evidently refers to an adult or young man.
But Master Fuli's true form, in terms of appearance, is merely an eight-year-old fox-eared boy with grayish-white long hair, exceptionally charming and cute. He doesn't fall into the category of someone to be smashed with a metal table lamp.
Even if one doesn't know Master Fuli, Lin Ying wakes up to find Master Fuli beside her in human form.
The most she'd do is wake Master Fuli, ask where his family is, criticize his parents, asking how they could be so careless.
And how they educate their children, not teaching him basic manners and common sense?
"What you say makes sense..."
"But I know far too much..." Master Fuli spoke with a helpless smile, "People say a girl's heart is always spring, but Ah Qing's roommates are different; they're a customized mix of talents."
"They never conceal anything from a fox, even if I reveal my human form in front of them, no... even if I just utter human speech once, they'd kill me to keep their secret."
"It's not just whether I'm a pervert living in a girls' dormitory that's hindering my honesty with Ah Qing, but also her roommates' vigilance..."
"Those girl's little secrets, Lin Ying, you all should understand, right?"
Master Fuli rubbed his own head.
Even a beauty like Momo still farts.
Only, Momo never farts outside, she holds it in until she returns to the bathroom in her dormitory.
Lingren, who loves dressing in Lolita fashion, wearing white silk stockings to show her purity and innocence, yet it's doubtful her entire set of undergarments sewn together could make a men's shirt.
Not to mention, she might have hemorrhoids on her butt.
Such little secrets among the four in the dorm might be acted out, but they never conceal anything from a fox.
If they knew I could speak...
"A girl's little secrets?" Lin Ying froze, furrowing her brows as she thought back to her youth, seeming not to have any secrets that couldn't be spoken of.
"It's like... when a fox happens to pass by, you say, aha, caught the bad Fox Fox peeping, just say if you want to see! After all, it's not like there's no underwear, look, ta-da, safety shorts!"
"Or perhaps..." Master Fuli began to describe some daily happenings in the girls' dormitory.
Upon hearing this, Lin Ying fell into silence.
"...I've never stayed in a dorm, much less compared my bust size with others, it's too rude..."
Lin Ying during her school days lived in independent villas with servants. Aberrant events, like initiation rites for joining a certain landlords' daughters association, involving randomly killing someone and bringing back their blood to drink for forming sisterhood bonds.
Such abominable things, Lin Ying had heard of, but these aren't unspeakable, just not for public discussion.
Comparatively, Lin Ying felt that the dormitory daily scenarios mentioned by Master Fuli were more aberrant.
Things not changed by personal will—why would anyone enjoy comparing those, disadvantageous pressing against advantageous.
If worst comes to worst, it's just a visit to the hospital.
......…
Master Fuli knows far too many secrets, though the likelihood of assassination is low.
But Master Fuli feels that if he really stood upright before them, his fox toes are quite likely to trigger a ballistic launch site.
Ah Qing might even throw punches at him, hoping to knock some memories out of him.
"Take it slow!"
"In the future, let some spirit beasts encounter Ah Qing and her friends, let her slowly discover that her Fox Fox can actually speak..." Ansheng muttered inwardly, "She needs some mental preparation for this..."
The black Buick business car parked in front of a star-rated hotel over ten stories high, the receptionist had been waiting at the hotel entrance, and upon seeing the matching license plate, immediately stepped forward to welcome everyone.
Lin Ying picked up Master Fuli, entered the lobby, and took the elevator that had been waiting specifically for her upstairs.
The sky restaurant Lin Ying mentioned is located on the top floor of a star-rated hotel. It features panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, extending into a glass terrace.
Sitting in the restaurant offers a view as if standing above the clouds, a subtly surreal feeling.
The restaurant is empty, with soft music emanating from the sound system. The lighting is slightly dim, with only a few tables lit by spotlights.
"Let's go change clothes first!" Lin Ying smiled at the fox in her arms and said, "After dinner, we'll stroll around the streets and get some winter clothes for Master Fuli."
"Change clothes?" Master Fuli was somewhat puzzled.
"It's sort of following local customs! I see the streets are full of people in Hanfu, and dressed like this, I might be mistaken for a sales associate?"
Lin Ying said with a smile.
Lin Ying has an abundance of clothing, requiring a whole floor just for storage. Yet the ones she truly wears include formal wear, sportswear, pajamas, and one-time evening gowns for banquets.
Currently, she's wearing formal attire, although the cut and material are custom and fitted with her stature, it feels misplaced in the wrong atmosphere like she said, either like a sales clerk or selling insurance.
Lin Ying carried Master Fuli into the suite, where a stylist awaited to help change outfits.
Lin Bingyun stood in the restaurant, talking to a slightly older woman with a sketchpad and pencil:
"Miss Lin's schedule is packed, even if the draft of the painting can't be completed, it's no big deal. But ensure you capture the young master's essence, portraying his charm and smile in the 'Family Portrait'."
"The charm is the most essential, you probably understand that better than I do, right?"
"No problem at all, my eyes were born to discern the numbers on a bank card, and now, I've seen attractive numbers." The thirty-eightish female artist said with confidence.
Everyone busied themselves with their tasks due to Master Fuli's and Lin Ying's arrival.
The restaurant is devoid of outsiders except the chef, who was instructed to stay in the kitchen.
Lin Bingyun checked information security to ensure no risk of data leakage.
Everything proceeded smoothly.
Until a string of objections emerged from the fire escape passage.
For privacy and peace, Lin Bingyun booked the restaurant's evening slot, even locked the elevator until orders from the control room, otherwise, it couldn't reach the hotel's top floor.
"Are you kidding me!"
"Tonight's banquet, I organized it, and now you say it's temporarily given to others?"
"Are you insulting the Meredici Family? Let me see the person inside, I want to challenge her to a noble duel!"
A group of blonde, blue-eyed men and women boisterously pushed open the fire door, entering the sky restaurant.
Lin Shu, upon hearing the keywords, maintained a smiling expression, approached the fire door, and lifted a solid wooden chair, preparing to smash it down.
"Thud—"
The sturdy wooden chair shattered, splinters scattering, the person at the front was knocked to the ground.