"Boohoo—"
As soon as Ansheng got home, she saw a girl lying on Ah Qing's lap, sobbing like a cuckoo bleeding tears. The girl's voice was hoarse from crying, so she took a sip of cola to soothe her throat.
"Xiaolan, back already? Didn't get bitten, right?" Ah Qing patted the crying girl's head and noticed the little fox gazing out from the window sill, greeting him.
"What's the matter with this girl? Crying is one thing, but why is she stealing my cola? Ah Qing, you better replace it for me."
Ansheng jumped back into the room from the window sill, casually strolling over to Ah Qing's side, tilting her head to secretly peek at the stranger girl's cheek from below. Tear marks clearly etched her face like little pearls, with a tiny pendant hanging off her nose tip.
When it came to the cola for the little fox, Ah Qing, concerned for the fox's health, made sure to buy three bottles every week during grocery shopping and put them in the fridge.
The girl drinking one bottle meant that Ansheng would be without cola for the next two days.
"Oh! I'll replace it for you later. She's just been heartbroken and is in sorrow! You come back and talk about this." Ah Qing lifted a finger, tapping the little fox's snout.
"Just a breakup, isn't it? What's the big deal? Tell the girl to meet me over the weekend in Xia Dong. At Hailonglong, boys and girls can have fun freely, drop my name for a fifty percent discount." Hearing that the girl was crying over a breakup, Ansheng felt totally uninterested and prepared to slip away with a look of disdain.
Scanning around in the dorm room, Ansheng noticed Tang You sitting in front of a computer with headphones on, indulging in gaming time with her grandpa.
Lingren was sitting cross-legged on her chair, looking seriously at Ah Qing and the girl, so focused she hadn't even touched the chips in her hand.
They... seemed to not notice that Momo was missing from the dorm.
Considering Momo often stayed at her place in Phoenix City District, not returning for a night seemed quite normal.
"Huh? What's with you guys now?"
Grumbling internally, Ansheng slid open the balcony door, intending to take a leak, but noticed the tea tree on the balcony tiptoeing its roots, peeking into the dorm room.
The black-chested roach hidden in the tree crown ran to the top, standing the whole cockroach straight and barely holding the top branch with two legs, visibly trying hard to stretch its neck.
"Ziz! Zizzizi~ swoosh..... bang!" The black-chested roach heard Master's groan, reminding him to first close the balcony door for soundproofing, then eagerly started chatting with Master Fuli.
The weeping girl's name wasn't clear to the black-chested roach, but he could hear Ah Qing calling her Yu Yu, and her boyfriend had been snatched away.
Hearing this, Ansheng was indifferent since Ah Qing had already mentioned the girl was heartbroken over the breakup.
But.
The subsequent details shocked Ansheng so much he halted his peeing.
Yu Yu's boyfriend cheated.
He ran off with a very handsome and dashing girl, and if that were all, Yu Yu might have tolerated it.
After all, they were in a long-distance relationship, and Xinxing Agricultural Science College rotated campuses every year. But she couldn't accept that the girl who took her boyfriend didn't win him over by charm, but through brute force.
The dashing girl waved a net elf in front of her boyfriend, luring him to a hotel.
Then....
The girl donned the net elf herself and overwhelmed Yu Yu's boyfriend in five minutes.
Yu Yu's boyfriend shamefully called her to explain what happened.
It wasn't difficult to tell from the call; Yu Yu's boyfriend was probably running.
Yu Yu came to Ah Qing's dorm seeking guidance from Momo, unsure what to make of her boyfriend being effectively snatched like this...
"Boohoo... Why! Which girl loses to lubricant? Rejecting sports cars, villas, and runs off with a wild woman made of silicone." Yu Yu cried, but then gritted her teeth in frustration, lamenting how she could have fallen for such a person.
He doesn't love money, true, but he also doesn't love her.
Meanwhile, on the dorm balcony.
Ansheng squatted by the sliding door, fox ears pricked high, pressed against the glass, wearing an incredulous and amazed expression.
The little tea tree and the black-chested roach craned their necks, eavesdropping on the girls' dorm gossip, taking notes to learn.
Humans... are truly bizarre.
......
"Knock knock knock—"
The dorm door sounded with a knock, and the dorm manager auntie's voice came from outside: "Is Ah Qing here? I just got a call from security saying your roommate, Mo Yiqing, fainted from hypoglycemia and was taken to the hospital this evening."
"They took her to the affiliated hospital; her advisor plans to visit her, and you might need to go help pay the hospital fee for Mo Yiqing. She can't move conveniently now...."
"Huh?"
Ah Qing, who was comforting Yu Yu, was stunned by the news, immediately rushing to open the dorm door.
Tang You and Lingren were equally baffled by Momo being hospitalized.
You can't imagine Momo's physique; she could spend a day cliff climbing and darting around Yunnan Province, then still swing a kettle bell after returning.
Hypoglycemia... Would it make sense to send Momo to the hospital?
Perhaps noticing their uncertainty, the dorm manager auntie offered an explanation.
The cleaning lady saw Momo squatting on the balcony and felt something was off, so she stayed downstairs to observe for a bit.
Momo stood up too quickly, blacking out and hitting her head on the balcony railing, scaring the cleaning lady into calling the police.
The ambulance arrived in the evening; agriculture students might not have noticed it while out, but students from other departments should have seen Momo being taken away.
"I seem to recall hearing ambulance sirens around five thirty..." Lingren thought, feeling her memory was a bit fuzzy, but hearing the dorm manager auntie, it seemed plausible.
"... Let's go to the hospital and pay, then!" Though a bit bewildered, Ah Qing swiftly gathered things for the hospital visit.
In her packing, Ah Qing effortlessly picked up the furry little fox and tucked him into her bag.
"Xiaolan, you hide inside first, and we'll unzip it after hospital security checks. But remember, Fox Fox can't roam around hospitals, or you'll lose your jewels."
Ansheng: "......."
Under Ansheng's eye-rolling glare, Ah Qing sheepishly slung Momo's clothes over her shoulder, heading to the parking area with the little fox, locating a professor from the environmental resource department.
"Yu Yu, you're here too! You've cried so much your eyes are swollen like a fish's eyes...."
Standing in the parking lot, the professor, smoking with a disposable cigarette holder, noticed Ah Qing and the others, and the barely calmed Yu Yu with red, swollen, dark-ringed eyes.
The professor asked curiously, she had been fine during class earlier, how did her eyes end up looking like they got punched by a panda in just an hour?
While greeting the students, the professor also noticed the grumpy little fox face poking out from the bag. The professor asked with a strange expression: "Ah Qing, the little fox in the bag doesn't seem happy...."
Is it alright for you to keep Master Fuli like this?
Aren't you afraid of it exploding? I would be if I were you.
"Xiaolan? Not feeling well?" Ah Qing asked the little fox, who had a puzzled look on her face.
"No... I have nothing going on, I'm just thinking about some private fox matters."
Ansheng turned around and replied. It wasn't that he had complaints about the bag. In fact, with high-end clothes at the bottom from Momo, it was quite comfortable to sit on.
Ansheng was simply pondering the matter of Wish Power.
He had planned to relax in the dorm today, sipping the cola Ah Qing bought, and soaking in the washbasin, attempting to boost his [Wisdom] stat a bit.
Of course.
Given his past experience with [Wisdom], he wouldn't dare go all-in like he did with [Physique].