"Mm-hm, okay, I understand. So what you meant, Caroline, was that you felt Xing was hiding something from you."
"And although you had no proof, you believed it might have some kind of negative effect on you, right?"
"Mm, yes."
After hearing the full story, Jing Liuli fell silent for a few seconds on the other end before suddenly clapping her hands with a smack.
"I get it!"
Perhaps because she had gotten too excited, Caroline suddenly heard a dull thump from the Data Terminal.
It sounded like something heavy had slammed hard onto something soft, leaving Caroline rather puzzled.
"What happened, Liuli? Did something happen over there?"
"N-Nothing, it's just that my pillow accidentally fell onto the floor..."
Jing Liuli's voice was a little muffled, and she kept sucking in sharp breaths now and then. Something had clearly happened, yet she was pretending everything was fine.
Caroline frowned at that. Based on her instinctive data analysis, that dull thump had clearly carried a certain weight to it. No matter how she thought about it, it had nothing to do with a "soft, fluffy pillow."
It sounded more like someone had gotten so excited that she had accidentally toppled off the bed, landing butt-first on the carpet with a solid thud.
On the other end of the Data Terminal, a certain someone who had climbed up from the carpet while clutching her butt was currently baring her teeth and rubbing her waist, tears of pain nearly spilling from her eyes.
But for the sake of her dignity as both a "life mentor" and a "top New Federation celebrity," she stubbornly refused to say a word.
Truly, she would rather suffer than lose face.
To preserve her glorious image, Jing Liuli deliberately cleared her throat and said brightly, "Caroline, don't worry