"So Ying Ru Shi, you're the White Fox."
Ying Ru Shi jolted awake. She instinctively tightened her grip on her sword hilt and looked up in terror, like a small animal whose tail had been stepped on.
Yellow Dog, his face wrapped in bandages, was crouching on the floor and looking at her with a soft laugh. "No wonder you weren't surprised when you saw Bingzi Jiaolin in Ping City, and weren't particularly curious about me either. You got straight to the point when we talked, as if old friends were meeting again... I should have realized something was strange."
Black Wolf, her wine-red ponytail tied back, crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "You're injured this badly. Surely it won't delay the next mission, right?"
"Don't put it like that. White Fox was forced into it," Red Snake said cutely. "The most important thing now is figuring out how to help White Fox."
Ying Ru Shi felt as though her mind had been churned into a mass of mud. She stammered, "How... how did you get in here?"
"You didn't close your door properly. I happened to see it when I was training with them, so I came in to take a look. I didn't expect to find you sitting on the floor asleep." Yellow Dog sighed. "You didn't even sleep in the bed."
After returning, Ying Ru Shi had indeed opened the door and glanced outside. She couldn't remember whether she had closed it, but after using Escape into the Empty Gate so many times, she had been dizzy and disoriented. Forgetting to close the door by accident was only natural. She just hadn't expected it to expose her identity outright.
But before she could say anything, Yellow Dog asked, "I heard you defected from Qi? You've also