Invincible Cat Fist: I've Been NTR'd?????????

"These are chicken frames... This is flowing-meat noodles... This is a hamburger?? This is... this is..."

"This is tonkatsu!!??"

Hua Xin swallowed the saliva pooling in her mouth. In her view, the golden, crispy cutlet was lifted from the oil, filling the air with the rich aroma of meat. Then...

It went onto someone else's plate.

??

The girl did not linger. She strode forward.

If she looked one more time, her wallet would explode.

(Why doesn't the tonkatsu automatically float into my hands...)

(So inconsiderate.)

She no longer kept her head bowed deeply. Instead, she raised it slightly to look ahead, the corners of her lips lifting unconsciously. Her mood was excellent.

Hua Xin continued carefully avoiding the crowds, slowly walking forward with her backpack on. As long as she paid a little more attention, she would not bump into another hurried passerby like she had before.

The fear of going out alone had been greatly eased by the kindness of the auntie selling steamed buns.

Hua Xin began to... dare to take a look at this world.

At least she no longer viewed the world as a flood or savage beasts.

No one cared about her, and no one knew her or recognized her.

Besides... there were good people after all!

The girl remembered the meat bun she had just taken several bites to finish. The aroma of beef and its juices still lingered vividly in her stomach.

She should still go out again next time, right?

She would bring the auntie a carton of milk with the farthest expiration date!??

Some shops gradually began opening as well. No longer limited to breakfast joints, they filled the girl's eyes with curiosity as she looked at the various signs and greenery along the street.

(This tree is so tall...)

("Upper Shanghai Young Women"??? What kind of strange milk tea shop is this? It feels inferior to Mixue Bingcheng.)

(Do they give you a young fu with your milk tea???... Uh, I don't have a dick anymore. Goodbye.)

(Huh? Didn't Mixue recently release a new product? I'll try it once I manage to grab a coupon~)

After walking a few more steps, Hua Xin could not help sighing with emotion as she looked at the resplendently decorated gold shop:

It would be great if she could work as a shop assistant here.

Steal one gram a day... two grams a day... one kilogram a day??...

She would never have to worry again in this life. (Meaning she would never have to worry about eating prison food.)

Although a dangerous light flickered in her eyes,

she decided against it when she thought about having to eat peanuts.

With her tiny frame, she would not even need peanuts. A few seconds from a fully charged stun baton would be enough to make her behave.

Taking her eyes off the shop, Hua Xin looked at the navigation on her phone and seriously turned left at the end of the street.

It should have been an ordinary corner, but the girl encountered the love of her life, the person she had yearned for day and night, her destined soulmate whom she could fight with all her strength for without regard for anything, her dream lo...

Coin??.

A banknote covered in dust and a few leaves, crumpled beyond recognition but still faintly showing its original brilliant blue color, was quietly staring back at Hua Xin.

Banknote: "Huh??"

Hua Xin: "Huh??"

Banknote & Hua Xin: "What is your name?..."

RMB!!!!??

"Smack." The girl stepped on it without changing expression.

Then she pretended to tie her shoelace and squatted down in an instant, swiftly picking up the crumpled ten-yuan note from beneath her shoe and stuffing it into her pocket. She stood up and continued walking forward, humming a tune as though nothing had happened.

Hua Xin: Nothing happened.jpg

(So you can find money when you go out...)

(I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, wow!!!!...)

She quickly found a secluded corner. The girl slowly pulled out the ten yuan, gently brushed away the dirt and dust on it, then carefully smoothed out its crumpled shape.

Turning around, she raised the banknote toward the sun, which had already risen, and held it up to the light.

It was real...

Was this the feeling of getting something without working for it??... Was this the feeling of a windfall dropping from the sky??...

Hua Xin solemnly and reverently placed the treasure into her pocket, then continued on her way in silence, thinking with a mixture of melancholy and determination:

"Should I..."

"Go out and walk for two hours every day from now on?"

"That's three hundred yuan a month... Wait... What if I find a hundred yuan every day?"

Hua Xin suddenly froze. Then an unprecedented brilliance burst from her eyes:

"A month... A month is three thousand yuan!!!??"

Twenty minutes later.

"No..."

"Isn't Magic City University reached by walking along Chenghua Street???"

"Where the heck did this navigation take me?"

Hua Xin stared blankly at the huge words "Erxian Bridge" on the road sign before her. The surroundings were empty, without a single person in sight.

Below the bridge, traffic streamed past. Countless vehicles traveled back and forth along the road. As someone with a fear of heights, she instinctively sucked in a breath and took two steps back.

Her mind involuntarily conjured an image of herself accidentally falling from the bridge, being battered around like a ball by speeding cars, finally becoming a puddle of mush, and then being heartlessly hauled off to a crematorium to be burned into a pile of ash...

??

The girl nervously crouched beside the guardrail, anxiously studying the navigation on her phone.

She did not want to go to the 2D world yet! She had not even eaten meat today??.

"I didn't take the wrong way..." she muttered strangely while fiddling with her phone. Then she zoomed in on the navigation map and examined it carefully.

(Thinking)

(Confusion)

(Silence)

Looking at the two roads close together on the map, the girl silently put away her phone and lowered her head, returning along the way she had come as though nothing had happened.

Haha, how could anyone not understand a map?

Hua Xin, her face flushed with embarrassment, kicked an innocent pebble.

Who are you calling directionally challenged! Who are you calling directionally challenged!??

Bainian Hot and Sour Noodles Restaurant.

Xia Yan took a sip of room-temperature mineral water. A trace of confusion flashed through his eyes as he looked unabashedly at Lin Qingyu, who was eating her noodles one strand at a time.

What did this mean?

Was she deliberately wasting time here?

The noodles in his bowl had long since been eaten clean, while Lin Qingyu, sitting across from him, still had half a bowl left.

It had taken her more than twenty minutes to eat one bowl of hot and sour noodles...

Xia Yan found it strange that Lin Qingyu had suddenly changed tactics.

When they had first met, she had clearly been the type to play hard to get and pretend to welcome advances. But now she had turned into this proactive, utterly pathetic sort.

"What? Is there something on my face?"

Lin Qingyu raised her head. Her lips were stained with a faint layer of red oil, which looked especially alluring and incongruous against her cool, aloof face. Paired with her puzzled little gaze...

Yet Xia Yan's heart remained completely unmoved. He could not even summon the slightest other desire, utterly different from the burning reaction he had experienced upon seeing Hua Xin's photo.

He said gently, "It's getting late. I still have to take food back for Mu Feng and the other one."

"Ah... Sorry..."

"My stomach isn't very good, so I've always eaten slowly..."

Lin Qingyu said apologetically. Then she hurriedly reached out for two napkins.

"Ah!"

By sheer coincidence, she knocked over the glass bottle of soda beside her, which was still half full. Her face filled with panic, and she even closed her eyes.

"You can eat slowly, Senior. There's no need to hurry."

Xia Yan stood up and leaned toward Lin Qingyu, catching the glass bottle precisely. Then he said helplessly,

A trace of shyness flashed through Lin Qingyu's eyes as she looked up at him:

"Okay..."

The two were not very close—in fact, they were quite far apart. Xia Yan had only risen slightly, but from a peculiar, misaligned angle, it looked almost as though...

they had kissed.

From Hua Xin's perspective, having just arrived at the university and then accidentally looking inside because of the aroma of hot and sour noodles, the two were clearly doing something in public.

She recognized this pair of Jian Fu Yin Fu at a glance. Sure enough, they were working together.

The girl's small hand, hidden in her sleeve, clenched tightly into a fist. Her beautiful eyes were filled with fury and resentment.

Hua Xin: "I'll kill you two?????? Aaaaaaaah!!"

Invincible Cat Fist: "I've been NTR'd???"