"Aah-!"
A cry of pain rang out.
Jin Yue'er jolted awake from her dreams.
Clutching her buzzing head, she hurriedly rolled inward, deftly avoiding whatever danger might be lurking beside the bed.
After that,
Jin Yue'er immediately tried to spring upright with a carp flip.
But her rolling had wrapped the quilt around her like a spring roll. No matter how she thrust her waist, she couldn't get up.
Rather than a carp, she looked more like a maggot.
"Aah-let me go! This is Spirit City!"
Jin Yue'er shouted threats
while struggling nonstop, lifting her legs and thrusting her waist as she tried to rise.
Thump, thump, thump-!
Even the soft bed shook beneath her flailing.
"..."
Watching Jin Yue'er wriggle like a maggot, Qian Renxue's expression darkened further.
With a grim face, she couldn't help calling softly,
"Yue'er, it's me."
"Aah-!"
Hearing the voice, Jin Yue'er first jumped in fright, then froze.
She hurriedly raised her head to look.
By the cool moonlight, Jin Yue'er finally made out the woman before her.
"Sister Xue!!!"
Jin Yue'er cried out in delight.
Even lying across the bed wrapped in a quilt, she was beside herself with excitement, arching her body and lifting both ends as she tried to get up.
"Haha-"
"Sister Xue, you're finally back!!"
Jin Yue'er cheered excitedly and wriggled, suddenly pulling her two pale, lotus-root-like arms out of the quilt.
"Aiya!"
Jin Yue'er fought to free herself.
After quite a struggle, she finally pulled off a Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell.
She left even her nightclothes inside the quilt, slipping out with only her naked, soft body.
On hands and knees, she crawled toward Qian Renxue.
"?"
Qian Renxue frowned.
It had been so long since she'd seen Jin Yue'er's half-human, half-beast movements
that she wasn't quite used