"Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~"
"The exam is over. All examinees, please put down your pens immediately. If any examinee continues answering..."
The examination room was silent.
The students rose and left one after another, and Nan Jiayu was no exception.
The catfolk beastwoman lazily pushed herself up from her desk. Her tail rose from where it had been hanging behind her, and she lifted her chin in a stretch, loosening her stiff body after sitting for so long.
The moment she left the exam room, the hallway erupted with enthusiastic cheers and conversation.
This had been the final exam of their freshman year—Beastfolk Physiology and Human Physiology, two joint exams spanning four hours in one afternoon. It had left everyone mentally dazed.
But with so much preparation, Tianqing's hands-on tutoring, and her performance during the exam, Nan Jiayu was fully confident she could pass with an eighty.
...Of course, a bigger reason was that the exam had been arranged by class, and she happened to be in the same examination room as Tianqing.
"Little Fish~"
A soft voice suddenly came from beside her. Something fluffy brushed against her arm, followed by the clinging scent of gardenias.
"T-Tianqing?" Nan Jiayu's entire body tensed. She forced a smile, looking both alarmed and awkward.
The golden-furred fox girl said nothing. She merely extended her tail and wrapped it around the cat tail that did not know where to rest, her lips and eyes curving into an expression Nan Jiayu knew all too well:
That expression only appeared whenever she had found some fun—or was about to go looking for it.
"Hehehe, Little Fish, did you peek during the exam just now?"
"Of course not. I was answering the questions very seriously—" Nan Jiayu nervously looked away, not daring to meet those emerald fox eyes.
"Oh?