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"Did you hurt your foot kicking him?" Qiao Yi asked worriedly.

Lu Mingqian and Ji Qi pinned down the wailing Su Jian, pressing on his pressure points. Su Jian writhed like a caterpillar.

"Disgusting," Ji Qi said.

Lu Mingqian said, "He's done for."

The Xie Family's bodyguards took charge of Su Jian. At some point, Xie Zhiyu had appeared beside Shen Baili.

"Suìsuì, are you all right?" Xie Zhiyu noticed that something was off about her expression.

Shen Baili shook her head honestly. "Not really."

Something felt wrong. Her vision went black, and she fainted.

"Suìsuì!"

"Class Monitor!"

"Shen Baili!"

"Goddess!"

The chaos around her no longer had anything to do with Shen Baili.

Xie Zhiyu caught Shen Baili before she hit the ground, swept her into his arms, and got straight into the car.

"To the hospital."

When Shen Baili woke again, it was already the next morning.

She opened her eyes to a harsh expanse of white, the smell of disinfectant filling her nose.

The same familiar sights and smells, the same familiar place. Shen Baili had almost lost count of how many times she had woken up in a hospital.

"Third time," A-Deng said precisely.

"Once with appendicitis and a fever, once with a fever during midterms, and now this time from exhaustion."

Shen Baili tried to turn over, only to find she had no strength at all. "A-Deng, what happened to me?"

She didn't panic.

A-Deng nuzzled her neck. "You exhausted yourself."

The little orange kitten stepped on her arm. "After you saved them, an unknown force tried to erase us from this world."

"I can't stand against the power of this world's consciousness yet, so I had to use ten percent of my energy to pull a switch and hide our whereabouts."

"The