She had thought Xu Shuangrong would be transported straight back with the system as soon as her mission failed.
But something unexpected seemed to have happened.
The police had set their sights on Xu Shuangrong.
When they took seven-year-old Xu Shuangrong back to her village, the police learned from the villagers that a strange woman had taken her away.
Suspecting that the murderer might have an accomplice, they immediately began hunting Xu Shuangrong down.
The system said the time-travel cooldown wasn't over yet, so they couldn't go back tonight.
Xu Shuangrong became a fugitive.
Xie Mi: "..."
What a gloriously satisfying turn of events.
Since her own identity made it inconvenient to get involved in the case, she took little Shen Yeqing to the police station, claiming she had found a lost child, and helped herself to a night's sleep on a bench there.
Little Shen Yeqing looked at the older girl who had, for some reason, smeared her face with something dark and gray. He got up and obediently asked a police officer for a blanket, then brought it over and covered her.
She rolled over and kicked the blanket clear off.
Little Shen Yeqing flinched in alarm, then hurried over to retrieve it. He covered her, she kicked it off, he covered her again, and she kicked it off again.
The officer on night duty watched in amusement. In the end, he turned the air conditioner up a few degrees, putting an end to the struggle.
Little Shen Yeqing watched the sleeping girl for a while, then quietly lay down on the chair beside her.
He slept soundly. It had been a long time since he had slept so peacefully.
So much so that when the morning sunlight appeared and the police station grew noisy again, he still