Li Yaoyao watched as the wealthy women stared at Shen Qiongluo with predatory eyes, their gazes like those of hungry wolves.

After all, she is the campus belle and academic star of Beijing University.

Shen Qionglu rolled her eyes dramatically and tossed her long hair.

"No way! Wait...wait a minute, how did you end up running a matchmaking business?"

She paused for a moment, then raised an eyebrow.

They quickly found an impeccable excuse.

"That's not the point. Don't you have an adoption service here? I'd like to adopt a small animal."

Li Yaoyao got excited as soon as she heard this.

She sprang up from the door frame, her eyes lighting up instantly, and grabbed Shen Qiongluo's wrist, pulling her inside.

"~(@^_^@)~ This is great! I completely agree with adopting instead of shopping!"

"Come, come, let me show you our adorable little ones available for adoption. Each one has a tough past but a wonderful personality; there's bound to be one that's perfect for you!"

As she walked, she introduced each animal as if it were a treasure trove of knowledge, able to name it, tell its origin, and even add a bit of gossip.

Just then, a small, grayish-brown animal came running from the other end of the corridor, carrying an examination form in its mouth. Its four short legs moved swiftly, and a small employee badge bell hung around its neck, jingling as it ran.

It ran to Li Yaoyao's feet, then raised its head and looked at her proudly with its big, green bean-sized eyes.

Li Yaoyao bent down, picked it up, and held it in her arms, introducing it to Shen Qiongluo.

"It's a honey badger named Yueyue, because it used to always escape from prison, hence the name."

"Now he's a full-time employee here, and he doesn't hurt anyone or fight anymore; he's turned over a new leaf!"

"However, Yueyue cannot be raised by you, because it will be sent back to Africa later."

Upon hearing that it was going to be sent away, Yueyue immediately buried its head in Li Yaoyao's arms, its two little paws clenching onto her collar, letting out a pitiful whimper.

Li Yaoyao was amused by it and rubbed her chin against its head.

"Stop pretending. It's always the same old act of playing the victim. You're such a great employee, I never said I was going to fire you."

Shen Qiongluo stood to the side, watching Li Yaoyao hug the honey badger and laugh so hard she almost fell over.

Sunlight streamed in obliquely through the French windows, enveloping her in a warm, soft glow.

Her features were much more refined than when I first saw her; her skin was fair with a rosy glow, and her eyes curved into two crescent moons when she smiled.

She used to always hunch over behind her black-rimmed glasses, but now she stands in the center of the clinic in her uniform, arranging work, seeing patients, and comforting animals—everything is done in an orderly manner.

Shen Qiongluo recalled the first time she met her.

On the basketball court, there was a chubby girl whose eyes were red with humiliation, yet she stubbornly refused to cry out.

The young hospital director standing before me, thriving in the consultation room, is clearly the same person.

But it was as if it had been reborn.

Shen Qiongluo was unwilling to accept Qi Yuge's actions.

But what she witnessed firsthand was that this woman performed surgery even more efficiently than Qin Lin, and squatted in front of a cage talking to a stressed stray cat for two hours until it ate its first bite of food…

Perhaps it's true that losing to someone like that isn't so hard to let go of.

"I want to buy a few dresses."

Shen Qiongluo suddenly spoke, her tone deliberately casual.

"Could you come with me to take a look?"

Li Yaoyao lifted her head from Yueyue's fluffy fur, pointed to her nose, and looked sincere and confused.

"But I don't have much of an aesthetic sense."

"It's okay, you can carry my bag."

Li Yaoyao: ...

She nodded resignedly, "Alright then."

Once they arrived at the mall, Li Yaoyao realized that Shen Qiongluo was treating her like "Miracle Yaoyao".

She was dragged into a brand store that she didn't even dare to glance at in the window.

Shen Qiongluo picked out seven or eight dresses and stuffed them into her arms, then pushed her into the fitting room.

Before closing the curtain, she threw in a pair of high heels.

Li Yaoyao stood helplessly in the fitting room, clutching the pile of clothes, when Shen Qiongluo's voice, brooking no refusal, came from outside the curtain.

"You country bumpkin, don't waste such a great figure, give it a try."

Li Yaoyao stared blankly at the clothes and said to the system.

"...I still remember Shen Qiongluo saying I was ugly and fat before. Has she been possessed?"

The system has given this some thought.

[It's possible that the wicked capitalists are trying to lull you into a false sense of security by offering sweet words and promises, hoping you'll back down from Qi Yuge.]

[This is to make you realize the gap between you and these upper-class people.]

Li Yaoyao pursed her lips.

"That makes sense."

Otherwise, she really couldn't understand why Shen Qiongluo would stick to her day and night.

At the other end of the mall, Li Yaoyao's roommate, Zhou Si, was strolling around with a milk tea in hand.

As she turned the corner of the shop window, she caught sight of two familiar figures out of the corner of her eye, and her steps abruptly halted.

Shen Qiongluo was holding up an avocado green sundress in front of Li Yaoyao, tilting her head to examine it carefully.

Li Yaoyao felt uncomfortable with her gestures, her expression a mixture of obedience and embarrassment, muttering something under her breath.

Zhou Sisi stood in the corner, holding a cup of milk tea, her brows furrowed.

Aren't these two mortal enemies?

The whole school knows they are sworn enemies.

What's going on here?

She narrowed her eyes, feeling a sense of unease.

She didn't go up to greet them, but instead quietly took a picture with her phone.

·

Qi Yuge has been searching for Li Yaoyao so hard lately that he's practically turned Beijing upside down.

She wouldn't answer my calls, I went to her shop to wait for her but there was no one there, and I even waited outside her house but no one was there either.

Every time I asked her assistant Chen Wang, I got the exact same answer.

"She was taken away by Shen Qiongluo."

Not only that, but eight out of ten times he went to the store, he saw Shang Hesheng sitting leisurely on the sofa in the waiting area.

Holding the bald meerkat, with a cup of coffee made by the receptionist on the table, he looked every bit the unofficial employee.

"Why are you here again?"

Qi Yuge leaned against the door frame, his tone icy.

People around them instinctively moved away, and a chilling aura visibly spread between the two.

Shang Hesheng sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, slowly sipping his coffee.

"Why can't I come? I'm a customer. My meerkat puppy is getting treatment here, and I brought it in for a follow-up check-up."

"And you, in what capacity are you here? As far as I know, Dr. Li seemed to have said that it had nothing to do with you."

"She said that? Hmph, she's asking for trouble, daring to say such a thing? Who in this circle doesn't know she's one of my people?"

"Your person? You've been looking for your person for days and still can't find her? But she's the one who asks me to send her videos of meerkats every day."

"That's because she's afraid you'll abuse animals!"

"She contacted me first."

Chen Wang stood behind the front desk, expressionless, and handed Yueyue a cookie.

At least three times a week.

She witnessed firsthand the two men putting on a show of jealousy and idle chatter in the waiting area.

They never change their lines; it's like they're just repeating the same thing over and over again.

"Why are you here?" "Why can't I come?" "She's mine." "Did she say she had anything to do with you?"

She sighed and rubbed her forehead, then made the sign of the cross on her chest as a prayer for her boss.

Her boss is really pitiful.

What kind of weird and wonderful monsters and demons does it attract?

It wasn't just these two men.

Even Miss Shen, who's been taking her away every day lately, has been giving her strange looks.

Weren't Shen Qiongluo and the boss rivals for love before?

Why are you two so inseparable lately?

not only that.

When Miss Shen came to pick up her boss from get off work, she brought her both milk tea and lunch.

As Chen Wang thought this, his gaze lingered for a moment on the two men in front of him who were still locked in a standoff.

Wait...wait.

She recalled the subtle look in Shen Qiongluo's eyes when she met the boss.

Look at the eyes of these two men.

……Well.

She seems to have discovered something.

She took a deep breath and patted the cookie crumbs off her hands.

With an expression of profound understanding and serene composure, she silently changed the object of her prayer.

—It was replaced by these two great traitors in front of me.

Stop making noise, you idiots.

Your little one might be kidnapped again.

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