Upon hearing Bai Xinyu's invitation, Yue Jiuling guessed that Bai Xinyu must have had an ulterior motive in contacting her. Sure enough, when Bai Xinyu heard Yue Jiuling's words, she widened her eyes in surprise and said, "Wow, Jiuling, you're so amazing! How did you guess it so quickly?"

"Hmph, we've known each other for so long, don't you know me? You're just a big lazy cat,"

Yue Jiuling removed Bai Xinyu's hand from her body and said, "Give up, I won't fall for it. You can keep cleaning up the mess yourself."

"No, Jiuling, don't you love me anymore? You won't even help me clean the house anymore?"

Bai Xinyu immediately looked at Yue Jiuling with a resentful expression, covering her face and crying, "Waaah~ Jiuling, you heartless cat, you don't love me anymore."

Watching her colleagues' backs disappear into the distance, and Bai Xinyu's whimpering, Yue Jiuling helplessly tugged at Bai Xinyu's ear and said, "That's enough. I'll help you one more time. If there's a next time, you'll have to clean up yourself. Let you be a lazy cat."

"Hehe~ Don't worry, as soon as I get paid, I'll buy a robot vacuum cleaner so I won't have to clean the house myself."

Knowing that Yue Jiuling was willing to clean with her, Bai Xinyu was especially happy. She took Yue Jiuling's hand and was about to lead her to her dormitory: "Oh dear, you've been away from the dormitory for a long time. Now I'm all alone in there, and I'm so bored."

"There's nothing we can do. We haven't got any new staff at the management office yet, so you'll be living on your own. But isn't it great living alone? A demon living in such a big house, isn't that awesome?"

"That's true, but I still find it really boring~"

Yue Jiuling let Bai Xinyu pull her along. It was getting late, and the weather was cold. It had rained a little recently, so the ground was wet and slightly chilly. Yue Jiuling and Bai Xinyu walked back to their dormitory side by side.

However, just as they were halfway there, they suddenly heard a cat meowing nearby:

Meow~ Meow~

The cat's meows sounded mournful and weak—as if it hadn't eaten for days, and it seemed like it was about to stop breathing as it meowed.

"Tsk, there are actually cats here?"

Upon hearing the meow, Bai Xinyu immediately turned to look at Yue Jiuling, who also looked quite surprised and said, "Oh dear, what a poor little thing! Should we go and take a look?"

"Shall we go take a look?"

Bai Xinyu looked around while secretly pinching Yue Jiuling's arm: "Let's go, that sound seems to be coming from over there."

Bai Xinyu pointed to the corner in front of them and said, "Isn't it just ahead?"

"It seems so," Yue Jiuling said, showing no reaction to being pinched. "How pitiful, in such cold weather~"

The two walked towards the direction of the cat's meow. When they were halfway there, Bai Xinyu secretly let go of Yue Jiuling's hand and stopped walking.

Yue Jiuling continued walking forward, and just as she was about to reach the corner, she suddenly saw a dark shadow pounce on her!

"Meow!"

The dark shadow wasn't very big, about the size of an adult cat. It pounced very fast, its claws gleaming with sharp edge. But just when it thought it was about to succeed, a small fireball hit it. The scorching fireball struck it, making it cry out!

"Tsk, that's it?"

Yue Jiuling withdrew the fireball she had thrown, looked at the glowing red ball of fur on the ground, and sneered, "Heh~ You think you can ambush me with this level of skill? How laughable~"

Just as Yue Jiuling was about to grab the fireball on the ground, it mysteriously disappeared!

"Gone? What happened?"

Bai Xinyu also came over. She saw the fireball disappear on the spot and looked puzzled: "Jiuling, did she teleport?"

"It shouldn't be. Given her level of cultivation, the possibility of her using spiritual power to teleport while injured is very low. She probably used a teleportation array."

Yue Jiuling looked down at the small circle that had appeared on the ground and said, "It's a small teleportation array."