Chapter 143 truly opened my eyes.
The flickering candlelight shone into the dressing room through the broken door.
Ning Shuyin's heart was pounding so hard that her eardrums were vibrating.
Through the gap in the scholar's robe in front of her, she could see Loran's handsome yet icy face, his dark red eyes still holding lingering anger.
His gaze swept over the slightly swaying robes, settling on the shadows peeking through the seams.
"You dare to eavesdrop? Come out here!"
Loran's eyes flashed with ruthlessness as he raised his hand and attacked her. The veins on his arm bulged, and his long fingers whipped up a gust of wind in the air.
After this period of arduous training, Ning Shuyin's body has become agile in its responses.
She deftly dodged his attack by sidestepping.
“It’s you?” Loran’s eyes widened in surprise.
He recognized Ning Shuyin from the fluttering fabric of her clothes, but he was a beat too slow to react.
Taking advantage of his momentary pause, Ning Shuyin tried to push aside the clothes and leave the wardrobe.
But this narrow space filled with clothes is not a place where one can easily come and go freely.
The two long robes with their belts intertwined blocked her way.
She pushed aside the two pieces of clothing, intending to emerge from the side. Little did she know that beneath the other clothing, there was something as tall as a person hidden.
"Ugh!" She tripped over the thing and let out a short cry of surprise, her upper body falling forward uncontrollably.
Lorraine bent down, wanting to reach out and hug her, but her hand bumped into something covered by the clothes.
"Thump! Crash!"
The sound of cardboard boxes breaking and a pile of odds and ends scattering was very noticeable in the quiet walk-in closet.
Ning Shuyin still fell.
To be precise, she fell into something.
Loran reached out and pushed aside the cumbersome robes, only to be met with an absurd scene.
Ning Shuyin was half-buried in a broken cardboard box.
The contents of that cardboard box... colorful lace aprons, fluffy cat ears and animal tails, and various toys of dubious purpose packed in cardboard boxes or plastic wrap.
Loran reached out and pulled her up by the arm. His eyes, however, remained fixed on the box.
He quickly spotted the shipping label on the box.
[Recipient: Gu Lei]
He knew the mailing address for the box very well. He had memorized that address the day Ning Shuyin moved.
Under the focused lighting of the dressing room, he simply couldn't ignore that electronic note.
[Sweetie! Here's your new toy! It's time to unleash your true nature! —Shuyin]
Loran knew that Gu Lei had a girlfriend. He had also met Su Qianqian and knew that she was Ning Shuyin's good friend.
So what does all of this mean?
The anger that had ignited in him from his unsuccessful argument with Gu Lei had not yet subsided when a pain that felt like his heart was being pierced came back to him.
Ning Shuyin was in a flurry of activity, stuffing the pink apron she had brought to the ground back into the cardboard box.
When she looked up again, she found that Loran's dark red eyes seemed to have lost their light.
"Lorraine, let me explain, this isn't..." She was eager to clarify the scene of the disaster.
No explanation needed.
Loran interrupted her, his voice soft and cold.
He sadly withdrew his hand from her arm and took a step back. It was as if she carried something more repulsive to him than the virus.
His gaze fell on the mess in the cabinet, and a mocking smile curled at the corner of his lips.
"Ah, so this is Professor Gu Lei's moral standard."
Just minutes before, Gu Lei had been speaking righteously and eloquently to him about the laws of nature and academic ethics.
But now...
Loran's eyes were filled with disdain for Gure.
When his cold eyes turned to Ning Shuyin, they revealed a complex emotion.
A sudden surge of longing, which he couldn't quite understand, washed over him.
As a top biologist, he sensed something was wrong.
In his eyes, the scene before him should have made him suspect and disgusted that Ning Shuyin had "betrayed their friendship and toyed with his feelings."
But there seems to be another force at work, weakening this negative emotion.
This abnormality affecting his mood made him even more unhappy.
He stared at Ning Shuyin's innocent face, his eyes filled with even more sarcasm and self-mockery.
"You... have truly broadened my horizons."
After saying that, he didn't linger and turned to leave resolutely.
She was the only one left in the huge walk-in closet.
Ning Shuyin stood there stunned for a full minute before she came to her senses.
She tidied up the mess without expression. After finishing, she checked twice to make sure nothing was left scattered around.
Then, she put the entire cardboard box into her spatial ring.
After doing all this, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She couldn't linger here. She slipped out of the dressing room, then carefully helped herself back to the door that Loran had smashed.
Having used up her invisibility gadget, she chose to leave through the window like a real thief.
The cold night wind blew against her face, but Ning Shuyin's unease did not subside.
Lorraine's cold gaze at the end kept replaying in her mind.
She knew that this misunderstanding was huge.
Although she didn't expect to actually fall in love with the men she dated in this world, the trust she developed while facing danger together was genuine.
She knew these men were all ruthless and cunning. She anticipated that they would treat her coldly, make things difficult for her, or mistreat her.
When you finally reach the point where you can get along well, only to be misunderstood again, it would be a lie to say you feel no disappointment or grievance.
"Sigh..." Aside from her own little emotions, she also began to worry about the impact of this matter on the main storyline.
The first threat posed by Loran to Gurei is the threat he poses.
Ning Shuyin didn't know who Luo Lan was trying to revive. But tonight's argument was enough to show how important this person was to Luo Lan.
She wasn't sure what Lorraine's attitude towards her was right now. Was it simple disappointment, or had it escalated into hatred?
If it's the latter, he might take out his anger, which stemmed from her, on Gu Lei.
"System, how much has Loran's favorability towards me dropped?" She habitually wanted to check the favorability rating.
[Host, you replaced the favorability detector with a paradox bomb in the Penrose triangle, have you forgotten?]
Ning Shuyin was taken aback for a moment, then realized what was going on.
During the time she was away from Penrose Triangle and back on Planet A, these men had always treated her very well, so she hadn't thought about the matter of their favorability towards her.
Now that this tool is gone, she can no longer use simple and intuitive numbers to quantify the men's attitudes and feelings towards her.
"Sigh, I just hope Loran doesn't hate me too much," Ning Shuyin thought to herself.
[Host, you actually had plenty of time to use the Key of Rewind to go back in time to before he entered the room, and you had plenty of time to hide the box.]
"It's not that I haven't thought about it, it's just that I feel it's unnecessary."
Ning Shuyin considered the tool for rewinding time to be a game-changer. There was no need to use it on something like this.
[Host, you don't need to worry too much. Although the favorability detector has malfunctioned, you are still equipped with the ProMax meme attractor, which provides a real 50-point increase in favorability.]
As long as you don't do anything reckless, they won't go so far as to kill you.
“It seems that’s true.” Ning Shuyin’s mind had calmed down thanks to the cold wind that had blown her along the way. “Besides, with Situ Linchen’s promised protection, she certainly won’t die.”
[Therefore, host, you should first consider how to continue bringing together the main couple in the novel. Their relationship must reach its sweetest, most intense point before the future "marriage chapter." Otherwise...]
"Otherwise what?"
You wouldn't want to experience any shameful punishment, would you?
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