In the evening, Huatianli Community, Rong City.
Su Tianqing lay leisurely on her bed, scrolling through news about Monster attacks on her phone.
“The Monster attack that occurred this evening at the East Suburb Sports Center has been resolved by the Autumn Osmanthus Squad.”
“According to eyewitnesses, Magic Girl Xinyue Hu, who recently appeared in Hong Kong City, was found inside the Sports Center. The Hero Association has given this significant attention and will continue to monitor Xin Yuehu’s movements.”
“Ah, it seems the Hero Association is protecting Qiugui very well. They didn’t even release footage from inside the stadium,” Su Tianqing thought to herself.
Qiugui is a Magic Girl whose career is on the rise. The popularity she accumulated over several years of activity has gained her countless fans.
Perhaps the Hero Association is worried about a negative impact if her embarrassed appearance were to be shown on camera? It must be so.
Coincidentally, today’s prank wasn’t new, and Qiugui’s reaction was quite bland. Such a boring video should definitely be deleted. I’ll just post an update explaining the situation.
Logging into the Magic Girl official account, Su Tianqing opened her updates, made a few edits, and clicked upload.
“Good evening, everyone in Rong City ~ Fox Fox I’ve returned from my trip to Hong Kong City yo!”
“But unfortunately, Hyacinth and the others weren’t in Hong Kong City, so, Fox Fox found Miss Qiugui, who happened to be stationed in Hong Kong City ~”
Below was a selfie, showing only half of her fox head, with most of the frame dedicated to Qiugui, who was hanging from the soccer goalpost, looking utterly lifeless.
“Does everyone like Miss Qiugui?”
“If you like her, please leave a comment in the comment section ~ You might even unlock more poses of Miss Qiugui yo ~”
The update was sent.
Su Tianqing casually put her phone aside, sprawled out on the bed to relax her body, and let her familiar collect today’s mission reward.
Double reward! Double the divine code stone!
With this, the long-running divine code stone deposit mission was almost complete. It seemed it would unlock a rather special function, right?
Golden Fox pulled out her secret codex from the magic space and opened the mission page to read it carefully.
“Mission Chain 6: Prank Mastery”
“Obtain sufficient ancient divine code stones from daily missions, 2800 / 3000”
“Reward: Unlock the ancient divine code stone exclusive shop”
Ancient divine code stone...
Since there was no way to spend them, she had saved all of them, accumulating around 6000.
She had tried to observe the difference between it and ordinary divine code stones, but there was no difference except for the color, giving it the feeling of a reskinned currency.
secret codex! Confess honestly, did you get lazy! How could you not even bother to make a new texture?
After a fierce mental complaint about the secret codex, and then another look at her steadily increasing divine code stone savings, Su Tianqing’s mood suddenly brightened again.
After the Hong Kong City battle, her Monster reserve capacity had greatly improved, and she no longer needed to purchase Monster capsules in bulk with divine code stones.
Ordinary divine code stones were also saved as a result, returning to a somewhat generous figure of 5000.
...Is it really generous?
The profits from her Fox Fox Cop and Robber movie, which she uploaded to video sites, were higher than this! Not to mention the tips from the rich patrons in her live stream!
“It seems I need to take the missions seriously,” Golden Fox secretly resolved.
But just as Su Tianqing was pondering tomorrow’s prank strategy, the doorbell suddenly rang in the living room outside her bedroom.
“Ding-dong ~”
“Ah, Tianqing, I’m cooking. Could you please open the door?”
“Okay!!”
Throwing the secret codex into her magic space, Golden-haired Fox Girl bounced off the bed, slipped into her slippers, and scurried to the front door, pulling it open.
Standing outside was a man in a suit with a slightly tired expression. Seeing Su Tianqing open the door, he was immediately surprised.
“Good evening, Uncle—” Su Tianqing immediately greeted him.
“Hmm? It’s Tianqing. Good evening. Have you already returned from your trip?”
Su Tianqing recognized the person in front of her: Nan Xiaofeng’s father, Nan Jiayu’s uncle, probably like a godfather to her.
Nan Jiayu was cooking in the kitchen. The sound of high-heat stir-frying and the aroma of food wafting from the kitchen made the two of them turn to look in unison.
...“Is Uncle back? I’ll cook tonight. Uncle, you should rest.”
“Then I’ll trouble you all.”
Nan Father smiled faintly and didn’t stand on ceremony. Since they were all family, they chatted as usual.
Su Tianqing dutifully began setting the table, displaying 1000% of the efficiency she usually showed in her apartment.
The Cat Girl, wearing an apron and with her hair tied up, came out carrying two dishes and confidently placed them on the dining table.
One plate of twice-cooked pork, one plate of stir-fried cabbage, and there was also a pot of meatball soup and scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the kitchen. As home-cooked meals go, it was quite plentiful.
“Mmm~~~ Xiaoyu is really good at cooking!” Su Tianqing exclaimed after tasting the delicious twice-cooked pork.
The Cat Girl chuckled.
“When I was studying before, I didn’t really like the taste of Shanghai cuisine, so I often cooked Sichuan dishes myself. That’s when I learned.”
“But speaking of which... Uncle, about Grandpa and Grandma...”
Nan Jiayu seemed to remember something and asked Nan Father while eating.
Nan Father smiled and nodded.
“The doctor said it’s just a common respiratory infection, and the situation is still good, but they need to stay in the hospital for a few days for IV treatment. They should be discharged before the New Year.”
“That’s wonderful...”
The Cat Girl sighed in relief, and Su Tianqing patted her with her tail to comfort her.
After dinner, Nan Father packed some food in an insulated lunchbox and left to deliver it to the hospitalized patients.
The Cat Girl and Fox Girl stood side by side at the kitchen sink, washing dishes and chatting, enjoying a relaxed and comfortable home life.
“Uncle looks really tired,” Su Tianqing said, putting down a clean porcelain plate.
“He does,” Nan Jiayu sighed in response. “He has to work during the day and now take care of the elderly. Luckily, Xiaofeng and I don’t need him to look after us, otherwise Uncle would definitely be exhausted.”
“But didn’t Uncle say he was going to hire a reliable caregiver? That should relieve some of the pressure.”
“But it’s already the end of the year, so the performance pressure at the company must be quite high too.”
The two looked at each other wordlessly, sighing helplessly.
“Life is really tough. It should get much better after we get through this period.”
“I hope so.”
Anyone who saw Nan Father’s difficult and tiring life would feel disheartened. Fortunately, Nan Xiaofeng and Nan Jiayu, the two sisters at home, weren’t particularly troublesome, which helped alleviate internal family pressure.
But no matter how difficult life was, Nan Father had endured the hardest times and persevered until the Nan sisters came of age. Life should be much easier for him from now on.
After washing the dishes and pots, and tidying everything up, the Cat Girl and Fox Girl sat at the desk, calmly looking at the thick textbook on the table.
“Alright, let’s begin today’s main topic,” Su Tianqing said seriously, rolling up her pajama sleeves and stroking her tail.
“Since you, Xiaoyu, missed many subjects last semester by secretly watching Xin Yuehu’s live stream every day, for the rest of the winter break, I will supervise you to review properly!”
“Understood!”
The Cat Cat saluted, serious and earnest.
“Let’s turn to Chapter One. Today we’ll review Human Anatomy and Beast-Human Anatomy. First of all...”
The Fox Girl’s soft voice echoed in her ears.
Nan Jiayu’s originally serious expression suddenly became somewhat surprised, followed by intense unease.
Oh no! I can’t concentrate at all! My mind is full of fox tails and gardenia scent!
—Will her holiday tutoring really achieve the desired results?
Nan Jiayu took a deep breath, trying to let the gardenia scent in her mind dissipate, and stared intently at the book.
To continue playing with Tianqing next semester, she absolutely had to catch up on these subjects!
The bright moon gradually hung high, and two small heads huddled together at the desk, life as usual.