"Wen Yang, where are you?"
"I’m at the hospital..."
Ning Chu, stomach growling with hunger, hurried through the school gates, asking, "How did you end up at the hospital?"
"I was buying you breakfast when a girl fainted right in front of me... I couldn’t just ignore her..." Wen Yang sounded helpless.
The corner of Ning Chu's mouth twitched.
It’s just as she suspected, Wen Yang had gotten tangled up with a girl.
"You still have class, though~" she said.
Helping someone in need was, of course, the right thing to do.
Though her empty stomach loudly protested, she didn’t scold him.
"Weren't there other people around?""There were... but none of them had time."
On the other end of the line, Wen Yang sounded frustrated.
"I was planning to leave once the ambulance arrived, but since I made the call, they said I had to go with them to the hospital to file a report."
"Alright..." Ning Chu sighed.
"I took leave for the first class. I should be back around ten," Wen Yang said a bit awkwardly.
"They're not going to try and scam me, right?"
"Honestly, it’s hard to say," Ning Chu replied bluntly.
"Hah… I don't even have any money to be scammed off..."
They're probably not after your money, she thought. They're after you!
Ning Chu silently rolled her eyes.
Hearing the school bell ring, she realized she was already late and slowed her hurried pace.
Being late by one minute or ten minutes didn’t matter—late was late.
"What’s that girl's name?" she asked casually.
"Let me check... Nana. She’s a vampire. I’ve seen her at school before."
"Alright..."
It was that weak, sickly vampire girl who suffered from severe androphobia (fear of men).
If things went as she predicted, because of Wen Yang’s life-saving gesture, Nana would start having feelings for him.
Her intense fear of men would gradually ease around Wen Yang.
Afterward, she would probably ask Wen Yang to help her cure her fear, and during that time, their relationship would only grow closer...
"Whatever she asks you to do, don't agree to it," Ning Chu said, her tone serious.
She had spent months "training” the protagonist; she wasn’t about to let him be stolen away.
Besides, she had a bit of a psychological quirk.
Back when she was still a man, she had been determined to find a pure girl.
Now that she was a woman, having the same standard was perfectly reasonable, right?
Why should it only be men who got to demand purity from girls?
"I'm almost at the classroom. Gotta go."
"Mm-hmm."
"So hungry..."
Hearing her weak complaint, Wen Yang quickly tried to comfort her:
"I’ll bring you something to eat when I’m back around ten. Hang in there a little longer."
"Okay... I’m starving."
"Be good, I will bring a feast."
Ning Chu had only been complaining to hear Wen Yang's comforting words.
Her mood improved a little.
She put away her phone and looked through the classroom door.
The teacher had clearly finished roll call and was already lecturing.
Zhang Shaoqing and Wang Jie had slinked off to the back row to play on their phones, while Yan Xinya and Lily were now sitting together with their dormmate, Lin Li.
Ning Chu lightly knocked on the classroom’s wooden door.
The teacher glanced at her. "Come in."
Luckily, college professors weren’t as strict as middle or high school teachers; they wouldn’t humiliate you just for being late.
Ning Chu breathed a sigh of relief, jogging into the classroom.
She hesitated for a moment, unsure where to sit, when Yan Xinya waved her over.
"Where’s Wen Yang? He didn’t come with you today?"
"Maybe they broke up," Lin Li chimed the moment Ning Chu sat down.
Ning Chu shot her a glare.
This little vixen! Always hoping they'd break up!
"Don't talk nonsense~" Yan Xinya said, clearly annoyed.
This was a couple she had personally helped put together, no way was she going to let some fox girl meddle in it!
"Ning Chu and Wen Yang have a great relationship!"
"Then how come she’s a succubus and still hasn’t ‘eaten him up’ yet?"
As a fox girl, Lin Li could easily tell that Ning Chu was still a virgin.
"Ning Chu is just more conservative!" Yan Xinya defended.
"......"
Seeing that Lin Li almost burst out laughing, Yan Xinya was furious. "Lily is conservative too! What’s wrong with succubus being conservative?!"
Lin Li glanced at the expressionless Lily, who looked cold and detached as ever, and couldn’t hold it in.
She lowered her head, covering her mouth and trembling with laughter.
As her dorm mate, she knew very well just how thirsty this 'ice queen' really was in private.
It was just Lily's cold exterior that kept her from having a boyfriend.
"Keep your voices down," Ning Chu hissed nervously, afraid that classmates in the nearby seats might overhear. "Stop making a scene."
"Wen Yang’s probably got a woman outside~ that's why he hasn’t laid a finger on you," Lin Li said lazily.
Her attempt to sow discord was so clumsy that Ning Chu didn’t even get mad.
Yan Xinya immediately counterattacked without mercy: "Are you jealous of Ning Chu? I heard the one who is chasing after you is a fat NEET."
"......"
Lin Li was crushed.
Resting her head on the desk with a sigh, her fluffy fox ears drooped wearily into her hair as she muttered in frustration,
"Ugh… I look beautiful too, so why…."
A fat NEET, huh... it did fit a certain Hentai protagonist stereotype.
Ning Chu didn’t have the heart to mock her.
She also lay her head on her desk and rubbed her aching, empty stomach.
Skipping breakfast made her hunger feel even worse.
And to make things worse, her period had arrived today.
The chest soreness she had managed to soothe with regular massages over the past few days had flared up again because of the hormonal chaos.
She needed new bras, her current ones were starting to feel tight.
Today, she simply hadn’t worn one.
It was fall, almost winter, and she was bundled up in thick layers anyway.
Going without a bra sounded indecent and shameful in theory, but as long as no one noticed, it was fine...
Ning Chu realized she had no idea what her current bust size even was.
She’d probably need to visit a store in person to buy new lingerie and to get properly measured.
Maybe this weekend...?
No, she needs to meet with her next-door neighbor friend on the weekend.
"Lily," she called.
Lily, still paying attention to the lecture, glanced over at her.
"Uh..." Ning Chu looked around guiltily, face flushing red, and decided it was safer to message her over the phone instead.
Even though they were face to face, talking about something this embarrassing would be a lot easier over text.
"My boobs are super sore. Is massage the only way to fix it? Will it always be like this?"
"It'll get better once you finish developing," Lily replied.
"I'm still not done?"
"It’s barely been any time. Your tattoo hasn't even finished growing, has it?"
For normal succubi, development happened all at once.
But Ning Chu’s body was progressing in segmented phases, tail, bust, and so on, each developing separately as her silver mark completed.
"Uh... if I accidentally neglect one side... will I end up with one bigger than the other?"
"How could you neglect one side? Use both hands! Oh wait, you have a boyfriend..."
"No worries. If it ends up uneven, just have him spend extra time taking care of the smaller one."
"......"
Ning Chu’s left speechless.
How did Lily manage to keep such a deadpan face while typing the most shameless things?
Ning Chu put her phone down.
She stared longingly at the classroom door, but still didn’t see any sign of Wen Yang.
Resigned, she forced herself to focus on the lecture.
There was still no news from Wen Yang’s side…
She wondered how things were going over there.