Chapter 110 – If You Come in the Dead of Winter

“No. Xia Xun would never do anything weird to me,” Lin Xi answered honestly.

Xia Xun’s place was absolutely safe. Lin Xi really didn’t understand what Zhao Xinning was so worried about.

Zhao Xinning asked again, “You spent the night at her place. Don’t tell me… you slept together too?!”

Lin Xi: “…”

If she told the truth, Xinning would definitely think she was some frivolous girl.

But if she didn’t tell the truth, wouldn’t that be lying to her best friend?

Lin Xi chose to be honest. After all, it was only because there was no bed in the guest room. They had simply slept in the same bed for one night.

Lin Xi told Zhao Xinning the truth.

“Xi!!!-“

From her voice, Zhao Xinning was genuinely angry. Lin Xi panicked. “I-Is there something wrong with that? Don’t we sleep together too? We’re all friends, so isn’t it normal?”

“It’s normal for me and you,” Zhao Xinning said. “It’s very not normal for her and you!”

Lin Xi: “???”

Zhao Xinning said fiercely, “Who knows if she’d secretly do something to you while you were asleep?”

“No, no, no, impossible. How could she?” Lin Xi felt that Zhao Xinning was completely overthinking it.

“How couldn’t she?” Zhao Xinning paused. “Forget it. Hurry back. I’ll be waiting at your door.”

“Oh, okay. I’m already on the bus back.” Lin Xi didn’t understand why Zhao Xinning was so angry…

…

“I’m so mad!-” After hanging up, Zhao Xinning stamped her feet in fury.

“Xia Xun definitely has designs on Xi!”

“She’s clearly a Magical Girl and already so popular. She already has so much, and that’s still not enough? Now she wants to steal my Xi too?”

“That greedy pest!”

Zhao Xinning no longer had the slightest good impression of Xia Xun.

“Sigh-” Pluto also remarked with feeling, “You just got rid of one Shi Yu, and now here comes a Xia Xun. Xi really is popular.”

“What’s even trickier is that Xia Xun is a Magical Girl. You won’t have a chance to make a move.”

“Who says I won’t?” Zhao Xinning said angrily. “A Magical Girl isn’t a god. And even if she is a god, then I’ll cut down a god!”

“Anyone who tries to steal Xi from me dies.”

Pluto: “…”

Which one of them was the “Fallen Angel” here, exactly???

“You need to be careful about this.”

“Xia Xun isn’t someone you can take down with a single shot.”

“I know.” Zhao Xinning forced herself to calm down. “This needs to be planned out carefully…”

…

After getting off the bus, Lin Xi saw the beautifully dressed Angel-sama.

The first thing she did was compliment Zhao Xinning on how pretty her outfit was today.

“Is that so?” Zhao Xinning folded her arms and turned slightly to the side. “Xi, you really know how to sweet-talk girls.”

“I…” Lin Xi believed in the principle that the more you said, the more mistakes you made, so she simply stopped talking.

Seeing Lin Xi lower her head, Zhao Xinning couldn’t bear to say anything more.

“All right.” She took Lin Xi’s hand. “I know. Xia Xun must have forced you to stay over. You couldn’t fight back and had no choice but to agree. If you ever run into something like this again, call the police immediately!”

Lin Xi: “…”

How had Xia Xun turned into a bully in Xinning’s eyes???

“It’s not that serious. We were just playing games together, and it got a little late, so I stayed over.”

“No matter how late it gets in the future, you have to come home,” Zhao Xinning said. “If you’re scared to walk at night, you can contact me. I’ll come pick you up and take you home.”

“Also, Xia Xun told you her guest room didn’t have a bed, and you just believed her?”

“What else was I supposed to do?” Lin Xi asked in return.

“You just believed her that easily?” Zhao Xinning asked in shock. “You’re way too naive and innocent!”

“What do you mean???” Lin Xi didn’t understand.

Xia Xun had no reason to lie about this.

“Sigh. Xi, you’re just far too trusting,” Zhao Xinning said with feeling. “In this world, Dark Realm monsters aren’t the only dangerous ones. Humans can be just as dangerous.”

“But don’t worry. I’ll help you eliminate every danger around you.”

Lin Xi: “???”

Zhao Xinning’s words were like a riddle, and Lin Xi couldn’t make sense of them… so she decided not to. After all, Xinning would never hurt her.

“Where are we going today?” Lin Xi changed the subject.

Zhao Xinning also pushed the unpleasant topic aside. “Let’s go to District 1 for two days.”

“Two days? It’s already Sunday.”

“I know. Tomorrow, we’ll come up with an excuse and ask for leave together. With our grades, getting approval from the teacher won’t be hard at all.”

“Good students can get leave easily” was an eternal law.

Lin Xi agreed.

The two of them set off for the station together.

At the station, they unexpectedly ran into someone they knew.

“Miss Su Xiangxue?” Lin Xi spotted her, and the other girl also saw her and Zhao Xinning.

Su Xiangxue waved and greeted them.

“Are you two going to District 1 too?” Su Xiangxue asked.

Lin Xi and Zhao Xinning were on the same vehicle as her, and their seats were even next to each other.

What a coincidence.

“Yeah,” Lin Xi said. “Xinning and I are going to District 1 for a couple of days.”

“Are you going home?”

Lin Xi and Zhao Xinning both knew that Su Xiangxue’s home was in District 1, and that her older sister was Su Tang, the Magical Girl of District 1.

Su Xiangxue had come to District 3 to attend school alone not because she hated her sister, nor because her sister hated her, but because under her sister’s halo, she had no real presence of her own. That was why she had left District 1 and gone far from home.

“Yeah. I haven’t been home in ages,” Su Xiangxue said. “This time, I’ll also have my instruments shipped over from home.”

“Next week, our Sun Goddess Band will officially start practicing.”

Of course Zhao Xinning knew that Lin Xi had formed a band, and she was very supportive.

She had even applied to be the band’s manager.

Zhao Xinning and Su Xiangxue were on pretty good terms too. Both of them were important members of the Lin Xi Fan Club.

Although Zhao Xinning was the fan club president, the fan club was basically coordinated and managed by Su Xiangxue, who had outstanding organizational skills.

After they had their tickets checked and boarded, Su Xiangxue’s seat was by the window, Lin Xi’s was in the middle, and Zhao Xinning’s was by the aisle.

But Zhao Xinning asked Lin Xi to switch with her, so she sat in the middle instead.

Even though there wasn’t anything special between Su Xiangxue and Lin Xi, Zhao Xinning still didn’t want Lin Xi pressed up against another girl.

Lin Xi and Su Xiangxue had no idea what was going through Zhao Xinning’s head, and neither of them thought anything was strange about it.

After they switched seats and sat down, Su Xiangxue held up her phone and turned slightly toward Lin Xi.

“Miss Lin Xi, I just sent you a song.”

“Take a look and see if it’s suitable as our band’s debut song.”

Lin Xi put on her earphones and tapped to play it.

“If You Come in the Dead of Winter, I’ll trade you a city dressed in snow-white, longing…”

She put down her phone, looked at Su Xiangxue, and asked:

“You wrote this???”

Su Xiangxue shook her head. “A most loyal fan in the fan club wrote it.”

“I thought it suited the Sun Goddess’s vibe very well, so I was considering whether we should use this as our band’s debut song.”

Lin Xi rejected it instantly. “Nooo way!”

“Also, kick that so-called loyal fan out of the fan club!”