"Take the initiative?" Si Mo thought she had a way to return to her human body.
However, the truth proved that he had overestimated the little fox.
The little fox stood on the sandalwood table. Her fox legs bent slightly and she leaped towards the body of Bai Ronglan lying on the ground.
The little fox made a light jump. Her fox eyes were filled with confidence. The whole fox formed a perfect parabola in the air. Then—
She bumped headfirst into Bai Ronglan's forehead with a thud.
Si Mo covered his forehead and was almost amused by the little fox. He thought the little fox had her own methods, but it turned out to be just like this.
Ronglan, who was dazed from the collision, lost her balance and fell to the ground with a plop. The look in her heterochromatic eyes was so blank that it made one feel pity. "Why doesn't it work? Am I not going to be able to go back?"
"Think of another way. It's obviously not reliable to use such a brute - force method." Si Mo rubbed his temples.
Ronglan stood up and shook her fox head. After standing for only a while, she weakly squatted down. "What time is it now?"
Si Mo took out his phone and checked. "It's half - past six in the evening."
"It's that late already." The fox sighed. "My brother is going to get off work. In this state, how can I go home?"
"Not only can't you go home, but we also don't know where to hide Bai Ronglan's body. This body is in a state similar to that of a vegetative person now. I'm afraid that if someone accidentally discovers it, they'll think I've done something to you." Si Mo also sighed.
After saying this, both of them fell silent, thinking about a countermeasure.
After thinking for five minutes, Ronglan spoke. "Help me contact Bai Rongran."
Si Mo was puzzled. "Why?"
"Give this human body to Bai Rongran. Tell her that I accidentally fell and then turned into this state. You're just a kid and you were so panicked that you didn't know what to do, so you could only contact her. Also, ask her to keep it a secret from everyone, including Chu Hengyuan." Ronglan sighed and lowered her head to lick the fur on her paw. "I believe she has the ability to keep it a secret from everyone."
Just as her younger sister Rongran had trusted her when she was abroad, she had to trust her younger sister this time.
Si Mo didn't comment. "What are you going to do about Chu Hengyuan?"
"Send me in my fox form to him. Just say that I have to go on a long - distance trip for work. The fox is an important pet of a guest. It should have been taken away by me, but I forgot in a hurry when I left home, so I can only ask him to take care of the fox for me." Ronglan had already thought of a reason.
It was impossible not to go home. She still wanted to see if her brother was used to his first day at work.
Si Mo pondered for a moment and finally nodded.
This reason... wasn't completely unacceptable, but there were many loopholes. For example, if Chu Hengyuan missed the little fox and wanted to have a video call with her; or, the little fox always talked about "my brother". Even if she went on a long - distance trip, she should call Chu Hengyuan. But in her current state as a fox, it was impossible for her to make a call.
However, Chu Hengyuan was such a shrewd person. He would probably know what was going on as soon as he saw the little fox's ears.
He picked up the little fox's phone. "Okay, I'll contact Bai Rongran first and ask her to come and take this human body away."
"Okay." Ronglan nodded her fox head.
In the next two minutes, she watched as Si Mo had an outburst of acting skills. Although there was not a single extra emotion on his face, his tone when talking to Bai Rongran was so helpless and sad that it scared Bai Rongran terribly.
After hanging up the phone, Si Mo looked at the little fox with a fox - eye full of amusement watching the show. "Okay, you hide inside later. Don't let Bai Rongran find you."
"Got it." Ronglan stood up and planned to hide now. Just as she took a step, she realized something was wrong. She waved her paw at Si Mo. "Could you get me a mirror? I want to see if I'm okay."
She always felt that she couldn't move her fox tail.
Si Mo stared deeply at the little fox's ears and tail for a few seconds. He raised his hand and drew a circle in the air, then gathered spiritual energy into the circle and formed a mirror with the spiritual energy.
He controlled the mirror to lower it so that the little fox could see her whole body.
Intuition told her that when she saw her disheveled appearance in the mirror, she would scream.
Sure enough—
"Ah—"
Ronglan fluffed up her fur. Looking at her fox form in the mirror, her fox eyes were filled with tears from anger. "Is the ugly fox in the mirror really me?!"
As far as she could see, one of her beautiful fox ears was wrapped in gauze, and the fur on the other ear was very messy. The long, originally smooth fur on her body was now full of burn marks everywhere. Most importantly! Her tail! Her tail was wrapped tightly in gauze. She didn't even know what her tail looked like!
"Actually, you're not that ugly..." Si Mo saw that the little fox was about to lose it and could only soothe her against his conscience.
The little fox's current appearance was really not very good. He didn't even know where to start to praise her.
"Not that ugly means a little ugly." The little fox went into self - isolation. She dragged her tail and turned around, not looking at her fox form in the mirror anymore, afraid that she would cry out of grievance.
Si Mo waved his hand to remove the mirror formed by the spiritual energy. "They're just external injuries. You'll recover after a period of rest."
The little fox shook her fox head. She was in such a heavy mood that she didn't respond to Si Mo.
How could she not know that she would recover after a period of rest? But she was going to see her brother later. Although her brother didn't know that this ugly fox was his partner now, he would definitely know if there was a chance to reveal the truth in the future. By then, her current appearance would definitely be a black - history.
The sad little fox found a corner that was not easy to be discovered and got in, curling up into a ball. She hugged her tail wrapped like a mummy and went into self - isolation.
It wasn't until the door of the fortune - telling studio was suddenly pushed open by someone in a hurry. The wind chimes hanging at the door rang in a hasty and disorderly way.
"Where's Ronglan?" As soon as the voice fell, Bai Rongran saw the motionless person lying on the ground.
Just like Si Mo not long ago, she was so frightened that her face instantly turned deathly pale. "She, what's wrong with her?"
When Si Mo saw Bai Rongran, he took a deep breath and put on the expression and reaction that a fifteen - or sixteen - year - old boy should have. "The boss accidentally fell when she went out and then turned into this state. I, I don't know what's going on either. Seeing that the boss hasn't woken up, I could only use the boss's phone to contact her family."
Hearing the noise, the little fox Ronglan secretly poked out half of her fox head, wanting to see if her younger sister Rongran, who she had placed high hopes on, was reliable.
Bai Rongran took a deep breath. After calming down, she knelt down on one knee and put her finger on Bai Ronglan's philtrum to check her breathing.
Thankfully, there was breathing, and it was steady. It felt as if she was just sleeping.