The uproar in the girls' dormitory over the underwear thief turned out to be caused by a poodle.
No wonder the surveillance showed the underwear disappearing but couldn't provide any clues.
A small black dog, concealed by the night and the bushes outside the balcony, was virtually invisible to the cameras.
Since the "pervert" issue was resolved. Ning Chu could now stay in the girls' dorm without worrying about walking into a den of wolves.
Inside the room, she curiously glanced at Yan Xinya, who was grooming her tail fur.
Lily had mentioned that Yan Xinya's mating season had arrived...
Beast girls did indeed have relatively fixed mating seasons. According to the story setting, they became more sensitive during winter or spring, their attractiveness to the opposite sex heightened, and their reproductive urges intensified. However, it wouldn't escalate to the uncontrollable levels seen with succubus.
Since they also had "human" attributes, beast girls were generally no different from ordinary people in terms of intimacy, except that their mating season made them more eager.
So...
Now the dorm had two succubus who could fall into temptation at any moment, and a seemingly normal yet highly reproductive little she-wolf.
Ning Chu's gaze unconsciously lingered on Yan Xinya.
"What are you staring at?" The wolf girl blushed and averted her eyes, looking especially flustered.
What's going on?
Ning Chu was momentarily confused, but then a message came through from Lily on the new account she had just registered.
"Because it's her mating season, that poodle keeps stealing her underwear!"
Ohhh~ No wonder!
It all made sense now. Ning Chu turned to look at Lily's expressionless face, then at Yan Xinya's blushing and annoyed demeanor, and couldn't help bursting into laughter.
"Stop laughing!"
"I'm not. Do you have a cleaning cloth? I need to tidy up my bed."
Ning Chu quickly composed herself and turned to ask Lily.
"Over there." Lily pointed to a cloth on the windowsill.
The vacant wooden bed was coated with a thin layer of dust. The desk was crammed with the others' personal items, while the wardrobe and bookshelf were completely empty.
This was Ling Ling's bed. According to rumors, she had moved in with her boyfriend and hadn't returned to the dorm since.
Poor Zhang Shaoqing~
Ning Chu couldn't help but pity her "son." This wasn't her doing—this part of the plot wasn't in the story.
Grabbing the cloth, she knelt by the bed and started wiping the dust away. "Could you guys also clear the stuff off the desk?" she said to the two girls.
"Sure!"
Yan Xinya's embarrassment disappeared as quickly as it had come, and she was now as energetic as ever.
She swiftly packed away her belongings but suddenly looked up and asked, "By the way, aren't you on bad terms with Lin Li?"
"Huh?"
"At the last class gathering, she tried to steal your man! Won't you two fight if you're living together?"
Lin Li also stayed in this dorm but usually only came back at night.
"Steal my man..." Ning Chu pursed her lips awkwardly. "We wouldn't go so far as to fight, right?"
"She's not around during the day anyway."
"Got it."
After tidying up her bed and putting away her luggage, it was almost time for class.
Yan Xinya wrapped her arm around Ning Chu's as they headed out, not minding in the slightest as her breast pressed against Ning Chu's arm. She acted like a close sister, her enthusiasm palpable.
Ning Chu, long accustomed to the wolf girl's affection and intimacy with other girls, felt nothing unusual. Having long lost her masculinity, she didn't feel even a hint of embarrassment or romantic interest.
Lily followed silently behind them, transforming into an icy, aloof figure the moment they stepped out of the dorm—a stark contrast to her shy, introverted demeanor indoors.
"Hey, isn't that Ning Chu? What's he doing here?"
As class time approached, the dormitory became lively with students preparing to leave. Inevitably, Ning Chu ran into other girls from her class in the corridor.
"She's a girl, isn't she? Totally normal."
"Isn't he a guy?"
A few clueless bystanders whispered among themselves.
Ning Chu lowered her head awkwardly, not daring to meet the gazes of the girls looking her way. Anxiety churned inside her—what if someone reported her to the dorm supervisor?
"Do you think I'll get kicked out?"
"Hard to say~"
"Huh?"
Yan Xinya glanced at her with a sly smile. "Why don't you just dress up as a girl next time? That way, no one will bother you."
"..."
Honestly, Ning Chu's aversion to wearing women's clothing had long since faded. Her body and mind were gradually slipping deeper into this world's influence. After multiple incidents of being overwhelmed with lust in public, her boundaries had significantly lowered.
But the problem was that most of her classmates still thought she was male. If Zhang Shaoqing, that big-mouthed guy, caught her in women's clothing, he'd tease her relentlessly.
When she arrived in the classroom, Ning Chu immediately spotted Wen Yang, who had already claimed a seat in the front row and was busy memorizing vocabulary.
At the same time, she noticed Qiaoqiao, the cat girl, sitting in the back corner, staring longingly at Wen Yang.
"Isn't she from another class?!" Ning Chu stared sharply at the cat girl.
While she wasn't keen on enduring the system's punishment, she also couldn't stand the idea of some flirt shamelessly seducing her male protagonist right under her nose!
"Well, no one says a student from another class can't join a different class when they are free." Yan Xinya glanced at her. "Jealous?"
"No."
"Then why do you care so much?" The wolf girl rolled her eyes. "You're even more stubborn than a platypus."
"..."
"Wen Yang~" Yan Xinya led Ning Chu and Lily to sit beside Wen Yang.
Meanwhile, Zhang Shaoqing, sitting a few seats away, eagerly peeked over at Ning Chu. His curious and excited expression made it clear he was dying to hear about her experiences in the girls' dorm.
But Ning Chu ignored him completely. Instead, she leaned in close to Wen Yang and whispered, "Did Qiaoqiao bother you again just now?"
"Not really. When I got here, she was already sitting in the back." Wen Yang shrugged helplessly. "She hasn't even spoken to me."
So that's it...
She's a high-level schemer!
Ning Chu frowned. And this was just the beginning. When more female supporting characters showed up, how would she handle them all?
The ideal plan was for her to stay out of the way—hidden in the dorm, the bathroom, or anywhere she could be alone—while Wen Yang dealt with the plot on his own. This way, she could avoid the public humiliation that always seemed to follow her.
But such a plan wasn't very feasible...
Leaning in even closer, Ning Chu softly whispered into Wen Yang's ear, "After the afternoon class, go find Qiaoqiao."
Her warm breath tickled Wen Yang's earlobe, turning it a faint shade of red.
Feeling slightly flustered, he pulled his jacket collar up. "And then?"
"Then, of course, you should reject her decisively. Cut ties completely."
Ning Chu planned to retreat to the dorm or hide in a bathroom beforehand, bracing herself for the punishment period.
"Be firm! Scold her if you have to!"
"But..." Wen Yang hesitated, glancing back at Qiaoqiao's innocent, childlike face. Imagining the scene Ning Chu described felt like bullying a little girl.
"There's no but!"
No wonder Qiaoqiao's subplot was unresolved. It wasn't just because the cat girl was a cunning schemer—Wen Yang simply couldn't bring himself to be harsh with a cute, loli-type girl.