Once, I wanted to be a good person

Watching the figures of those two fools, one big, one small, Fang Ze was full of confusion.

In the middle of the night, instead of sleeping in their own homes, why on earth had they come to his place?

Did they think the freebies they usually had weren't enough, so they decided to deliver themselves straight to his door?

And to deliver two at a time?

Fang Ze really wanted to declare with righteous indignation, "I'm not that kind of person!"

Well, at least...

Two more wouldn't hurt!

While thinking this, Fang Ze watched their disheveled figures and contemplated what he should do next.

Should he turn around and leave? Wake them up? Or... just pretend not to know and go to bed to sleep?

And as Fang Ze was pondering this, Bai Zhi, lying on the sofa, must have sensed something, as she suddenly made a soft noise and slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes were half-open when she felt something was off because there were several figures standing in front of her.

Reflexively, she sprang up from the sofa and took a defensive stance toward the figures.

However, perhaps because she got up too quickly in a half-asleep state, she didn't control her strength and movements well, and she kicked over the coffee table in front of the sofa.

"Crash!" "Clang~!" The sound of the coffee table falling and objects dropping to the floor was especially clear in the silent apartment.

The commotion even startled Bai Ling, who was sleeping sprawled out in the inner room. She climbed up from the bed without even opening her eyes and asked in a panic, "What happened? What happened? Did enemies come?"

Fang Ze: .....

Watching the two fools in front of him, one big, one small, Fang Ze covered his face with his hand, feeling that his future life was going to be particularly tough...

Five minutes later, the three of them sat on the sofa, staring at each other, while Mei was silently cleaning up the glass shards.

Fang Ze looked at the two of them and asked with speechlessness, "Why are you two here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"

Hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Ling finally seemed to remember the purpose of her visit.

She looked at Fang Ze with concern, then leaned over and started patting him down with her small hands, caring asking, "Fang Ze, are you okay?"

"Are you hurt?"

A question mark slowly appeared above Fang Ze's head.

Bai Zhi also looked at Fang Ze, her gaze measuring him up and down.

Finally, seeing that Fang Ze seemed really unharmed, she slowly explained.

It turned out that after Fang Ze contacted Bai Ling to bring him some defensive talismans, Bai Ling had felt something was amiss.

But since Fang Ze said nothing and even sent her away, she could only leave in a huff.

After leaving, at first, she didn't want to bother with Fang Ze, but later on, the more she thought about it, the more she felt something wasn't right.

So, in the middle of the night, she came back to check on Fang Ze to see if he had encountered any trouble or enemies that would necessitate so many defensive talismans.

Upon arrival, she panicked because Fang Ze wasn't home in the middle of the night.

The first thing she did was contact Bai Zhi.

As soon as Bai Zhi heard the news, she immediately dropped what she was doing and rushed over to Fang Ze's house.

Since the apartment belonged to Bai Zhi, she had a spare key.

After knocking to no avail, she used the spare key to open the door. They searched the place thoroughly and found no signs of struggle or anything else out of the ordinary.

Furthermore, since One Two Three and Mei were also absent, they suspected Fang Ze might not have been attacked in the apartment but had discovered traces of the enemy and chased after them.

Uncertain of the current situation and unable to locate Fang Ze, they dared not recklessly go out searching or alert the Security Bureau, so they could only wait inside for Fang Ze to return.

And while waiting, Bai Ling got sleepy.

So, Bai Zhi told her to rest and sleep in the inner room while she kept watch, waiting for Fang Ze's return.

Then... as she waited, she too fell asleep.

Afterward came the moment when Fang Ze opened the door.

After listening to Bai Zhi's account, Fang Ze glanced at the time inside the apartment.

It was already past 5 a.m., almost dawn.

He had spent too much time last night on the leather-clad woman, and the trip to and from Greenwater Forest wasn't short, so before he knew it, it was now.

And these two foolish girls had actually waited for him all night...

For a moment, Fang Ze felt touched.

Hearts are made of flesh, so after a moment of silence, he smiled and said from the bottom of his heart, "Thank you, the both of you."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but pat Bai Ling's head.

Being patted on the head by Fang Ze, Bai Ling couldn't help but lift her head and look at Fang Ze, asking, "Right, Fang Ze, you haven't said what you went out to do?"

Hearing Bai Ling's words, Fang Ze also recalled the key information he had gotten today from the leather-clad woman and her superior.

This information, along with her superior's identity, could be correlated with the information he obtained from Kai Shi, as well as the Flower Morning Festival and the Shadow Organization matters.
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Originally, Fang Ze had planned to resolve these people on his own after getting this information.

But now that Bai Zhi asked, Fang Ze suddenly thought... perhaps he had a better way to handle this.

With that in mind, Fang Ze first bowed his head, contemplated for a while to get all the information straight, then looked up and said, "I went out to investigate the Flower Morning Festival matter."

Hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Zhi's spirit perked up, and she looked at Fang Ze with an expectant gaze.