"And you? Where did your boyfriend go? Didn’t bring him over for your second uncle to see during the New Year?"

Second Uncle skillfully flipped the vegetables in the pan, turned to Ah Qing, and asked, using magic to defeat magic, cutting off Ah Qing’s curiosity about Auntie’s affairs.

"Uh... I haven’t met anyone yet."

Upon hearing Second Uncle’s question, images of some male classmates began to surface in Ah Qing’s mind, and she shivered involuntarily, unwilling to delve further.

Classic quotes from male classmates lingered in Ah Qing’s mind.

"I embody the essence and cleanse my body from Cthulhu, brothers, watch me transform!"

"Don’t worry, babe, how could I cheat? No girl outside is prettier than you... Hey, what’s the worry? Before a flower like you withers, I’m sure I’d have wilted first, no way I’d cheat."

"Damn, no money at the end of the month. I wonder, can rolling up some scraps help? Should we give it a try?"

"In youth, didn’t know sisters were wonderful, mistakenly treated same-aged girls as treasures..."

Ah Qing shivered again, her face showing a peculiar expression, thinking carefully that her classmates seemed to have some outrageous traits or perhaps quite extraordinary ones.

"Haven’t met or just embarrassed to say?" Second Uncle chuckled.

"Haven’t met a normal person." Ah Qing thought for a while, carefully choosing her words and replied to Second Uncle.

"?"

Second Uncle’s expression froze, but upon reflection, he thought of the group of free-spirited graduate students at the school and other extraordinarily talented ones in different faculties, temporarily at a loss for words.

Researching Spiritual Particles is different from dull, tedious experiments.

Most experiments really rely on luck, using acquired knowledge to eliminate failure factors, repeating the same task year after year for an uncertain result.

But research into Spiritual Particles is different; Spiritual Particles are substances with catalyzing properties. As long as the quantity is large enough, it can shorten the process of trial and error, quickly leading to the answer.

After obtaining this, students generally become liberated and synthesize all sorts of bizarre things.

If not for the foundations and boundaries set by concepts like Mechanical Ethics and Bioethics.

Students synthesizing Fox Ladies, Succubi, and other fantastical creatures from literature would be entirely possible.

Of course.

If they genuinely managed to synthesize, who would end up defeating whom is left to Second Uncle’s speculation.

Anyway... at the Imperial Capital Campus, incidents of students being overpowered by Spirit Beasts emerge every two to three years.

Therefore, the Imperial Capital Campus has a top rule.

All students at the Imperial Capital Campus, if they have the urge to browse adult content, must remember to close doors and windows and ensure there are no Spirit Beasts watching inside, and it’s not allowed to watch cross-species romance films in the academy.

Spirit Beasts have no ulterior motives; humans don’t teach them, how could they even realize they can do such things?

"..... Ah Qing, you’re making sense; one of the pioneering policies in academy education is to foster subjective initiative and divergent thinking among students."

After a moment of silence, Second Uncle continued, "Regarding marriages in your generation, don’t worry about matchmaking or parental orders; finding someone that suits your eye and who won’t go too far in individuality is quite alright."

"Anyway... the lifespan of our generation is estimated to exceed 150 years, so there’s no need to rush."

"Hmm?"

Sitting in the living room, watching TV with Momo and the others, Ansheng perked up his ears upon hearing Second Uncle and Ah Qing’s conversation from the kitchen, letting out a light hum.

"If you said that in America, it would definitely be considered racial discrimination and you’d be dragged out for a public display..."

"What’s wrong with us Fox Ladies, to not include us in discussions about love?" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Ansheng muttered with a disgruntled expression.

"Dinner time—"

Ah Qing helped bring out the dishes, smiling and calling to her sisters on the living room sofa.

"Coming!"

Hearing there was food, Momo responded first, flipping over Lingren, and hurried to the restroom to wash her hands.

Ansheng came to Ah Qing, squatting on the ground, raising his arms, making a gesture asking for a hug.

"Alright, alright, can’t forget you at dinner..." Ah Qing picked up Ansheng, carrying him to the kitchen sink to wash his hands.

Regarding hygiene, the little fox was always particular.

The dishes were all set on the table. Ah Qing helped serve soup while everyone settled in to eat, with fish, shrimp, and some classic home dishes from the Xia Dong region.

While eating meat, Ah Qing didn’t forget the little fox beside her, proactively peeling the shrimp shell for him.

Before the little fox could speak human words, Ah Qing had once tried to trick him.

Telling him the essence of the shrimp is in the shell; eating the shell supplements calcium.

Huhu was very obedient, picked up the shrimp, bit off the shrimp head and worked it in its mouth for a bit, then spat out the fresh shell onto the plate, using its snout to push it in front of Ah Qing, inviting her to supplement her calcium as well.

Huhu looked hopeful and joyful, wagging its fluffy fox tail. Ah Qing’s breath halted; although she felt a strong guilt, she could only decline Huhu’s kind offer and grumbled while teaching him the proper way to eat shrimp.

"Xiaolan, where did you run off to?"

"You’ll be responsible for making tea later!" Ah Qing quickly caught the little fox, who was about to run off after getting full.

In the Xia Dong Region, the usual habit is to have tea after meals for digestion.

But making tea is somewhat esoteric, with the same set of tea utensils and the same type of tea, different people can brew it to taste and feel differently.

Having gotten used to the tea brewed by the little fox, Ah Qing’s taste has become somewhat picky now.

"Uh... I’ve got something to do, I need to head over to the Third Bureau for a lesson."

Ansheng, hugged by Ah Qing, raised his hand and told Ah Qing that he needed to go out.

"You know, Spirit Beasts need classes, and I’m a special consultant for the Security Bureau," Ansheng said matter-of-factly.

"Well... alright!" Ah Qing, hearing this, pouted a bit unwillingly but nodded.

"Don’t stay out too late, remember to come back early, and don’t get into conflicts with other Spirit Beasts!"

Ah Qing patted the little fox’s butt, temporarily letting Huhu off the hook.

"Sure! I’ll definitely be back within two hours, it’s not far from here to the Third Bureau."

Ansheng gave a slight nod, ran to the balcony, flipped over, and flew directly toward the neighborhood gate.

"Father!"

The parasitic beast, waiting beside the luxury car for Master Fuli’s return, opened the back seat door and called out to Master Fuli.

"Alright, hand me the phone..." Ansheng gestured to the parasitic beast for the phone.

After getting the phone, the first call Ansheng made was to Lin Bingyun, asking her to send over his weapon.

Lin Bingyun hadn’t come to the Imperial Capital, but she had already arranged the itinerary for Master Fuli.

From hotel to accommodation, Master Fuli just needed one call to summon a dedicated service team, but Ansheng felt it was too extravagant, so he hadn’t paid attention.

The second call Ansheng made was to Zhang Lin, inquiring about Sun Xingyao’s location.

"Sun Xingyao? She’s staying at the family hospital tonight, apparently needs to wear a device for 24-hour monitoring. Rest assured, everything’s already been arranged." Zhang Lin replied with a smile while eating.

"I’m still a bit uneasy, planning to head over to the hospital to check things out." Ansheng casually responded, opening the wish list to check Sun Xingyao’s messages.

Ever since Master Fuli instructed to elevate Sun Xingyao’s medical resources to the top.

Sun Xingyao’s nagging and wishes haven’t stopped.

In just ten-odd hours, Sun Xingyao left hundreds of messages on the wish list.

Eighty percent were curses at Master Fuli as heartless and ungrateful, ten percent were complaints about bad doctors.

"Hmm!?"

Ansheng read through the messages one by one, initially seeing nothing significant until he came across a term in the nagging: [Skull Reshaping]

Sun Xingyao complained that her current life was just like back to the time of her cranium closure treatment.

She said her prominent head was very pretty and came with a scholarly aura.

Sun Xingyao underwent skull reshaping and facial bone direction surgery.

"Rear skull contouring, brow thinning, and cheekbone filling..."

"This is just classic Dragon People features, isn’t it?"

Ansheng extracted the types of surgeries Sun Xingyao grumbled about, summarized slightly, and deduced through head features to recreate Sun Xingyao’s appearance.

The typical feature of Dragon People looks is the rear head slightly growing upward with a pointed curve, along with notably square forehead and slightly sunken cheekbones.

Of course.

Facial features vary, but the only commonality is the pointed head characteristic.

Sun Xingyao’s cranium wasn’t closing, but was congenital with a pointed head, yet she used modern medicine to hide her Dragon People features, always living under human identity in the Imperial Capital.

If she hadn’t exposed herself, who could link cranium closure surgery with Dragon People’s iconic skull?

"This time, it seems crowd evacuation will need to be done early, otherwise an accident wouldn’t be good..."

Ansheng muttered to himself, secretly saying in his mind.

The Dragon People opposite aren’t too big, likely can’t reach the level of [Glooms and Dread Fungal].

But if negotiations fall through, dismantling a Security Bureau compound is still easy.