"That's right, I'm here to be a thief."
Saying that, Bai Heng raised her hand and pulled back her hood, revealing her face.
Perhaps her fox ears had been covered by the hood for too long, as they fluttered animatedly a couple of times the moment they emerged.
"There's nothing good to steal here."
"Hehe, you never know~"
Bai Heng gave Nan Li a meaningful look, then walked towards him.
Nan Li was wondering what she was going to do when Bai Heng simply brushed past him, and then he saw her go to a cabinet in the corner of the room.
That was where Nan Li stored his snacks and drinks.
Bai Heng opened the cabinet, then bent down, stuck her butt out, and poked her head inside, rummaging around with practiced ease.
"Your snacks and drinks are almost gone; remember to restock them sometime."
After saying that, she hugged a few bags of snacks and a bottle of a soleta, then flopped onto the nearby sofa.
"You're completely a repeat offender, aren't you?"
Nan Li grumbled as he walked over to the cabinet to check.
Goodness, there were only a few bags of snacks and one or two bottles of drinks left on all three shelves, top to bottom.
"No, just how many of my snacks have you stolen?"
Nan Li remembered that before he left, he had deliberately filled the entire cabinet to the brim.
He was afraid that Bai Lu might come over and have nothing to eat during his absence.
According to his understanding of the Healer Dragon Lady, although she liked snacks, she wouldn't eat too many.
This meant that eighty to ninety percent of the snacks in the cabinet had all gone into Bai Heng's stomach alone.
Bai Heng opened a soleta, took a refreshing gulp, "glug, glug, glug," then let out a burp.
"Burp Oh my What do you mean 'steal'? Besides, with our relationship, why distinguish between yours and mine?
"If it's gone, just buy more. As the esteemed Si Ding of the Qiding Division and the Alliance Leader of the Tree God Alliance, do you really care about such a small amount of money?"
Hearing Bai Heng say this, Nan Li, who had already closed the cabinet, looked helpless.
"If my subordinates saw me stuffing snacks into my office so frequently, wouldn't I be called 'Gluttonous Si Ding' like Jing Yuan?"
Speaking of which, it's worth mentioning that Jing Yuan was once called "Gluttonous General" by some people.
This was simply because he had spent a fortune on betrothal gifts to welcome a white cat, named "Mimi," into his home.
As a cat slave, Jing Yuan, like a certain extremely socially anxious squirrel in the Chat Group, enjoyed "paw pad conquest."
However, "Mimi" was no ordinary cat; it was a snow lion.
The appetite of a lion, naturally, could not be compared to that of a small kitten.
So, at that time, many people saw Jing Yuan buying a huge amount of food every day.
Over time, he earned the humorous nickname "Gluttonous General."
Of course, the snow lion later couldn't continue to be called "Mimi" and was renamed "Shuoxue."
"Gluttonous Si Ding? Or 'Gluttonous Tree God' sounds pretty good too, right? Haha!"
Bai Heng changed "Gluttonous Si Ding" to "Gluttonous Tree God," and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
And the more she thought of it in her heart, the more she liked it, the happier she became.
Seeing that Bai Heng seemed to be completely immersed in this topic and happily unable to extricate herself, Nan Li quickly spoke up to change the subject.
"Ahem, Bai Heng, you must have met Bai Lu by now, right?"
"Hmm? Oh... you mean that Healer Dragon Lady, right?"
"Yes."
"To be honest, the feeling of us meeting was quite strange."
Bai Heng naturally knew Bai Lu's identity.
A few days ago, she had snuck into Nan Li's office to steal snacks as usual, but unexpectedly, she was caught red-handed by Bai Lu, who was hiding in the shadows.
At that time, the two extremely similar-looking, one fox and one dragon, couldn't help but stare at each other, creating an extremely awkward scene.
The strange connection between them made the thoughts "I am her" and "She is me" pop into their minds simultaneously.
Because Bai Heng knew how Bai Lu came to be, she didn't pay much attention to it.
But the latter didn't know.
In addition, during this time, she noticed that the snacks in the cabinet were decreasing very rapidly.
At first, Bai Lu thought her memory was getting worse and her appetite was getting bigger.
However, Bai Heng ate too much, and Bai Lu finally realized what was happening.
A big thief had entered the Si Ding's office! (Although Bai Lu herself was a small thief, she had Nan Li's permission!)
As Nan Li's friend, she felt it was necessary to protect his snack cabinet, and so this unique meeting scene occurred.
Besides confirming the thief's identity and asking why the other party gave her such a strange connection, Bai Lu began to ask Bai Heng all sorts of questions.
Bai Heng, of course, wouldn't reveal too much, only telling her that she was Nan Li's friend.
However, the simple-minded Bai Lu, while believing it, didn't fully believe it.
After going back and thinking it over, Bai Lu decided two days ago to ask Bai Heng for proof.
For example, a photo with Nan Li.
However, Nan Li, who had publicly announced he was in "closed-door cultivation," and the "Nan Li" who had appeared during this period were both Bai Heng herself, so how could she take a photo with Nan Li?
And before that, she had been doing grunt work for the Tree God Alliance and had never thought about taking a photo with Nan Li.
Now that Nan Li was here, she could... "Nan Li, come on, let's take a picture together."
"A picture? Why so sudden?"
"Oh, it's all to prove to Bai Lu that I'm your good friend. Otherwise, she always suspects I'm not a good person."
"Alright, right here?"
"Yes, right here."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Heng leaped off the sofa and darted to Nan Li's side.
Then, with one hand, she took out a jade amulet, and with the other, she put her arm around his shoulder, striking a pose that made them look like the best of buddies.
"Come on, smile, yay~"
As she spoke, Bai Heng tightened the arm around Nan Li's shoulder, making him lean in closely, while also pressing her face completely against his.
"—Click."
With the press of the shutter, the two completed their first joint photo.
After all this, Bai Heng and Nan Li separated, and she eagerly began to examine the photo.
What first caught her eye in the photo was her own face, beaming with a brilliant smile.
And Nan Li, pressed close to her cheek, had a slightly unnatural, stiff smile on his face.
"What do you mean, your smile is too forced."
"It's because you were too sudden; I didn't even react."
"Tsk, why do I still have some snack crumbs on my face? It doesn't look good."
Seeing the snack crumbs at the corner of her mouth in the photo, Bai Heng quickly raised her hand to wipe them off.
"One more shot."
"Alright."
"This time, you need to smile more naturally, and also make a 'yay' sign, got it?"
"...Fine."
"Come on, continue the previous pose, lean in a bit, oh, press your face against mine."
"That's completely unnecessary, isn't it?"
"If we don't do this, how will it show that we have a good relationship? Really."
"..."
"Hmm, yes, just like that, press against me, smile, raise your hand and make a 'yay' sign, good, just like that, hold still."
Nan Li posed as Bai Heng requested, clearly feeling the warmth and touch of her cheek against his own.
Soon, with a "click," Bai Heng pressed the shutter.
Bai Heng, as before, separated from Nan Li again and began to examine the second joint photo.
"Perfect!"
Bai Heng looked at the new photo, her eyes filled with joy.
However, she didn't delete the first one either.
She turned around so Nan Li couldn't see, then at an extremely fast speed, set the first photo as her lock screen background and the second photo as her desktop background.
"What are you doing? Sneaking around and not wanting me to see."
Saying that, Nan Li curiously poked his head over Bai Heng's shoulder.
However, Bai Heng wouldn't let him see, immediately turning off her jade amulet and putting it away.
"This is a secret exclusive to girls; you can't know yet~"
Perhaps to hide her little schemes, she seemingly inadvertently changed the subject.
"Oh, by the way, you seemed to be going out just now, what were you going to do?"
"A cardmate called me out to play cards; currently, they're three short of one."
"You mean di'yuan qiongyu, which has been very popular among Xianzhou people in recent years?"
"Yes."
"I want to play too, count me in."
"Alright, then have you thought about how you'll introduce yourself to them?"
"Of course, if they ask, just say I'm a good friend of you, the Si Ding, and my name will be... Bai Li."