Underworld Player Chapter 17 - The Unsinkable Campus Belle

"Love is something to seize with one's own hands" was a motto of Lin XiaoYi's, and after finally meeting someone she considered her perfect Prince Charming, she was determined to exhaust every possibility of capturing his heart or regret it for the rest of her life.

She could be hard-headed, in some ways.

The frosty rebuff she had received at the café this morning had not dampened her spirits in the slightest. On the contrary, it had only ignited the flames of her fighting spirit.

Since Xia Wen's suggestion had not proved effective, she would just have to try something else.

She was the unsinkable campus belle!

So, she decided to trail Bai Zhi and document his daily activities—in the name of "research". Little did she know that it would lead her to witness yet another incident involving a supernatural entity.

The little boy with the schoolbag had been going around turning students into marionettes, one after another, and stuffing them roughly into his bag. If she hadn't been completely alert and attentive to everything going on around Bai Zhi, she wouldn't have noticed the boy lying in wait and promptly hidden herself in the women's bathroom. That fortunate circumstance had saved her from otherwise certain doom.

Then, she watched in helpless horror as her Prince Charming was turned into a marionette before her very eyes and stuffed like all the rest into the little boy's bag. As great as her confidence in Bai Zhi was, it would be a lie to say that she did not feel a twinge of worry that things might not end well.

She waited for the commotion at the entrance to the stairwell calmed down, before arming herself with a broom and bravely, if cautiously, making her way up to the rooftop—she was determined to rescue Bai Zhi's puppet, at the very least.

However, by the time she arrived at the rooftop, she was astonished to find the fight over, the captured students on the ground, no longer puppets but human again, and in the middle of it all, Bai Zhi standing tall, eyes raised to the heavens.

One look at this sce

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