The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

"You actually believe in something so unfounded?"

Kevin turned his head to look at Su in confusion, only to find him looking completely matter-of-fact. "This kind of thing is really common. In our class of thirty, at least twenty-five have fallen for Senior Lee at first sight."

"Senior Lee?" Kevin asked, puzzled. "Who's that?"

"A senior who transferred to the school three months ago. Excellent grades, gentle personality, and super pretty. No matter who talks to her, she can chat with them happily…" Su spread his hands. "There are just too many people who fall for her at first sight, I'm used to it."

"Is that so…" Kevin was unimpressed. "What about the other five?"

"Of the remaining five, two pairs are already couples."

"And the last one left is you, right, Su?"

"Someone in our class took a long leave of absence the day before Senior Lee transferred."

"..."

Kevin silently rubbed his temples, trying to calm himself down. "Su, I remember you weren't the kind of guy who'd just rush up to any cute girl you saw, like everyone else."

"Allow me to correct your wording—I'm still not that kind of guy now." Su cleared his throat awkwardly. "And saying 'love at first sight' isn't really accurate either. I just… admire her, yes, I purely admire Senior Lee."

"Believe me, her outstanding appearance is the least praiseworthy thing about Senior Lee. She can talk eloquently about philosophy or literature, treat anyone equally and with kindness, and she's also acutely aware of the knots in people's hearts and helps to advise and resolve them…"

Watching Su, who was unusually talkative and eloquent, Kevin was too lazy to even argue with him.

Sigh, the wise do not fall into the river of love. He originally thought Su could become the wisest person in the world, but now it seemed this clay Bodhisattva had drowned himself.

[泥菩萨 (ní púsà) - clay Bodhisattva, a figure that is supposed to help others but can't even help itself, use yea you know the example]

"Speaking of which, Senior Lee should be going to the class next door to find someone later, do you want to go watch?" Finally finished introducing the merits of his idol, Su extended a team-up invitation to Kevin.

But Kevin just shook his head at Su's suggestion to watch the spectacle. "I'm not really interested in that kind of thing."

No matter how pretty she is, could she be prettier than the girl he met yesterday?

In his opinion, Su was just seeing beauty in the eye of the beholder. How could there be someone so perfect? If there was, it would definitely be the girl he saw yesterday.

Wonder if he'd have a chance to see her again…

Poor Kevin, he clearly was troubled by love.

Watching Kevin continue to stare blankly out the window, Su was willing to bet their long friendship that this guy definitely had a girl he liked.

These guys with their heads full of nothing but romance just couldn't appreciate Senior Lee's excellence.

Su shook his head and took out a collection of poems from his drawer, silently starting to read.

He wasn't as shallow as those guys who only cared about Senior Lee's looks. His respect for Senior Lee was from the bottom of his heart, okay?

Originally, Su didn't have much of a good impression of Lee, just thought she was a fairly popular girl who was also cute-looking. It wasn't until two months ago when he was taking a walk by the lake in the suburbs and accidentally had an accident.

Su didn't remember exactly what happened at the time. In his memory, there was only a huge white shadow flashing by, and then his thoughts stopped as if he had been hit by a truck.

When he barely managed to wake up, he could only feel someone carrying him and running non-stop, constantly calling his name to keep him conscious.

At that time, Su felt like his whole body was shattered, he was in pain all over, and his consciousness was blurred. But that person actually chatted with him about everything from poetry and songs to the philosophy of life, trying hard to find all the topics that could interest Su to keep him awake.

That voice was like magic, making Su want to keep listening… Unconsciously, he actually held on until he was sent to the hospital.

Because he was sent to the hospital in time, Su was not in mortal danger. The police said that a robber stole a car that day and hit him while escaping. Fortunately, a girl saved his life.

The girl herself was also hit by the car, but still insisted on bringing him to the hospital, and left after a simple check-up, without even leaving her name.

Doing good deeds without even leaving a name, how noble was that? But it also made Su feel regret.

Not being able to hear that voice again, not being able to see his savior, what a regrettable thing it was.

But fortunately, heaven never seals off all paths. In the end, Su still found the girl who saved him—but the way he found her wasn't exactly pleasant to talk about.

When that girl was carrying him, Su smelled a fragrance on her body. And when he brushed past Senior Lee on the day he returned to school, he smelled the same fragrance… Although it sounded a bit perverted, Su could be sure he had never smelled this scent anywhere else.

You have to know, to prevent making a mistake, he even went to smell all kinds of perfumes, shampoos, and body washes on the market, and there was definitely no scent like this!

That feeling that was like a floral fragrance yet not quite, Su felt he might never forget it in his life.

Su specially found Lee about this matter, but she seemed a little flustered, saying she didn't know about it… Since she was unwilling to admit to saving him, not wanting him to feel burdened, Su would of course accept this kindness and silently remember this favor in his heart.

Even saving people without asking for anything in return, how could there be such a perfect person in this world…

Su flipped through the poetry collection, trying to find one or two lines that Lee had said that day, but still found nothing.

He had been doing this lately, but the results were all the same—could it be that those poems were also written by Senior Lee?

Senior Lee is too perfect!

Ugh, Su is sitting next to Kevin? Maybe I should [run into - in English in original text] Kevin another time…

Originally planning to casually meet Kevin when passing by his class, Lee silently dismissed the idea after seeing the gray-haired figure next to Kevin.

The story is long, but in short, Lee was practicing controlling the Honkai Beast model she had exchanged for in the uninhabited suburbs that day, but accidentally had a car accident… Someone suddenly appeared by the road, and as a newbie, Lee couldn't brake in time, almost running the model over the person.

Although she used medicine exchanged from the system shop to save his life and sent him to the hospital, poor Su still stayed in the hospital for a whole month before being discharged. Lee could only tell Fire Moth that she had conveniently saved a student attacked by a Honkai Beast in the wild and asked them to help clean up the mess.

Unlike Kevin, whose safety was guaranteed, Su was genuinely almost killed by her carelessness. Therefore, Lee, feeling guilty, was really too embarrassed to prance around in front of him.

Even though this guy, with a 90% energy recharge efficiency, had self-strategized his affection to level eight, it was still the same… But how did this person recognize her? She hadn't revealed her face to him from beginning to end, had she?

Because she almost killed him once, Lee decided to wait until the Third Honkai Outbreak to protect this guy and save his life to settle the debt, and then start harvesting energy.

After all, she was a fair person.