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Happy 21st Day: Digging Three Feet to Find Clothes ◎

Jiang Muyun opened the first blind box and randomly flipped to a page where the female protagonist, who had escaped 99 times, was digging her own intestines barehanded.

According to the book, after extracting her own intestines, the female protagonist walked through the rain all night, filled with despair, and eventually fainted by the side of the male supporting character's car.

Jiang Muyun put down this medical miracle and comforted herself in her heart: At least it's a fantasy novel, which proves that I haven't made a mistake in choosing the general direction.

Then Jiang Muyun opened the second blind box, and under the command of the aloof CEO, millions of troops were mobilized to search for the female protagonist worldwide.

Oops, she got the genre wrong with this one. It's clearly a satirical masterpiece that bravely exposes the dark side of society.

Jiang Muyun sighed and cautiously unwrapped the plastic covering of the third novel.

Among the three carefully selected books, this one had the lowest probability of winning.

After all, you can tell by the title of the book ——《999 Confessions: Pure CEO Spoils Me》

The main focus of the novel is on confessions, clearly indicating a sweet and romantic love story. If it weren't for the shocking number of times, Jiang Muyun probably wouldn't have taken this gamble.

Jiang Muyun took a deep breath and opened it to the middle section.

The first thing that caught her eye were these two words that appeared excessively throughout the two short pages: Mo Leng.

That's right!

Jiang Muyun was ecstatic!

It was the surname of the overbearing CEO male lead!

Although she didn't know who came up with this surname, it was so unique that there shouldn't be any namesakes.

Upon closer inspection, the entire text was filled with "Mo Leng A said xxx," "Mo Leng B said xxx," "Mo Leng C was very unhappy and complained to Mo Leng DE."

Oh, right, this Mo Leng DE was the male lead and the biological father of the 108 treasures.

His temperament was quite unique, so his name had one more character than his sons'.

Jiang Muyun was so excited that she let out a "Wuhu" sound and turned directly to the page she had seen before.

As she flipped, Jiang Muyun felt that the thickness of the book didn't seem right.

Why did it feel like the story hadn't reached halfway from where she left off? But the book was about to reach its end.

Jiang Muyun had a bad feeling in her heart.

She directly flipped to the last page and, as expected, there were a few large characters at the bottom: "Please wait for the next installment."

Jiang Muyun:?

What did she do wrong to be punished like this?

Jiang Muyun could responsibly say that she had searched through those bookshelves and definitely didn't see a second book of "999 Confessions."

Unless this Crystal Studio played a trick and changed the title of the second half of the book.

Jiang Muyun was unwilling to give up.

She took out her phone and searched one by one on online shopping platforms like Dingding Bookstore and Xidu Bookstore.

Obviously, the other party didn't dare sell books online using a counterfeit author's name. They only dared to discreetly distribute them offline, minimizing exposure. Jiang Muyun gained nothing.

Jiang Muyun angrily threw the books, frightening Little White, who shivered and circled around her.

Jiang Muyun picked up Little White and rubbed her, mumbling incoherently, "Little White, your sister is so pitiful."

The result of waiting for ten years is this!

Jiang Muyun suddenly felt disheartened.

She carried Little White and paced around the room three times, reciting the entire book of 《Tao Te Ching》. After completing the whole book, her spirits soared, and she immediately got up with renewed determination.

I don't believe it! Now that I know the title, can't I find the second installment?

So, in the following days, Jiang Muyun frequented the streets and alleys around major middle schools, searching for small book stalls near schools.

She didn't find the book, but there are a variety of snacks in her space.

The food around the school was really diverse and affordable.

Jiang Muyun ran all over the city but couldn't find the second book. She spent a considerable amount of her living expenses, and in the end, she lay in her house feeling disheartened, returning to her reclusive state.

Due to Jiang Muyun's misfortune, Little White gained her own fortune and returned to the days of being able to cuddle with her bad sister every day.

The bad sister was healed by Little White and enjoyed an affectionate time with her. After the affectionate moment, she heartlessly sent Little White back to her nest and closed the door to sleep alone.

In the middle of the night, Jiang Muyun suddenly woke up.

She uncovered the quilt, got out of bed, turned on the light, and shivered from the cold air outside the covers.

Something's not right. Why is it so cold?

Jiang Muyun glanced at her phone and saw the date. It was September 30th, 2 a.m.

If Jiang Muyun's memory serves her right, the first wave of cold weather should have arrived on the night of October 1st.

Could it be that because South City is geographically further north than West City, the temperature drops earlier in South City?

The thermometer in the house hangs in the living room. Jiang Muyun put on her clothes and opened the door, only to see Little White just coming out of her nest.

Jiang Muyun took out the winter nest she had bought earlier from her space, touched Little White's head to comfort her, and hurriedly went to check the thermometer.

This thermometer was specially bought by Jiang Muyun after her rebirth. It can measure temperatures as low as minus eighty degrees.

Jiang Muyun adjusted the scale, and sure enough, the temperature had dropped to five degrees. Judging from this trend, it seems like it will continue to drop.

At the end of September, South City was originally neither hot nor cold, with temperatures ranging from 20 to 30 degrees. At the beginning of October, there would usually be a late summer heatwave, giving tourists who came to South City during the holidays a taste of the city's warmth.

More than ninety percent of the residents in South City were still wearing short sleeves during the day. Unexpectedly, within a few hours, South City went straight from summer to winter.

Jiang Muyun couldn't care less that it was early in the morning and immediately dialed Qin Shiwen's number.

Qin Shiwen answered the call slowly, and it was almost about to hang up automatically when a hoarse and unclear voice came from her side.

"Who is it?"

Jiang Muyun spoke quickly, "Wen jie, wake up! Don't sleep; the temperature has dropped."

Jiang Muyun's voice was loud and coupled with the stimulation of the cold air, Qin Shiwen became considerably more awake.

After a commotion on Qin Shiwen's end, her voice came through, "Why is it so cold? The weather forecast didn't say it would drop in temperature."

The weather forecast couldn't keep up, of course.

It was the same in her previous life, with temperatures dropping more than forty degrees overnight. Those with weaker bodies would silently die in their dreams.

In the time it took Jiang Muyun to call Qin Shiwen, she watched as the temperature on the thermometer dropped two more notches, approaching the red scale line marking zero degrees.

Jiang Muyun urgently said, "This temperature drop is not right. We can't go back to sleep. Are you at home, Wen jie? Is Wu ge awake?"

Qin Shiwen put the phone on speaker and placed it aside. She put on all the long-sleeved clothes she could find while saying, "I didn't go home today. Qin Shiwen is on night duty... Wait, he's calling me."

Qin Shiwen happened to be on duty at the hospital tonight. He had just leaned on the table to rest for a while when the hospital started receiving multiple emergency calls.

He was busy for a while, covered in sweat, and when he finally had a moment of respite, he was startled by the sudden cold.

Then, thinking about the condition of the patients brought in tonight, Qin Shiwen couldn't help but realize what had happened. He immediately made a call to his sister.

After Qin Shiwen hung up, she went to the broadcasting room of the provincial team. After some commotion came from the dormitory building of the provincial team, she went door-to-door, knocking on each dormitory and checking if any team members were still asleep.

Their athletes were different from others; they had strict control over medication intake and could hardly take regular cold medicine. Once they caught a cold, they could only rely on their resistance to fight it off.

After Jiang Muyun hung up on the call to the Qin siblings, she made another call to Zhao Jiahao, but the line was busy twice.

At this time, people in the neighborhood also started to realize something was wrong, and there was a commotion downstairs. Even through the double-layered thick glass of her own home, Jiang Muyun could faintly hear the increasing noise outside.

After the third failed call, Jiang Muyun reluctantly exited the dialing screen and prepared to go directly to apartment 1503. Then she saw the chat messages from the 15th-floor group chat continuously popping up.

【ZJH Still Not Awake: @All members, wake up! Don't sleep! Something's happened!】

【ZJH Still Not Awake: @All members, it's a big problem!】

【ZJH Still Not Awake: @Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow, I called you three times and it was busy? Don't sleep, get up quickly! If you sleep again, you'll be gone!】

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: @ZJH Still Not Awake,

ZJH, are you really still not awake? I called you three times in a row, but your line was busy. Are you all up or not?】

【An: Good thing you're awake.】

【An: This cooling rate is a bit dangerous. We have been on duty with the team tonight and haven't slept. At first, we felt cold and thought it was a normal temperature drop at night, but we just realized it wasn’t. How are Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu?】

They were on night duty with their team tonight, so they were awake all the time and weren't as sensitive to the temperature difference because they didn't feel as cold.

It was only when they couldn't bear it anymore and went to put on more clothes that Li Anxuan sensed that something was wrong.

It wasn't until they talked to their family on the phone that they realized they weren't suddenly feeling cold; the temperature was indeed abnormal. Just two hours ago, they were still sweating from the heat.

And then they urgently called their neighbors on the fifteenth floor.

Unexpectedly, everyone had the same idea, and the phone calls were constantly busy. In their impatience, they didn't realize it and could only bombard the group chat with messages.

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: Everyone is awake now. Wu ge is on duty tonight, and Wen jie just got up. I was afraid you two would oversleep at home. I tried calling Zhao Jiahao three times but couldn't get through. I was about to go knock on his door when I saw the group message.】

【ZJH Still Not Awake: Haha, you say I'm not awake, but you called me three times and it was busy.】

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: Zhao Jiahao, I advise you to speak nicely. Right now, I'm the only one on the fifteenth floor, and you probably don't have winter clothes in your team, right? :)】

In reality, there were winter clothes on the team.

Their uniforms had removable down inner linings, which they didn't bring home and were currently wearing.

But unfortunately, the temperature dropped too fast, and the uniforms were too loose. Wearing short sleeves with down jackets, they still felt the wind blowing from all sides.

【"ZJH Still Not Awake" retracted a message】

【ZJH Still Not Awake: Sister, it's cold. Clothes, help.】

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: Good boy, do you have a spare key at home?】

There are currently three households living on the fifteenth floor. Only the Qin siblings have electronic locks, while the other two households have regular mechanical locks.

If Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan don't have the habit of keeping spare keys, then the two of them will probably have to cross-dress today. Alternatively, they can wake up Qin Shiwen and borrow clothes from him.

【An: Don't listen to him; we have down jackets.】

Li Anxuan hit Zhao Jiahao and said, "Do you think people are your dormitory brothers? You want a girl to go out in the middle of the night to bring us clothes. Are you out of your mind?"

Zhao Jiahao hurriedly replied to the message, holding his phone anxiously, "I just said it without thinking. My bad, my bad."

【ZJH Still Not Awake: We both have! Two sets! Proud.jpg】

【Little Bin: It's okay, I'll go pick her up. I also need to bring clothes for my brother. We'll drive over together.】

【Little Bin: Yunyun, bring our clothes as well. The door code is my birthday, reversed year and month. I'll be downstairs to pick you up later.】

After Qin Shiwen finished arranging the kids in her team, she herself was freezing.

Her dormitory on the provincial team was just a temporary place to stay, and she didn't have many clothes there. The temperature dropped too quickly, and she was having a hard time enduring it, so she quickly drove back.

Li Anxuan felt relieved knowing that they were going together in a car.

【An: Okay, be safe, then. The spare key to our house is on the corridor windowsill, and our winter clothes are in the white box in the balcony storage cabinet. Thanks for saving us!】

【Little White Taking West University Exam Tomorrow: Alright, alright. Just wait for the same-city express delivery to pick me up.】

Qin Shiwu suddenly sent a voice message to the group.

【Big Bin: When you come over, bring some extra clothes. Bring my cotton jackets too.】

Many of the residents on night duty with Qin Shiwu tonight were from out of town, and it would be difficult to find someone to bring them clothes for a while. So Qin Shiwu asked Jiang Muyun and the others to bring some extra clothes for them.

Qin Shiwu was probably too busy, as he didn't send any more messages after that. Jiang Muyun didn't delay any longer and put away her phone, preparing to go out.

Although the temperature drop started earlier than expected, Jiang Muyun didn't think the extent of the drop this time would be smaller than in her previous life.

Jiang Muyun had a hat and scarf ready, stuffed a few thick cushions into Little White's nest, filled a thermos with hot water, and poured in several packets of instant ginger tea. Then she carried her bag and headed to the neighboring apartment.

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1. The "Tao Te Ching" is a classic Chinese philosophical text attributed to Laozi, an ancient Chinese philosopher. It is one of the fundamental texts of Taoism, a philosophical and spiritual tradition in China. The "Tao Te Ching" consists of 81 chapters or verses that explore the concept of Tao (the Way) and provide guidance on living a balanced and harmonious life. It addresses various topics such as wisdom, virtue, nature, simplicity, and the path to achieving inner peace and enlightenment.