Especially at this moment, standing before her are the repentant hexagonal warrior, Ye Shiyu, and Sakuragi Hitomi, who might already have an invitation.

No matter how confident she is, she still couldn't help but feel a bit timid.

She had promised herself to proactively invite Yan Huan and must consider the possibility that he might refuse.

She had already told herself that even if he refuses this time, she must accept it, after all, last time she also...

"I... I'll pass for now then. You pick, I'll go with Ye Shiyu to buy some milk tea, then we'll just wander around..."

After thinking it over, she pursed her lips and spoke.

"..."

Looking at Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi, Sakuragi Hitomi's breath involuntarily paused slightly.

It's because their reaction was completely beyond her expectations.

Originally, she had anticipated how to deal with their ugly scene afterward.

How to reconcile them with the President afterward, how to prevent them from using superpowers to overturn tables in a rage.

But now, it felt as if Sakuragi Hitomi was fighting a battle of wits with air, totally fruitless.

Their calmness and normalcy instead made Sakuragi Hitomi feel:

They might indeed have a chance to become the President's dance partner!

"Alright then... let's leave it at that."

Sakuragi Hitomi's pink fists clenched slightly, as she continued smiling, pushed open the door, and left the nursery.

Just as she pushed open the door, the smile on her face gradually cooled down.

Since Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi weren't taking the bait, she only had one path left.

Quickly kill the inferior Sakuragi and seize the initiative with the President!

"..."

Just as she glanced upwards to continue searching for the whereabouts of the two mice, she inevitably furrowed her brows,

"Wait, why are there so many barriers in this mall?"

In every nursery in each floor of this mall, they've already been transformed into barriers?

These ten or so barriers were almost deliberately confusing, like rabbit holes...

"Interesting..."

She murmured to herself, then took out the letter she just received from her chest.

After opening the envelope and reading a few lines, her eyes took on a red hue.

Suddenly, she sneered, her gaze settled on the signature part of the letter, coldly muttering a Sakuragi name,

"Mother... Sakuragi?"

...

...

Time rolls back a bit, Yan Huan put down his phone with a slight sheen of sweat on his forehead.

On the Plane's page were the messages Ye Shiyu received earlier.

Yan Huan upstairs on their level naturally didn't know exactly what they talked about.

But he had his clues...

Indeed, it was that poster.

Since seeing Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi approach the nursery where the suspicious mouse Sakuragi appeared, he accompanied An Le browsing the mall while vigilantly staring at Ye Shiyu's state represented on the poster.

When the tags "self-disciplined" and "reforming" began to flicker intermittently, Yan Huan knew he had to act. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Based on how Ye Shiyu dressed today, he deliberately continued steering conversations in that direction, seeming very effective.

"Finally preserved, Ye Shiyu's rare human annotation..."

Yan Huan looked at the annotation that solidified again, truly feeling like it was harder than guarding stock indices.

"Xiao Huan, are you really going in?"

At this moment, An Le was a bit embarrassed as Yan Huan led her to the bookstore's door.

The closed door and the obvious "R18" sign indicated what the store's content was.

As soon as An Le pushed the door open, she would see the surprise prepared by Yan Huan, Spencer, and Miyake Huhu.

"Yeah, let's check it out."

Yan Huan smiled, stepped back slightly, and spoke.

"Okay then..."

An Le pursed her lips, then turned around, gently reached out, and held the doorknob.

"Ka-da~"

As the doorknob was twisted open, the warm light inside spilled out, along with countless bursting flowers greeting her,

"Welcome, Teacher Ping Xi!!"

Inside, holding flower tubes, Miyake-sensei and many insiders smiled and spoke, startling An Le and instinctively stepping back a few steps,

"Ah, ah?"

Luckily, Yan Huan behind her promptly reached out, holding her back gently, softly saying,

"Are you alright?"

"I'm... I'm fine, just..."

An Le blinked, her previously unresponsive mind gradually warming up.

Turning back to look inside the bookstore, the shelves originally selling various books were now covered with posters of her previous collaborative work with Miyake-sensei.

All around, her past names were written on white banners, along with comments from forums.

At the top, there were many colorful balloons with notes from the web,

"Teacher Ping Xi, must keep drawing!

"www, I grew up watching works by Teacher Ping Xi and Teacher Bafei (Joy)"

"Woo, will I still see the third part of the Dark Childhood series in this lifetime?"

An Le's eyes widened, and for a moment her breath was stalled.

She quickly turned back to look at Yan Huan's smiling face, seemingly realizing something, she asked,

"Xiao... Xiao Huan, today you are..."

"Yeah, Yan worked with me to plan this secretly for a long time..."

Yan Huan smiled slightly, before he could respond, Miyake Huhu stepped forward and spoke,

"Well, although letting you travel to Tokyo for the event was to show you how popular your works really are, and encourage you to keep creating... But then, you just vanished without a trace, I thought..."