Morning sunlight filtered through the curtains.
Chen was already dressed, adjusting his watch while checking something on his phone. Yun Hu sat near the door, unusually alert, as if he sensed an outing.
Xu Jin walked out of his room, still fixing his sleeve.
"Are you going somewhere?" he asked.
Chen nodded casually. "At the campus, we're illegally making a cat home today."
Xu Jin paused.
"…Illegally?"
Chen smiled faintly. "Unofficially. It just sounds more dramatic if I say illegally."
Xu Jin stepped closer. "You said we."
Chen didn't notice the shift in tone. "Mm. Senior Xiao, Zhou Kai, and another student are helping."
The moment those names left his mouth, Xu Jin's expression changed slightly.
"There are others?" he asked.
Chen blinked. "Of course there are others."
Xu Jin folded his arms. "I'll go too."
Chen finally looked at him properly. "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
"You're not a young master anymore who can take a day off whenever you want."
