The severed hand was slapped to the floor with a splat!

The next second it immediately got back up and scurried back onto the Venus, clamping itself firmly onto the statue’s broken arm.

With the stubborn defiance of something utterly shameless.

Bai Youwei was baffled—she hadn’t put any glue on it, so how was it clinging to the sculpture so tightly? On sheer willpower alone?!

If not for the fact that Fu Miaoxue and Du Lai were both somewhere nearby, she would have loved to give this thing a proper thrashing! This sort of “helper” that refused to take orders at any time was absolutely maddening—at a critical moment it not only failed to act as expected but had given her a fright instead!

Bai Youwei reached out to pull it off.

She yanked and yanked, but it wouldn’t budge.

It was as if it had grown directly onto the Venus, impossibly firmly attached.

Bai Youwei lowered her voice and scolded: “Do you think that by sticking yourself to the Venus, you’ll become as beautiful as the goddess of beauty? Get down here right now! You fool! We need to go find Fu Miaoxue and Du Lai!”

The severed hand refused, unwilling to part with the Venus.

Bai Youwei couldn’t possibly carry such an enormous sculpture with her, so she could only keep pulling and tugging at it, the two of them locked in a tug-of-war.

Then, without any warning whatsoever, the severed hand dropped to the floor.

Bai Youwei bent down to pick it up, and when she straightened—she found that the scene around her had changed into the outside of the estate’s front gate!

The dream had looped!

She stared in bewilderment, looked around, and confirmed: yes, she was back at the front gate again.

So that meant Fu Miaoxue’s dream began from her morning lesson and continued all the way through to the end of the following day’s morning lesson—roughly twenty-five hours in total.

That was so much longer than Du Lai and Chen Hui’s dreams had been…

Regardless, she had now managed to trace through the entire contents of the dream. She had to find Fu Miaoxue quickly now and convince her to leave.

Bai Youwei pressed the call button.

The same as before—two security guards came. Bai Youwei showed them the friend’s invitation card.

The guards’ lines hadn’t changed by so much as a single word: “Ah, a friend of the young lady’s. Miss Bai, please come in.”

They then contacted the household staff inside, who drove over to collect Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei entered the estate again, met Fu Miaoxue again, and again produced the invitation card—

“Miaoxue, have you forgotten? You were the one who invited me to visit.” Bai Youwei said with a gentle smile.

Fu Miaoxue slowly blinked, looking at the invitation card. “Now that you mention it, I think I do remember… You’re Bai Youwei, you’re my friend… Yes, that’s right, you’re my friend.”

Fu Miaoxue smiled. “How funny—I actually have a friend. Ha ha ha ha!”

Bai Youwei suppressed her inner exasperation and smiled at Fu Miaoxue. “Miaoxue, could we have a private word? There’s something very important I need to tell you.”

“What matter is so important that we need to be alone?” Fu Miaoxue asked. “Do you need me to send all my bodyguards away?”

The tutor chimed in helpfully: “Miss, it’s nearly lunchtime. Why not invite Miss Bai to stay for lunch, and you can talk while you eat?”

Bai Youwei quickly said: “It’ll only take a few minutes. It won’t hold up your meal.”

“Alright then.” Fu Miaoxue was full of curiosity. “All of you, step back! I want to have a private conversation with my friend right now!”

Joanna frowned slightly but ultimately agreed, bowing: “Miss, I’ll wait for you in the dining room.”

The tutor, bodyguards, and servants all withdrew, leaving only Fu Miaoxue and Bai Youwei.

“Well then, what is it? You can speak now!” Fu Miaoxue’s eyes shone as she fixed them on Bai Youwei, as though eagerly hoping she would reveal some world-shaking secret.

And sure enough, Bai Youwei did not disappoint.

She said: “Fu Miaoxue, you are inside a dream right now! Everything here is false!”

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