The woman held her close and said a bunch of words, and the man also chimed in, but Li Yaner was baffled throughout, not knowing how to respond. However, everyone in the house, not one of them suspected that her core had been replaced; they simply thought she was recovering from a long illness.
After crying for a while, the woman was persuaded to leave by the man, leaving Lingling and Xixi to attend to her. Li Yaner felt exhausted in body and mind, so she lay down to sleep. When she woke up again, it was to someone scratching her awake,
"Yanyan... wake up!"
Li Yaner opened her eyes and saw a blaze of fiery red in front of her, an enlarged fox face was in front of her eyes, a pair of watery eyes unblinkingly staring back at her. As soon as she opened her eyes, the fox spun around joyfully, its bushy tail sweeping across her face,
"I heard they said you had woken up, so I tried calling you, and you really did wake up!"
