Chapter 852
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“I can attend classes normally starting tomorrow.” Juniper moved away from the keyboard, opened her backpack, and took out an exquisite box of pastries. “The housekeeper made these. They’re pretty good, you should try some.”
“Oh, how nice of you!” Tucker pushed up his reading glasses, his face blooming into a smile. His earlier frustration vanished, replaced by sheer delight.
“Oh, and this…” Juniper took out a USB drive, resting her cheek on her hand. “I was bored, so I threw together a reference guide based on the last couple of years of computer science research. It might be a little rough in some places, but you can take a look.”
“Alright.” Tucker started flipping through the material, and the more he read, the more he felt something was off. Who said it was rough? This was brilliant! It wasn’t just a reference guide; it could be a textbook. And so, in the near future, the guide that sophomore Juniper had “casually thrown together” was compiled into the official textbook for freshmen. The new students were completely baffled. The genius who wrote their textbook was a sophomore? It made them question their entire existence.
After her classes, Juniper returned to Cloudscape Community. She hadn’t received any calls from Harold Houston all day. No news was good news. But Ebony Fox had been poisoned for years. There was no way such a potent antidote wouldn’t cause any reaction.
She pushed open the door. Ebony Fox was lying in bed. The room was dark and quiet, and she seemed to be sleeping soundly. Juniper watched her silently for two seconds before gently closing the door.
The moment the door clicked shut, Ebony Fox, who had seemed fast asleep, shot up and stumbled towards the bathroom. She gripped the toilet and began to vomit uncontrollably. The antidote’s side effects were intense, and she felt awful. Figuring that letting Juniper and Harold know would only add to their worries, she decided to endure it alone. It would be over in 24 hours anyway, and there were only a few hours left.
The next second, the bathroom door was thrown open. Juniper stood there, an icy aura around her, her face cold.
“I knew you were hiding something,” Juniper muttered unhappily. She knelt slightly, patting Ebony Fox’s back and asking softly, “How long have you been throwing up?”
“Not long,” Ebony Fox answered weakly, grabbing Juniper’s hand and forcing a faint smile onto her pale face.
Juniper said nothing, her eyes scrutinizing her. She was vomiting bile. And she dared to say it hadn’t been long? Ebony Fox guiltily averted her gaze, not daring to say another word. Damn. She couldn’t get a single lie past this girl The reaction had started last night, but she hadn’t dared show it while Juniper was with her. After she left in the morning, the nausea had grown stronger, and she’d thrown up more than a dozen times already. Harold had checked in on her, but
he’d only asked a few simple questions, never expecting she would hide it.
“Hold on.” Juniper helped Ebony Fox
back to her room, then ran to the kitchen. She quickly returned with a glass of warm water. “Drink this.
added some anti-nausea medicine,”
Did her expression grim
Juniper
“Why didn’t you say something sooner? I kept this on hand
specifically for this.”
“I’m used to it.” Ebony Fox held the glass. The warm water immediately soothed her stomach. Being scolded by her younger sister, she felt meek. “Back at the Huntsman Institute, you just learned to endure a lot of pain until it passed.”
“The past is the past,” Juniper said, her voice rising with anger. But seeing Ebony Fox’s weak face, she forced herself to calm down. “You didn’t have a family before, no one to care about you. It’s different now. You have brothers and sisters.”
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