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Qiqi wakes up with a quiet yawn as she rubbed her drowsy eyes. She had woken up in a warm bed of Bubu Pharmacy, the place she worked at under the owner, Baizhu, her boss and the man who takes care of her. Sadly, Qiqi could not remember his face whatsoever, she wishes to remember his face, but she just can't. She'll forget about his face over and over again. She wonders how Doctor Baizhu doesn't get upset with her about it, instead he just lets out a sigh and smile, telling her over and over again of who he is.
She then got up from the comfortable bed and looked around. Ah wait, this was her room in Doctor Baizhu's home. Doctor Baizhu had it made just for her, he's even decorated it for her too. She wants to thank him, but Baizhu already says she's already thanked him enough. She quietly grabs her journal that's on the desk in her room to read it until Doctor Baizhu comes to get her for the day. She opens to the first page of her journal and began to quiet read through it. It consists of things she write down to remember about people, things to do, and tasks she must complete. She's met very strange people, like Doctor Zandik, and fun people, like Yaoyao, who she likes to hang out with. Qiqi sees Yaoyao as a cute little finch.
The purple haired zombie continued to read through her journal and add additional details to the people she wrote about until Baizhu had came in her room with a kind smile.
"Qiqi." The lavender haired girl looked up from her journal and closed it before looking at Baizhu curiously, "It's Doctor Baizhu, my dear Qiqi. It's time to get ready for work."
"Okay... Qiqi will get ready for work..." She puts her journal aside as Baizhu walks in and helped her get ready. She waits patiently as Baizhu brushed and braided her long lavender hair. She's tried braiding it herself, but her fingers ended up tangled in her hair every time she tried. She also likes how gentle Baizhu is with her when he braids her long hair. Maybe she should get a haircut so she doesn't burden Baizhu every morning.
"There all done, my little Qiqi" Baizhu smiles and shows the little zombie the mirror.
"Thank you Doctor Baizhu..." Qiqi stares into the mirror with the same awe she always has in her eyes, "Qiqi Loves it..."
"You're welcome my little Qiqi." The Green Haired Doctor chuckled, "Now let's get to the Pharmacy, my dear. We don't want to be late"
Qiqi nods and picked up her little basket then puts it on before going to hold Baizhu's hand. They headed out of their cottage home and began to walk their way to Liyue Harbor. Today's weather was a bright sunny day with a slight windy breeze. On the way to the Harbor, Qiqi had picked up some herbs and other essential items to stock up their materials in the Pharmacy. Baizhu kept a close eye on his dear Qiqi while Changsheng rests on his shoulder, enjoying the beaming sunlight. Baizhu hopes they won't run into Director Hu Tao, he hate to see his little Qiqi's mood turn sour at the sight of the wretched Funeral Director after attempting to bury his assistant so many times with the excuse that she's doing this out of consideration, without really considering Qiqi's feelings about being buried, and to restore the natural order.
Baizhu would never let Hu Tao get her hands on Qiqi and finally bury her. He can obviously tell that Qiqi didn't want to get buried, he wanted her to enjoy life again when she was taken from it from a far too young age he considered. He made a promise to his dear assistant that he'll never let her get buried and forced into a coffin just to balance life again. And besides, Qiqi has made quite some friends that will terribly miss her... But not as much as him.
They reached the harbor of Liyue and headed straight towards the Bubu Pharmacy where Herbalist Gui greets them. Gui adores Qiqi like Baizhu does, always sneaking her candy whenever he thought Baizhu wasn't paying attention. This man was perfect to be his partner and other father for Qiqi. He still needs to get the adoption papers from the Qixing to officially adopt Qiqi as his own. He believes that the Qixing are taking so long to do it is because they want to steal her away from him.
"Doctor Baizhu," Gui snaps him out of his thoughts, "We have a few patients coming soon, shall we open up the pharmacy?"
"Mm. Of course." Baizhu smiled and pats Qiqi's head, "Qiqi dearest, go help Gui open up Bubu Pharmacy"
"Yes Doctor Baizhu..." Qiqi merely nodded and goes to help Gui open the pharmacy.
Baizhu smiles at his adorable assistant as she helped Gui open up their pharmacy. He then greets some patients that had come in for a check up or pick up medicine. The day gets busier and busier until late afternoon where they had their break. Qiqi was enjoying her coconut milk, even though zombies can't taste, while Baizhu and Gui were discussing about some stuff and patients, when Qiqi suddenly spotted Hu Tao coming close to Bubu Pharmacy with the traveler and her companion, the floating pixie. She quickly got up, driopping her coconut milk to run behind Baizhu and be kept away from Hu Tao, but Hu Tao already spotted her and ran to her.
"Hey there Qiqi!" Hu Tao smiled at her, she knows that smile is fake. Hu Tao was only being nice just so she could bury Qiqi and balance life again. That's what Baizhu told Qiqi and what she wrote in her journal.
"Let go of Qiqi..." Qiqi squirmed and tried breaking free, "Qiqi don't like Hu Tao... Smile dead..."
"Awwww don't say that Qiqi! I just wanted-"
"Please put my poor sweet Qiqi down, Director Hu." Baizhu glared at the brunette.
"And why should I?" Hu Tao smiled at Baizhu.