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"Hmm... hiss!" Li Yu held the paper in his hand, took a deep breath, and gathered his energy in his abdomen.

"Hey man, did you burn your mouth or something?"

A sudden bang on the partition startled Li Yu. More importantly, the feeling he had just managed to conjure up evaporated instantly.

"You're the one who burned his mouth. Don't you know to blow on your food first?" Li Yu raised an eyebrow and retorted irritably.

...

For a moment, the public restroom was deathly silent. After a long pause, sounds of exertion came from the next stall, the unmistakable noises of someone finishing up. Then the partition was knocked again. "Enough with the jokes, man. I’m out of paper here, can you spare some?"

Though each stall was separated into a small cubicle, a ten-centimeter gap remained at the bottom—clearly designed for just such emergencies, so people could help each other out if needed.

"Man, you’ve got quite the lifeline," Li Yu remarked, eyeing the hand reaching out from below. Still, he placed his roll of toilet paper into the outstretched palm.

"Thanks, bro," the hand withdrew, the sound of rustling following, "Of course. Good men die young, troublemakers live forever, right?"

That was a tough one to respond to.

Li Yu's brow furrowed—not because he couldn’t recapture that satisfying feeling, but because the sound of water came from next door.

"Hey, what about my paper?" Li Yu shouted.

Thud.

The sound of